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March 3, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030310/usnews/10hez.htm

How a Hizballah Cell Made Millions in the U.S.

(U.S. News) Moonlighting from his job as a deputy sheriff, Sgt. Bob Fromme was working security at a tobacco wholesaler in Statesville, N.C., when he saw three Arabic-speaking men buying a huge stash of cigarettes. But what really caught Fromme's eye was how the men paid. They reached into shopping bags and pulled out wads of cash, bound in rubber bands. Over the next four years, Fromme worked with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in tracking the men and revealing a multimillion-dollar tobacco smuggling ring by a top U.S. cell of Hizballah, the Lebanon-based terrorist organization.

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