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2024-09-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US sanctions Lebanese network over alleged oil, LPG smuggling for Hezbollah
[IsraelTimes] Treasury Department targets three individuals, five companies and a number of tankers it says are involved in fundraising for terror group

US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
’s administration issued sanctions Wednesday on a Lebanese network it accused of smuggling oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to help fund the Hezbollah terror group.

The sanctions targeted three people, five companies and two vessels which the US Treasury Department said were overseen by a big shot of Hezbollah’s finance team and used profits from illicit LPG shipments to Syria to aid generate revenue for the group.

Acting Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Bradley Smith, in a statement, said Hezbollah "continues to launch rockets into Israel and fuel regional instability, choosing to prioritize funding violence over taking care of the people it claims to care about, including the tens of thousands displaced in southern Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah 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 dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original 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...
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The Treasury statement named the individuals as Hezbollah official Muhammad Ibrahim Habib al-Sayyed
...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged...
and Lebanese businessmen Ali Nayef Zgheib and Boutros Georges Obeid, who have all "materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, Hezbollah."

Five companies linked to the three men were also slapped with US sanctions, as were a number of oil tankers involved in delivering gas to Baniyas port in Syria.

Matthew Miller, the front man for the US State Department, said Wednesday’s sanctions were part of overall efforts to disrupt Hezbollah’s "illicit revenue generation and isolate the terrorist group’s financial network," adding that the US "will not waver" in pursuing the terror group.

Since the start of Israel’s war against Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and ongoing fighting against Hezbollah in the north, the US has sanctioned a large number of entities involved in funding and financing Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s and other groups.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-12 2024-09-12 00:53|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ]  Top
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#1 I watched all the King of the Hills but never picked up that LPG is Propane until somewhat recently.
Posted by mossomo 2024-09-12 12:44||   2024-09-12 12:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Algeria to supply Lebanon with fuel after shortage causes 'total blackout'

So the Biden sanctions are just 'news noise'.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-12 13:21||   2024-09-12 13:21|| Front Page Top

#3 What is Propane Gas and LPG used for? Are they the Same?
Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-12 13:26||   2024-09-12 13:26|| Front Page Top

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