The Hizballah of 2005 is a pragmatic terror organization which is far more dangerous than the Hizballah of the 1980s. The organization operates simultaneously both within the Lebanese political system and outside it.

In the past two weeks, two major controversial positions appeared on Jihadi web sites and in the Arab media. These statements were made by two of the most important and influential clerics of the Jihadi-Salafi current of global Jihad.

Initially, the “Qassam” rocket was perceived as a “improvised pipe” whose effectiveness was doubtful. Today, after such rockets caused four deaths and hunderds of shock-related conditions in the Israeli city of Sderot, their effectiveness, as a psychological weapon against civilians, is no longer in doubt.

Experts have long contended that the UK is a safe haven for radical Islamic terror networks, which exploit British freedoms to further their goals. Britain has in the past upheld the rights of individuals, including the right of radical individuals to orchestrate the eradication of the rights of their opponents.

Hizballah represents a strategic threat to Israel on three levels: as a major independent player with clear strategic goals in the Lebanese arena, in the Israeli - Palestinian conflict and in the Middle East as a whole; as an arm of the Syrian army; and as a proxy of the Iranian religious regime.

The sectarian war between Pakistan's Shias and Sunnis is bloody and deadly. Available figures indicate that, between January 1989 and May 31, 2005 a total of 1,784 Pakistanis were killed, and another 4,279 injured in 1,866 incidents of sectarian violence and terror across the country.

In order to achieve the desired political goal, the terrorist must first achieve a vital intermediate goal, which is the creation of an irrational and prolonged sense of anxiety amongst the target population.