This quick report lists the basic information about the Lebanese Special Operations Unit of Hezbollah, known as "Unit 910" and nicknamed "Black Unit", a unit of the party's external security system, which is an elite intelligence and combat group secretly formed, and is considered one of the longitudinal arms of it, and it consists of teams A microcosm that operates in an integral, non-discrete network system.
It is no secret to anyone that the killing of the commander of the Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani, and the attendant crisis of the political scene in the region, represented a strong blow to Iran's expansion project, through the assassination of one of the most prominent architects of this expansion, and a militia rhythm officer throughout the Arab geography. It is also no secret that one of the most prominent scenarios of the response, which have not yet been completed, is to employ Iran’s extended arms, most notably Hezbollah, to strike American interests in the region.
Unit 910 ... What do we know about it?
It is the external operations unit of the Lebanese Hezbollah, also known as "910", and it is directly related to its military security, and is responsible for carrying out the party's operations outside Lebanese territory [1]. Geographically, according to "Nicholas Rasmussen," director of the American National Center for "Combating Terrorism" [2], the elements of the unit are deployed in most parts of the world, and they are ready, according to the words of "Matthew Levitt, director of the counterterrorism and intelligence program at the Washington Institute, to hit targets in The United States of America and Israel. The unit is assumed personally by the party's secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were likely to oversee its operations until recently, and "Talal Hamiyyah" would assume its executive leadership [3].
Shiite elements of Lebanese and non-Lebanese origins are served in the unit with great care, and they are subjected to high-level security training, and they carry various foreign nationalities and documents that help them move freely globally, and the investments they make are the external front of the secret security unit's activity, and they take advantage of their relationships in their whereabouts with Pro-party actors abroad, using local networks everywhere, are targeted to help implement unit activities. The unit's operations are also distinguished by its long time span and its long-term strategic goals [4].
Who is its leader, "Talal Hamiyyah"?
He is "Talal Hussein", the nickname of "Abi Jaafar", the current executive leader of the unit, and he is called "the ghost" by "Israeli military leaders" because there are no official documents for him in Lebanon, and he is completely away from social life and public appearances and followed him strictly to the precautions Real-time high security. The unit's “diet” is managed by a prominent leader of Hezbollah, Imad Mughniyeh, who was assassinated in Damascus in 2008 [5]. He also holds several pseudonyms, including “Talal Hosni” and “Esmat Mizarani” [6], and is similar to an office The Federal Bureau of Investigations is a fierce family with the family of al-Qaeda founder "Osama bin Laden", and the office calls it the "Lebanese bin Laden family" because it is one of the most well-known families in Hezbollah circles [7].
Talal, the former unit leader, Mustafa Badr al-Din, succeeded Mughniyah's brother-in-law and his successor, who was also killed in Syria in 2016, and 50-year-old Talal came from the Baalbek-Hermel region, and he worked alongside Badr al-Din, Mughniyah, and the minister The former Iranian defense, Ahmed Wahidi, was, according to Mossad information, responsible for transporting Hezbollah's arsenal through Syria. "Diet" worked until the beginning of 1982 as an administrative employee at the Rafic Hariri Airport in Beirut, and began his activity with Hezbollah in the mid-eighties, and his first start as a security official in the party was from Burj al-Barajneh, where he was responsible for many of the elements that later became one of the most important The operational leaders of the Lebanese Party. He was also Hamiyah, a deputy of Mughniyeh, in the "jihad" network, which is the special mission unit and external attacks in Hezbollah [8].
Israeli intelligence believes that the "ghost" is currently responsible for recruiting Hezbollah cells throughout the world, especially in South America, Western Europe and Africa, according to a report by "Al-Modon" newspaper. Mossad also accused him of coordinating with Moqtada al-Sadr, the then-leader of the Mahdi Army - and the leader of the current Al-Sadr is currently - and other Shiite militias in Iraq immediately after the American invasion, and the "Mossad" also believes that the cells established by Hamiyah depend mainly on Iran's embassies and consulates to help with transporting weapons and logistical support, and it is also believed that Hamiyyah worked side by side with both the Secretary-General The party "Nasrallah" and a leader The late “Quds Force” General Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in late December by a US drone [9].
