French cement company Lafarge, which operates plants in dozens of countries and 43 U.S. states, pleaded guilty to paying terrorists in Syria between 2013 and 2014 so it could keep a plant running as ISIS and other groups fought for control. Payments were made while ISIS was capturing and killing U.S. hostages.
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nato needs to drone attack this isis founder inside usa
Should have been at least 10 times what Alex Jones got. "We deeply regret getting caught."
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Lafarge, should sell All US locations and be banned from US operation. OR HUGE jail time I lost alot they made gains? 780 million? That would only support the life time of 780 soldiers families. They finance the death of many, many more people.
Oh what a scoop !! 🙄
I never knew some countries founded ISIS via some other soft channels. Oh what a surprise!
None of the actual people who made the decision to do that received any punishment, only the shell of the company, which is now owned by a bank, received blowback, while those people are still running free with the same amount of money in their pockets.
France company is guilty for paying the isis…
who pays 800M in fines? all those decision makers need to be arrested, no matter if they are not US employees anymore or whatever.
Why aren't any executives in prison? They are as much terrorists as those that plant bombs or behead citizens. At least publish the names and addresses of all the executives that worked in the organization at the time, so others can see justice is brought down upon them.
Avarice at its worst.
Don't trust corporates. This is why.
ISIS AlQaeda Al Nusra are US contract armies
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Ecclesiastes 8:11 KJV
New Zealand learnt it's lesson when an Australian racist shot 51 New Zealand Muslims.
America bombed Muslims in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Palestine, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen.
$800 mil is pocket change.
As a French-American, I am disgusted by this ! Put the guilty ones in PRISON now ! . and suspend their US business license for good !
You would support ISIS for money profit? They must be accountable!!!
Great. Just great. 🤬👎🏼👎🏼
If you pay taxes your financing terrorism.
So the cement factory paid "protection money" to be protected from a known terror organisation. Are we going to charge people for paying ransom money too, since that support criminal organisation too?
Ransom or protection money payments is the FAULT OF THE GOVERNMENT. They FAILED to protect the companies from hostiles.
That company must now be crushed into oblivion. Owners sent to prison. Something not right about this story.
Expel them from our United States.
Remove them from the US
There should be a death penalty for corporations.
Somebody needs a pair of cement shoes.
They should be forced to close operations permanently not just be fined
disgusting.
all those isis that u see r and come mostly from kid naps not is one race many come from other lands nothing is what it seems they r toys like the ones called after aping same owners
I say assets in all 43 states should be immediately taken over by the government for the people…800 mil. Isn't good enough.
People pay ransoms to terrorist groups to release family and friends. We all know what the money is used for. Why not charge them with anything? This is strictly about the law. I'm not talking morals and/ or ethics.😑
So they paid them similar to way people would pay a mafia to leave them alone?
Wait. No, you could have sent them money at any time. american sanctioning… bunch of bs.
Supporting them now would be okay, that they are wartorn from american a-hness. But they were for reason of profits, and exploit.
What was this company supposed to do? Shut down or pay a ransom to people who would have executed them anyways if they said, "No." This is utter nonsense…
But the FBI can't find Hunters laptop
no didn't shell do something similar, who cares
not the first time …in Vietnam , French company Michelin rubber had 30,000 acres of plantation and they paid the cong to allow them to operate…and whenever our cav regiment conducted operations on the land, we had to pay them damages to the trees ……after the fall, the commies took the plantation .
The boss of this company should hang in front of TV. Is it money can settle everything?
🤯 Lafarge
The executives didn’t pay directly. Who else was involved? Are the new owners changing the name? Too many questions. Why such a small piece?