The Lebanon Thread

[Hans Bulvai]

[Hans Bulvai]

[Hans Bulvai]

[Tinker]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world ... ncing.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Beirut bank seen as hub of Hezbollah's financing.



http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011 ... middleeast

Ok the labels on that infographic aren't in the pasted version, but check it out, it's interesting.

[Hans Bulvai]

Looks like the CIA's operation during the Iran-Contra thingy...
Just replace cars with missles and Hezbollah with Iran.

[Ibrahim]

Hizbollah's financing is an intelligent thing to tackle, as they spend great sums providing social services to Shia areas of Lebanon. As long as they do so, they will have strong support in these areas and be impossible to eradicate short of some kind of linked pogrom of the Shia Lebanese population.