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Pompeo Should Treat Lebanon Like the State Sponsor of Terrorism It Has Become

Pompeo Should Treat Lebanon Like the State Sponsor of Terrorism It Has Become
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) shakes hands with Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri (R) in the capital Beirut on March 22, 2019. ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images
Ziad Abdelnour
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Beirut on March 22 to press the Trump administration’s demand that the Lebanese government “ensure [its] resources and services ... do not provide support to Hezbollah,” the Iranian-backed Shiite Islamist movement designated a terrorist organization under U.S. law since 1997.
Ziad Abdelnour
Ziad Abdelnour
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Ziad Abdelnour is CEO of the New York-based private equity firm Blackhawk Partners,  chairman of the Financial Policy Council, and author of "Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics" (2011). Follow him on Twitter at @blackhawkinc.
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