Hezbollah TV’s Misreporting of Israeli Military Exercise
Posted by editor-at-large on 24 June 2008 at 3:26 pm UTC
After reading today’s headliner at Al Manar, Hezbollah’s television-news website, one has to wonder if Hezbollah’s reporters and editors are incompetent, manipulated, or both?
The story, “Israel to Strike Iran before New US President Sworn in,” is a Hezbollah spin-piece that basically reviews an interview with former U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton by London’s Daily Telegraph.
The piece, which refers to Bolton as ”an unflinching hawk who proposes military action to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons,” contends that any military operation by the Israelis aimed at taking out Iran’s nuclear facilities would probably take place before the next U.S. president enters the Oval Office.
According to Bolton:
“An Obama victory would rule out military action by the Israelis because they would fear the consequences given the approach Obama has taken to foreign policy. With McCain they might still be looking at a delay.”
Can’t say I disagree with the ambassador.
But where Hezbollah totally botches it is when they report: “Last week, Israeli jets carried out a long-range exercise over the Mediterranean that US intelligence officials concluded was practice for air strikes against Iran.”
The exercise in fact took place on June 2 – more than three weeks ago — and despite the fact that the 100-plane, 900-mile mission over the eastern Mediterranean including parts of Greece, was not reported for more than two weeks (we touched on that here), it has since been widely reported.
But Al Manar still can’t get it right.
That’s not to say that Hezbollah has poor intelligence. On the contrary, the Lebanese-based terrorist army (supported by Iran and Syria) has a far greater intelligence network than many in the West might realize. The shoddy reporting within their media on the other hand only plays to the fact that — unlike legitimate media — Hezbollah’s Al Manar has no institutionalized commitment to accuracy. Their focus is instead on disseminating Hezbollah’s propaganda whatever and whenever that might be.
Al Manar TV — along with its print-news cousin, Al Akhbar — is simply a Hezbollah soapbox made to appear is if it is legitimate media.
Al Manar reporters are kept in the dark about the issues critical to Hezbollah (military capabilities, exercises, numbers and types of weapons, meetings with key leaders, where any of those leaders might be hunkered down at any point in time, and other comings and goings). That’s not surprising considering that only a free press would have access to such, and Al Manar and Al Akhbar are actually media branches of Hezbollah’s broader propaganda wing.
Same with Hezbollah’s members of parliament: They are representatives of Hezbollah to be sure. But does anyone actually believe any of them have any clue where Hezbollah’s chief Hassan Nasrallah spent last night, or the night before?
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Fighting Near the Shores of Tripoli: Lebanon’s, Not Libya’s
Posted by editor-at-large on 23 June 2008 at 4:15 pm UTC
Over the weekend, we received word that fighting was taking place in-and-around the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, not far from where last year’s fighting took place between the Lebanese Army and the Al-Qaeda affiliate group Fatah Al Islam in the bloody battle of Nahr al-Bared.
The current fighting, which is now being widely reported throughout the Western media, is between pro-democracy Sunnis and pro-Syrian Alawites (allied to Hezbollah).
According to the AP:
“…It was not immediately possible to determine whether the Tripoli violence was an isolated event or residue from last month’s clashes …”
Our sources are telling us, the fighting in Tripoli is most certainly connected to last month’s attacks by Hezbollah, the Doha agreement – which greatly increased the power and influence of Hezbollah (and Iran and Syria) in Lebanon – and the ongoing albeit under-reported attacks launched by Hezbollah and its allies across the country since mid-May.
Readers may also recall from our reporting at World Defense Review (here, here, and here) that resistance groups began forming across the country almost immediately following the Doha talks in Qatar. And as I reported at Human Events:
“On Sunday evening [May 18], sources informed us that members of the pro-democracy movement in Lebanon had, hours earlier, formed a ‘resistance group against terrorism.’ Monday we learned the resistance group — formed in Beirut — was composed of Christians, Druze, and Muslims (both Sunni and Shiia), all ‘committed to resisting Hizballah.’ There also are reports of a like-minded Sunni resistance group forming near Tripoli.”
