French company pleads guilty to U.S. charge of paying terror groups

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Global cement company Lafarge will pay the U.S. government nearly $780 million for conspiring with Islamic State militants to run a production plant in war-ravaged Syria during its civil war.

Justice Department officials said the company paid for access to the plant and for protection from ISIS at a time when other corporations were fleeing Syria.The Islamic State even issued stamped driving permits for Lafarge workers to get access to the plant.

U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said at a news conference Tuesday that Lafarge and its Syrian subsidiary were responsible for providing significant funds to ISIS, which “otherwise operated on a shoestring budget.”

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It is Lafarge and French secret service and Macron were knowing this unforgivable move they all guilty

Label them as enemy combatants and hit them with drone strikes anytime they are seen in public.

So are we going to charge ourselves for training future “terrorists” foh

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We can thank BarackObama for creating ISIS, SyrianConflict & putting the U.S.A. in a national security risk. This must of been one of his brokered NGO.

Pay attention all those companies continuing in Russia….

GREAT STORY👊. AMERICA HAS A WAY OF MAKING WAYWARD MULTI NATIONAL COMPANIES PAY. IN AFRICA THESE COMPANIES DO AS THEY WISH AND GET AWAY WITH IT.

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