Lightning Out of Lebanon : Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil
By Tom Diaz

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.4pt;line-height:21.0pt;background: #FCFCFC"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:andquot;Helveticaandquot;,andquot;sans-serifandquot;; mso-fareast-font-family:andquot;Times New Romanandquot;;color:#383838;background:yellow">We're offering a high discount on this book as it is slightly damagedBefore September 11, 2001, one terrorist group had killed more Americans than any other: Hezbollah, the “Party of God. Today it remains potentially more dangerous than even al Qaeda. Yet little has been known about its inner workings, past successes, and future plans-until now.Written by an accomplished journalist and a law-enforcement expert,and Lightning Out of Lebanonand is a chilling and essential addition to our understanding of the external and internal threats to America. In disturbing detail, it portrays the degree to which Hezbollah has infiltrated this country and the extent to which it intends to do us harm.Formed in Lebanon by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in 1982, Hezbollah is fueled by hatred of Israel and the United States. Its 1983 truck-bomb attack against the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut killed 241 soldiers-the largest peacetime loss ever for the U.S. military-and caused President Reagan to withdraw all troops from Lebanon. Since then, among other atrocities, Hezbollah has murdered Americans at the U.S. embassy in Lebanon and the Khobar Towers U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia; tortured and killed the CIA station chief in Beirut; held organizational meetings with top members of al Qaeda-including Osama bin Laden-and established sleeper cells in the United States and Canada.Lightning Out of Lebanonand reveals how, starting in 1982, a cunning and deadly Hezbollah terrorist named Mohammed Youssef Hammoud operated a cell in Charlotte, North Carolina, under the radar of American intelligence. The story of how FBI special agent Rick Schwein captured him in 2002 is a brilliantly researched and written account.Yet the past is only prologue in the unsettling odyssey of Hezbollah. Using their exclusive