Paraguay to extradite Hezbullah 'fundraiser'
In a somewhat surprising move, Paraguay has agreed to extradite to the United States a Hezbullah Moussa Ali Hamdan, 38, was arrested in mid-June 2010 in a hotel in Ciudad del Este, the hub of the busy and often lawless tri-border area between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.I guess we'll just have to add his arrest to the annual 'Islamophobia' statistics for Paraguay.
The free-trade zone city of Ciudad del Este is home a large foreign-born population, including some 30,000 Arabs, mostly of Lebanese origin.
Foreign intelligence officials claim that Ciudad del Este harbors Islamist terrorist sleeper cells, an allegation the three countries deny.
In November 2009, a US district court in the state of Pennsylvania indicted Hamdan on several charges related to money laundering, using counterfeit currency, passport forgery, and exporting stolen laptops, cell phones and cars.
The proceeds were to benefit Hezbollah, which Washington considers a terrorist group, according to the US indictment.
Hamdan, who claims to have moved to Paraguay to work at an electronics store with a friend, told Paraguayan reporters that Washington wants him “because I’m a Muslim.”
“If I had been a Christian, I would not have been arrested,” he said.
And I'm sure there's no connection between the fact that there are 30,000 Arabs in Ciudad del Este and the fact that people go there to raise money for Hezbullah. None at all.
Let's go to the videotape.
Heh.
Labels: Ciudad del Este, crickets, extradition, Hezbullah fundraising, Islamophobia, Paraguay
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:32 PM
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