posted by Christopher W. Holton Hezbollah is stepping up a campaign to place its allies at the heart of Lebanon’s banking system as the US seeks to disrupt the armed group’s financial networks… https://www.thenational.ae/world/hezbollah-steps-up-campaign-for-control-of-lebanon-s-financial-system-1.1006054
Posted by Christopher W. Holton This is a story that should be getting much more attention, but for the Wuhan virus dominating the news. This guy lived for 13 years in Austria and sent money back to Lebanon to fund the Jihadist terrorist organization Hezbollah. This shows the degree to which Hezbollah has embedded itself […]
U.S. quietly rolling up Hezbollah financing in Latin America
posted by Christopher Holton Hezbollah has for decades been building up infrastructure and support in Latin America. This process has gone largely unchecked until recently. As Joseph Humire reports in The Hill, that appears to be changing now… On July 11, 2018, the government of Argentina took its first action against Hezbollah by freezing the […]
VIDEO: Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah reveals his monthly salary from #Iran pic.twitter.com/5Sfj06x4Jr — Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) January 4, 2018 Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah reveals his monthly salary from Iran
posted by Christopher W Holton Politico has a blockbuster and exhaustive report posted that details Hezbollah’s criminal enterprises that finance its Jihad…and how Barack Obama’s desperation to reach a nuclear deal with Iran ended up blocking the task force that was going after them… https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/
posted by Christopher W. Holton Up until the September 11, 2001, attacks against the United States, Hezbollah, Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Shiite Party of God, was responsible for the deaths of more Americans than any other terrorist group in the world. Hezbollah introduced suicide bombings into the regional vernacular. The group, supported and fueled by the Iranian […]
posted by Christopher Holton Attacking Hezbollah’s Financial Network: Policy Options Hearing 06.08.2017 10:00am 2172 Rayburn Full Committee Chairman Royce on the hearing: “Hezbollah is a top terrorist threat to the U.S. and our allies. And as Iran’s proxy it operates internationally – massacring civilians in Syria, attacking Americans and Israelis, and laundering drugs and cash. […]
posted by Christopher W. Holton There are rumblings that Washington is preparing more wide-ranging sanctions aimed at the Jihadist terrorist organization Hezbollah. These sanctions are well-deserved and overdue. Not only did Hezbollah kill 241 US Marines, sailors and soldiers in Beirut on 23 October 1983, they also participated heavily in the insurgency in Iraq, trained […]
The Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act, which was adopted unanimously by the Senate and House of Representatives, has been signed into law. Hezbollah’s drug business, money laundering, and other criminal activities are critical for funding its Jihad. The new law seeks to “prevent Hezbollah’s global logistics and financial network from operating in order to curtail […]
We are not in the habit of quoting official Russian news agencies here, but in this case TASS is simply regurgitating what has already been widely reported in independent Western media: The Islamic State (IS), which has declared a caliphate stretching across Syria and Iraq, has been placed on top of the list of the […]
Germany Outlaws Islamic Charity for Funding Hezbollah
An Islamic charity known as the “Orphan Children Project Lebanon” (Waisenkinderprojekt Libanon) was recently shut down by German authorities in police raids for raising millions of euros for Hezbollah and the families of suicide bombers. The organization, based in the western city of Essen, had raised €3.3 million in donations between 2007 and 2013 for the Lebanese […]
A U.S. grand jury is probing whether Deutsche Boerse AG’s Clearstream Banking SA unit took any steps to benefit Iran and its central bank, according to a court filing in a case that stems from the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. The grand jury subpoena issued in New York seeks documents […]
Given Hezbollah’s involvement in bootleg cigarette operations in the late 1990s in North Carolina and Michigan, this raises some interesting questions… A Pawtucket accountant has pleaded guilty of conspiring to bring $1.2 million worth of contraband cigarettes to Rhode Island from Virginia, where the cigarette tax is low. Bassam Kiriaki, 46, also admitted conspiring to […]
An Ontario Superior Court of Justice awarded $7-million worth of Iranian state assets in Canada to victims of terrorism. Money that Iran had stashed in Canadian bank accounts, as well as two properties in Toronto and Ottawa, will soon be liquidated for distribution. Sheriffs have been ordered to sell Iran’s properties, empty its bank accounts and […]
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