(National Post - Canada) Stewart Bell - A Hizballah "special agent" who admitted to orchestrating terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians was caught in Toronto in 1998, according to federal war crimes officials. When Toronto police officers tried to arrest the Hizballah member on an immigration warrant, he grabbed at their guns but was subdued and later deported to Lebanon for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity. While Canadian Jewish organizations want the government to ban Hizballah under Canada's new counter-terrorism law, Bill Graham, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, says he does not want to outlaw the work of the organization's doctors, lawyers, and social workers because that might hamper Canada's efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says that, far from fostering peace, Hizballah is devoted to wrecking any settlement between Israelis and Palestinians and wants to impose Islamic rule and remove Western influences from the region.
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