>>6274865

https://inhomelandsecurity.com/dea-arrests-hezbollah-members-allegedly-laundering-cartel-money/

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced in early Feb. 2016 that it had arrested four members of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist organization.

According to Media Line, the DEA alleged they were part of a cell that used millions of dollars obtained through the sale of cocaine in the US and Europe to fund its operations in Syria and Lebanon. It declined to state where the arrests took place but said the operation involved France, Belgium, Italy and Germany. In addition, the DEA said the group was laundering money for South American drug cartels.

In a statement, DEA Acting Deputy Administrator Jack Riley described the cell as “a revenue and weapons stream … responsible for devastating terror attacksaround the world,” and said that more arrests were expected. CNN reported that Hezbollah is increasing its reliance on criminal activity to fund its operations because the terrorist group is receiving less support from Iran because of plunging oil prices. DEA representative Rusty Payne told CNN the terrorist network was laundering the drug money through the acquisition and sale of high-end used cars, sometimes hiding the cash inside the vehicles themselves as they were shipped internationally.

>>6274865

And let.it all go for the sake of the Iran Nuke deal….

https://chinapost.nownews.com/20111231-104807

The Obama administration said that it was hitting two Lebanese-Colombian men and dozens of companies they run with sanctions for allegedly laundering money on behalf of Mexican and Colombian drug cartels. Officials said Thursday that one of the companies was tied to an alleged drug kingpin who has been accused of running a money-laundering scheme on behalf of the militant group Hezbollah. The move blocks any assets in the U.S. belonging to Lebanese-Colombian nationals Jorge Fadlallah Cheaitelly and Mohamad Zouheir El Khansa, and blocks Americans from doing business with them. Panamanian and Colombian authorities did not immediately return calls seeking comment. The Treasury Department said Cheaitelly leads a Panama-based drug trafficking and money laundering organization with operations as far as Hong Kong. El Khansa is seen as a key partner. The department also applied sanctions to nine people with ties to the men, and 28 entities in Colombia, Panama, Lebanon and Hong Kong. The companies placed under U.S. sanction include electronics stores, luggage outlets and several money-exchange businesses. The department’s sanctions chief, Adam Szubin, said the U.S. was forcing a major money laundering network out of the international financial system, undermining its ability to help the cartels. According to the Treasury Department, Cheaitelly has ties with Ayman Joumaa, who has been indicted in U.S. federal court on charges of leading a drug conspiracy that provided income for Hezbollah, which has been designated by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization since 1997. The Drug Enforcement Administration has alleged that Joumaa’s organization laundered money using 50 used car lots in the United States. Cars were exported to Lebanon and West Africa. Prosecutors have accused Joumaa of involvement in a massive international scheme in which Lebanese financial institutions, including banks and two exchange houses linked to Hezbollah, passed money through the U.S. financial system to launder narcotics trafficking and other criminal proceeds through West Africa and back into Lebanon. The government said substantial portions of the cash were paid to Hezbollah. According to Thursday’s announcement, one of Cheatilly’s companies used to be run by Joumaa, and Joumaa’s brothers continue to help operate it.

>>6274977

You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed theworld once and got a taste for murder. After the avalanche, it took us a week to climb out. Now, I don't know exactly when we turned on each other, but I know that seven of us survived the slide… and only five made it out. Now we took an oath, that I'm breaking now. We said we'd say it was the snow that killed the other two, but it wasn't. Nature is lethal but it doesn't hold a candle to man.

>>6275116

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/45189/meet-hezbollahs-detroit-used-car-dealers-i-warned-mi-cops-fbi-years-ago/

Several years ago, one of my very reliable informants discovered that several used car dealerships in Detroit, Dearbornistan, and Dearbornistan Heights were buying used cars for Hezbollah, shipping them to West Africa (where Hezbollah has a huge presence, especially in Sierra Leone), and selling them for huge profits (after, in many case, odometers were rolled back, VIN numbers erased, etc.).  The proceeds went to fund Hezbollah terrorist operations. 

>>6275135

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/middleeast/us-sues-american-and-lebanese-businesses-it-says-helped-hezbollah-money-laundering.html

The federal government on Thursday escalated its campaign to stanch the flow of what it says is dirty money to the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. Prosecutors filed a civil suit aimed at financially punishing American and Lebanese businesses that the government charges were behind a Hezbollah-controlled global network that laundered huge sums in South American cocaine proceeds.

The court action, filed in Manhattan federal court, seeks nearly half a billion dollars in penalties from three Lebanese financial organizations — the now-defunct Lebanese Canadian Bank and two Beirut-based money exchange houses — and 30 auto dealers in the United States. The $480 million in penalties is the sum of the drug proceeds that are alleged to have been laundered; the government is also seeking to freeze and seize assets traceable to those companies.

The suit represents the latest effort by the Obama administration to disrupt the financial network that sustains Hezbollah, an organization that the American government has long considered a terrorist group but that has become the pre-eminent military and political power in Lebanon.

In February, after a six-year investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Treasury Department forced the closing of the Lebanese Canadian Bank and the sale of its untainted assets to a new owner.

It charged the bank with assisting a handful of account holders in a scheme to wash drug money for Colombian cartels by mixing it with the proceeds of used cars bought in the United States and sold in Africa. The government said that the cash was then flown to Lebanon and deposited first into exchange houses named in Thursday’s civil suit and then into the Lebanese Canadian Bank, with Hezbollah taking a cut of the profits.

And also Los Zetas en Mexico tambien.

>>6275207

Hamas Hezbollah Cairo breaking bread….

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265756/hamas-linked-cair-holds-event-hezbollah-imam-joe-kaufman

Last August, though, two of Hamas and Hezbollah’s extended family set aside their differences and came together for a friendly roundtable discussion, sponsored by CAIR and held at the American Islamic Center of Florida, a Shiite mosque located in Pompano. The representative for CAIR, Nezar Hamze – the Regional Operations Director of CAIR’s Florida chapter – was even photographed with a big smile on his face.

>>6275207

>>6275207

https://m.jpost.com/Diaspora/Ilhan-Omar-to-speak-at-terror-linked-banquet-581083

The Conservative Reviewreported that director of CAIR-Los Angeles Hussam Ayloush has suggested that the US is “partly responsible” for the San Bernardino terrorist attacks.

Following the attacks in 2015, Ayloush suggested that the US was “partly responsible” for the ISIS-led attack on innocents in California.

“Let’s not forget that some of our own foreign policy – as Americans, as the West – has fueled that extremism,” he added. 

Ayloush has in the past described US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of a campaign to instill “fear of the Muslims.”

The revelation of Omar’s upcoming address comes after a major Twitter storm in which she accused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of paying American politicians to be pro-Israel.

Omar received heavy backlash for the comments and was accused of antisemitism, with leaders on both the Right and Left condemning her remarks.

Just a few days later, she was also caught up in a controversy over whether or not she would be speaking alongside an official known for his antisemitic comments at an emergency gala dinner for Yemen on February 23 in Tampa, Florida. 

It was revealed that she would give the keynote address at an Islamic Relief USA dinner alongside Yousef Abdallah, who has advocated for violence against Jews and expressed antisemitic sentiments on his social media pages. Omar's PR team pushed back and the event’s marketing materials and online invitations were changed.  

They claimed that it was a clerical error and that she was never set to speak alongside Abdallah in the first place.