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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanese General Security Raids Money Transfer Firms Accused of Sending Funds to IS
2017-03-08
[AnNahar] General Security agents on Tuesday raided money transfer firms and offices accused of sending funds to the Death Eater Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, media reports said.

LBCI television said the firms, located in several areas of Beirut, are suspected of involvement in sending around $20 million to Syria's Qalamoun region and subsequently to IS holy warriors in other parts of Syria.

"General Security had been monitoring the owners and employees of these firms prior to today's crackdown," LBCI said.

The doors of several firms were sealed with red wax at the request of the relevant judicial authorities, the TV network added.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Here's some USAID money, please go bother someone else.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-03-08 03:36  

#1  The captured cash, sans whatever stuck to the hands of the authorities involved, transferred to Hizbollah?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-03-08 00:54  

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