U.S. Congress Votes to Sanction Banks Financing Hizbullah
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously Wednesday to impose tough new sanctions on banks that knowingly do business with Hizbullah.
The bill passed the Senate last month. It now goes to the White House for President Barack Obama's signature.
The legislation also targets Hizbullah's television channel al-Manar by aiming to cut the broadcast of satellite operators that air the channel's programming.
The House adopted the measure 422 to 0, following a unanimous vote in the Senate on November 17.
Obama will sign the legislation, a senior administration official told AFP, adding that the administration has worked with Congress for years "to intensify the pressure against Hizbullah," which the official described as "a terrorist organization."
The new rules direct the U.S. president to prescribe punishing regulations against financial institutions that conduct transactions with Hizbullah or otherwise launder funds for the organization.
It also requires the U.S. administration to present to Congress a series of reports highlighting the group's "narcotics trafficking, transnational crime, and operations of international groups linked to Hizbollah, especially in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia."
The administration will list those particular countries that support Hizbullah, or in which the group maintains a key logistical base.
"Hizbullah has had to cast a wide net because most Lebanese banks have not wanted to do business with them," a congressional expert on the legislation told AFP.
With participants in Hizbullah's global networks "in our cross-hairs, they should be worried," House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Ed Royce told lawmakers Wednesday ahead of the vote.
"There is no question that Hizbullah is stronger than ever," said congresswoman Jackie Walorski, who described the group as a dangerous enemy to Israel and one that has amassed more than 150,000 rockets and missiles and gained hardened battlefield experience in Syria.
17 December 2015, 00:22
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Start by bank audi in geneva... You'll live what you can find there...
17 December 2015, 17:26
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he doesnt need to mention sect in each of his comments to be sectarian. he is sectarian and that is a fact. i dont understand why you're always so desperate to reject facts.
17 December 2015, 17:28
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Dear southern let me put it that way:
We or let it be; I am against the dictator assad that doesnot mean i am pro da3ech or if u conssider all syrian oppressed by assad and wanting him to go da3ech members...
I am against israel and of course with the resistance, but the patriotic one not the islamic resistance of hezbollah which assassinated a lot of leftists and even snsp in south lebanon to take control...
Ur idlamic resistance or to make it more realistic our local shiite fanatic millicia backed by a more fanatic regime of the islamic republic of iran and his suprem leadder is in no way helping lebanon but dragging us in a conflict dating from thr prophet's death, really all the ya hussein banners, this crasy war from syria irak yemen is it helping lebanon???
17 December 2015, 17:29
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At the end another exemple, i'm against monarchies in general(being democrate) and of course happy the iranian got rid of the shah, but in the iranian revolution there was leftists and marxists and what did ur beloved islamists guys did after the revolution was over? Tens of thousands leftists were executed jail or simply diseappered.. That is the kind of party u are supporting...
So please stop lecturing us man, go whatch some more manar, maybe u'll go fight also in the next "labayka ya hussein" battle...
For the sake of lebanon, of course...
:)
17 December 2015, 18:22
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This was an aswer to my dear southern...
This said i'm against hezbollah in every aspect, on political level, on religious fanatism, any kind of fanatism for them
It is iranian shiite fanatism, and i'm glad they cut off the money drain, eventhough i donnot trust the american gov at all (they are willing to do a pact with the devel if any interest in it, recent history is there to prove it...
17 December 2015, 05:43
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The badge on his arm says "Men of God are coming"... the question is coming with what? Drugs, arms, smuggled goods, stolen property, stolen IDs.....
17 December 2015, 13:59
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It is useless as long as Iran exists. To weaken Iran, Syria needs to be weaken and so on..
17 December 2015, 17:34
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pityful hezbi lovers who support a regime who perpetrates crimes against humanity and are proud of it instead of denouncing it like they denounce crimes made by ISIS...
a real defender of freedom would denounce both as i do, but hezbi lovers are too fond of bashar and his crimes to even notice it... tfeh!
"The pictures released by HRW appeared to show the bodies of some 6,000 Syrian detainees -- often bearing marks of torture or starvation -- who allegedly died in government detention centers or after being transferred to military hospitals. "
that is the regime they support and call them "resistants" TFEH on them...
17 December 2015, 17:35
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The watchdog said one of the victims, 14 year-old Ahmad al-Musalmani, died in government custody after being arrested for having an anti-regime song on his phone in 2012.
these are the "terrorists" according to mooowaten and his hezbi friends here and are proud to defend bashar's regime....
http://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/news/hrw-photographs-dead-syrian-detainees-show-damning-evidence-crimes-against-humanity-116647736#sthash.eCP4c3tV.dpuf
17 December 2015, 17:55
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no but about sanctioning those terrorists supporting a terrorist... that you proudly support too, i know but you would never admit it as every hezbi lover....
17 December 2015, 19:41
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at least the US do not torture and beat to death as a national policy their own citizens because they oppose the gvt ...
the US do not erase their own cities by bombing innocent citizens just so the president stays in power...
17 December 2015, 20:52
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tell us which country does not kill people in foreign countries to preserve their interests? russia? iran? the countries you support do the exact same thing as the US....
syria is killings its children, its own people just so bashar's keeps his power and you call it a resistant country because israel is its "enemy" even if they never dared shoot a single bullet to free the golan in 40 years! LOL ... but it is all right by you hezbi supporters.
you are blind to see what syria does but quick to criticize other countries as long as they do not fight israel....
17 December 2015, 17:38
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No this is all fake imperialistic propaganda; assad would never do that man....
17 December 2015, 17:39
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DECEMBER 16, 2015
If the Dead Could Speak
Mass Deaths and Torture in Syria’s Detention Facilities
https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/12/16/if-dead-could-speak/mass-deaths-and-torture-syrias-detention-facilities
17 December 2015, 17:44
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No man all fake, assad killing his people?? All propaganda man, he was so nice to us lebanese, who would act like this on his own people?....
17 December 2015, 18:25
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So nothing is related bigjohn...
The congress and the governement worked on it bigjohn, to get back to the article, same gov that gave irak to maliki/iran, same gov that is going after iranian money like it was for saudi money, so stop picturing it as an israelli decidion
Same goes for france and most of europe via vis of hezbollah
17 December 2015, 17:34
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Sonthe native want anykind of support against enemy? So da3ech going against al malaki thughs, or popular brigades, or faylak badder, or aboufadel al abbas or annu shiite iranian backed millicia should be enough for sunit population marganalised by the iraki/iranian governement to be with da3ech???
Man as i hope that the sunits or patritic iraki against iranian supremacy in irak, cause that was the case, are smart enough not to follow those retarded fanatic da3ech guys, i also hope the shiite lebanese population like any other patriotic lebanese (what ever religious believe he has) donnot follow our local fanatic shiite/iranian backed millicia...
17 December 2015, 18:20
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This was in answer to u comenent which was not only on the cogress cutting of money access to hezbos bigjohn, so as an aswer to ur coment, anthing to say on it?...
