Posted on 05/29/2010 7:33:50 PM PDT by Righting
West Africa is a well known transit center for smuggled diamonds, especially for Lebanese traders, with many sales funding criminal and terrorist groups. European and American intelligence sources have long known that Hezbollah has raised significant amounts of money in West Africa through the largely Shiite Muslim Lebanese communities in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Togo. There are an estimated 120,000 Lebanese in West Africa, mostly involved in import-export businesses.
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See also my related post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2520125/posts?page=1
Moslems? They leave a trail of blood everywhere they go,
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