According to Ya Libnan, Lebanese parliamentarian Mohammed Kabbara, a Sunni, says, “”Hezbollah is seeking to shift its battle — after invading Beirut — to the Bekaa, and now Tripoli’s turn has come.”
Tom Harb, secretary general of the World Council of the Cedars Revolution, tells us, “This is clearly a strategy of Hezbollah and a continuation – by other means and in other regions of the country — of the terrorist attacks launched by Hezbollah against the Lebanese people last month.”
Sources very close to the Lebanese Army also are telling us, the attacks in Tripoli, the Bekaa Valley (last week), and elsewhere, are part of a much broader two-part strategy on the part of the Iranian-Syrian-Hezbollah axis to both increase the pressure on the Lebanese Army and the Interior Security Forces (national police) — spreading legitimate Lebanese forces thin and keeping them off-balance – and to perhaps create or increase fissures within the Army leadership and the rank-and-file.
Updates will follow.
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The MSM is increasingly falling short RE: military reporting
Posted by editor-at-large on 20 June 2008 at 10:53 pm UTC
(AFP)
The MSM is increasingly becoming a joke when it comes to military reporting. That’s not to say there aren’t some good ones — publications and reporters — in the literal trenches, doing great work. There are.
But far too many of the world’s largest English-language publications have reporters in the field who completely screw the stories up (because they have no historical frame of reference, no grasp of military science or combat operations … thus no way to effectively put the latter into context). They report around the edges of the story, perhaps hype them (I know of some examples), distort them, or — at the other extreme — under-report them. Unfortunately, as has been determined by not too few counterterrorism experts, some of those reporters are bought and paid for by either the enemy or those with a political agenda. Many times, the reporters miss the story altogether when there was — or is — no reason for it to be missed.
Case in point, the reporting just today of a more-than-sizeable Israeli air-combat exercise that took place < ahem > nearly three weeks ago.
The fact that it it took the top English-language media this long to discover and report this is — as one of my colleagues told me today — “truly pathetic.”
And quite frankly, I see this all too often with the reporting coming out of Lebanon (where much of my focus is), even Iraq and Afghanistan where we have troops on the ground.
I remember last year when the “Anbar Awakening” in Iraq’s previously bloody Anbar Province was first being reported; and the success in Anbar was wrongly being attributed to “the Surge.” It’s still wrongly being attributed to the Surge, though the Surge certainly contributed in a huge way to the success of the “Awakening.”
Fact is, the “Anbar Awakening” began in 2005 following Operation Steel Curtain. But because the MSM either didn’t understand the dynamics of Iraq (or they were trying to keep the lid on the counterinsurgency successes in Anbar), the Awakening was reported to have begun in 2007.
And for anyone who might have picked up the paper this morning — or logged on to their favorite news site this afternoon — a cursory read might have led them to believe a hundred or so IAF fighters were roaring out over the Med last night.
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Posted by editor-at-large on 20 June 2008 at 2:30 pm UTC
NowLebanon is reporting that U.S. and Canadian intelligence agencies, which have previously warned of “the possibility of attacks carried out by Hezbollah against ‘Jewish targets’ outside the Middle East” have reactivated dormant cells in Canada.
We know from open sources that Canadian-based Hezbollah-sympathizers have routinely – often anonymously — defended the Lebanon-based terror group on various websites and listserves (and such sympathizers have viciously condemned outspoken critics of Hezbollah). And though few Americans are aware of it, there are growing pockets of Hezbollah support within some of the Shiia communities here in the United States.
Problem is, far too many in the media tend to whitewash Hezbollah as nothing more than “an armed group and a political party in Lebanon.”
Those in the media whitewashing Hezbollah are perhaps attempting to soften the threat for undeclared (but nevertheless real) political reasons, and they are getting away with it despite that fact that national security and counterterrorism experts are increasingly saying Hezbollah is a dangerously expanding terrorist group that “makes Al Qaeda look like a minor league team,” as Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff recently said.
Today, according to NowLebanon: “Some of the party’s chief activists have moved from Lebanon to Canada, Europe and Africa.”
We also know they are in South America (see yesterday’s and last week’s entries on Hezbollah in Venezuela).
