"Hezbollah’s blacklisting: what’s next?"

When Lebanese-Swedish Hossam Taleb Yaacoub was caught a year ago in Cyprus collecting information about Israeli flight and tourist hangouts around the Mediterranean island, the prosecutors initially accused him of planning a terrorist attack. The young man confessed in court that he had been hired years before by a Hezbollah operative who used to send him on missions around Europe to transport packages and to spy on Israeli tourist spots. The terrorism charges were eventually dropped, and the young man was convicted of membership to a criminal organization because Hezbollah was not officially designated as a terrorist group by the EU, which Cyprus is a part of./b>