标题:Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God. By Matthew Levitt, Ph.D. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-62616-013-2. Bibliography. Sources cited. Index. Pp. xv, 407. $32.95.
摘要:Until the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Hezbollah was responsible for more U.S. deaths due to terrorism than any other terrorist group. While the U.S. Government has focused much of its counterterrorism efforts on al-Qa'ida in the last 12 years, Dr. Matthew Levitt makes is abundantly clear in his new masterpiece that Hezbollah is still a potent force to be reckoned with or ignored at extreme peril. Levitt is a senior fellow and Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. He has served in various terrorism analysis positions in the U.S. Government and academic and policy institutions. He previously authored a book on the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas