The four men were acting as "ambassadors" for the group in Sierra Leone, Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
, Ivory Coast and Gambia
... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain...
, the officials said.
The sanctions freeze any assets the men may have in the United States and sever them from any contact with the U.S. financial system. It was not clear immediately how much they have in the control of American institutions.The sanctions grew out of an investigation of what Treasury said are Hezbollah's expanding activities abroad, including in South America, the Middle East and Africa. The group has been designated by the B.O. regime as a foreign terrorist organization.
Hezbollah also has been playing a growing military role in the Syrian civil war, defending the rule of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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Trampler of Homs...
Treasury cited "the alarming reach of Hezbollah's activities" in citing Ali Ibrahim Watfa, Abbas Loutfe Jawaz, Ali Achmad Chehade and Hicham Nmer Khanafer.