Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule

Documentary series on Hezbollah's global terrorist and criminal operations AI summary

Washington Institute Visit website › Government · EN · 19 episodes · latest 2023-11-15

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Lebanese Hezbollah goes to great lengths to publicize its overt, social, and political activities and to conceal its covert terrorist, militant, and criminal pursuits. In the words of one operative, Hezbollah's "Golden Rule" is this: The Less You Know, the Better.In this podcast, terrorism scholar Matthew Levitt sets out to break this rule by shining a bright spotlight on Hezbollah's global terrorist and criminal activities. Levitt has been following Lebanese Hezbollah for almost three decades in and out of government. He's written books, given expert testimony, and literally mapped Hezbollah's worldwide illicit activities in an online interactive map and timeline. (https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/hezbollahinteractivemap)Listen as Levitt tracks Hezbollah's evolution over the years and its operations across the globe from Lebanon to Kuwait, across Europe and Asia, then on to the Western Hemisphere from Buenos Aires to New York. Along the way, he'll speak with law enforcement officers, intelligence agents, government officials, and world-class experts from around the globe, each of whom has first-person experience confronting Hezbollah and uncovering things the group would much prefer nobody ever heard about. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hezbollah Assassinations Unit 121

2023-11-15 · 33 min · Season 2, episode 8

Hezbollah buys grassroots support in Lebanon where and when it can, but the group turns to intimidation and even murder when a vocal opponent can’t be bought. Hezbollah’s elite, highly-secretive Unit 121 is the group’s…
Operations and Illicit Finance in the Gulf

2023-11-08 · 33 min · Season 2, episode 7

Two Hezbollah financiers based in Qatar secretly raised tens of millions of dollars for Hezbollah through banks and cash couriers. The operatives leveraged family connections and utilized a complex web of bank accounts…
Sleeper Cells and Surveillance in the U.S.

2023-11-01 · 31 min · Season 2, episode 6

In 2017, two Hezbollah operatives were arrested on the same day for conducting independent surveillance operations on U.S. targets across the country. A third was arrested in July 2019 for taking pictures of a number of…
Hezbollah’s Digital Footprint

2023-10-25 · 30 min · Season 2, episode 5

40 years ago this week, Hezbollah blew up the barracks of U.S. Marine and French military peacekeepers in Beirut, killing about 300 people. The group continues to carry out attacks, but has developed the means to…
Blood Diamonds, Picassos, and Illicit Financing in Africa

2023-10-18 · 39 min · Season 2, episode 4

Diamonds are an excellent way to smuggle and launder money - they’re very liquid, can’t be sniffed out by dogs, don’t set off metal detectors, and are easy to conceal. Similarly, illicit funds can be laundered and…
"A Jumble of Overlapping Plots" in Baku

2023-10-11 · 28 min · Season 2, episode 3

In 2008, Azerbaijani authorities thwarted a Hezbollah plot to target an Israeli Independence Day celebration and kidnap the Israeli ambassador in Baku. Two Hezbollah operatives were arrested, tried, and convicted, but…
Terror in Bangkok, Then and Now

2023-10-04 · 36 min · Season 2, episode 2

An innocent looking hit-and-run accident in downtown Bangkok in 1994 uncovered a sophisticated Hezbollah network in Thailand, an attempt to target the Israeli embassy there, and a decomposing body hidden in a vat full…
Risky Business in South America

2023-09-27 · 28 min · Season 2, episode 1

Earlier this month, the U.S. Treasury Department designated Hezbollah operative Amer Mohamed Akil Rada for coordinating the activities of various commercial enterprises for Hezbollah, including charcoal exports from…
Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule - Season 2 Trailer 2

2023-09-25 · 1 min

Preview Season 2 of Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule, a podcast series devoted to shining a bright light on the global terrorist and criminal activities that Lebanese Hezbollah would much prefer to keep quiet. Coming…
Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule - Season 2 Trailer 1

2023-09-20 · 3 min

Preview Season 2 of Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule, a podcast series devoted to shining a bright light on the global terrorist and criminal activities that Lebanese Hezbollah would much prefer to keep quiet. Coming…

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Oldest episode in feed: 01/2022 · over 4 years
Typical length: 29 min
Format: Serial Meant to be heard in order
Keywords: terrorism, middle east, lebanon, iran, hezbollah, hizballah, u.s. policy, foreign policy

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