THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE THE TERROR BUSINESS – AT 11:38 P.M. ET:  A lesson in how to clean up financially through the profitable world of moral sickness.  From the Algemeiner: 

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has amassed a net personal worth of around $250 million due to his organization’s illegal drug smuggling operations, Al-Ittihad, an Arabic language newspaper published in the United Arab Emirates, reported on Monday.

According to the report, which relies on senior Lebanese government sources, the scope of Nasrallah’s fortune was discovered within the framework of a US Drug Enforcement Administration investigation against Hezbollah – which aside from its designation as a terrorist organization also operates as one of the largest drug cartels in the world.

Due to economic sanctions the US has reimposed on Iran and the massive reduction of Tehran’s budget to Hezbollah, Al-Ittihad reported, compounded by the heavy financial toll exacted by involvement in the Syrian civil war, Nasrallah ordered an expansion of the organization’s drug-related activities – which resulted in extensive financial gains for Hezbollah and a personal windfall for Nasrallah himself.

Nasrallah, the report continued, appointed his most trusted associates to closely oversee the organization’s drug smuggling operations.

COMMENT:  A real humanitarian, right?  And some people look up to him as a great spiritual leader.   This kind of illegal profiteering goes on in a number of strife-ridden countries, and the press rarely notices.  Or cares.

May 29, 2018