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Saturday, November 28, 2015
Saudi Kingdom tightens noose around top Hezbollah figures

Kingdom tightens noose around top Hezbollah figures
Saudi Gazette - 27 November, 2015
http://www.gulfinthemedia.com/index.php?id=768862&news_type=Top&lang=en

The Kingdom on Thursday imposed sanctions on at least 12 Hezbollah leaders
and officials accused of responsibility for carrying out operations for the
group around the Middle East, the Interior Ministry said in a statement
carried by the Saudi Press Agency.

Saudi Arabia had designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization in March,
2014.

“These names were designated today and sanctions imposed on them under the
terrorism crimes and financing regime,” the statement said. The ministry had
also sanctioned entities that were investment arms for Hezbollah’s sinister
activities, which have surpassed the borders of its Lebanon homeland.

The ministry reiterated that the Kingdom will continue to fight against
terrorist activities of Hezbollah by all available means and will continue
to work with partners around the world in a way emphasizing that no country
can tolerate the militias of Hezbollah and its extremist activities.

The statement said the classifications and sanctions were based on the Royal
Decree A/44 which targeted terrorists, their supporters and those working
with them or on their behalf, and which included the freezing of assets of
any of the designated names. Saudi citizens shall be banned from carrying
out any transactions with them.

“As long as Hezbollah continues spreading chaos and instability, carrying
out terrorist attacks and practicing criminal and illegal activities around
the world, Saudi Arabia would continue classifying activists, leaders and
entities belonging to Hezbollah, and accordingly impose sanctions on them.”

The statement listed names of 12 Hezbollah figures. The first three people
in the list are Ali Mousa Daqduq Al-Moussawi, Mohammed Kawtharani and
Muhammad Yusuf Ahmed Mansour. The ministry also published different aliases
of these Hezbollah leaders. The other listed figures are Adham Tabaja, Qasim
Hajij, Hussein Ali Faour, Mustafa Badr Eddin, Ibrahim Aqil, Fouad Shukr,
Abdel Nour Al-Shaalan, Mohamed Najib Karim, and Mohammed Salman Fawaz.

Daqduq is a senior Hezbollah commander who was placed on a US sanctions
blacklist in 2012 for his alleged involvement in a raid in Iraq that led to
the deaths of five US soldiers in 2007.

The statement also listed entities such as the company of Adham Tabaja, and
his Al-Inma Group for Tourism Activities and its branches, and Hussein Ali
Faour’s Car Care Center.

Hezbollah is seen as a long-time ally of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad
and plays a major role in the Syrian conflict.

In May, the Kingdom designated two senior officials of the Hezbollah as
terrorists, accusing them of involvement in spreading “chaos and
instability”.

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