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Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64I0UM20100519?type=politicsNews
U.S. Seeking to Build Up Hizbullah Moderates
(Reuters) Adam Entous - The Obama administration is looking for ways to build up "moderate elements" within Lebanese Hizbullah, John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, said on Tuesday. "There are certainly the elements of Hizbullah that are truly a concern to us....And what we need to do is to find ways to diminish their influence within the organization and to try to build up the more moderate elements," Brennan said. Hizbullah is branded a "foreign terrorist organization" by the U.S.