Introduction to Cyber-Warfare - Proiect SEMPER FIDELIS

192 10. INFORMATION THEFT ON THE TACTICAL BATTLEFIELDFIGURE 10.5Logo of the Kata’ib Hezbollah.bombing of the French and American embassies in Kuwait City as well as in theassassination attempt of the then Kuwaiti Emir in 1985 were probably meant to detersupport for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. He fled subsequently to Iran where he fought asa senior leader of SCIRI’s Badr Brigade against Saddam Hussain’s forces during the Iran-Iraq war. He is a citizen of both Iran and Iraq and was a senior advisor to the Al-Quds forceand served for the Shi’a United Iraqi Alliance in the Iraqi parliament in 2006. The Qudsforceis an arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and handles Iranianbackedarmed groups that operate outside of Iran. Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Shi’aanti-Saddam militias are only the most popular examples of its work. KH is thought ofAl-Quds’ surrogate in Baghdad responsible for the extensive smuggle of weapons andexplosives. From spring 2007 to summer 2008, the militant group targeted U.S. forces,which prominently featured on (Lebanon’s) Hezbollah’s media outlet Al-Manar, propelledKH into the ranks of the most popular Shi’a armed groups. 21 He also has been known totransport weapons between the two countries as well as to create militias such as KH andJaysh al-Mahdi (JAM). 22,23 FIGURE 10.6 Logo of the Lebanese Hezbollah.