Funding terrorism: Hezbollah uses its US websites to collect donations-shut them down!

Funding terrorism: Hezbollah uses its US websites to collect donations-shut them down!
comment by Jerry Gordon

We posted on the fact that Hezbollah has several websites hosted by Internet Service Providers here in the US. As this Terrorism Information article illustrates, those English and Arabic Language websites here in the US are used to raise funds for Hezbollah terrorist purposes. This Terrorism-Info article published by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in Israel notes that funds are deposited at designated financial institutions in Lebanon and in Europe. That raises a few questions. Shouldn’t our US Treasury Department and Counterterrorism agencies be closing down these Hezbollah websites to stop the collection of funds for such terrorist activities? We are sure that our colleague Joseph Shahda would urge that. The funds are being used for support of Hezbollah terrorist activities in Lebanon. There is no useful intelligence to be gained from keeping the Hezbollah websites up that are hosted here in the US. That should be something for Senator Lieberman’s Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee to consider in addition to shutting al Qaeda You Tube videos engaging in instructing Jihadis on how to attack us. That is, if the ACLU and others like the New York Times would stop criticizing these internet counter terrorism actions as censorship of ‘free speech’. Note what this critic said:

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