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The enterprise operated from Lebanon, Canada, Brazil, Paraguay, China, North Carolina, Florida and the Dearborn, Mich., area, perpetrating crimes in the states of Michigan, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina and West Virginia (and points in between).Federal indictment alleging a Dearborn, MI, group took part in a multimillion-dollar international conspiracy to smuggle cigarettes and other goods to raise money for the Mideast terrorist group Hezbollah.
orphans of martyrs programHassan Moussa Makki has admitted sending more than $2,000 of his cigarettte-smuggling profits to Hezbollah, for the above program.
The money was intended to support Hezbollah's orphans and martyrs program to benefit the families of those killed in Hezbollah operations or by Hezbollah's enemies.U.S. attorney's office in Detroit, on Hassan M. Makki's North Carolina-to-Michigan cigarette trafficking operation.
You want to be able to tap into large amounts of cash. . . And so, what comes to mind immediately today where there are large amounts of cash: drugs or, increasingly, cigarettes.Albert Eldridge, a political science professor at Duke University who teaches a course on international terrorism, on the Hezbollah/contraband cigarette link. NOWELL, P., <I>18 in N.C. Accused of Hezbollah Aid</I>