Al-Arabiya reports that Iran will punish Americans wherever they can reach them since we killed their terrorist General Qassem Soleimani. That is according to Tasnim news agency quoting a senior Revolutionary Guard commander.
General Gholamali Abuhamzeh, the commander of the Guards in the southern province of Kerman, raised the prospect of possible attacks on ships in the Gulf.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital point for the West and a large number of American destroyers and warships cross there … vital American targets in the region have been identified by Iran since long time ago … some 35 U.S. targets in the region as well as Tel Aviv are within our reach,” he said.
We can reach them too.
#BREAKING
IRGC commander says 35 vital US positions in the region & Tel Aviv in Israel are within Iran’s reachhttps://t.co/I1n5dT4tLd— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) January 4, 2020
The one thing they should keep in mind is we will retaliate with the worst conflagration they have ever seen.
Cutting off the head of the snake can be a tremendous advantage with extremists.
#BREAKING
U.S. airstrikes take out #Iran's IRGC Quds Force chief Qasim Soleimani & Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) militia chief Abu Mahdi al-MohandesMy take:
-This is targeting the head of the snake
-Far more important than killing bin Laden & Baghdadihttps://t.co/eXjSykV0c6 pic.twitter.com/BPuUDTDQ5T— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) January 3, 2020
WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SLEEPER CELLS
They claim to have sleeper cells throughout the United States and that is believable for a lot of reasons. The main one comes from one of our sources, Derek Maltz, a retired director of the special operations division (SOD) of the DEA.
Barack Obama probably wanted the nuke deal so badly that he allowed the Hezbollah crime syndicates to grow unimpeded throughout the United States and the world. The investigations into these people were shut down.
Mr. Maltz says illegal Hezbollah operations in the U.S. are funding our own eventual destruction. They run crime syndicates here and send the money there.
The Iranian terror organization is heavily engaged in drug crimes, trafficking, and other crimes, to fund their worldwide terrorist activities. The last administration did not bring the criminals to justice and the former head of Project Cassandra is sounding the alarm now but will anyone listen?
OBAMA LET THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISMANTLE IT SLIDE
Mr. Maltz said the Obama administration had the opportunity to dismantle Hezbollah with evidence collected under Project Cassandra. They clearly chose not to do so. At the same time, the Iran nuclear deal was being negotiated and, while it has been put forward as the reason for not following through, Mr. Derek Maltz, who headed this project, wants to only look forward.
In the end, the Obama administration didn’t or wouldn’t do it and Hezbollah continues their illegal cartel operations throughout the world and in the United States because, in part, the various agencies do not work together.
Mr. Maltz urged the House to resolve this, to up the sanctions, and implement robust law enforcement prosecutions.
Derek Maltz, who was in charge of the major law enforcement operation targeting Hezbollah’s trafficking of cocaine, said the United States cannot again succumb to political distractions that allow the Iranian-backed terrorist group to continue its lucrative narcoterrorism campaign.
“There’s an old saying, opportunities come and go,” Maltz testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “In my personal opinion, having been the guy in charge of the special operations for ten years, we lost a gold opportunity to crush Hezbollah.”
POLITICO EVEN REPORTED IT
Politico in December first reported the Obama administration’s quiet dismantling of these efforts, dubbed Project Cassandra, out of apprehension over rattling Iran. He based his conclusions on his interviews with key players.
The article written by Josh Meyer tied the motivation of the Obama administration to pursue a nuclear deal to the abandonment of the Hezbollah drug trafficking network.
Mr. Maltz was quoted in the article as saying, “There is certainly an argument to be made that if tomorrow all the agencies were ordered to come together and sit in a room and put all the evidence on the table against all these bad guys, that there could be a hell of a lot of indictments,” Maltz told Politico.
Hezbollah continues to make extraordinary sums of money with their illegal operations as a transnational criminal organization, Mr. Maltz said again on Wednesday and repeated his sentiments about one reason for it — we do not share information among agencies.
“Sadly, 16 years after 9/11, we’re still talking about information sharing. It’s a disaster,” he testified. “If terrorists are turning to criminal networks for their funding, how can we have a system where the terrorist investigators and the intelligence community and others are not communicating properly with the law enforcement agencies?”
He said the Trump administration needs to name those agents who in the U.S. government will be responsible for bringing together federal, state, and local agencies under an interagency task force to combat narcoterrorism.
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