The Department of Justice announced on Friday evening that it had charged Usama Darwich Hamade, 53, Samir Ahmed Berro, 64, and Issam Darwich Hamade, 55, with conspiring to “illegally export goods and technology” from the United States to Lebanon and to Hezbollah. Usama Hamade and Issam Hamade, according to the DOJ, are in custody in South Africa, while Samir Ahmed Berro is at large. The goods they tried to export, according to the indictment include “inertial measurement units (IMUs) suitable for use in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a jet engine, piston engines and recording binoculars.”
