Hezbollah Attack Plots in Cyprus and Bulgaria

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In July 2012, police arrested a well-trained Hezbollah operative named Hossam Yaacoub in Cyprus. Less than two weeks later, a Hezbollah suicide bomb killed 5 Israelis on a tourist bus in Burgas, Bulgaria. But the group wasn’t done in Cyprus. Another operative was stockpiling explosives—and waiting to act. Guests: Magnus Norell , senior policy advisor at The European Foundation for Democracy Carter Burwell , former counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Finance Intelligence Nickolay Mladenov , former Bulgarian minister of foreign affairs Breaking Hezbollah’s Golden Rule is hosted Dr. Matthew Levitt from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. It is produced by…