In the meantime, farther to the west a ring of militant Muslim sultanates had grown up around the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, and the two sides were engaged in a protracted struggle for supremacy.
Authorities have found evidence that hawala has been used for payments by smuggling rings and militant groups in the disputed territory of Kashmir and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, Professor Passas said.
German and French investigators suspect that Mr. Nawar was part of a ring of militants linked to the Qaeda network that worked out of Montreal, probably, they say, the same network that assisted Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport during the millennium celebrations.
It's a global market worth $30 billion a year, attracting criminal gangs from all over the world: from Mexican drug cartels to organized crime rings to the militant group Hezbollah.
It's easy to blame union leaders for not being more militant, and usually this sort of criticism rings true.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States accused two Lebanese money exchange houses on Tuesday of helping launder funds for an international drug trafficking ring and of financing the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Last February, the Obama administration accused one of Lebanon's famously secretive banks of laundering money for an international cocaine ring with ties to the Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
A worldwide drug trafficking ring worth millions of dollars linking Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, with Latin American cartels has been uncovered by the American authorities, the US Drug Enforcement Administration DEAA) has said.
Two Lebanese brothers were convicted in federal court today of helping run a cigarette-smuggling ring based in North Carolina that funneled profits to the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
