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Hezbollah Had a U.S. Terror Plan if Its Leader Was Killed

A top counter-terror analyst says a 7-year-old plot may hold clues to what comes next in the Middle East conflagration

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Michael Isikoff
Oct 03, 2024
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Ali Kourani, an undercover Hezbollah scout as a student in the U.S.. told FBI agents the assassination of Nasrallah would trigger a terror attack here. (YouTube screen grab via Times of Israel)

In the summer of 2017, the FBI made a pair of arrests that fundamentally changed the U.S. intelligence community’s view of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shiite terr…

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