Lebanon's Hizbullah may be the "A Team' of terrorism and the United States will act against as part of its war on extremist violence in good time, US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said Thursday.
"Hizbullah maybe the 'A team' of terrorists, maybe al-Qaeda is actually the 'B team'," Armitage told a conference on the impact the September 11 attacks had on US foreign policy.
"They're on the list, they're time will come, there's no question about it," he said. "They have a blood debt to us and ... we're not going to forget it," Armitage aired. Hizbullah is "known or suspected to have been involved in numerous anti-U.S. terrorist attacks, including the suicide truck bombings of the U.S. embassy in Beirut in April 1983 and the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in October 1983," according to the State Department.
"All in good time we're going to go after these problems just like a high school wrestler goes out for a match: we're going to take (them) down one at a time," he told the conference hosted by the US Institute of Peace. (Albawaba.com)
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