Germans trace Hezbollah coke smuggling profits

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Germans trace Hezbollah coke smuggling profits

German investigators are uncovering the drug-smuggling business of the Syrian-backed Lebanese militant organisation Hezbollah, moving cocaine from Beirut into Europe via Frankfurt airport.

A report in Der Spiegel magazine this weekend said initial suspicions that Hezbollah was raising funds by smuggling cocaine were raised in May 2008 when around €8.7 million in cash was found in the luggage of four Lebanese men at Frankfurt airport.

A further €500,000 was found in the flat of one of the suspects, in the Rhineland Pfalz town of Speyer.

Two Lebanese men were arrested in October 2009 when customs officers and federal criminal police agents raided a house in Speyer.

The magazine says the suspicion is that family members have been regularly moving millions of euros raised in the European cocaine trade, via Frankfurt to Beirut. Those receiving the money in Lebanon are said to be members of a family with contacts with the highest levels of Hezbollah command including leader Hassan Nasrallah.

A close relation of the suspects has rejected all the allegations, the magazine reported. http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100109-24465.html

[Snoshi]

Already posted.. But its not really anything new.. HZB has been making a lot of money from drug trade.. What model Muslims they are...

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Already posted.. But its not really anything new.. HZB has been making a lot of money from drug trade.. What model Muslims they are...

not an expert on this but I think I read somewhere that it's ok to sell drugs to kafeers especially if the money is used to advance the jihad.

besides they are not the ones who invented it, at best they are copy-cats, the CIA used to run blow in the 80s to finance the shady deals and grow fat on. Basically the US gov. has hush hushed the whole thing when it got out, some people from that clique that was running that op are still in power on the hill.

actually one of the more ironic twists of fate was the vast pot growing network Hizballah had in Lebanon. They used to grow it by tonnes, and then ship to Israel so that the Israelies could get stoned off relatively cheap and quality product all the while financing Hizballah military and political activity directed against Israel. I would be calling it "beautiful" if I were on their side of the trench.

the point is the bad guys will always find means and justification to use criminal activity to advance their agenda, I think we would be smart as a society not to let them have that advantage by legalizing most such activities (drugs, prostitution, gambling) but alas, we are not that smart.