He is considered "responsible" for many highly planned and executed armed attacks, and many countries place him on terrorist lists [10]. He uses a "diet" of fake companies, false passports and extensive human resources in a large number of countries in the world. The United States and Israel accuse him of responsibility for carrying out violent attacks in 1982 against the US Marines and French forces stationed in Beirut [11] that killed 241 Americans 128 [12] were injured, which contradicts that he did not begin his activity with Hezbollah until the mid-1980s, but it is unconfirmed information and depends on American and Israeli weightings, and the Israelis also accuse him of planning to carry out an attack in the Thai capital Bangkok against Israelis in 2012 in response to an assassination. Mughniyeh "4 years before Years [13].
Is the role of unity evolving?
Last year, the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" revealed the failure of several operations of Unit 910 in Bolivia, Cyprus, Peru, Thailand and Britain [14]. However, there has been a growing role for it in the past few years, and that development actually began in 2008 after the assassination of Mughniyyah as we mentioned, and it continued Unity after the assassination of the latter as a tool in the Iranian shadow war with the West in the region, and the last successful operation of the unit was the 2012 suicide attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in the Bulgarian city of Burgas, which killed 6 people and wounded 32 others [15]. The number of unit operations (910) in the period between 1992 and today is about 9 specific operations, most of which were successful, as mentioned by "Ibrahim al-Miqdadi" in his book "Encyclopedia of Iran and Political Shiism", the most prominent of which was written: [16]
A car bomb was detonated at the Israeli embassy in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, on March 17, 1992.
* A truck bomb was detonated in front of the building of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Society in Buenos Aires, on July 18, 1994.
* A suicide attack was carried out on a Panamanian plane that took off from Cologne to Panama City on 19 July 1994.
* Attempt to carry out a violent operation in Baku / Azerbaijan in October 2007.
* Attempting to carry out armed operations in Turkey in January and November 2009.
* Planned armed attacks in the Thai capital, Bangkok, arrest a member of the unit, and unveil a weapons depot in November 2011.
* The bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in the city of Burgas, Bulgaria, in July 2012.
Over the past ten years, Unit 910 has worked in Iran's arms in the agency's war with Tehran against Washington and its regional allies in the region against the background of Iran's nuclear program, and Matthew Levitt, a former FBI officer, always outlines the potential role of the unit at the talk of the party’s Secretary General God expresses the position and role of his party in supporting Iran, which "will not be alone in its war," as Nasrallah always reiterates, which was recognized by the leader of Hezbollah, "Ali Kurani", who is detained by America, and who was convicted last year for observing the FBI, the CIA offices and a warehouse. Weapons for the american army If the investigation shows that he was working as a “sleeping agent” for a long time and is also affiliated with the unit for planning external attacks in Hezbollah [17], and as the Americans announced and it was not confirmed conclusively, the unit was planning future attacks on the buildings of American security, intelligence and military institutions , And also civilian such as John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York [18].
As for the activity of Hezbollah in North America, it was not new according to the newspaper "Foreign Policy", although previous reports tended to focus on the financial operations carried out by the elements of the party, such as fund-raising and money laundering or other logistical activities that could occur in any city From Canadian Vancouver to Miami, USA, in May of last year, the criminal prosecution in New York, through which “Al-Kurani” and “Samer Al-Dabak”, two members of Hezbollah, was convicted of new information that worried the Americans about the extent of the party’s operations and activities. God is on American and Canadian soil, a Something that prompted the US intelligence community since last year to review the assessment of long-term not likely to attack Hezbollah, the United States in their own backyard. [19]
So, in the context of any conflict that does not amount to an all-out war between Washington and Tehran, and in light of the critical circumstances the region is going through and Iran and its proxies suffer, it is not likely that Tehran or any of its arms in the region will carry out direct and high-level revenge in response to the assassination of Major General "Soleimani" Indeed, Tehran is more likely to stop its blow to the Iraqi base that hosts the American forces and from which the plane that assassinated the prominent general was launched, and in this regard a scenario emerges within the possible scenarios according to which Iran and Hezbollah refer the task of "qualitative" revenge for the private and sensitive arms headed by Unit 910 , And It is a response that may be delayed due to the relatively slow and deliberate nature of the unit's work in planning and preparing its operations, but it is a response that will most likely suit the passion of Iranians who will find in the vast world of play a more spacious playground to target Americans than the present-day Middle East.