CBRN IN THEATRE
US Army CBRN training and equipment testing with their South Korean counterparts is ongoing. Here a CBRN soldier assigned to US Army 498th Combat Service Support Battalion inspects a KATUSA Soldier’s equipment at Camp Carroll, Republic of Korea.
©US Army/Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Kosterman
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they do not acquire off -the-shelf Scuds or other delivery systems. The terrorist threat from Hezbollah is at its highest level
for 20 years, US security offi cials have warned in a report AQ Terrorism in the United States: A Complete Analysis of Terrorism Off ences published in January. As the militant Lebanese-based group and its Iranian backers step up their shadow war against the West, Western intelligence agencies believe that Hezbollah is now more active overseas than at any time since the early 1990s. With Iranian backing, it also has a growing foothold in South America – especially for funding operations in Venezuela, and to plan attacks on Israeli and American tourists. The Iranian connection spreads far and wide. In late
February Nigerian authorities broken up a terrorist cell that planned to attack US and Israeli interests in Lagos, including the offi ces of USAID, the Israeli shipping company ZIM and a Jewish cultural centre, having made several suspicious trips to Iran to train on weapons and explosives training from a “high-profi le terrorist network,” according to US offi cials.
Scud missile parts and equipment concealed by bags of cement found in the cargo hold aboard the North Korean vessel, So San, bound for Yemen aſt er being boarded by Spanish Special Forces in 2002. U.S. Intelligence continues to track North Korean vessels for further proliferation.
Israeli response Even limited numbers of chemical munitions transferred to Hezbollah could arouse further response from an increasingly hard-line Israel. And while IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz said on 17 February that the likelihood of Syria’s use of chemical weapons is “extremely low”, he added that Israel is preparing for all possible scenarios. Israeli hospitals
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