It is looking like it must be the season for it, or something...
U.S. Department of the Treasury laid the designation on four individualsin the support networks of al Qaida and Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LET) in Pakistan under Executive Order 13224.
This is yet another effort to cut the financial legs out from under International Terrorism.
The very next day, the ban fell upon one individual and one group, but hooboy... Iran-based individual Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Iraq-based Shia extremist group Kata'ib Hizballah are now designated under Executive Order 13438 (the counterinsurgency-motivated ban). This is a big deal because Abui Mahdi al-Muhandis is the Pasdaran Qods Force commander... the main man for Iranian external special operations... and Kata'ib Hizballah (Hezbollah Brigades) is the direct Hezbollah connection inside Iraq.
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Lots of detail on the meaning of the second listings from Bill Roggio at Long War Journal.
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