The NY Post reports that Hezbollah may be planning to activate sleeper cells in New York and other U.S. cities to stage an attack as the nuclear showdown with Iran heats up. The FBI and Justice Department have launched urgent new probes in New York and other cities targeting members of the Lebanese terror group, though U.S. officials stress there is no intelligence information pointing to an imminent attack by Hezbollah.
Law-enforcement and intelligence officials told The Post that about a dozen hard-core supporters of Hezbollah have been identified in recent weeks as operating in the New York area. Sources said the activities of these New York-based operatives are being monitored by FBI counterterrorism agents as part of a nationwide effort to prevent a possible terror strike if the confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program spins out of control.
Additional law-enforcement attention is being centered on the Iranian Mission to the UN, where there have already been three episodes in the last four years in which diplomats and security guards have been expelled for casing and photographing New York City subways and other potential targets.
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