Extremes..........         
"Federal agents have arrested three South Florida businessmen accused of exporting video games and other electronic products to a shopping mall in Paraguay that allegedly served as a front to finance the terrorist group Hezbollah, according to sources familiar with the case. The Miami-Dade businessmen arrested late Thursday, Khaled Safadi, Emilio Gonzalez-Neira and Ulises Talavera-Campos, will appear in federal court Friday afternoon to face charges related to a Treasury Department ban on doing business with the black-listed militia and political organization based in Lebanon, sources said…….. The three Miami-Dade businessmen are accused of exporting hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of PlayStation 2 video games and digital cameras to a shopping center called Galeria Page in Paraguay, which the U.S. government has designated as a funding arm of Hezbollah. Galeria Page, located in Ciudad del Este, serves as a Hezbollah fundraising source in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, according to a Treasury Department press statement issued in December 2006. It is considered the central headquarters for Hezbollah members in the region. Hezbollah members operate retail businesses in Galeria Page to support Hezbollah, according to the press release………..”

It is a long way from your father’s Attari, Pac Man and Donkey Kong….
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