Wednesday, February 24, 2010

More "domestic terrorism"?

Three Miami-Dade businessmen face terrorism-related smuggling charges alleging they secretly exported video-game players to a shopping center in Paraguay that U.S. authorities say served as a front for financing the Middle East terrorist group, Hezbollah.

The businessmen -- Khaled T. Safadi, Ulises Talavera and Emilio Gonzalez-Neira -- were arrested late Thursday on conspiracy charges of violating a post-9/11 law that prohibits any person or company from doing business with a U.S.-designated terrorist group. . . . A fourth suspect, Samer Mehdi, who owns a business called Jomana Import Export that operated in the Galeria Page Mall in Ciudad del Este, also was charged. Mehdi, a 37-year-old Brazilian and Paraguayan national, has not been arrested.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/02/20/1490185/3-miami-dade-businessmen-accused.html

Again, foreigners engaging in this type of behavior within our borders is not domestic terrorism.

Rather, it is an example of our lax border controls and weak immigration laws.