Beware of the other Jihadi blitzkrieg..

Walid Phares

"Hezbollah successfully recruits computer scientists and is very effective in telecommunications and in encrypting their messages in order to defeat national security agents in Canada and the U.S.," he said." Globe and Mail (Canada). December 20, 2005

Well, as US media struggles with the so-called "affair" of monitoring-the-Terrorists turned (thanks to politics) into spying-against-Americans, another "real" affair with Jihadi technological superiority, thrusts from the northern borders. According to an article titled "Hezbollah highly skilled at infiltrating technology, experts say" the Canadian daily Globe and Mail announces real bad news about the Jihadi organization capabilities (article) . The article is informative: it reminds the reader that the "other" Jihadi threat is out there preparing its own tools for its day to come. And that day is at the corner of few streets in Beirut and Tehran. With Ahmedi Nijad rushing to put the nuclear apparatus between his regime and the infidel world, a not so cold war is building up rapidly in the region. And with Hassan Nasrallah leading Hizbollah into confrontation with the international community, to obstruct the implementation of UNSCR 1559 in Lebanon (which calls for disarming the terror group) the collision course is traced.

But if that is the case, should Washington -and especially its politicians- worry about the "other" terrorist threat? Logically they should. Nothing can guarantee Americans that the next Jihadi blitz on American soil or against US interests may not be Hezbollah's. The 9/11 Commission showered current and former officials with blame for not "projecting" al Qaida's attacks. Are we projecting a Hizbollah potential adventure or aren't we? The question is warranted, especially in nowadays surreal debate about the "spying fantazy." Read this from the Globe and Mail article:

"Hezbollah has become technologically more sophisticated to avoid detection. It's an ironic spinoff of having Western agencies monitor their communications."

Well, well, well. The question is this: should we "monitor" this almost-undetected Hizbollahi technology in communications to learn about its future Jihad book, or should we mobilize the lawyers for a future spying affair on "US citizens" who just happen to be Hizbollahi members? This is not hindsight. This is the future happening now. Let's see how the new Rome will play its games after being warned.