Washington Enrolls "Waad Project" in Terror List!?

Washington placed a Lebanese constructions firm under as so called "Executive Order 13224, which targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism."
The United States Department of the Treasury enrolled the Waad Project on its controversial list of so called "terror organizations."
"The Waad Project is another example of Hizbullah's use of deceptive tactics to support its military and terrorist apparatus," said Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey.

The Waad Project is a project that has been working on rebuilding Beirut's southern suburb (Dahiye) after ‘Israeli' fighter jets and war ships destroyed thousands of house units during its war on Lebanon in 2006. The Project was founded after Washington listed "Jihad el-Binaa" on its "terror list" in February 2007 and the Hizbullah-run institution had difficulty receiving funds from donors to rebuild what ‘Israel's' war machine destroys.

The statement claimed that the Waad Project built Hizbullah's underground weapons storage facilities and parts of its military infrastructure in Lebanon.
"The Waad Project had tried to hide its affiliation with Hizbullah, just as Jihad al-Bina used deceptive means to seek funding projects from international development organizations. Additionally, the general manager of the Waad Project has stated that donors to the Waad Project have wished to remain anonymous because Hizbullah is a terrorist organization and they preferred not to be identified due to the risks of dealings with a terrorist group."

Under EO 13224, any assets held by the Waad Project under US jurisdiction are frozen, and American citizens are prohibited from engaging in any transactions with the project.

'Israeli' bombs displaced over one million Lebanese from across the country, but it was the southern suburb "Dahiye" that suffered the heaviest bombardment - some 942 ‘Israeli' air strikes during the 33-day war, according to figures from the Lebanese army.
Today, as you enter to Dahiye, you see new buildings rising and swathing. "Waad" is the Arabic for promise and the title for a reconstruction project launched by Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah to rebuild the devastated areas in Dahiye.

Directly after the war, Waad provided the residents with two choices: to either rebuild their own apartments or let the project assume responsibility for the reconstruction. The vast majority of the residents took the second option, knowing that they could trust the new institution. And where compensation payments weren't enough, Hizbullah, pledged to cover the shortage.

Waad gathers some of Lebanon's best urban planners and architects and gave them a mandate to return everyone to their homes as quickly as possible and to restore the fabric of the neighborhood.
Yet within the same basic framework, Waad is also seeking improvement. The company's design of renovated regions there is more lighting and open spaces, traffic reduction through improving roads and creating parking lots, upgrade of buildings in line with modern safety and seismic principles and establish gardens in order to give the streets and buildings a greater sense of place and character.

Forty-eight studying and consultation companies, nineteen entrepreneur enterprises and six supervising firms are involved in completing this titanic mission.

The Waad headquarters can be assimilated to a bee cell. Directors, architects and workers spend extra work hours aiming at fulfilling the promise by the end of 2009.

To date, Waad has repaired more than 100 of the 150 partially destroyed buildings with all 1,500 families moved back in.
Waad has proved to be unique in reconstruction. In addition to modernization and structural improvements, the Waad team has been responding to residents in requests related to the interior design of their future homes. Residents can choose their coating and floor tiles from a list of items.