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Home Front: WoT

Hezbollah ‘sleeper’ agent gets 40 years for spying for terror networks

2019-12-04

A fair sentence for a man who married just for citizenship so he could reconnoiter and prep terror attacks on the orders of Hizb’allah and Iran.

[NYPOST] A Hezbollah "sleeper" agent blasted the US government as ethically bankrupt Tuesday ‐ before he was sentenced to 40 years behind bars for his role in the terrorist organization.

Ali Kourani told a Manhattan federal courtroom that prosecutors "violated all ethics" after he appeared on their doorstep volunteering information about Hezbollah ‐ and was then charged for providing material support as a member of the 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.

"I wonder what will be next?" the former Bronx resident hypothetically asked judge Alvin Hellerstein. "Dismembering dissidents in embassies? Turning sanctuary cities into black sites?"

Kourani’s conviction and sentence as a member of IJO is the first of its kind in the country, with a jury finding him guilty of spying on Hezbollah’s behalf between 2002 and 2015.

The 35-year-old, who referred to himself as "the child of a war," was born in Leb but immigrated legally to the US in 2003 before settling in New York City where he surveilled Big Apple airports, federal buildings and military facilities ‐ and sent reports back to higher-ups. Prosecutors claim he fraudulently obtained citizenship in order to participate in IJO attack-planning missions.

During his Tuesday statement, the former counterfeit Ugg salesman failed to express any remorse for his actions or affiliation with Hezbollah ‐ which is considered a terrorism organization by the United States ‐ and instead called it a "political party" as he continued to rail against "government overreach" and America’s "double standards."

Hellerstein eventually intervened, interrupting Kourani’s monologue about his broken family to remind him he’d been convicted by a jury.

"It was not the government, the prosecutors, the CIA... who found you guilty," the judge barked. "You can’t blame the government because you’re estranged from your wife and she divorced you and took the kids to Canada."

Posted by:Fred

#1 Curious he wasn't groomed as a resource.
If his information wasn't credible, why prison?
Perhaps he volunteered too much of the wrong info.

Posted by: Skidmark 2019-12-04 07:35

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