By Stephen Levy

As part of an ongoing effort to target the Lebanese political and militant group Hezbollah, the Treasury Department listed three individuals in Nigeria as affiliates to the group on February 26^th.  The men, Mustapha Fawaz, Fouzi Fawaz, and Abdallah Tahini, are claimed to have been members of a Hezbollah terrorist unit in Nigeria. The U.S. claims they collected donations, recruited new members, and stored weapons for Hezbollah, and used their businesses to keep tabs on foreign nationals in Nigeria. Nigerian authorities had previously arrested Tahini, and have an outstanding arrest for Fouzi Fawaz. No attacks have been tied to the group, but it is likely that with Boko Haram’s activities in northern Nigeria, Nigerian and U.S. authorities are wary of any activity by the group.

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March 27, 2015

By Evan Abrams

Last week a lawsuit was filed on behalf of 200 American soldiers and family members of soldiers killed in Iraq who accused five U.S. banks of helping to finance terror activities through interactions with Iran. This civil suit came on the heels of several cases brought by federal prosecutors that have been largely settled over the past few years. According to the New York Times, the suit did not assert that U.S. banks directly financed the attacks, but that they indirectly assisted in doing so by engaging in transactions with Iranian institutions who had links to Hezbollah. The article paints the current suit as emblematic of a growing legal trend and expects more such suits in the future since it is nearly impossible to recover damages from individual terrorists. 

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December 01, 2014