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SNIPPET: "Actually, two have been convicted by a jury for using their nightclubs to launder the proceeds of drug and weapons deals, one was acquitted of money laundering but has pled guilty to a drug trafficking charge, and one of those convicted of money laundering has now been charged with tax evasion. And that's not to mention the failure to pay state liquor taxes and fees, the unsolved murder of a one-time business partner, and various immigration-related issues. Money was transferred in to a relative and known Hizballah operative in Lebanon, and there are strong ties to the Lebanese expat...

The Yassine family of Austin, Texas is apparently quite the enterprising group. Led by Hussein “Mike” Yassine, the Yassines were quite diversified. They own 8 bars. According to law enforcement authorities they are also a one-family crime wave. They are involved in murder, money laundering, drug dealing–and they have a brother back in Lebanon who is part of Hezbollah.

NOTE: The following SNIPPET is a quote: DON'T OPEN THAT FILE, MEMET! With much fanfare, al-Malahim, the media arm of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, announced the imminent release of — and then subsequently did release — what they claimed was the first official English-language al-Qaida magazine. It's called "Inspire" as in "Inspire the Believers" (as opposed to the Quranic edict to Incite the Believers. They did this with the full cooperation of the administrators of the al-Faloja forum in particular. Interestingly, the first couple of pages of the document appear perfectly normal. Then things get weird...

The Palestinian militant group Hamas has ruled out an immediate suspension of attacks on Israeli targets. The group's spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, said it was prepared to have a dialogue with Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei. But he said a truce had failed in the past because Israel did not want peace or security for the Palestinians. Sheikh Yassin was responding to a call by Mr Qurei for Palestinian militant groups to end acts of violence. He and other Hamas leaders were addressing several hundred followers who had gathered after Friday prayers at a rally in Gaza City....

The Israeli army received order "to completely crush" Hamas in it combatant by "all the means", following an attack commits suicide Wednesday in a bus in Jerusalem, which made 16 died in addition to the kamikaze, indicated to Thursday the radio Israeli. This directive, data at the end of a meeting of the state major with the Minister for Defense Shaul Mofaz little after the attack, relates to not only the infrastructures of the principal movement Palestinian islamist, but also the political heads who do not lay out any more from now on of any "immunity", indicated the radio...

Incursion of Israeli tanks in Gaza close to the residence of sheik Yassine Thursday November 14, 2002 - 0h55 GMT GAZA, Nov. 14 (AFRP) - a score of Israeli tanks penetrated in the night of Wednesday to Thursday inside the town of Gaza and were with two hundred meters of the house of the founder of the Islamic movement Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassine, indicated witnesses. Three Palestinian police officers at least were wounded by the shootings of the tanks and the three helicopters which take part in this incursion. The seat of the Palestinian television, which is in the...