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Report: Hezbollah funded by drug trade in Europe
HaAretz ^ | 1/9/10 | Assaf Uni

Posted on 01/09/2010 8:25:26 PM PST by Nachum

German police suspect the Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, of using drug trafficking in Europe to fund part of its activities, German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday.

According to the report published on the magazine's website, German police arrested two Lebanese citizens living in Germany last October after they transferred large sums of money to a family in Lebanon with connections to Hezbollah's leadership, including the Shiite group's Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: drug; drugtrafficking; europe; funded; hezbollah; hizballah; hizbullah; lebanese; lebanon; moneytrail; nasrallah; trade

1 posted on 01/09/2010 8:25:29 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

pragmatic: 0_0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23384-2004Jun7.html

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LAW/07/21/charlotte.raids.02/


2 posted on 01/09/2010 8:45:03 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (Nobody move, Nobody get hurt)
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To: Cindy

formulaic of interest ping for mam ;)


3 posted on 01/09/2010 9:42:49 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (Nobody move, Nobody get hurt)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

Thank you Happinesswithoutpeace.

I appreciate the ping.


4 posted on 01/09/2010 9:45:30 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Nachum

a simple way to defund (to a certain extant)
the Taliban would be to allow opium
to be grown in western countries


5 posted on 01/09/2010 11:38:49 PM PST by element92
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