In other news: Sources are telling us that Assaad Hardan – who is on the U.S. Treasury Department’s designated list of pro-Syrian, terrorist-supporting bad guys who are undermining the push toward Lebanon’s democracy – will become the next president of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party (SSNP) in Lebanon.
Hardan is a very bad guy, and the SSNP – whose heavily armed and black-masked operatives were photographed rifling through Future News’s offices during Hezbollah’s attacks against the country last month — is a very dangerous group allied to Hezbollah.
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U.S Treasury Department Targets Hezbollah Supporters in Venezuela
Posted by editor-at-large on 19 June 2008 at 9:51 pm UTC
Exactly one week after we reported that young Venezuelan Arabs were being signed up for “summer camp” Hezbollah-style in south Lebanon (and Venezuelan Vice Minister of the Interior Tarek el-Aissami having been pegged as one of the top Venezuelan officials recruiting the Hezbollah hopefuls), the U.S. Treasury Department has designated Venezuelans Ghazi Nasr al Din and Fawzi Kan’an — as well as two travel agencies owned by Kan’an – “supporters of Hezbollah.”
According to a statement issued yesterday by Treasury:
“… ‘It is extremely troubling to see the Government of Venezuela employing and providing safe harbor to Hizballah facilitators and fundraisers. We will continue to expose the global nature of Hizballah’s terrorist support network, and we call on responsible governments worldwide to disrupt and dismantle this activity,’ said Adam J. Szubin, Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
“Today’s action was taken pursuant to Executive Order 13224, which targets terrorists, those owned or controlled by or acting for or on behalf of terrorists, and those providing financial, technological, or material support to terrorists or acts of terrorism. Assets the designees hold under U.S. jurisdiction are frozen and U.S. persons are prohibited from engaging in transactions in property or interests in property blocked under the order. …”
Excellent: We need to keep the pressure on these terrorists, and any individual, company, organization, or state which supports terrorists.
Details follow at Treasury, the Cedars Revolution website, and Fausta’s Blog.
UPDATE: Treasury has today “designated” the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation for having provided financial and material support to Al Qaeda, “as well as a wide range of designated terrorists and terrorist organizations.”
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Divest Terror Initiative in Pennsylvania
Posted by editor-at-large on 19 June 2008 at 2:41 pm UTC
Christopher Holton, director of the Divest Terror Initiative at the Center for Security Policy, has forwarded to us a time-sensitive appeal to Pennsylvania voters (in fact, it should be seen as an appeal to — and a wake-up call for — all Americans):
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
A bill in Pennsylvania to divest that state’s pensions from foreign companies doing business in Iran and Sudan, authored by Rep. Josh Shapiro will be going to a vote on Monday, 23 June.
Rep. Shapiro has asked for any and all help in making some “noise” in support of this initiative.
If you know anyone in Pennsylvania, or if you know any organizations who might be able to generate phone calls and emails to the state legislature in support of Rep. Shapiro’s divestment bill, please ask them to do so right away.
The state pension systems and lobbyists for foreign companies that do business in Iran and Sudan are going all-out to kill Rep. Shapiro’s bill.
Thank you.
Christopher Holton
Director, Divest Terror Initiative
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The Long, Deceptive Arm of TERROR, INC.
Posted by editor-at-large on 18 June 2008 at 6:11 pm UTC
On Monday, New York-based World TV, which bills itself as “the leading source of international programming in North America,” announced “the launch of Lebanon’s OTV on its direct-to-home platform in the United States as an encrypted service.”
You’ll recall – from my previous pieces – OTV (Orange TV) is a publicly traded satellite television company that was founded last year by retired Lebanese Army Gen. Michel Aoun (who is a professed ally of the terrorist-group Hezbollah) and his Free Patriotic Movement. Both Aoun and the FPM continue to have a heavy hand in OTV’s news broadcasts. But for the obvious sake of “cleaning its face,” OTV claims that because it is publicly traded, it is now only “affiliated” with Aoun and the FPM, and even that affiliation is – as Aoun’s supporters say – “unofficial.”
But there is much more to this than Hezbollah or Aoun and his cronies would have us believe.
