American University of Beirut settles U.S. lawsuit for $700,000 for assisting terrorist armies

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American University of Beirut settles U.S. lawsuit for $700,000

By Alex Dobuzinskis Reuters, March 24, 2017 (thanks to Lynn):

American University of Beirut, a recipient of U.S. government aid, has agreed to pay $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit over accusations that it assisted three organizations linked to the militant group Hezbollah, federal prosecutors said.

As part of its deal with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, a party to the lawsuit, the university also agreed to revise its policies, prosecutors said in a statement on Thursday.

The agreement resolved a case originally filed under seal by an unnamed complainant.

American University of Beirut receives funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon Kim said in the statement, “For years, the American University of Beirut accepted grant money from USAID, but failed to take reasonable steps to ensure against providing material support to entities on the Treasury Department’s prohibited list.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said the university in the Lebanese capital admitted to training representatives of al Nour Radio and al Manar TV, media groups that the U.S. Treasury Department lists as branches of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.

Between 2007 and 2009 the university provided the training in workshops to representatives from al Nour and al Manar, who were allowed to participate among a larger group of journalists, a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.For instance, one workshop was titled “Citizen/Online Journalism” and provided instruction on how to produce blogs, videos and podcasts, prosecutors said.

Federal prosecutors said the university used its website to connect students with Jihad al-Binaa, another organization that the U.S. Treasury Department has said is linked to Hezbollah.

American University of Beirut (AUB) said in a statement on Friday that its conduct had been neither “knowing, intentional or reckless.”

“AUB is pleased to have reached the settlement and looks forward to continuing to provide a world-class education to students of all backgrounds,” the statement said.

The university, founded in 1866, centers its teaching on the American liberal arts tradition.

“With today’s settlement, the university is being made to pay a financial penalty for its conduct, and importantly, it has admitted to its conduct and agreed to put proper precautions in place to ensure that it does not happen again,” Kim said in a statement.

The $700,000 penalty levied on the university will be paid to the U.S. government.

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JacksonPearson
JacksonPearson
7 years ago

I wonder how much more of this taxpayer insanity to fund terrorism, have been provided by the Obama admin.???

Why oh why is Barack Hussein Obama II, aka Barry Soetoro allowed to freely walk on mother earth, and not be in chains??? WHY???

pipo
pipo
7 years ago
Reply to  JacksonPearson

That is indeed a good wondering. Obama at least ought to be hunted down by who knows who.

spfg
spfg
7 years ago
Reply to  JacksonPearson

Yes! For intentionally usurping the sovereignty of this nation through importing those that carry with them an ideology of totalitarianism to come over here and reproduce with the hope that someday our freedoms will be abolished and trampled on…

Voytek Gagalka
Voytek Gagalka
7 years ago

Pres. Trump wants to reduce deficit? Here would be a good start. I don’t know why it takes him so long to notice it?

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
7 years ago
Reply to  Voytek Gagalka

Obummer didn’t notice it for eight years.

harbidoll
harbidoll
7 years ago
Reply to  Voytek Gagalka

he has cut USAID.

Amethyst_2012
Amethyst_2012
7 years ago
Reply to  Voytek Gagalka

Trump is a very busy man. I would like to see him set up a department where every day Americans and Canadians can send him an email on things they think need changing. The only way things are going to get changed is if we tell Trump what needs to be done.

spfg
spfg
7 years ago
Reply to  Amethyst_2012

True! It is a very deep and wide “swamp”…

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
7 years ago

Seems quite peculiar, but somehow foreign aid often seems to do more harm than good. Maybe some kind of Taoist paradox at work.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

There is some massive de-funding of educational institutions that is necessary for any number of very good reasons.

Eric York
Eric York
7 years ago

So, all they have to do is give back $700,000 to US out of their next funding check. Then, implement better ways to hide it next time. The university should be cut off from all U.S. funding; period.

JR Richmond
JR Richmond
6 years ago

This story is a commentary on the almost successful operation of an enemy alien jihadist agent who penetrated to the highest level of US Government, Barrak Obama. If you don’t know the story, Lebanon was a peaceful, Christian nation with a flock of radical extremist terrorists inflicted on them by the so called ‘world’ community. The ‘palestinian’ refuge camps were training centers and bases for attacks against Israel. When the Israeli army invaded Lebanon with the consent of their government to end this, the Lebanese Christian militia attacked and successfully engaged the terrorists in a series of deadly fire fights. Then President Ronald Reagan ordered US Marines into Lebanon TO PROTECT the terrorists and allow Yassar Arafat to escape by sea. By way of thanks the terrorists blew up the US Military barracks in Beirut killing 300 US military personel, my Navy son in law was there and worked in the cleanup and body count. Be thankful for an actual conservative in the Whitehouse who cared enough to invest his own fortune in his patriotism, Donald Trump. You can reach him anytime at;
Donald Trump c/o, https://whitehouse.org/contact/

Today Lebanon is a third world terrorist hell hole where christians are routinely murdered, and Israel is attacked daily behind a protective wall of UN ‘peacekeepers’. It was the prototype for this current jihad based on warring against a people so stupid they won’y even defend themselves or their children. JR

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