Lebanese organized crime is active in the country of Lebanon itself, as well as in countries and areas with a large Lebanese community, most notably Australia, Germany and in the Triple Frontier in South America.
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But Muhammad Youssef Abdallah, a Lebanese businessman who is the founder and caretaker of the main downtown mosque here, says the Triple Frontier is the victim of an unfair image stemming solely from its large Arab population.
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Between 1994 and 1995 he was a writer in the Politics and International sections of the newspaper " La Prensa ", being a correspondent in the Triple Frontier after the terrorist attack on the AMIA Jewish center.
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But now the so-called Triple Frontier suddenly confronts a much bigger problem : 40 FBI agents and police officers from three other countries are scouring the area for evidence that the region has become a haven for Islamic terrorists.
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The movement of troops and materiel to the region meshes with Argentina's new effort to curb drug trafficking, money laundering and smuggling along the " triple frontier " border region shared by Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
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Hill said the funds are sent abroad from several Latin American areas with large Middle Eastern populations, such as the " triple frontier " between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, and Margarita island off the coast of Venezuela.
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Terrorists sought in the Middle East have been sent to the Triple Frontier to hide out in comfort, using fake passports or other documents manufactured in some of the same local workshops that also make phony credit cards, intelligence officials say.
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This material includes immigration records showing Iranian officials leaving and entering Argentina under false names, and includes telephone records of calls between Iranian Embassy officials and suspected Hezbollah members living in the Triple Frontier area where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay converge.
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Based on an examination of telephone records, Argentine investigators found " evidence of coordination between the Triple Frontier area and ` sleeper cells'in Buenos Aires, " in the words of a confidential government report obtained by The New York Times.
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While thus achieving the freeing of several young prostitutes, Juliana was not in the group : being unaware that the buyer was actually Rosario, Dante took Juliana to prevent her being sold, and sent instead to Nicolas Duarte exiled in the Triple Frontier.
