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Hicham Nmer Khanafer

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Hicham Nmer Khanafer is an “active and influential” Hezbollah fundraiser and recruiter responsible for the group’s activities in The Gambia, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Khanafer, who holds a Lebanese passport, has allegedly hosted weekly meetings for Hezbollah supporters at his home in The Gambia, as well as weekly fundraising and recruiting drives for the group at a local mosque. Khanafer was designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in June 2013.“Treasury Sanctions Hizbollah Operatives in West Africa,” U.S. Department of the Treasury, June 11, 2013, https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl1980.aspx. Khanafer was one of four Hezbollah fundraisers in West Africa who raised “millions of dollars” for the group, according to David S. Cohen, the then-U.S. Treasury undersecretary in charge of sanctions.Rick Gladstone, “U.S. Blacklists Fund-Raisers for Hezbollah,” New York Times, June 11, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/world/middleeast/us-hits-hezbollah-with-new-sanctions.html.

The Gambia
Hezbollah
Recruiter and fundraiser for Hezbollah in The Gambia
Militia, political party, social-service provider, terrorist, transnational, violent
Iranian-sponsored, Islamist, jihadist, Khomeinist, Shiite
Ainata, Lebanon or Kuntair, The Gambia
The Gambia
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United States

The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated “Hicham Nmer Khanafer” as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224.“Treasury Sanctions Hizbollah Operatives in West Africa,” U.S. Department of the Treasury, June 11, 2013, https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl1980.aspx.

Hezbollah
May 23, 1965
Not determined.
Lebanese
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