In January, I reported a story in which ABC News had run a segment, Deadly Attack in Lebanon, regarding the assassination of Capt. Wissam Eid, an intelligence officer with Lebanon’s Interior Security Forces (national police).
ABC was correct in its decision to run the segment. It was an important story. But my beef – and that of the leadership of Lebanon’s pro-democracy Cedars Revolution – was with the footage a major American television network had used without any disclaimer.
The footage, which may be viewed here, originated with OTV.
As I said then, “this may seem somewhat innocuous,” except for the fact that Aoun and his FPM are closely allied to Hezbollah, a “foreign terrorist organization” so-designated by the U.S. State Department.
Hezbollah is perhaps the most-dangerous Talibanesque terrorist-army on the planet. The organization is trained, armed and equipped, operationally supported, and heavily funded by Iran (at least $ one-billion, annually); and operationally supported by Syria. In fact, Hezbollah is so dangerous – and gaining in its global strength and influence – that Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff recently warned, the organization “makes Al Qaeda look like a minor league team.”
Hezbollah also has a growing and incredibly influential telecommunications and media arm, which operates both openly and in the shadows. The organization’s media arm is overt in that it owns and operates newspapers, websites (including a stable-full of bloggers and blogging-sympathizers and apologists), and radio and television stations. And it is covert in its effective ability to penetrate Western media and generally threaten, win-over, or pay-off – with Iranian petrodollars — seemingly objective journalists and news desks. Hezbollah also is able to further its deception and propaganda through its allied news organizations, which most news-consumers in the West are completely unaware of.
Last October, Counterterrorism Blog reported:
“The joint venture between Hezbollah and the ‘Free Patriotic Movement’ of former General Michel Aoun is growing stronger by the day. Since Hezbollah, a designated terrorist organization by the U.S. Government, and its Al Manar television network are banned from transmitting to the U.S., they are now relying on the media outlet of former General Michel Aoun, Orange TV, to spread Iranian-inspired Jihadist propaganda and ideology.”
Of course, Hezbollah’s and Aoun’s supporters will argue that because OTV is publicly traded, it is off-the-hook. Yet OTV continues to serve as a mouthpiece for Aoun, and has aired lengthy conversations with Aoun and Hezbollah’s secretary general Hassan Nasrallah.
Supporters of OTV also argue that Al Jazeera, with its often pro-Jihadist slant is slowly being accepted into the mainstream (which also amazes me), as should OTV.
But the public does have some understanding of the reality that much – if not all — of what Al Jazeera airs and publishes must be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism. The public knows Al Jazeera really cannot be taken as a source of objective news: and the experts consider it to be more of an open-source of intelligence.
Americans see the Al Jazeera tapes of Osama bin Laden broadcast on all of the mainstream television networks. But that’s because Al Jazeera is the broadcasting company the terrorists use. That’s the originator of the tapes as far as the general public is concerned.
As I wrote in January for Family Security Matters, “Al Jazeera’s agenda has been widely publicized – the name itself is a walking disclaimer of sorts – so we all take what that company broadcasts with a proverbial grain of salt. It is, after all, Al Jazeera, and we understand exactly for what purposes their footage is broadcast.”
I also reported that few Americans have ever heard of “Orange TV or al Manar, for that matter: the latter being Hezbollah’s television station. Al Manar was at one time being broadcast via satellite over much of Europe, Africa, and the Far East until the U.S. government and others shut down much of that company’s overseas broadcasting operations. And when it was discovered that some American companies were continuing to advertise on al Manar in Lebanon, they too were pressed to pull out … and did.”
Nevertheless, World TV has announced the launch of OTV in America.
A quick call to World TV’s press office revealed what I already suspected, the very charming press officer on the other end of the line was completely unaware of the connection. “We have nothing to do with Hezbollah,” she said. And I certainly believe she was telling me the truth as she understood it to be. I don’t blame her, nor can I lay all of this at the feet of her company. The blame can only be found in the depth of Hezbollah’s media deception.
Therein lies the problem. Almost no one understands how deep that deception runs, except perhaps Nasrallah, Aoun, the Iranians, the Syrians, and the good guys on our side who are feverishly working to connect the dots in this asymmetrically complex war on terror.
