Hezbollah is not only a terror group. It is also a criminal enterprise, and one of the world’s biggest drug dealers. It’s a worthy rival to, and occasional partner with, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, the Neapolitan Camorra, and the Calabrian Ndrangheta. It may even have ties of mutual convenience to the Russian Bratva. Heroin, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, and manufactured versions of other illegal drugs for which there is a sufficient market – they’re all supplied by Hezbollah to willing customers. In the Infidel lands, its drug trafficking serves a dual purpose. Not only does the sale of those drugs make money for Hezbollah, but their use in those lands helps to destroy from within the fabric of Infidel societies. From Hassan Nasrallah’s point of view, what could be better? The Washington Post explored Hezbollah’s drug trade in 2020, in a story that is well worth revisiting: “Hezbollah operatives seen behind spike in drug trafficking, analysts say,” by Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, August 4, 2020:
…Law enforcement officials have linked Hezbollah to a string of major drug seizures, in locations ranging from the empty desert along the Syria-Jordan border to urban centers in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to central and southern Europe. Many of the cases involve counterfeit Captagon, a synthetic drug that Hezbollah operatives began manufacturing more than a decade ago and has gained prominence as a moneymaker as the group’s military and financial commitments have expanded, intelligence analysts say….
Heroin and cocaine have long been Hezbollah’s mainstay drugs, but the amphetamine Captagon has become a new and popular product, with an especially lucrative market in southern Europe and in Gulf Arab states, particularly Saudi Arabia and the UAE, where it’s the feelgood pill of choice for the bored and very rich youth of those countries.
In June, a report by the European law enforcement agency Europol warned that Hezbollah operatives were believed to be “trafficking diamonds and drugs” and laundering the proceeds, using European countries as a base….
The “diamonds” Hezbollah deals in are “conflict diamonds” (also known as “blood diamonds”). Hezbollah receives them from two African sources. In West Africa, and especially in Sierra Leone, there is a very large Lebanese Shi’a population of traders linked to Hezbollah, while in the Congo, the extended family of Ahmed Tajideen, a rich Shi’a businessman, deals in these “conflict diamonds” (uncut diamonds mined in an area of armed conflict and traded illicitly to finance the fighting). These Hezbollah-linked operatives buy the diamonds cheaply from the local Africans, then smuggle them into Western Europe for sale.
“When it comes to making money, they [Hezbollah] don’t care about sectarian differences or religious differences,” John Fernandez, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Counter-Narcoterrorism Operations Center, said in a recent briefing on Hezbollah at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “We’ve seen them working with Sunni criminals, Christian criminals — and even with Jewish crime syndicates.”…
How nice to see Interfaith Outreach at work among drug-traffickers: Shi’a, Sunnis, Christians, Jews, all of them working for the same cause – their own enrichment. But unlike the other groups, the Shi’a of Hezbollah use the money they make from drug trafficking for a higher purpose – mainly, to extend the terror group’s power over the Lebanese state, to fight on the side of Assad in the Syrian civil war, to help the Houthis in Yemen and, most important of all, to fund its ongoing war with Israel.
From its modest beginnings in the Bekaa Valley, the drug trade controlled by Lebanese Shi’a grew, and extended its tentacles throughout the world. Hezbollah’s traffickers are active in South America, in the lawless Triple Frontier or Tri-Border Area of South America (TBA), that encompasses three cities in three different countries (Puerto Iguazu in Argentina, Ciudad del Este in Paraguay and Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil), and in Colombia, buying heroin and cocaine for distribution to networks of dealers in Europe. It sells the cocaine and heroin mainly in Europe, still its largest market, while the amphetamines, such as Captagon, that Hezbollah produces in factories in Syria, find their biggest market in the Gulf Arab states.
By now, hundreds of millions of dollars have gone into Hezbollah coffers just from the South American and European operations of Hezbollah-linked drug traffickers.
And now Captagon, that Hezbollah has been manufacturing in its own factories in Syria, has turned out to be a real money-maker for the terror group.
Walter Sieruk says
This unconscionable crime on drug trafficking committed by the jihadist of Hezbollah to raise funds to finance their jihad for the cause of Islam . outright evil
To explain this the Muslims terrorists of Hezbollah are engaging in the Islamic doctrine of “Muruna” which is the dogma of Islam that teaches committing evil for the greater good is a noble part of the jihad for Islam. This is, in essence, the same type of “philosophy” that the communists had gone by in the twentieth century. That it’s a “good thing “ to commit many evils to obtain a “worker’s paradise.” Likewise, during World War II even the Nazis had this line of thinking.” To express, as in to illustrate this idea, even more, is by using a twenty-first century movie. Near the end of this movie, just before the final defeat of the super-arch –villain General Zod , that super villain said “No matter how brutal and deadly I was I did it for the greater good.” That is the common mindset of many villains including those of Hezbollah.
Sue says
Keep looking Up. Soon none of this stuff will continue. Man had almost 6000 years to prove that he can’t live in peace. Soon, real soon, Yeshua will come and conquer, lock the devil up for 1000 years… No more HAMAS, No more Houthies, No more Hezbollah, no more evil
mike says
?please make it SO
tim gallagher says
islam is certainly a load of evil, degenerate filth. Drug dealing on a massive scale joins murdering non-Muslims in terrorist attacks, raping non-Muslims, and all the other filth that is all quite OK with islamic principles. islam is simply a perfect religion for degenerate evil people. The idea that there is actually a god who condones all this filth is absolutely ridiculous. How convenient it all is for total scum.
Steve says
Winston Churchill summed it up perfectly with this statement. Islam in a man is like rabies in a dog.
Walter Sieruk says
That the Muslim terrorists of Hezbollah feel that by their engaging in drug trafficking is a :good action”: because it aids in funding their violent and deadly jihad which they also think of a a “good thing” is ” tragic example of how the religion that is Islam is able to ruin and warp the cognition of the human mind to the terribly horrendous extent that he or she thinks of horrific behavior as something that is “good.”
Related to such a horrible way of thinking, the Bible reads “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness.” Isaiah 5:20. [N.K.J.V.]
bagsgroove says
The best thing in the world would be to get rid of Iran and its proxies that are ruining the world.
Mick says
As we speak, Captagon is being imported by the fictitious Kinsellas of Dublin.
Since Saudi and the UAE persuaded Assad to reduce shipments to the Gulf, (in Spring 23?), no doubt volumes to Europe are increasing.
abu taleb says
For the sake of Allah, muslims are committing crimes like drug dealers, robberies, extortions, human traffickings to finance their jihad which is also committing other crimes like murders, rapes etc. And they get rewarded by Allah for the jihad. What a truely evil religion.
OLD GUY says
Hezbollah a terror group and drug cartel fits perfectly with Islam a criminal organization spreading across the world with fear, violence and graft leading its way.
OLD GUY says
Hezbollah a terror group and drug cartel fits perfectly with Islam a criminal organization spreading across the world with fear, violence and graft leading its way.
Leonidas says
We can legalize all drugs and with the revenue build drug rehabilitation centers for and educate the public on the bad effects of these drugs like we do for alcohol and marihuana use ,depriving the jihadists the profits of drug traficking!
OLD GUY says
Won’t work, too much money to be made. Destroy the product and the people who are willing to destroy other human beings for their greed. No product, no distribution system, no problem.