Hezbollah (Jock and Owen)

Hezbollah

By Jock Perkins and Owen McCarthy

Terrorism

• The definition of terrorism is the use of violence to achieve a political or ideological goal.

Hezbollah

• Name means “Party of God”

• Considered a terrorist organisation by USA, UK, Israel, Canada, the Netherlands and Australia.

What is it?

• Comprised of Muslim Shiite extremists

• Opposes Israel and the West

• Founded in 1982

Leaders

• Hassan Nasrallah

• Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah

Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.

• "What martyrdom is greater than making yourself a human bomb detonating it among the enemy? What spiritualism is greater than this spiritualism in which a person loses all feeling of his body and life for the sake of his cause and mission?"

Politics

• Holds 2 seats in the cabinet

• Holds 14 parliamentary seats

• Provides social services for Shiites eg. Schools and Hospitals

Major attacks

• 1983 - US Embassy bombing in Beirut

1983 - US Marine barracks bombing in Beirut

1984 - US Embassy annex bombing in Beirut

1992 - Israeli embassy bombing in Buenos Aires

1994 - Jewish community centre bombing in Buenos

Aires

1997 - 2000 attacks on Israel

2006 - Hezbollah rocket attacks

Hezbollah