— W. Thomas Smith Jr.
Posted by editor-at-large on 17 June 2008 at 4:49 pm UTC
Hezbollah and Amal gunmen attacked Lebanese Army positions and two-to-four residential areas in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, last night. At least three people have reportedly been killed and several others wounded as of this writing.
All three victims were civilians – including a female school-teacher – killed by Hezbollah’s attack on Bekaa villages “in an attempt to cover up their fight with the army,” according to Lebanon’s Future News.
According to our sources, the gunmen attacked with automatic rifles, machine-guns, rocket-propelled grenades, and mortars; and the attacks began several hours after Hezbollah purportedly shot-to-death a member of the pro-democracy Cedars Revolution in the western Bekaa.
Details are still sketchy as to the individual shooting (details will be forthcoming), but it is believed – according to our sources – that he was the bodyguard of a top Lebanese official, and some say his death is being misreported in some Arab media as an accident (not surprising considering Hezbollah’s incredibly deceptive media influence in what would otherwise be considered objective media).
We are also learning that since last month’s fighting which was begun by Hezbollah against the Lebanese people in west Beirut, the north near Tripoli, the Bekaa Valley, and the Chouf mountains; Hezbollah has launched several probing operations – and conducted at least one military show-of-force demonstration – against Druze villages in the Chouf-mountain region.
During the demonstration a few days ago, armed Druze confronted Hezbollah, and the latter simply withdrew.
Ya Libnan even reports today: “Hezbollah gunmen have not given up and continue to launch attacks in Toumat Niha area of the Chouf mountains.”
Of course, the Chouf operations are receiving very little attention in the Lebanese media and zero coverage in the Western press.
Which brings to mind my own reports of a Hezbollah testing-probe (since determined to have been one of a series of probes) and a “show of force” that took place on a date in September that was never reported either by myself or any media (except for a blogger or two who literally created a date to deny any show of force ever took place).
Responding to that – and a piece of analysis published by Stratfor – international terrorism expert Dr. Walid Phares wrote: “Isn’t interesting to see how back in the fall of 2007 Western-based media, friendly to Hezbollah, attacked an American journalist reporting from Beirut, [yours truly], for daring to mention that Hezbollah has ever deployed forces in Beirut, while according to this report, the organization is sending in -not only regular militiamen, but special forces.”
Fact is, what Hezbollah is doing in Lebanon and throughout the world, today, is every bit what Lebanon’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani said today (after meeting with Pres. Michel Sleiman): “full-fledged acts of terror.”
And so far they are getting away with it.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah’s staunch ally, Gen. Michel Aoun, reportedly bristled over a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and leaders of the pro-democracy March 14 movement, whom Aoun referred to as “students gathered in a class room.”
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Posted by editor-at-large on 15 June 2008 at 1:27 pm UTC
Yesterday, I ran into an old acquaintance, retired Air Force Col. Jack Van Loan (pictured above), who I had not seen in years.
Jack and his lovely wife, Linda, were having coffee at the Gourmet Shop in Five Points, a trendy little shopping, restaurant, and college-hangout district here in my hometown of Columbia, S.C.
We chatted for a few minutes. I introduced Jack and Linda to my mom and Mom’s little “step” great-granddaughter. We talked briefly about my ongoing work, Jack’s service more than 40-years-ago as a fighter pilot flying F-4 Phantoms over North Vietnam, etc. Then we wished one another a Happy Father’s Day (it was Father’s Day eve) and went on our ways.
As I mentioned Jack was a fighter pilot who flew combat missions during the Vietnam War. What I didn’t mention was that Jack also was a POW, having been shot down in the spring of 1967 (I was eight-years-old at the time) and spending the next six years of his life in the infamous “Hanoi Hilton.”
Yes, he met John McCain there: The future Arizona Senator and presidential candidate was tossed into the same hell hole that Jack was living in several months after Jack was shot-down and captured.
I thought about yesterday’s chance coffee-shop meeting this morning, which prompted me to do a quick Google search of Jack, and the first piece I came across was this fantastic blog entry posted in January by another guy I know, Brad Warthen.
