As Jihad Watch reported Tuesday, the IDF has called upon the Lebanese people to go get the money. And “Fadi Alameh, a Lebanese lawmaker affiliated with the Shi’ite Amal Movement and the director of Al-Sahel Hospital, dismissed Israel’s assertions, branding them as ‘false and slanderous.'” Now U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is also casting doubts on the Israeli assertion that the money is there, and lending credence to the Shi’ite lawmaker’s words. But why should Israel share intel with the U.S. at this point, after the Biden administration has betrayed it so many times?
Meanwhile, the world should be in an uproar over Hamas and Hizballah using their own people as human shields to cover for their entire operation. But instead, the world blames Israel and greets its every assertion with skepticism.
As we previously reported, IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari stated that Nasrallah’s bunker, which is estimated to contain at least half a billion in US dollar bills and gold, is located under the Al-Sahel Hospital in Hezbollah’s stronghold of Dahiyeh in Beirut.
“US has not seen evidence of Hezbollah cash bunker under Beirut hospital, Pentagon chief says,” Reuters, October 23, 2024:
ROME (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday that he had not seen evidence that there was a Hezbollah bunker filled with cash built under a hospital in Beirut, adding that Washington would continue to work with Israel to get a better insights.
Israel’s military said that Hezbollah has stashed hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in a bunker built under a hospital in Beirut, adding that it would not strike the facility as it keeps up attacks against the group’s financial assets.
“We have not seen evidence of that at this moment. But, you know, we will continue to collaborate with our Israeli counterparts to gain better fidelity on exactly what they are looking at,” Austin told reporters in Rome….
”Israel claims Hezbollah bunker under Beirut hospital holds millions of dollars,” by William Christou, Guardian, October 21, 2024:
Israel has accused Hezbollah of keeping hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in a bunker under a hospital in the southern suburbs of Beirut, though it said it would not strike the complex.
The Sahel hospital in Dahiyeh was evacuated shortly afterwards, and Fadi Alame, its director, told Reuters that the allegations were untrue.
Israel did not provide evidence for its claim that cash was being kept under the hospital. Instead, it published an animated graphic that purported to show a bunker under the hospital and said it had previously been used to hide the former secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. Israel appealed to the Lebanese government to confiscate the money it said the Shia militant organisation had stolen from the Lebanese people….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That’s fine. This regime has emphatically demonstrated why Israel should share as little information as possible w/ it while it’s still in power. If and when Trump returns, things can be back to normal
Taffy says
Before things get to normal, Trump has to prosecute the treasonous people and rid the administration of anyone who could not pass a legitimate security clearance investigation. Way back when, a person applying for even a Secret clearance was investigated for a couple of months with the Defense Investigative Service interviewing that person’s friends and acquaintances, checking bank accounts, etc. f such methods were used, there is no way that Iranian sympathizer would’ve gotten anything above a Confidential clearance.
Bexarkat says
It is difficult to see things from the distance and safety of a secured environment. Perhaps Austin and Blinken should get out a bit more and learn something.
OLD GUY says
They probably don’t want the American tax payer knowing where all this foreign aid America sends to Gaza is going.
Kesselman says
The current government in D.C. hasn’t grabbed it yet. The Arab Mozzies will be deceiving in all the ways possible partly due to their holy book. Their jihad is pot and parcel with their infamous religious ideology.
MD Anthony says
When it comes to facts about the One Party Islamic Trojan horse the US Secretaries of Defense practice wilful blindness and denial. In fact it looks like it was Obama who first installed DEI into the senior ranks of the US Military. Neither Millie nor Austin exhibited merit based performance but were consistent in spinelessness of seeing “We the People” as their enemy while the fifth column took over America..
Gerry says
When has Israeli intelligence been wrong? Why would it be wrong now?
It’s the US that told Israel not to enter Rafah so how good is our own intelligence?
rick says
If we were to depend if something is real or not on the word of U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, then more than half the history would be a mystery.
According to Secretary Austin:
Really, Arafat was a homosexual?
I always thought there was a Palestine nation, wasn’t there?
I never knew that closing an international waterway like the Egyptians did to Israel ( 1967) is actually an Act of War. Really?
You mean not one weapon was taken from Hezbollah by the UN military group ( UNIFIL) that was charged with that disarming Hezbollah under Resolution 1701?
Etc. Etc.
Andrew says
Lloyd Austin’s skepticism reminds me of the movie Amistad, in which the Secretary of State John Forsythe didn’t believe that the slave fortress in Sierra Leone existed.
Homer Bedloe says
Lloyd Austin is a Biden Appointee so he can’t be too bright. Joe’s policy was not to appoint anyone that was smarter than him.
James Hoagland says
Israeli TV explains the whole deal. BUT after bombing the place not too much cash to be had but people were picking up the gold. The money was stolen from the people so its good they get some of it back. Meanwhile the Secretary of Defense needs to change the prescription of his glasses. Hopefully he be in pursuit of another job at the end of January, 2025.
gravenimage says
I just hope Hezb’allah does not seize the money.
gravenimage says
US Defense Secretary says he has not seen evidence of Hezbollah cash bunker under Beirut hospital
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I hate to say it, but after the US has been leaking information to Iran, why *should* Israel share this intel with us?
somehistory says
Yesterday, or early this morning (my memory is foggy on the time_) blinken was in a hotel and it was fired on. He’s closer than austin to the ‘hidden’ money.
austin is in his office counting out his own money. How can he see what is under a hospital thousands of miles away…”hidden in a bunker”?
Go have a closer look. Perhaps the remaining hezbollah members will show you.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
Maybe U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin should’ve gone to SpecSavers.
Andrew says
This reminds me of the movie Amistad, where the Secretary of State denied the existence of the slave fortress in Sierra Leone.