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Hezbollah

Crime World

The Hezbollah Connection

Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.

Ronen Bergman New York Times Magazine Feb 2015 35min Permalink

Crime

The Driver

On Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh, “the world’s most wanted terrorist not named Osama bin Laden,” whose death five years ago remains a mystery.

Mark Perry Foreign Policy Apr 2013 15min Permalink

Crime World

How Life of Spy Ben Zygier Unravelled

How a Mossad agent’s desperate bid to jumpstart his career led to the exposure of two top Hezbollah plants.

Jason Koutsoukis The Sydney Morning Herald Mar 2013 15min Permalink

World

On the Lam in Lebanon

The Syrian civil war crosses into Lebanon.

Mitchell Prothero Vice Nov 2012 10min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

Paintballing with Hezbollah

A clandestine meeting between Western journalists and Hezbollah fighters in a Beirut strip mall.

Mitchell Prothero Vice Mar 2012 25min Permalink

Crime World

The World’s ‘Best’ Car Bombers?

An interview with an ex-CIA agent who is a world expert on the history of car bombing.

Christopher Watt The Walrus Sep 2008 15min Permalink

Crime World

The Cocaine Coast

In nine hours, Guinea-Bissau’s President and military leader were assassinated in separate incidents. Their dealings had turned the country into the runway of choice for drug smugglers and Hezbollah.

Marco Vernaschi The Virginia Quarterly Review Jan 2010 20min Permalink