Hezbollah
Ideology and culture of Hezbollah
Hezbollah’s ideology stemmed from the Iranian Revolution. Essentially, the revolution called for the creation of a religious Muslim government that would represent the downtrodden and oppressed. Hezbollah’s institutional oddity is heightened by the hybrid nature of the cultural and ideological roots of its institutions and organizational functioning. Hezbollah’s ideology changed after the end of the civil war. The main ideology or culture of Hezbollah was to make sure they expel the French and American allies from Lebanon to compact colonialist entities on their land. Moreover, they also wanted permission to choose their leaders at liberty to determine their future. They vowed to form an Islamic government that was able to meet their justice for all. Another reason for the Hezbollah war was to submit phalanges to power and justice to Muslims and Christians.
Furthermore, Hezbollah claimed that Lebanon should not exist as an Islamic state by herself but be included under the governance of Islam rule. More broadly, the Hezbollah leader’s plans include the rule by just adherence to Khomeini’s leadership and continue to fight the enmity from Israel. On culture, Hezbollah generally wanted women’s rights in Lebanon recognized and promoted. Hezbollah was against sectarianism leadership among the core factors that had dragged Lebanon behind in development.
Criminal Activity/ Modus Operandi of Hezbollah
Since Hezbollah cells are never similar, they make efforts to tending to display the same operational signatures in the form of typical Modus Operandi. Their activities include different coordination and organizing, which are against the law. These unlawful activities include subtle infiltrations where Hezbollah experts access target locations using malicious ways like faking passports where they intermarry to symbolize their presence. Furthermore, Hezbollah is involved in fundraising activities within their cells through charities and drug smuggling and production, which are criminal offenses. Additionally, against conventional wisdom, Hezbollah recruits and teaches locals to help them in their unlawful activities. Moreover, Hezbollah cells are multi-functional with different departments, which helps them in raising funds and operational tasks. They have the best logistical elites who help them in procuring weapons and us of dual technologies to conduct their operations.
Hezbollah, in their activities, uses Europe as a launching pad. Hezbollah operations in Europe help them penetrate other countries to carry out their terror activities, for instance, when they collected intelligence information to attack Israel. Hezbollah representatives in Africa help the terror group in fundraising activities to run their operations through dealing with diamond conflicts in Sierra Leone, Liberia. Lastly, logistical, financial, and operational operations, which are the main modus Operandi by Hezbollah, are run by Iranian commanders. Basically, this the primary source of the serving networks to the success of the Hezbollah group.
Hezbollah Presence in U.S
During the civil war, 1975-1990, Lebanese moved to America and settled mainly in the southern regions of the continent. Hezbollah exploited the refugees by appointing numerous Arab and Muslim sympathizers on the continent. Their determinations led to the development of formal terrorist cells largely over the area. The establishment of terrorist cells ultimately enabled them to carry out several severe terror attacks in the region, especially in Argentina. Additionally, while in America, they started schooling on religious teaching of the Muslims and became involved in mosques. The main teachings majored their ties with the Iranian government and spread Islamic propaganda. Later they revealed themselves as Hezbollah.
Their organization and determination led to the bombing of the Israel embassy in Buenos Aires using explosives. The terror attack left 23 people dead and 242 more badly wounded. Hezbollah, through their Jihad organization, declared they had performed the act after a lengthy investigation by the release of a video that upheld their claim. Hezbollah’s penetration in South America has since drastically expanded through the help of Iran intelligence after several successful bombings. Affirming before the American congress weeks prior to attacks, the counterterrorism department’s coordinator expressed that Iranian embassies in America had most diplomats worldwide who ran terror activities within their land. Hezbollah’s pierce nature in the region was due to their need to be recognized and not to be expelled from America up-to-date.