Brad is a vice president and the editorial page editor of The State, the largest newspaper — and the paper of record — here in South Carolina.
Brad writes:
“…In October of Jack’s first year in Hanoi, a new prisoner came in, a naval aviator named John McCain. He was in really bad shape. He had ejected over Hanoi, and had landed in a lake right in the middle of the city. He suffered two broken arms and a broken leg ejecting. He nearly drowned in the lake before a mob pulled him out, and then set upon him. They spat on him, kicked him and stripped his clothes off. Then they crushed his shoulder with a rifle butt, and bayoneted him in his left foot and his groin.
“That gave the enemy something to ‘bear down on.’ Lt. Cmdr. McCain would be strung up tight by his unhealed arms, hog-tied and left that way for the night.
“‘John was no different than anyone else, except that he was so badly hurt,’ said Jack. ‘He was really badly, badly hurt.’
“Jack and I got to talking about all this when he called me Wednesday morning, outraged over a story that had appeared in that morning’s paper, headlined ‘McCain’s war record attacked.’ A flier put out by an anti-McCain group was claiming the candidate had given up military information in return for medical treatment as a POW in Vietnam.
…“Jack, a retired colonel whom I’ve had the privilege of knowing for more than a decade, believes his old comrade would make the best president ‘because of all the stressful situations that he’s been under, and the way he’s responded.’ But he had called me about something more important than that. It was a matter of honor.
“Jack was incredulous: ‘To say that John would ask for medical treatment in return for military information is just preposterous. He turned down an opportunity to go home early, and that was right in front of all of us.’
“‘I mean, he was yelling it. I couldn’t repeat the language he used, and I wouldn’t repeat the language he used, but boy, it was really something. I turned to my cellmate … who heard it all also loud and clear; I said, ‘My God, they’re gonna kill him for that.’ … ”
But there’s so much more. Read Brad’s entire piece here.
On an aside, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing Sen. McCain over the radio and for publication. I once contributed to a U.S. News & World Report cover story about him. And I wrote a piece in April of this year about the senator’s Vietnam experience here.
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GOODYEAR DOING BUSINESS IN IRAN
Posted by editor-at-large on 12 June 2008 at 3:35 pm UTC
It’s one thing to be doing business with a state sponsor of terrorism like Iran: selling tires (dual-purpose products which have a crystal-clear military application) to a country which is technically off-limits to trade, which also is the preeminent state sponsor of terrorism (fields the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah, and funds Hamas and the Taliban), which has a deplorable human rights record, which has an active nuclear-development program, which has an active ballistic-missile development program, which consistently defies international law, and which frequently threatens to wipe countries off the face of the earth.
It’s quite something else to both do business with such a country and then arrogantly boast about it through one of your distributors.
Take a look at Goodyear distributor Nikran Tire Company’s webpage:
Nikran Tire Company is the sole importer and distributor of Goodyear Tires in Iran. With our wide range of quality products, we guarantee to provide you with the best tires in the world.
Our Mission
We are determined in providing our costumers with quality products at competitive prices. Our goal is to become the leading provider of foreign tires in Iran.Our History
Since 1989 we have supplied Goodyear tires to different sectors of the Iranian tire market, be it off the road, Passenger, Truck, Bus or Farm.We have been key tire suppliers to companies such as but not limited to: Iran Khodro, Zagros Khodro and Raniran. Our non-passenger costumers include the Chador-Maloo Mining Corporation, Tehran Cement Company and the Central Iron Ore Co.
This is almost beyond belief.
How does Goodyear get away with it? The same way GE does (which we’ve written about here and here): These companies have the money and a stable full of attorneys who are able to worm them into those countries — despite sanctions — with “all sorts of legally protected things that non-lawyer types would have a near-impossible time of getting their heads around like various trade loopholes, “exceptions” for who-knows-what, and “cutouts” (foreign-based subsidiaries).”
As Christopher Holton, a vice president with the Center for Security Policy and who directs the CSP’s Divest Terror Initiative, tells me, what these companies are doing “may not be violating the letter of the law, but it’s certainly violating the spirit of the law.”
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