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Nasrallah son on US terror list became influential working with militant allies
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The name Jawad Nasrallah, the son of Leb’s Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, did not come up much in Washington DC circles until he was recently designated as a "global terrorist" by the US Department of State.The Trump administration wanted to send a signal to his father and his organization, and demonstrate that Washington was willing to put harder sanctions on a wider network of Hezbollah leaders ‐ even those not of the highest stature, according to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy fellow, Phillip Smyth. "Jawad Nasrallah is part of Lebanese Hezbollah’s units that focus on recruitment, training, and deployment of foreign (non-Lebanese) turbans. According to the US State Department, he was involved in training and recruitment for the Paleostinian Fatah-splinter known as the Mujahideen Brigades," he told Al Arabiya English. On the role of Jawad, Smyth noted that Hezbollah has built its organization using family networks and It should not be a shock that the Secretary-General’s son was listed, adding; "Jawad attained such an influential role within the terrorist group by working with other turban allies.C Posted by: Fred 2018-11-21 |
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