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Terror Victims Sue Canadian Branch of Lebanese Bank Over Alleged Hizbollah Ties
printFour Canadians are suing the Montreal branch of a Lebanese bank, alleging that the institution knowingly provided financial services to Hizbollah, an organization blacklisted internationally for terrorism. The plaintiffs are seeking $6.1 million from Lebanese-Canadian Bank over damages from rocket attacks carried out by Hizbollah in Israel during July and August 2006. The attacks did not result in deaths but ruined property, disrupted work schedules and, in one case, caused one of the plaintiffs to give birth prematurely, according to a complaint filed Monday in the Quebec Superior Court. By allegedly providing financial services to two Hizbollah-controlled groups, Lebanese-Canadian Bank...
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