Hizbullah Helped Al Qaida With Suicide Bombings

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah, despite a religious
gulf, helped Al Qaida in suicide attacks against the United States, a report
said.
A report by the Foreign Policy Research Institute asserted that
Hizbullah provided Al Qaida with plans on the use of suicide attackers to
blow up U.S. installations. The report, authored by researcher Michael
Horowitz, said the Hizbullah assistance enabled the Al Qaida bombings of the
U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
"In the 1980s, Hizbullah was the hub from which suicide tactics
spread to the Palestinians and other groups," the report titled, "The
History and Future of Suicide Terrorism," said. "In the 1990s and beyond, Al
Qaida became the hub."
The report, based on a review of 800 groups deemed terrorists, said Al
Qaida adopted Hizbullah's use of suicide bombings as an operational
decision. Horowitz, assistant professor of political science at the
University of Pennsylvania, said Al Qaida founder Osama Bin Laden determined
that suicide bombers marked the only option in his goal to destroy the U.S.
embassies in east Africa.