Posted on 08/30/2019 11:52:05 AM PDT by nuconvert
A day after sanctions were imposed on networks allegedly helping Iran circumvent U.S. sanctions, the Treasury Department announced new sanctions against a Lebanese bank and individuals in Oman for financial links with Hezbollah and Hamas.
Powerful US financial sanctions were imposed on the Jammal Trust Bank in Lebanon, which was accused of acting as a key financial institution for Hezbollah.
Sanctions also targeted individuals in Oman who allegedly act as middlemen to funnel cash from Iran's elite Qods (Quds) Force to Hamas in Gaza.
The U.S. Treasury Department "is targeting Jammal Trust Bank and its subsidiaries for brazenly enabling Hezbollah's financial activities," including sending payments to families of suicide bombers, Sigal Mandelker, undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.
She added the Oman-based financiers "funneled tens of millions of dollars... to Hamas for terrorist attacks originating from the Gaza Strip."
The sanctions ban any link with U.S. citizens or institutions, which is likely to severely curtail activities of the Lebanese bank.
(Excerpt) Read more at en.radiofarda.com ...
This happened yesterday, and I haven’t heard anything from the msm about it....no surprise.
Blow up the bank. Turnabout is fair play.
They are so worried about a bank in Lebanon. You can look right here in the US and find companies that do little more than funnel money.
FinCEN.gov is an organization for the federal government that has a registration of over 25,500 Money Service Businesses in the US that they have registered that can, and probably have, moved money for a number of terrorist groups from the states to include AQ, Taliban, ISIS, and ISL.
Here is a good source from the treasury department on the problem:
https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/2018ntfra_12182018.pdf
And this isn’t all of them, by far.
rwood
Good! It’s about time we stopped coddling and supporting the terrorists in Lebanon against Israel!
[ She added the Oman-based financiers “funneled tens of millions of dollars... to Hamas for terrorist attacks originating from the Gaza Strip.”
Hope they got Obama cell phones. You know, for humanitarian reasons. The same humanitarian reasons that the United Nations likes to fund, errr, support, errr “help”.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks nuconvert.
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