EU rejects Israeli request to put Hezbollah on terror list

07/25/12: Al Jazeera reports the European Union has rejected Israel’s request to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist organization after Tel Aviv blamed the Lebanese group for last week’s deadly bombing in Bulgaria.  “There is no consensus for putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organizations,” Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, said on Tuesday.  She said Hezbollah was an organization comprising a political party as well as an armed wing and was “active in Lebanese politics.”  The United States, Canada and Britain have already included Hezbollah in their lists of designated terrorist organizations.  Hezbollah is also suspected in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.