Terror organization: Hezbollah

Status: Hezbollah operative, arrested in 2012 in Thailand with large quantity of Ammonium Nitrate and served time in prison.

Role: He is and operative of unit 910, has a Swedish passport due to his marriage of Swedish woman. His name was connected to Hassan al-Haj Hassan and Houssein Ghassan Houssein both operatives in 910 as well.


In 2012 he was arrested in Thailand and after interrogation he led the Thai authorities to a warehouse that contained 2,800 kilograms of liquid ammonium nitrate and 4,000 kilograms of urea fertilizer, both of which can be used to make explosives.

He was serving around two years in Thai prison and was released (against western will).

Location: Unknown, possibly in Lebanon or Sweden.

Activities:
Authorities thwarted an earlier Hezbollah plot targeting Israeli and possibly American tourists in Bangkok in January 2012. Hussein Atris, a dual Lebanese-Swedish citizen and Hezbollah operative, led police to a warehouse where he had been stockpiling explosive precursor materials, presumably for future Hezbollah operations. But that’s not all: some of the materials — including five tons of fertilizer and 400 liters of ammonium nitrate — were already distilled into crystal form, a step in building bombs. Information on international shipping forms found at the scene indicated that at least some of the explosives — which were stored in bags marked as cat litter — were intended to be shipped abroad. Israeli intelligence officials surmised that Hezbollah had been using Thailand as an explosives hub, noting that Atris had rented the space a year earlier. The conclusion should not have been a surprise: U.S. officials had already determined that Hezbollah was known to use Bangkok as a logistics and transportation hub, describing the city as “a center for a [Hezbollah] cocaine and money-laundering network.”


The documents seized at the Hezbollah warehouse reportedly included some suggesting that shipments of explosive precursor materials had already been shipped to South America, though that was never confirmed.