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[Buddy Kidd]

Hezbollah comes to the US, cont’d
During my visit to Tulsa last month I noted a story in the local news involving the search of a used car dealership as the result of a lawsuit alleging that it received about $20.2 million from Hezbollah members or Hezbollah-controlled entities to purchase and ship used cars. I subsequently wrote a little more about the civil lawsuit filed in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York; the lawsuit attacks a complex cocaine and automobile smuggling enterprise in the United States and West Africa. The enterprise handles hundreds of millions of dollars each month and some of the profits are routed to Hezbollah through the Lebanese Canadian Bank. Terror finance expert Jonathan Schanzer’s New York Post column explains what’s happening here:

[indent] Last month, the US government filed suit against a number of American and Lebanese businesses that allegedly helped bankroll the Lebanese terrorist group. The civil indictment in Manhattan blew the lid off a vast criminal network that included money-laundering, cocaine deals and more — including 30 US car dealerships that helped the group launder cash.

As one investigator quipped, Hezbollah is the “Gambinos on steroids.”

The indictment charges Hezbollah kingpin Ayman Joumaa with smuggling more than 100 tons of Colombian cocaine with the Mexican Zetas drug cartel, yielding hundreds of millions of dollars for the terror group. Indeed, the feds show that Hezbollah relies on a carefully constructed system of criminal enterprises from America to Africa to the Middle East.

Since its 1982 birth, Hezbollah has worked hard to portray itself as a “resistance” organization, fighting against the alleged injustices of Israel, the United States and others, earning it wide respect across the Middle East.

But today the group’s operatives — at home and abroad — are thugs who profit from drugs, fraud and more. This contradiction could help erode support among Hezbollah’s pious Shi’ite followers.

In fact, the US government has for years warned of the growing Hezbollah drug and crime operations in the lawless “Tri-Border Area” of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.

In 2002, the problem hit closer to home. Two men were convicted of operating a multimillion-dollar cigarette-smuggling operation out of North Carolina, which funneled money back to Hezbollah.

Since then, US officials have grown increasingly alarmed by Hezbollah’s activities in the Western Hemisphere.
In 2010, a Tucson Police Department memo warned of growing ties between Hezbollah operatives and Mexican drug traffickers, including the growing use of improvised-explosive devices and car bombs. Other evidence pointed to Hezbollah involvement in the tunnels Mexican cartel’s use to smuggle drugs into the United States.

Last Jan. 26, the US Treasury designated a wide network of Hezbollah-linked drug figures, including Joumaa and nine other people, plus 19 entities. In February, Washington listed the Lebanese Canadian Bank as a “primary money-laundering concern.” It all culminated in this latest indictment that Manhattan prosecutors unsealed last month.

Hezbollah denies the “false accusations about its involvement, directly or indirectly, in money-laundering or drug-trafficking.” But the facts speak for themselves.

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[buckshot]

Hezbollah comes to the US, cont’d Since Buck defends them so much I am sure he will be pleased.

Buddy, I have never ever commented on Hezbollah, so please do me a favor and keep my name out of your posts. I am getting sick and tired of your crap using me for a punching bag.

[Buddy Kidd]

Buck, when you say the Israelis are at fault for groups like Hezbollah attacking their civilian population you are in effect defending Hezbollah. Perhaps you don't understand the workings of international politics so well.

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Buddy Kidd, on 14 January 2012 - 01:28 PM, said:

Buck, when you say the Israelis are at fault for groups like Hezbollah attacking their civilian population you are in effect defending Hezbollah. Perhaps you don't understand the workings of international politics so well.

Hamas is attacking Israeli citizens, not Hezbollah. You had better read where the attacks come from, which is from the Gaza strip, not Lebanon.

[Buddy Kidd]

Are you trying to claim that there have been no rocket attacks from the area of Lebanon?

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Buddy Kidd, on 14 January 2012 - 08:39 PM, said:

Are you trying to claim that there have been no rocket attacks from the area of Lebanon?

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This happened in November and was a rare incident. The real problem is rockets being fired from the Gaza strip by Hamas.

The rockets from Lebanon on Monday caused minimal damage, landing close to the Lebanese border and just causing some damage to a chicken coop and a gas tank, The Jerusalem Post reports. Although investigations are currently underway,

[Ghostman]

My link

Hezbollah and its affiliates have planned or been linked to a lengthy series of terrorist attacks against the United States, Israel, and other Western targets. These attacks include:

• a series of kidnappings of Westerners in Lebanon, including several Americans, in the 1980s;
• the suicide truck bombings that killed more than two hundred U.S. Marines at their barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983;
• the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847, which featured the famous footage of the plane's pilot leaning out of the cockpit with a gun to his head;
• two major 1990s attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina--the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy (killing twenty-nine) and the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center (killing ninety-five).
• a July 2006 raid on a border post in northern Israel in which two Israeli soldiers were taken captive. The abductions sparked an Israeli military campaign against Lebanon to which Hezbollah responded by firing rockets across the Lebanese border into Israel.

While Hezbollah has not claimed responsibility for any major international attacks since 2006, the group's weapons stockpile has increased and and its capabilities have strengthened. In November 2009, Israeli athorities intercepted a ship (TIME) carrying more than three thousand Iranian-made rockets and mortars which they believed were bound for Hezbollah. In April 2010, Israeli and U.S. officials also claimed that Syria transfered SCUD missiles (WSJ) to Hezbollah. On July 14, 2010, Naim Qassem, Hezbollah's second-in-command, said the group possesses an extensive list of Israeli targets (AFP) should a new conflict with Israel begin.

[Buddy Kidd]

Buck, I only picked out one of many. Apparently you do not remember or read well. Do you remember the incident referred to in the article about the last incursion into Lebanon or did you miss that one?

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<li>a July 2006 raid on a border post in northern Israel in which two Israeli soldiers were taken captive. The abductions sparked an Israeli military campaign against Lebanon to which Hezbollah responded by firing rockets across the Lebanese border into Israel.While Hezbollah has not claimed responsibility for any major international attacks since 2006, the group's weapons stockpile has increased and and its capabilities have strengthened. In November 2009, Israeli athorities intercepted a ship (TIME) carrying more than three thousand Iranian-made rockets and mortars which they believed were bound for Hezbollah. In April 2010, Israeli and U.S. officials also claimed that Syria transfered SCUD missiles (WSJ) to Hezbollah. On July 14, 2010, Naim Qassem, Hezbollah's second-in-command, said the group possesses an extensive list of Israeli targets (AFP) should a new conflict with Israel begin.



Buddy, Hamas in the Gaza strip are the big problem for Israel, not Hezbolla. As you can see the border between Lebanon and Israel has been relatively quiet since 2006.

[Buddy Kidd]

I never claimed it was not Buck, I only said that there had been rocket attacks into Israel by Hezbollah which you said did not happen that only Hamas did that and so I gave you an example. Now that you have been shown to be WRONG can we get back to the subject of the article?

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Buddy, I have never done any research or paid any attention to what Hezbollah does, or does not do. I just objected to you using my name in the topic of your post. All I know is that Hamas has been the biggest threat to the civilians of Israel that live close to the border of Israel and the Gaza strip.

[Buddy Kidd]

If you had no knowledge about the subject then you should have not made the statement you made about Hezbollah.

When you make statement after statement defending the enemies of Israel should expect those who disagree with you to call your hand. This is a discussion board after all.