Islam's Global Army by W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

With the exception of Al Qaeda, no terrorist organization on earth is responsible for the deaths of more Americans than Hizballah: The group that drew first blood during its formative years when in 1983 one of its suicide bombers drove a truck packed with explosives into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 Americans.

Unlike Al Qaeda, however, Hizballah is more than simply a terror network or a loose confederation of terrorist cells: Hizballah is a state-funded terrorist army with a sophisticated propaganda arm and operational teams deployed worldwide. Not surprisingly, Hizballah is on the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Yet some Western media -- even a few American politicians -- have openly defended Hizballah (as well as its parent company, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) as a legitimate force and political movement.

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