Argentine authorities nab terror cell funneling ‎money to Hezbollah

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Argentine authorities nab terror cell funneling ‎money to Hezbollah
Shlomi Diaz and Israel Hayom staff

Argentina’s Federal Police confirmed recently that ‎they have apprehended a fundraising network enlisted ‎by Hezbollah that operated in the tri-border area of ‎Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. ‎

The raid, carried out by the Financial Information ‎Unit of the Argentine police focused on the al-‎Barakat ‎clan, headed by Assad Ahmed Barakat‎, a group ‎of Lebanese nationals living in Argentina, who are believed ‎to be ‎‎involved in money-laundering and financing ‎acts of terror carried out by Hezbollah, a Lebanon-‎based Shi’ite terrorist group backed by Iran.‎

Hezbollah has been linked to the 1992 attack on the ‎‎Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, which killed 29, ‎‎and the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish center in ‎‎Buenos Aires that killed 85.‎

Continued at: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/fl-jj-argentine-terror-cell-money-hezbollah-20180725-story.html