CONGRESS WANTS TO SEND HEZBOLLAH INTO 'ANOTHER' PANIC
IRAN NEXT - BILL SENT TO POTUS YESTERDAY FOR SIGNATURE
Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2017
This bill amends the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 to impose specified sanctions on: (1) foreign persons that knowingly assist in or provide support for fund raising or recruitment activities for Hizballah; (2) agencies of foreign governments that provide Hizballah with financial support, arms, or other assistance; and (3) Hizballah by reason of its narcotics trafficking and significant transnational criminal activities.
The bill prescribes reporting requirements or reporting modifications with respect to: (1) foreign persons that knowingly assist or provide significant financial, material, or technological support for foreign persons assisting Hizballah; (2) financial institutions that are owned or organized under the laws of state sponsors of terrorism; (3) Hizballah's racketeering activities; (4) combating illicit tobacco trafficking networks used by Hizballah and other foreign terrorist organizations to finance their operations; (5) the estimated net worth of senior Hizballah officials and how their funds were acquired and used; and (6) revenue from Hizbollah's global logistics networks and legal measures available to target such networks.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1595
THE ACTIONS ARE INTERESTING - SEE PIC2
IT'S HABBENIN
-Why a year delay?
-What happened ~9/25/18 that it was resurrected in the House in the evening (10:20 pm)?
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SEE PIC 1
Link - see page 132 & 133
https://www.congress.gov/crec/2018/09/25/CREC-2018-09-25.pdf
HEZBOLLAH IS PANICKING
Ms. Ros-Lehtinen
"Hezbollah also asserted that it ‘‘does
not have any funds in any bank in the
world . . . or in Lebanese banks and
the central bank and the directors of
banks must not panic.’’
Well, if a terrorist organization must
publicly state that they are not panicking,
then they are definitely panicking.
And Hezbollah was panicking,
Mr. Speaker, following the passage of
this landmark legislation. "
"Hezbollah has also lashed out most recently
by bombing a Lebanese bank in
an effort to intimidate the board members
into noncompliance. But
Hezbollah’s cowardly stance and its
scare tactics have not worked."
Lebanese banks have gone above and
beyond the letter of the new U.S. law
to proactively offload Hezbollah-linked
bank accounts, forcing Hezbollah to
look elsewhere for financial services.
Yet, as time has progressed,
Hezbollah has found temporary, albeit
cumbersome, workarounds.
It is time to send Hezbollah into a panic again, and this new legislation that we are considering tonight will do just that.