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2022-04-14 Home Front: WoT
Staggering Incompetence Or Something Worse - Ali And Taherzadeh Released
[ANDMAGAZINE.SUBSTACK] A judge in Washington D.C. yesterday ordered the release of Haider Sher Ali and Arian Taherzadeh — saying prosecutors failed to prove a foreign connection. Defense attorneys argued that the government was "Making a mountain out of a molehill, and it is time for it to end."

The two men may still face charges but in the interim, they will be free to go about their business. Whether they will remain in the country or simply vanish, of course, remains to be seen.

It has now been learned that the government was forced to rush the arrest of the two before it had completed gathering evidence because the two were apparently tipped off to the investigation into their activities via an email from a member of the Secret Service. The government characterizes this as "inadvertent." There has been no explanation of why a Secret Service agent would be emailing either of the two individuals or how such an email could possibly reveal "inadvertently" that the two were under investigation.

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Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's gun out of his hand......
significant concerns remain about a possible Iranian nexus to this matter. Taherzadeh and Ali allegedly began posing as law enforcement agents in February 2020, the month after a U.S. dronezap in Baghdad killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and nine others.

The Iranians have made no secret of their intent to get Dire Revenge for the killing of Soleimani. They have also made clear that they intend to deliver some truly catastrophic response.

Speaking earlier this year in Mashhad, Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
at a ceremony marking the second anniversary of the killing of General Soleimani, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Qods Force Commander Brigadier General Esmaeil Qaani reiterated that the Islamic Theocratic Republic will take Dire Revenge for General Soleimani’s liquidation in its own way.

"We will prepare the ground for the hard Dire Revenge against the U.S. from within their homes, as we do not need to be present as supervisors everywhere, wherever is necessary we take Dire Revenge against Americans by the help of people on their side and within their own homes without our presence."

Speaking earlier today Mohammed Pakpour a senior general in the IRGC said "The blood of Haj Qassem Soleimani
is very expensive. Killing all of America's leaders isn't enough to avenge him, so we have to avenge him another way."

We note also that Ali has multiple stamps in his passport indicating travel to Mashhad, Iran. Mashhad is the location of an Iranian Qods Force training facility at which Pak recruits are trained for operations abroad on behalf of Tehran. The unit in question is called the Zainabiyoun Brigade.

Members of the Brigade are recruited via a network of Islamic institutions worldwide. One key organization in this network is the AhlulBayt World Assembly, which operates out of Tehran under Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
’s direct supervision and uses its funds to "educate" young Shiite minds. Hezbollah is part of this organization as well.

Pak recruits receive special weapons training in Mashhad. That training includes a forty-five-day sniper course.

Ali is apparently Pak. According to the available evidence, it appears a spotting scope commonly used by sniper teams was seized by the police from Ali’s apartment.

What happens next remains unclear. What is evident is that this case has been horribly bungled by the government. In the current climate, that leaves us to ponder this question. Is what we are seeing simply staggering incompetence or is something worse happening? Are we deliberately letting assassins walk?

Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has photos and videos, including of Mr. Taherzadeh returning with his father to the family home in Sterling, Virginia.
THAT's an arsenal?
Posted by Fred 2022-04-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 So, were they working for some US alphabet agency?
Posted by Glenmore  2022-04-14 02:11||   2022-04-14 02:11|| Front Page Top

#2 
So this judge thinks Impersonating a Federal Law Enforcement Officer is "Making a mountain out of a molehill..."

I guess the judge has never read 18 U.S. Code § 912?

Then they add
The two were tipped off of the investigation by a member of the Secret Service itself.

This has Political CYA written all over it.


NOTE: Where there is 1 sleeper cell, or Black Ops infiltration team, there usually is another as backup.
Posted by NN2N1 2022-04-14 06:33||   2022-04-14 06:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Appears to be one deep state agency testing the loyalty of another deep state agency and vice-versa. They both set traps for each other. Oops!! Judge says ‘No harm no foul’. Play on.
Posted by Airandee 2022-04-14 07:05||   2022-04-14 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Fed employees have a pretty good idea of what other Fed employees make.
To think there's nothing amiss with a couple of guys within one or two grades of your own pay grade slinging money around like Musk, and giving it away.... We have to believe they're really stupid
That stupid? In the Secret Service?
Posted by Richard Aubrey 2022-04-14 07:54||   2022-04-14 07:54|| Front Page Top

#5 both defendant are essentially in house arrest

maybe they will make a break for it and can be charged with something that will stick

perhaps govt knows where bribery $ came from but doesn't want to make this public
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-04-14 08:20||   2022-04-14 08:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Soon to be vacationing with the DNC Pak IT crew ...
Posted by Mercutio 2022-04-14 10:47||   2022-04-14 10:47|| Front Page Top

#7 better 3 different bathroom door symbols!
Posted by Greng Black3494 2022-04-14 11:59||   2022-04-14 11:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Dare I hint that this reflects the depth of the power of ValJar et al in protecting assets?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-04-14 13:07||   2022-04-14 13:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Perhaps the Judge was influenced by someone high up in the Biden administration, who thought the case might interfere with the planned agreement with Iran to allow it nuclear weapons.
We can't have that fall through, can we?
Posted by Goober Choluque6459! 2022-04-14 16:27||   2022-04-14 16:27|| Front Page Top

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