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Hezbollah received funding from cocaine smugglers, money launderers

More evidence of the intimate connections between violent Islamic groups and other criminal organizations.

Of course, whether Hezbollah can be accurately characterized as a terrorist group is subject to debate. The United States government says it is, while the Lebanese Parliament – and the group itself – consider it a political party with a military wing. So, the “terrorist group” paradigm may not apply to it.

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