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Home Front: WoT
New Yorker convicted of providing support to Hezbollah
2019-05-17
That was fast. His trial only started eleven days ago.
[Jpost] A Lebanese man living in New York was convicted on Thursday of providing material support to Hezbollah, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named. Providing money, goods, materials or training to hard boyz is crime prohibited by the US Patriot Act.

Ali Kourani
...scion of the clan described as the bin Ladens of Lebanon, he came to the U.S. for school after learning the basics of the terror trade as a teen. Here he studied biomedical engineering and got an MBA, then American citizenship on orders of Hizb’allah to become a sleeper agent while scouting potential Israeli and American targets. He and Samer el Debek, a fellow sleeper agent based in Detroit who scouted potential American and Israeli targets in Panama, were arrested on the same day in 2017...
originally from Leb, was convicted of helping the terrorist group. He was also said to have "surveilled American targets, including military and law enforcement facilities in New York City," according to AP.

Kourani could face a life-sentence. His sentencing is scheduled to take place in September. Kourani's lawyers say he will appeal.

Authorities said that Kourani had received military training overseas and learned how to use a rocket propelled grenade, the report stated.

The AP discovered that Kourani came to the US legally in 2003.
The Times of Israel adds:
The Bronx man has been held without bail since his June 2017 arrest on charges he sought to support Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
organization.

Prosecutors said Kourani was recruited by the terrorist organization after a residence belonging to his family was destroyed during the summer 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

Kourani was convicted of providing material support to Hezbollah, which has been designated by the US government as a foreign terrorist organization. He also was convicted of other terrorism, sanctions, and immigration offenses.

Another man who was taken into custody in Michigan on the same day Kourani was placed in durance vile
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in 2017, Samer El Debek, is still awaiting trial. He is also accused of belonging to Hezbollah.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  ...now that you mention it.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-05-17 09:08  

#1  Enough. Would he have allowed Nazis to come here in WWII? Hell no.
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-05-17 07:53  

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