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Hezbollah commander prosecuted in Austria for terror finance
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Hezbollah commander prosecuted in Austria for terror finance
State within a state deeply involved in other states' affairs.
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Posted by: Fred || 03/15/2020 09:53 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Experiment in Terror!

Posted by: Goober Tingle7365 || 03/15/2020 20:04 Comments || Top||

#2  She's allowed to stay the night but not those damn cats of hers.


Posted by: jpal || 03/15/2020 21:55 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Multiple #LNA airstrikes on #GNA terrorist militia gatherings in AbuGrian south of #misrata now
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Posted by: Fred || 03/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  It seems like the tide is turning in the LNA's favor?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/15/2020 10:23 Comments || Top||


Europe
Hezbollah commander prosecuted in Austria for terror finance
[Jpost] Prosecutors in the Austrian state of Carinthia started a trial against an alleged Hezbollah commander who spent 13 years in the central European country while reportedly being involved in financing terrorism.

The trial has fired up the rubes, according to the Kronen Zeitung, commonly known as the Krone, a mass circulation paper, because the Lebanese-born man is not awaiting trial in prison.

The Kronen Zeitung wrote: "What seems strange is that the alleged terrorist is free and not in jug," adding that "The public prosecutor has not made an application." The trial will formally start in early April.

The unnamed Hezbollah military leader has lived in Carinthia for 13 years. The authorities accused him of working for Hezbollah in 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...
The indictment states the Hezbollah commander is a member of a terrorist organization and engaged in the finance of terrorism activities. He could face a 10-year prison sentence.

The paper said that a similar case involving an accused jihadi terrorist resulted in a late arrest. The Jerusalem Post has reported that Hezbollah operatives who blew up an Israeli tour bus in Burgas, Bulgaria fled to Lebanon and the authorities in Beirut refused to extradite the accused terrorists. The Hezbollah men murdered five Israelis and their Bulgarian Moslem bus driver during the bus kaboom in 2012.

In 2019, Peter Gridling, the director of the Austrian federal agency responsible for combating terrorism, said the biggest danger for Austria is Islamic terrorism.

Austria’s 2018 intelligence report, the most recent document on covering terror threats, lists Islamic terrorism but does not address the danger in specific terms. For example, the Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah organization is not listed.

The US government under both the Obama and Trump presidencies have designated Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
as the top state-sponsor of international terrorism.

Austria’s intelligence agency did not even mention the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran in its report. Assadollah Assadi, a Vienna-based Iranian diplomat, was arrested in 2018 in connection with a plot to blow up an Iranian dissident near Gay Paree in 2018.

Austria and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
have merely classified Hezbollah’s so-called "military wing" a terrorist entity. The US, England, the Netherlands, the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
, Israel and a number of Latin American countries designated Hezbollah’s entire movement a terrorist organization.

Hezbollah’s leadership has declared itself a unified organization without political and military wings.

Germany’s Bundestag passed a December resolution urging the federal government to outlaw Hezbollah activities in the country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/15/2020 00:15 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Paging POSs CIA and FBI.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/15/2020 21:29 Comments || Top||


In Italy and Europe 200 Migrant Jihadists from Libya. Egypt alerts UN Security Council
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Posted by: Fred || 03/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Iraq
Huge number of protesters chanting revolutionary slogans in #Karbala
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Posted by: Fred || 03/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


IRGC-backed Iraqi Shiite militias instruct its operatives to continue the attacks on "the occupiers"
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Posted by: Fred || 03/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Die for Iran™
Posted by: Frank G || 03/15/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

#2  They'll fight to the last useful idiot.
Posted by: gorb || 03/15/2020 18:55 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria removes Turkish checkpoints to reopen Hama-Aleppo Highway for first time in 8 years
[ALMASDARNEWS] The international highway of Hama-Aleppo at Ma’ar Hatat region was reopened on Friday after the government removed the barricades and barriers set up by the Ottoman Turkish military.

According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), government repair crews removed the Ottoman Turkish military barriers in the area Ma’ar Hatat between Khan Sheikhoun and Ma’arat al-Numan, paving the way for the reopening of the highway on Friday.

A SANA news hound added that a number of Ottoman Turkish soldiers still occupy some houses in the area, as they have only moved off the highway.

The Syrian government is preparing to fully reopen the Aleppo-Damascus Highway (M-5) for the first time in eight years, but some repair work is still needed on some parts of this imperative roadway.

The reopening of this highway comes just two weeks after the Syrian Arab Army retook the strategic city of Saraqib in the eastern countryside of the Idlib Governorate.

Posted by: Fred || 03/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


#Turkey dispatches new reinforcements to #Syria’s Idlib prior to joint patrols with #Russia
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Posted by: Fred || 03/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte



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