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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah money launderer dead under murky circumstances
2020-06-12
[Jpost] Top-ranking Hezbollah commander Hassan Mahmoud Farhat was reported dead under circumstances that are not clear at the time of this writing, KAN tweeted on Thursday evening.

Sources close to Hezbollah report that Farhat was killed in accident in his village in southeast Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Murky, not murky, we'll take it any way we can get it.
Posted by: Clem   2020-06-12 09:02  

#2  June 2019: Paraguayan authorities extradited Nader Mohamad Farhat yesterday to Miami, where he faces criminal charges of money laundering. Farhat’s case should reveal the magnitude of $ laundering in the Tri-Border Area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, including the role played by Lebanese Hezbollah.
A Miami federal court will decide whether Farhat will be tried there or in New York where he faces charges as an alleged co-conspirator involving another Paraguayan national of Lebanese origin, Mahmoud Ali Barakat. He and three others are accused of assisting in laundering drug monies inside the U.S.
Court documents refer to Farhat as a “known money launderer for narcotics organizations and other illicit organizations,” while media reports allege a possible connection to Hezbollah.
Posted by: b   2020-06-12 07:37  

#1  ...With any luck, 'murky' refers to the conditions of his remains...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2020-06-12 06:36  

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