New Kind of Terrorism Hits Israel

Nothing will change but techniques in terror till such time as Iraq, Iran, Syria (and its client Lebanon) are stopped from their support of Hezbollah.

For months now Israeli intelligence officials have suspected that Hezbollah terrorists from Lebanon have been planning to widen the conflict in the Middle East by financing, arming and training Palestinian militants.

As Palestinian resistance groups have struggled to survive a ferocious Israeli anti-terror campaign that began early this year with Israel's invasion and reoccupation of the West Bank, Hezbollah militants have been rumoured to infiltrate Israel and the occupied territories in order to pick up the slack.

By early May, there was a sudden shift in the pattern of bombing attacks being launched against Israel.

In addition to sending single suicide bombers against Israeli civilian targets, someone seemed to be planning more severe attacks, against a variety of strategic targets.

First there was a foiled plan to destroy twin 50- and 46-storey office towers in downtown Tel Aviv with a truck bomb, which the Israeli defence force said was uncovered and prevented by Israel's six-week invasion of the West Bank.

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