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Israel/Palestine

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(167 posts) Thu Feb 23, 2012, 02:24 PM Feb 2012

'Hezbollah's powerbase in w. Africa growing'

Israel's Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor warned the UN Security Council Tuesday that Hezbollah's powerbase in western Africa is growing.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also expressed concern over the growing ties between the Shiite terror group and local African crime organizations.

Ban said that the association was threatening the region and may find its way into Latin America and Europe.

Prosor told the Security Council that Israel could play a key role in the global fight against the infiltration of crime-backed terror activity into western Africa

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4193128,00.html

What is refreshing is that Ban Ki-moon acknowledges the threat.

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