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| Brazil ‘Drug Trafficking’ Arrest Turns Out to Be Hezbollah Member |
| 2016-08-04 |
| [BREITBART] Brazilian authorities have announced the arrest of Lebanese Hezbollah member Fadi Hassan Nahba, wanted by Interpol for drug trafficking since 2013. Authorities admitted they did not know he was working with the jihadi terror group until he personally told them after his arrest this week. Nahba, Brazilian outlet O Globo reports, was rounded up in Sao Paulo as part of a crackdown preceding the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, set to begin on Friday. Authorities had jugged Please don't kill me! him in 2003 for drug trafficking but ultimately released him; by 2013, he was wanted for deportation due to continued drug offenses. After his arrest this week, Nahba confessed to being an active Hezbollah member, a fact Brazilian police appeared to have only been alerted to at that moment. "I talked to him directly, he told me that he spent two years serving the special Hezbollah forces in Leb. He had a vast knowledge of weapons and kabooms," Sergeant Geraldo Castro told Globo’s television network. "We have been looking for him since May because he was wanted for drug traffic, not terrorism," police front man Augusto Roque admitted to Rooters. The news agency notes that a significant hurdle to investigating cases of potential Hezbollah membership is the fact that Brazil does not recognize the group as a terrorist organization. |
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