The Very Face of Celestial Benevolence

"We were talking about Hezbollah, Hezbollah has social military, political, different branches within Hezbollah We were talking about the military branch. You know, The Resistance."
Said Harb, North Carolina Hezbollah-support cell

"Our numbers are increasing day after day, and we are getting better and our training is becoming better and we are becoming more confident in our future and more armed. And if someone is betting that our weapons are rusting, we tell them that every weapon that rusts is replaced."
"We will never let go of our arms. We consider our arms like blood flowing in our veins."
Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader

(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File). FILE - In this August

2, 2013, file photo, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a rally to mark Jerusalem day or Al-Quds day, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.

Hezbollah, the Party of God terrorist group that holds Lebanon in thrall within its malign, very well weaponized presence, has a significant presence elsewhere. Actually almost anywhere; Europe, North America, Australia and specifically Canada. When Mohammad Hussein al Husseini was arrested in Canada and interviewed by Canadian security officials he supplied very interesting information on Hezbollah's violence abroad and on their activities within Canada.

"Hezbollah", he assured his questioners before he was deported, "has members in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto - in all of Canada." He was capable of providing Canadian authorities with information relating to the cigarette and weapons smuggling benefiting Hezbollah through its criminal activities meant to further the advances of Hezbollah in the Middle East and elsewhere if the Canadian authorities were interested in a trade; information for a deal.

What was revealed was names, of those who operated the Canadian part of Hezbollah's funding and procurement network. Materials were sought and procured for Hezbollah. They indulged in credit card and bank fraud to partially cover the cost of items procured for Hezbollah. The network purchased battlefield items and smuggled them into Lebanon.

Commander James Campbell, formerly with U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency, a counterterrorism intelligence officer, cited night-vision devices (goggles, cameras and scopes), surveying equipment, global positioning systems (watches and aviation antennae), mine and metal detection equipment, camera and video equipment, advanced aircraft analysis and design software and computer equipment.

An extensive shopping list of vital must-have items to ensure that the terrorist group didn't run short of useful tools pursuing assassination attempts in the larger international community, or guerrilla-type activities closer to home. Wherever, in fact, their major sponsor the Islamic Republic of Iran ordered them to focus their attention. Since Hezbollah's 2006 war with Israel, the procurement program had a certain urgency; to replenish its weapons stocks.

Missiles were provided by Iran and Syria. Small arms and ammunition and shoulder-fired rockets and dual-use items procured through Hezbollah procurement networks. Raising funds through criminal activities in Europe and North America and expending those funds in aid of advancing the program of Shia Islamism prepared to assert itself as the truly meaningful Islamist power usurping the conceits of Sunni Islamists.

Hezbollah agent Mohammad Dbouk indicted in U.S. federal court under Operation Smokescreen was trained by Iran as "an intelligence specialist and propagandist [who] was dispatched to Canada by Hezbollah for the express purpose of obtaining surveillance equipment", according to information collected by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Located first in Montreal and then Vancouver, later in Detroit.

A treasured member of Hezbollah, who, wishing to dedicate himself as a blessed martyr to the cause was instructed instead to continue his invaluable procurement and propaganda work. Now sadly incarcerated in an American prison where he was quoted as having said: "...he did not care about anything and was committed to securing all the items for the brothers at any cost; he was attempting to avoid going to hell and secure a place in heaven by so doing."

Granting such a sincere desire shouldn't really be all that difficult...  But then western justice doesn't lend itself to capital punishment outside trial and jury judgement, alas.