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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Mar 29, 2021, 02:35 PM Mar 2021

US offers $10 million reward for info on Hezbollah operative

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Monday offered a $10 million reward for information on a Hezbollah operative who was convicted last year in the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik Hariri.

The State Department said the reward will be given to anyone who provides information preventing Salim Jamil Ayyash from planning or engaging in any attack against a U.S. citizen or American interests. Ayyash is a senior member of Hezbollah's Unit 121, an assassination squad that the department said reports to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

The announcement said Ayyash is known to have been involved in efforts to harm American troops in the past. An international tribunal convicted Ayyash in absentia and sentenced him to five life sentences on charges related to the 2005 suicide truck bombing in Beirut that killed Hariri and 21 other people. The tribunal found that Ayyash led the team that carried out the attack.

In addition to its December 2020 verdict, the Netherlands-based court issued new international arrest warrants for Ayyash and authorized its prosecutor to ask Interpol to issue “red notices” to its member states seeking his arrest.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-offers-10-million-reward-171708884.html

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Here We Go Again WHITT Mar 2021 #1

WHITT

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1. Here We Go Again
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 03:30 PM
Mar 2021

This is reminiscent of the two Libyans tried in absentia (one convicted) for the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing at Lockerbie, when everybody and their brother in the intelligence community, particularly the Mossad, knew damn well it was the Lebanon-based PFLPGC (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command), which nobody wanted to publicly talk about, in retaliation for the guided-missile cruiser USS Vincennes shooting down the AirBus Flight 655, while Bonzo Ronnie characteristically blamed Iran.

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