Q getting push back on IRAN NEXT?
LEBANON OBSTRUCTING
This past week:
Lebanese Embassy is attempting to block the extradition of alleged Hezbollah financier Nader Mohamad Farhat. While Hezbollah’s arsenal and fighters are concentrated in Lebanon and Syria, Latin America is an indispensable theater of operations for the criminal networks that generate much of Hezbollah’s revenue.
sauce:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/15/lebanon-is-protecting-hezbollahs-cocaine-and-cash-trade-in-latin-america/
May 19th Nader Mohamad Farhat arrested in Paraguay - SEE PIC:
http://www.abc.com.py/nacionales/eeuu-pide-extradicion-de-farhat-1704695.html
SOME BACKGROUND
In the June edition of Foreign Policy, analyst Emanuele Ottolenghi, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, described efforts by the Lebanese Embassy in Paraguay to block the extradition of suspected Hezbollah financier Nader Mohamad Farhat to the United States. Ottolenghi wrote that Farhat was arrested for his alleged role in a $1.3 million drug money-laundering scheme.
Farhat was also believed to be a member of the Business Affairs Component, the branch of Hezbollah’s External Security Organisation responsible for the Party of God’s finance and drug trafficking operations.
If correct, this would mark a dramatic break with Lebanon’s longstanding neutrality policy with regard to foreign affairs.
Hezbollah has past form here. Earlier this year, Project Cassandra, the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s initiative to check Hezbollah’s narcotics revenue streams, named several of the group’s figures suspected to have been active in international cocaine smuggling and money laundering rings.
Hezbollah’s suspicious international activities go beyond narcotics. In May, Morocco accused the group of training and arming the separatist Polisario Front movement, leading the North African country to sever ties with Hezbollah’s sponsor, Iran.
These are hardly isolated incidents. In 2013 and 2016, the European community and Gulf countries added Hezbollah’s armed branch to their list of terror organisations following its involvement in the Syrian conflict, as well as its alleged terrorist plots in Europe and the Gulf.
sauce:
https://thearabweekly.com/hezbollahs-internal-gains-and-external-operations-place-all-lebanon-risk