8 January 2012
The financial strength of the Taliban and the Hezbollah money laundering service, are for Iran a vital part of its strategy to face any possible (perhaps imminent) USA attack due to Iran’s nuclear program.
Taliban and Hezbollah drugs Money LaunderingWhile the growth of the global economy has almost come to a complete stand still and political stability is tumbling, illegal financial streams are booming like never before.
Intelligence agency’s are encountering financial movements which present a clear and present danger for the financial markets and thus for economic stability and progress.
The worldwide hegemony of opium production in Afghanistan, Taliban with the enormous money streams all over the globe.
The axis of financial ties between the Islamic Republic of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon (and in the Lebanese Diaspora) and Hamas in the Gaza strip.
More than 90 % of the world’s production of opium, the main ingredient in heroin is Afghanistan originated. Estimated at a 7,000 tons according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The departure of the US and other allied forces from Afghanistan, the weakened central government of the president Karzai, who de facto only controls the capital of Kabul, left opportunity for the Taliban to become a financial institution funding several anti US and European terror organizations operating in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
While recognizing that attacking the USA on its soil may be a difficult mission, US and European interests in Africa and Asia seem to be a soft targets.
Due to the bordering with Pakistan and Iran, Taliban opium money find its way easily to the Middle East & Africa (through Iran) and Asia (through Pakistan).
For Iran, this is a vital part of their strategy to face any possible (perhaps imminent) USA attack due to Iran’s nuclear program.
Iran and Syria forced to rely more on underground financial streams
Because of the recent developments in the Persian region and the fact that Iran showed its capability to block the street of Hormuz, (which will lead to an Oil price of 200 USD per barrel), Iran is punished with additional sanctions against its central bank.
Although Iran is globally politically very isolated, it has its regional allies. The tumbling Assad’s regime in Syria as well as the well organized Hezbollah movement are among those strong ties.
Syria needs funds from the underground financial systems to compensate the effect of the Oil embargo by Europe and the USA, in order to be able to pay its soldiers fighting the uprising in all outskirts as well as funding terror organizations in Europe which are looked up on as a last resort in case of a USA led attack on Syria or a preemptive strike of Israel on Syria.
Hezbollah’s popularity in Lebanon is one on one related to the fact that most hospitals, schools and other vital organizations in Lebanon are funded by the organization of Sheikh Nasrallah. The Hezbollah movement is blacklisted as being a terror organization, therefore all financial transactions are in cash. The main source of income of Hezbollah is drugs trafficking (receiving the drugs from Turkey and Iran).
Hezbollah in the Lebanese Diaspora
A second source of income for the Hezbollah is a (drugs) money laundering service through the large Lebanese community living in Latin America. Recently European and other intelligence agencies have identified Lebanese ‘’business men’’ in Europe and the Caribbean that are involved in Hezbollah organized drug trafficking, money laundering activities and support of the Hezbollah movement on a wide scale.
In the first week of December 2011 a secret task force of the USA, UK, France and the Netherlands started on the Island of Aruba (part of the kingdom of the Netherlands) with a clear mandate to stop all Hezbollah related drug trafficking and money laundering activities, The taskforce is aiming to cripple the financial strength of Hezbollah in Lebanon and outside (Hamas). The first successful encounter is already a fact.
Although the Hamas movement in the Gaza strip is a Sunni Muslim movement and Hezbollah being a Shia Muslim organization, the ties between both organizations are to be considered as strong and tight.
With the end of the Regime of Mubarak in Egypt and the opening of the borders between Gaza and Egypt by the new military regime of Field Marshal Tantawy, Hamas finds itself in a unique position of being able to transfer and receive funds through a well organized financial network of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood , that won the first round of elections in Egypt, is the most powerful Muslim organization on the globe with affiliates in almost every single country supported by the majority of the Islamic populations in every country with a Muslim minority or majority.
The Axes of Green
The intelligence agencies identify the joint venture and increased synergy between all the above mentioned groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon, Gaza and Egypt, as the Axes of Green (the color of money AND the color of the Islam).
This Axis of Green allows these organizations to be very effective in Asia, Middle East and last but not least Africa, which is the fastest growing and emerging market according to the World Bank
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Ultrascan-HUMINT-services will continue to monitor 24/7; plans, operations and strategy changes from inside these organizatons
First Published By Ultrascan-AGI in 2008, Ultrascan Humint in 2012, Ultrascan-research March 2015
Al Qaeda controlled its insurgencies in various ways but also through their primary foreign sources of funding.
These specific financiers are the Taliban and devout Muslim Sheiks from the Gulf, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar who believe that the centuries old Sunni political Utopia of a state and recreation of the Caliphate is within reach.
The same Caliphate in al Qaeda's mission statement
When groups pledge allegiance to the Caliph of the Islamic State, the primary financiers continue to be common denominator as sponsor of these and new groups. An overarching criminal context for anti money laundering and counter terrorism operations.
Also read:
Case: Taliban Global Revenues Money Laundering
Haji Forqan
Mulah Omar
Mullah Hibatullah
Colonel Halimov
Bagram airforce base
Haji Forqan
* for months, It was rumored that Haji Forqan was killed and replaced by a mirror image. Resolved - Photo's of Haji Forqan. in Pul-e-Khumri, Baghlan, taken on date: 28_4_2022
Mullah Omar
* Mullah Omar died before 2003 and was replaced by a creative narrative operated by the US and UK Intelligence services to control the ideology factor of the Taliban, and its Global Heroin Revenue Streams of $3 billion per year.
Later there were many reports of sightings but even the most credible in-depth researchers-journalists had to admit to believable but unverifiable hearsay and stories from witnesses, neighbours, family or acquaintances who claimed to know, have seen or met Omar after 2003. When pressed for the truth, besides hearsay, non of the interviewed wanted to go on record saying they had met him in person.
Mullah Hibatullah
* The person in the three similar pictures does not live under this name. It seems the figurehead Mullah Hibatullah is part of a similar creative narrative.
Colonel Gulmurod Halimov
* Fabricated for narrative - former commander of the Special Forces of Tajikistan, joined the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, in May 2015. Halimov had a significant following inside Tajikistan as well as Russia. Even though he has been reported killed several times, the Tajik authorities rejected those reports. Halimov’s name remained on the UN Security Council’s sanctions list. Starting with a fictional visit to Kabul on August 25, 2021, the intelligence department of the Haqqani Taliban and ISI fabricated reports of Halimov’s meetings in Afghanistan with high-ranking Taliban and leaders of ISIS. On Saturday, August 27 2022 his remains were released.
Bagram air-force base
* Some time after Kabul's fall, fuel and lubrication is delivered at Bagram airport to over one hundred "contractors" who are serviced by a group of 300 third-tier workers from India. In part protected by Badri forces from the Haqqani network. While another part of the airport is protected by fighters from the Quetta Council.
Lost in translation
* some of the content comes directly from sources that use automatic translations, which can lead to incomprehensible English sentences.
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