Hizbullah Key Financier Tajideen Pleads Guilty in U.S.
Lebanese businessman Kassim Tajideen, designated by US authorities as an important financial supporter of Hizbullah, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges related to evading sanctions against him, a Justice Department statement said.
Tajideen, 63, pleaded guilty before a Washington court and faces five years in prison and a forfeiture of $50 million if his deal with prosecutors is accepted.
He was named a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in May 2009 by the Treasury Department over his links to Hizbullah, a Shiite political party and militant group in Lebanon.
Tajideen has been detained since extradition to the United States in March 2017 after his arrest overseas, the statement added.
"We are going to keep targeting Hizbullah and other terrorist groups and their supporters, and we are going to keep winning," said Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who hailed the guilty plea.
Hizbullah has been a US designated terrorist group since 1997 and fights alongside the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the country's civil war.
07 December 2018, 18:09
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Terrorism law in the US is the measure of the breakdown of law in the US. The Constitution says "no ex post facto law", meaning you cannot dream up the law after you find someone you want to put on trial. Congress illegally delegated its law-making power to persons/offices in the State Dept. to name organizations and persons as terrorists, and even the statute itself is impermissibly vague: act of violence intended to change public opinion. As the Humphrey Bogart movie song says, "A bomb is just a bomb, a dismemberment is just a dismemberment". And remember, Hezbullah threw the US Marines out of Lebanon. What did Reagan think he was doing?
08 December 2018, 04:38
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stick to the article and spare us your pathetic sectarian rhetoric. You fool no one ya irani!
