Hezbollah Al-Qaeda Relationship

Nov 23
2007

The Hezbollah Al-Qaeda relationship was a strategic partnership indicative of a major shift in terrorist thinking, Throughout the 1990’s ethnonationalist groups were supplanted by or fell under the influences of Islamist groups therby paving the way for idological tolerance and intergroup cohesion as a means of confronting a common menace and enemy. This interesting development was not confined to the Middle East: Shia and Sunni groups also cooperated in Asia, the first signs of this been seen in links between Hezbollah and Al Qaeda associate groups such as the Morro Islamic Foundation Front (MILF) which facilitated and supported Hezbollah’s operations in the Asia-Pacific in the late 1990’s. The disruption of a Hezbollah cell in 1998 and arrest of a Hezbollah cell in Singapore in 1998 and arrest of Hezbollah operatives in the Phillipines in 1999 and 2000 in the Phillipines is compelling evidence of this new cooperation.

The arrest of Pandu Yadhawinata , an Indonesian Hezbollah operative , at Manila’s domestic airport was a direct result if monitoring the MILF liason officer Abdul Nasser Nooh’s communication with Islamic “Charities” connected with Hezbollah and the Phillipines . Furthermore Hezbollah’s plans to rescue Malaysian and Indonesians to conduct terrorist attacks in Australia and Israel have been detected. Trilateral cooperation between the U.S. , Israel and the Phillipines, also led to the arrest of Malaysian based Hezbollah leader , Hisham ( alias Jaafar) , who was planning terrorist attacks in South East Asia.

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