Barakat has been labeled by the U.S. Treasury as one of the Lebanese terrorist group’s main financiers.
Lebanese-born businessman Assad Ahmad Barakat, a suspected member and fund-raiser of the Islamic group Hizbollah, leaves the Justice building under escort of police officers in Asuncion, November 18, 2003. Barakat, who was extradited from Brazil to Paraguay, is accused by Paraguayan authorities of f(photo credit: MIGUEL MASCARENO/ REUTERS)ByJTAUpdated:
