Report: Hizbullah Wired Money to Bulgaria Bomb Suspects
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Hizbullah's armed wing wired almost $100,000 (75,000 euros) to two men wanted over a bomb attack that killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, a newspaper report said Friday.
According to the 24 Hours daily, the money was to help organize the blast at Burgas airport on the Black Sea on July 18, 2012, and to carry out reconnaissance in other countries.
The attack on the tourist bus also killed the vehicle's Bulgarian driver -- a Muslim -- and left 35 people injured. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis abroad since 2004.
Israel immediately blamed Hizbullah but it took until February for Sofia to make the "justified conclusion" that it agreed.
This contributed to the European Union's decision on Monday to blacklist the group's military wing.
The actual bomber died in the attack and has still not been identified.
But Bulgaria this week named his two suspected accomplices as Australian passport-holder Maliad Farah, 32, and Canadian citizen Hassan El Hajj Hassan, 25, both Lebanese-born.
According to 24 Hours, which cited foreign intelligence services and international banks for its report, the money was wired to their Canadian and Australian bank accounts.
The Presa newspaper reported meanwhile that fake U.S. driver's licences used by the men were made on a printer at Beirut's Lebanese International University, where they studied engineering.
The men had undergone military training in Lebanon in late 2010 and early 2011, Presa added, citing investigators.
Neither the interior ministry nor prosecutors would comment on the reports.
26 July 2013, 16:07
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Where's Taqiya Thrower? Why not try to put your spin on this? Another Mossad conspiracy?
26 July 2013, 16:12
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What do M8 dudes have to say to this? Mowaten... where are you? What is your version?
To resist israel, you have to kill jewish beachgoers in Bulgaria?
The victims are in fact cannibals returning from a liver and heart feast?
The road of jerusalem passes by Vargas?
Tell me how you can still support the HA milicia as it does terrorism in Bulgaria. What is the alibi.
26 July 2013, 18:11
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To be fair it could have been for anything, like living expenses and the like. Cells and such are known for autonomy. So long as there is no direct proof of the money being used for bombs and indeed no direct proof that they were order by top officials from within HA to purchase elements needed for making bombs, then this finding is moot.
27 July 2013, 01:48
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Not really. I concede to solid proof. My hesitance and request of an absolute sort of proof simply stems from the grave implications that follow -- which should not be decided on loosely based evidence.
27 July 2013, 01:51
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Also, politics plays a big role in things as well, as evidenced by One(Guest), admittedly from Bulgaria, below.
27 July 2013, 02:26
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Endless ignorance should be a sin. Let me get this right...... You are citing the comment from some here, who "claims" they are Bulgarian as "evidence"????
Wow, that's all I can say.
27 July 2013, 02:28
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A new revelation in crime solving. Anonymous comments on Naharnet is now "evidence" absolving Hezbollah of their terrorist crimes.
26 July 2013, 21:36
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If you care about Lebanon, strive for democracy there. One person, one vote. It is not too late.
27 July 2013, 23:32
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One person one vote is good only when you have Constitutional based foundation that guarantees the right and liberties of all. Otherwise you will end up with the majority always subjecting the minorities to their rules and values. This is what happened with Egypt's Morsi.
26 July 2013, 16:14
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it is established beyond any doubt that hizbushaitan is an Iranian terrorist organization whatever anyone tries to say.
they are no resistance and they execute the orders of the Iranian turbaned man.
it is time for us to take back our country.
26 July 2013, 21:38
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Take it back from the majority. Give it a try, it might work, right? It's easy to be careless with other people's lives.
27 July 2013, 23:39
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Would it not be nicer to be blinded by equal right and liberties for all citizens based on constitutional grounds than to be blined by Secterian majority thinking.
26 July 2013, 16:16
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A short-lived career in terror indeed. All washed up after their first job, in which they even managed to kill their terrorist friend and a muslim bus driver. My guess is that Mossad will not wait for the state of Dahiye to hand them over for a trial. They will hunt them down and kill them, in which Hezbollah will cry out "terror".
Remember guys, always look over your shoulders....
26 July 2013, 17:04
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If this is indeed true, the man should be locked up for the rest of his natural life.
26 July 2013, 17:33
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I'm bulgarian.The previous government stated that there are no proves of the involvment of Hizbulla in this bombing.Now,with the new government,very insecure political situation and protests going on for more than a month in Bulgaria i guess EU(not alone sure)is using the situation and playing the desired scenario.I don't know if Hisbulla is a terrorist organization what i'm saying is i doubt the proves for Burgas attack that EU is using against them.Don't think this will make it better as we see what scenarios lead to in other arabic countries.Hope Lebanon will not follow same destiny and people think more that before all they are lebanese,leave the other crap out of their minds and keep peace in this amazing country with beatiful people.
27 July 2013, 02:23
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Oh yes, sure, we believe you are Bulgarian, just because you say so. Nobody lies here.
Either way, if you are not in the security forces there, then you have not seen the evidence. But your "doubt" about the proof is VERY credible, especially since you are Bulgarian, so your guess is probably better that someone else's guess who doesn't live there, regardless of the fact that the Bulgarian government says there is clear proof of Hezbollah involvement in the crime.
28 July 2013, 22:26
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You can google his claims of unrest and dissatisfaction with the government yourself. Political maneuvers in such cases is expected absolutely. Read his post again, I suggest.
26 July 2013, 17:36
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The bad part of this is that the terrorist hizbullah organization (as it is now known) has done this in order to provoke Israel into a fight.thr terrorist Hizbullah organization cannot prove Israel in south Lebanon due to the presence of the unification and the Lebanese army so they try something else.
26 July 2013, 21:45
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So Hezbullah kidnapped the two Israeli soldiers so Israel would invade Lebanon again, kill of thousands of people randomly, and prove to the world what a bunch of genocidal racists they are. And now UNIFIL and the Lebanese army (LOL) are preventing that.
Hezbullah, I would guess, wants civil rights for Shias in Lebanon. Period. One person, one vote. Forget this "equality" of al Rahi where the one quarter who are Christians get equal representation as the three quarters who are Muslim. It's not going to work ever.
27 July 2013, 01:39
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Even in America it's not one person one vote, ultimately it's the electoral collage that decides. So why would you advocate that in a country as unstable as Lebanon?
What Lebanon needs is a senate, and an agreement on HA's arms... And we will compete with Dubai.
26 July 2013, 17:39
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Wow,admin should approve the comment..let's see if he's neutral and how much your freedom of speach is freedom
26 July 2013, 17:39
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The two are Mossad agents that the infiltrated Hizbullah so that they could commit terrorist acts and tarnish the Glorious parties image :-)
26 July 2013, 17:40
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FT and momo are in constant denial mode! They always blame the source, israel, the US, Nosra, or the big M14 conspiracy machine.... pffff...they're a waste of time... brainwashed and trying to brainwash with their stupidity...
26 July 2013, 18:11
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So the armed wing is the one that wired the money! The report confirms, just like our NostraDamsel warriors and know-it-alls confirm, that the bank documents have been stamped with the seal of the military wing. Now this is high class intelligence work as supported by high class comments of our Damsels NostraGabbyMarch14, NostraThePatriot and NostraGeha, among others. takbir
26 July 2013, 19:03
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The brightest commentators of this section are so ignorant, there is no end to it
Which newspaper reported it, of course no name
which wire service reported it. of course no name
We live in an age when anyone can write and post anything without coraberation.
what a naïve bunch of know how people
26 July 2013, 19:29
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Khalass time for Christians to reunite and to form a new front in face to these radicals islamists whether the belong to hezbollah or al nusra !! Why do we have to suffer because of those idiots time for partition
26 July 2013, 21:33
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GeaGea says Lebanon lives in a Hezbullah prison. Shias are the majority, and they are oppressed by massively-financed armed groups. So the proper place for those groups is in prison, according to law.
The foreign minister of Bulgaria right now says the evidence linking the bus bombing to Hezbullah is woefully inadequate.
On the other hand, the EU is terribly embarrassed by the Egyptian coup so it needs something to look noble about, albeit, as usual, without substance.
26 July 2013, 21:42
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"from the majority" was my comeback to a comment up above. I was trying to say to you, there in Texas, that you didn't really believe this about "they" having more information than they'd released to the public. People used to say during the Vietnam War that the leaders in Washington actually knew all kinds of reasons why the war was going well despite appearances. Actually what they knew is that even in 1954 they knew it was a lost cause, that the communists had the overwhelming support of the people against the colonialists.
26 July 2013, 22:25
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Oh dear awireless. Clinging to every straw in denial. From yesterdays news:
The two were identified as 32-year-old Australian Maliad Farah, also known as Hussein Hussein
26 July 2013, 22:46
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And when the itanlian mafia transfers money, its from their account number MAFIAbank-000001 right? Oh come on, you are just being childish and silly. Face it, your heroes Hezbollah are best at fighting in rabit holes. Out in the big world they are still amateurs.
26 July 2013, 22:52
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In your dreams shiahs as the majority. The sunni, druze and christians are the majority, and they want the multi-confessionallebanese army to defend all lebanese territory, not a shiah militia.
