By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Former DEA chief of operations Michael Braun told members of a House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday that the reach of influence of Hezbollah, the Iranian-supported Shi’ite terrorist group based in Lebanon, has reached the US-Mexico border, reports CNS News. Hezbollah developed relationships with Mexican drug cartels to “move their…
James Cavanaugh was an ATF agent and supervisor for 33 years before retiring in 2010. By James Cavanaugh For ticklethewire.com Law-enforcement, security and intelligence professionals must have a forward-looking approach in the current climate of world events. Now is the time for police and intelligence personnel to think critically about the year ahead. While…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — There’s different kinds of Ooops. There’s the recent one when presidential candidate Rick Perry had a senior moment during the debates. Then there’s the ones where authorities arrest the wrong guy. This one involved the wrong guy. The Detroit Free Press reports that police, acting on an FBI arrest…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The DEA and Treasury Department on Thursday accused the Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL and its subsidiaries (LCB) of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in drug profits by an organization linked to the Lebanese organization Hezbollah. In its announcement, authorities designated the bank as a “primary money laundering concern.”…
Mohamad Hammoud/mecklenburg co. sheriff’s photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com They say federal judges have plenty powers, and in fact, they can make a century or more disappear with the snap of a finger. That’s just what happened Thursday when U.S. District Judge Graham Mullen in Charlotte, N.C. reduced the 155 year sentence of Hezbollah supporter…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com JERUSALEM — Call it a case of very different worlds colliding. The top newspaper Haaretz here in Israel reports that Mexican authorities thwarted a plan by the Lebanese group Hezbollah to set up a network in Latin America and use Mexican Nationals with ties to Lebanon to go after Israel and…
Many Arab Americans continue to see groups like Hezbollah and Hamas as freedom fighters. But the U.S. State Department continues to list them as terrorist organizations. The result has been that some supporters in the U.S. have gone off to prison. Here’s the latest case. New Jersey Star Ledger Staff A Brooklyn dentist who lives…
It’s not surprising that other groups would get in on a good thing. The Hezbollah revelation is an interesting twist in the nagging Mexican border problem. By Sara A. Carter The Washington Times WASHINGTON — Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the…
