The U.S. Should Think Twice Before Giving a Financial Boost to Hizballah’s Criminal Empire
Drugs, sex trafficking, child soldiers, and terrorism.
June 7, 2021
The U.S. Should Think Twice Before Giving a Financial Boost to Hizballah’s Criminal Empire
Drugs, sex trafficking, child soldiers, and terrorism.
Besides having a small army that has been fighting to prop up Bashar Assad’s rule in Syria, an estimated 150,000 missiles aimed at Israel in Lebanon (a country it more or less controls), and engaging in terrorist attacks on Jewish, Israeli, and American targets worldwide, Hizballah also runs a global crime syndicate that serves to fund its other activities. Money laundering for drug cartels forms the core of the Iranian proxy group’s illicit activities, but it also runs its own narcotics operation, smuggles illegal timber, and much else. Emanuele Ottolenghi provides an example:
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