Post-Hezbollah
In 1992 Tufaili was replaced by Shiekh Abbas al-Musawi as head of Hezbollah. Hezbollah's hostage-taking campaign had wound down since the "Kuwait 17" bombers of the 1983 Kuwait bombings who were linked to leading Hezbollah members were now free, and the Taif Agreement had essentially ended the Civil War in Lebanon. Al-Musawi was both head of the military wing and former head of the movement's "internal security apparatus in Beirut," and was thus thought well-equipped to lead Hezbollah in its new primary mission of fighting Israel and ending Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon. Tufaili also opposed Hezbollah's participation in Lebanese national elections and its "moderation" toward the Lebanese state.
Tufaili is reportedly the leader of the splinter group Ansar Allah, which may have been responsible for attacks in Lebanon, Panama, and Argentina. According to START, he has been backed by Syria as leverage against the more pro-Iranian Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
In July 1997 he organized protests, dubbed the "hunger revolution", against the Lebanese government. Tufeili said it is "completely unacceptable that a human being could be humiliated because of poverty or because they were in need."
His breakaway group is known as the "Revolution of the Hungry" (Thawrat al-Jiya), although his support base is largely limited to the villages of Brital and Tarayya.
He is wanted by the Lebanese government for leading a revolution against the country, but has not been arrested.
In January 1998 his militia attempted to occupy a Hezbollah religious school and sparked a violent confrontation with the Lebanese Army. Lebanese authorities issued a warrant for Tufaili's arrest and Lebanese Army units conducted a massive sweep of the Beqaa. According to a Lebanese Army statement in 1998: "Following the decision of the military prosecutor to order the arrest of Sheikh Sobhi Tufaili and his supporters on charges of forming armed groups, endangering national security and killing soldiers and civilians, the army took control of Sheikh Tufaili's house."
In February 1998 Lebanese troops surrounded a village looking for Tufaili after two days of clashes that left eight people dead. Tufaili and about 100 of his fighters were allowed to escape to his hometown of Britel when the head of Syrian military intelligence in Baalbek, Col. Ali Safi, stepped in and forced advancing Lebanese Army units to halt.
In April 1999, Tufaili's forces overran a Hezbollah arms depot in the village of Nabichit, near Baalbeck, seizing large numbers of machine-guns, rocket-launchers and other military equipment.
In February 2013, Tufaili berated Hezbollah for fighting on behalf of the Syrian regime in the Syrian civil war. He said "Hezbollah should not be defending the criminal regime that kills its own people and that has never fired a shot in defense of the Palestinians". Tufaili added: "those Hezbollah fighters who are killing children and terrorizing people and destroying houses in Syria will go to hell". He also berated the Lebanese Army for not stopping Lebanese citizens crossing the border to fight in Syria.
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