Editing Hezbollah (section)

== Secret services ==
Hezbollah's secret services have been called as "one of the best in the world",<ref name="Engeland33" /> and have even infiltrated the [[Israeli army]].<ref name="Engeland33" /> [[:Category:Lebanese intelligence agencies|Lebanese intelligence agencies]] and [[:Category:Iranian intelligence agencies|Iranian intelligence agencies]] often collaborate with Hezbollah's secret services.<ref name=Engeland33 />

In the summer of 1982, Hezbollah's Special Security Apparatus was created by Hussein al-Khalil, now a "top political adviser to Nasrallah";<ref>{{cite web|last1=Masters|first1=Jonathan|last2=Laub|first2=Zachary|title=Hezbollah (a.k.a., Hizbollah, Hizbu'llah)|url=http://www.cfr.org/lebanon/hezbollah-k-hizbollah-hizbullah/p9155|website=Council on Foreign Relations|access-date=5 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328084825/http://www.cfr.org/lebanon/hezbollah-k-hizbollah-hizbullah/p9155|archive-date=28 March 2016}}</ref> while Hezbollah's counterintelligence was initially managed by Iran's [[Quds Force]],<ref name="Wege2">{{cite journal|last1=Wege|first1=Carl Anthony|title=Anticipatory Intelligence and the Post-Syrian War Hezbollah Intelligence Apparatus|journal=International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence|date=Summer 2016|volume=29|issue=2|pages=236–259|doi=10.1080/08850607.2016.1121039|s2cid=155476605}}</ref>{{rp|238}} the organization continued to grow during the 1990s. By 2008, scholar Carl Anthony Wege writes, "Hizballah had obtained complete dominance over Lebanon's official state counterintelligence apparatus, which now constituted a Hizballah asset for counterintelligence purposes."<ref name="Wege" />{{rp|775}} This close connection with Lebanese intelligence helped bolster Hezbollah's financial counterintelligence unit.<ref name="Wege">{{cite journal|last1=Wege|first1=Carl Anthony|title=Hizballah's Counterintelligence Apparatus|journal=International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence|year=2012|volume=25|issue=4|pages=771–785|doi=10.1080/08850607.2012.705185|s2cid=154283510}}</ref>{{rp|772, 775}}

According to Ahmad Hamzeh, Hezbollah's counterintelligence service is divided into ''Amn al-Muddad'', responsible for "external" or "encounter" security; and ''Amn al-Hizb'', which protects the organization's integrity and its leaders. According to Wege, ''Amn al-Muddad'' "may have received specialized intelligence training in Iran and possibly North Korea".<ref name="Wege" />{{rp|773–774}} The organization also includes a military security component, as well as an External Security Organization (''al-Amn al-Khariji'' or [[Unit 910]]) that operates covertly outside Lebanon.<ref name="Wege2" />{{rp|238}}

Successful Hezbollah counterintelligence operations include thwarting the [[CIA]]'s attempted kidnapping of foreign operations chief Hassan Ezzeddine in 1994, the 1997 manipulation of a double agent that led to the [[Ansariya ambush]], and the 2000 kidnapping of alleged Mossad agent Elhanan Tannenbaum.<ref name="Wege" />{{rp|773}} In 2006, Hezbollah collaborated with the Lebanese government to detect Adeeb al-Alam, a former colonel, as an Israeli spy.<ref name="Wege" />{{rp|774}} Hezbollah recruited IDF Lieutenant Colonel Omar al-Heib, who was convicted in 2006 of conducting surveillance for Hezbollah.<ref name="Wege" />{{rp|776}} In 2009, Hezbollah apprehended Marwan Faqih, a garage owner who installed tracking devices in Hezbollah-owned vehicles.<ref name="Wege" />{{rp|774}}

Hezbollah's counterintelligence apparatus uses electronic surveillance and intercept technologies. By 2011, Hezbollah counterintelligence began to use software to analyse cellphone data and detect espionage. Suspicious callers were then subjected to conventional surveillance. In the mid-1990s, Hezbollah was able to "download unencrypted video feeds from Israeli drones",<ref name="Wege" />{{rp|777}} and Israeli [[SIGINT]] efforts intensified after the 2000 withdrawal from Lebanon. With possible help from Iran and the [[Russia]]n [[Federal Security Service|FSB]], Hezbollah augmented its electronic counterintelligence capabilities, and succeeded in 2008 in detecting Israeli bugs near Mount Sannine and in the organization's fiber optic network.<ref name="Wege" />{{rp|774, 777–778}}