Hezbollah Head Murdered US Troops

The Fellowship  |  March 13, 2019

As Hezbollah gears up to attack Israel from the north in Syria’s Golan Heights, it has named a new leader whose terrorist past shows that he’s a murderous scoundrel, indeed. The Jerusalem Post’s Anna Ahronheim reports that the new terrorist chief to Israel’s north earlier killed American troops who were serving in Iraq:

The Lebanese Shi’ite terror group Hezbollah is building a new and dangerous terror network in Syria’s Golan Heights without the knowledge of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the IDF has revealed.

“The Hezbollah terrorist organization has begun an attempt to establish and entrench a covert force in the Syrian Golan Heights that is designed to act against Israel when given the order,” the IDF said on Tuesday…

It is led by senior Hezbollah commander Ali Mussa Daqduq, who spent five years in an Iraqi prison for a 2007 attack that killed five American soldiers in the Karbala Governorate. He was released in 2012, went back to Lebanon and was sent to Syria this past summer to establish the Golan terror network…

The Hezbollah militants are currently focusing on familiarizing themselves with the Syrian Golan Heights and on gathering intelligence on Israel and the border area. They are also working to establish intelligence gathering capabilities against Israel, operating from civilian observation posts and regime military positions near the border…

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