Telegraph | News | Democrat flunks his first intelligence test

The new Democratic chairman of a US congressional intelligence committee did not know what Hizbollah was and incorrectly described al-Qa’eda as deriving from the Shia rather than Sunni sect of Islam.

Silvestre Reyes
Silvestre Reyes: ‘Hizbollah. Uh, Hizbollah…’

Representative Silvestre Reyes was flummoxed when a journalist rounded off a 40-minute interview by asking him two basic questions about the Islamic groups that are the principal targets of America’s intelligence agencies.