Hezbollah is a political organization involved in government affairs in Lebanon. Hezbollah may be militant and violent, but it is a far cry from Al Qaeda because it is part of the establishment in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, Al Qaeda is very loosely organized and has splinter groups and radical cells in a number of places around the world. It is not known whether Al Qaeda or Hezbollah have access to WMD, but because Hezbollah is closely associated with Iran and Syria, this group could gain access to WMD. Al Qaeda has used suicide bombers in campaigns and has tried to bring down commercial airliners through creative bomb making, while Hezbollah has pretty much kept its focus on the political and military control it asserts in Lebanon (albeit Hezbollah has lobbed mortar shells into Israel inviting violent confrontations with the Jewish state).
The U.S. presently is using drone aircraft to take out key Al Qaeda leaders in Yemen and Pakistan, with the strategy that with bin Laden dead, and other leaders killed, the chances of Al Qaeda obtaining weapons of...
Al Qaeda is constantly recruiting new members who are willing to blow themselves up in order to kill Americans or British, and there is no way to prevent those obscene attacks. During the George W. Bush administration, the U.S. used forms of torture on suspected terrorists, the U.S. tapped phones to try and intercept messages conveying terrorist plans, and also the U.S. cut off the pipeline of money that could be sent into the U.S. To so-called "Islamic charities" that were believed to be fronts for local terror cells.
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