"WINEP: declare Israel's enemy a 'terrorist' or face bankruptcy"

From a reader:  "" "It's a rare opening, a rare lifting of the veil on how they operate," Magnus Norell, a former terrorism analyst for the Swedish Secret Service who testified in the case, said in a telephone interview on Thursday." "We shouldn’t need more to designate them," said Mr. Norell, who is also a senior policy adviser at the [NeoCon] European Foundation for Democracy and an adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy [WINEP]. "It's long overdue.""

"Pressure for Europe to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization increased Thursday after a court in [bankrupt and in the desperate need of cash from US-controlled IMF] Cyprus found a man guilty of helping to plan an attack on Israeli tourists in the island nation. The Obama administration has pushed the European Union in recent months to add the Shiite militant group to its terrorist list, an effort to stymie what the United States describes as rapidly escalating efforts to carry out attacks on Israelis and Iranian-chosen targets around the world."

"Cash-strapped Cyprus secured a (EURO)10 billion ($13 billion) bailout package from its European partners and the International Monetary Fund in a bid to prevent the island nation from entering a bankruptcy that could rekindle the region's debt crisis, officials said early Saturday."