Counterterrorism Blog

Bill Roggio's post below on the Hezbollah attack on Israel is the latest in a long line of CT Blog posts calling attention to the Iran-Syria-Lebanon-Hezbollah axis. Walid Phares's July 7 post on the link from the NYC tunnel plot to Lebanon included the first English translation of an important communique from the Lebanon Internal Security Forces, and he followed up with more about that link on July 8. Back on December 22, 2005, Michael Kraft, who assisted in drafting anti-terrorim legislation, recommended that the US consider naming Lebanon as a "state sponsor of terrorism" (punctuation errors due to move from old website). Here is a selection of other CT Blog posts:

Douglas Farah: What Happened at Bank al-Madina? (Beirut bank used as center for terrorist financing) and Iran Already a Problem With Islamist Radicals
Walid Phares: Are You Ready for Hizbollah's Preemptive Terror? (in which he predicted Hizbollah would attack within the US) and Beware of the other Jihadi blitzkrieg..
My posts: Lebanese Anti-Syrian Leader Agrees to Hezbollah's Terrorism Agenda and Syrian Military Intel Director Tagged for Syria's Support of Terrorism in Lebanon
Olivier Guitta: France and Hizbullah: The End of the Affair
Evan Kohlmann: "In Lebanon, Arab fighters are ready to die in Iraq"
Steven Emerson's Congressional testimony in March 2005 on Syria's support for terrorism and attacks on Israel
Hezbollah drug ring broken up in Ecuador by former CT Blog Contributing Expert Matthew Levitt (now a senior Treasury Department official)

UPDATE: I was at a lunch with the Israeli Ambassador to the US when he announced that a Hezbollah rocket hit Haifa - the gasp from the crowd was an audible recognition of the major escalation that the attack represents, in part because it wasn't clear beforehand whether the rockets had sufficient range. I would draw a parallel to the 1914 Sarajevo shooting of Archduke Ferdinand, which ultimately led to World War I.