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Negroponte: Al-Qaeda the biggest threat (Katherine Shrader, 1/11/07, Associated Press)

Al-Qaeda poses the gravest terrorist threat to the United States and an emboldened Hezbollah is a growing danger, the U.S. intelligence chief said Thursday.

In his annual review of global threats, National Intelligence Director John Negroponte highlighted an increasingly worrisome assessment of Hezbollah -- backed by Iran and Syria -- since its 34-day war with Israel last year.

"As a result of last summer's hostilities, Hezbollah's self-confidence and hostility toward the United States as a supporter of Israel could cause the group to increase its contingency planning against United States interests," Negroponte told the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The only time Hezbollah has ever cared about us was when we intervened in their civil war.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 12, 2007 8:03 AM