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Highland Park man charged with Taliban weapons deal
Chicago Tribune ^ | February 20, 2011 | Sue Ter Maat and Erika Slife

Posted on 02/19/2011 1:13:45 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

A 52-year-old Highland Park father is one of two U.S. citizens charged with agreeing to sell missiles and other weapons to the Taliban for their use against American troops in Afghanistan, according to a complaint unsealed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan last week.

Oded Orbach, born in Israel, was among seven men arrested in an international sting operation by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Paid informants posing as Taliban representatives conspired with the men to ship narcotics through West Africa — with a portion intended for the United States — and to use the proceeds to buy weapons for protecting Taliban-owned heroin labs in Afghanistan, authorities said.

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1 posted on 02/19/2011 1:13:48 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Screw life in prison!!! Don’t waste the money. String ‘im up and leave him for the carrion birds!
I have NO mercy whatsoever for anyone who does anything against our troops, especially those on the battlefield.


2 posted on 02/19/2011 1:24:21 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Highland Park huh.

Isn’t that Zero’s old stomping ground along with his buddies Ayers and Jackson.


3 posted on 02/19/2011 1:32:28 PM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: Marty62

No, you’re thinking of Hyde Park, a neighborhood in Chicago. However, both areas are infected with the Liberal disease. Although my client in Highland Park is one of the conservative minority.


4 posted on 02/19/2011 1:38:23 PM PST by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: ConservativeStatement

On the black market there are 3 currencies. US dollars (for now) Weapons and drugs. That is why drugs will never be legalized.


5 posted on 02/19/2011 1:45:50 PM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: 12Gauge687

I was born and raised in Highland Park. It is a liberal hotbed (as is most of the North Shore). Being an affluent community, many of the residents are completely oblivious of how most of us live. For that reason, I nicknamed my hometown the “affluent Ghetto,” in the sense that the locals are possessed with the same type of tunnel-vision outlook as are the residents of the Chicago projects.


6 posted on 02/19/2011 2:00:04 PM PST by JayVee (Joseph)
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“....born in Israel....” Another verminous foreign ingrate who repaid our hospitality with treachery. Time to pull up the ladder.


7 posted on 02/19/2011 5:28:59 PM PST by Godwin1
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To: Godwin1

Another Israeli traitor. Dual citizen and all around Mossad agent producing and importing drugs into the USA while protecting Afghan Heroin Labs with Israeli copies of US anti-aircraft MANPAD’s. Those weapons and drugs would both kill Americans. Hang him!


8 posted on 02/19/2011 8:36:25 PM PST by STD (Stock Up on Precious Metals While You Still Can)
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To: Godwin1

Oded Orbach’s a well known Mosad agent look!

http://www.think-israel.org/feb05bloged.html


9 posted on 02/19/2011 8:40:22 PM PST by STD (Stock Up on Precious Metals While You Still Can)
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To: STD
These guys are so smug they think they can kill Americans and still get free weapons, technology and our newest weapons free! After learning about Israeli treachery when they deliberately attacked the USS Liberty so they could later claim that the Six Day War was an Arab surprise attack.

This ass*ole needs to ge hung!

From My Israel website soon to be erased website!!!! 'former Mossad ... My friend, Oded Orbach had to fly to Israel last night because'

10 posted on 02/19/2011 8:47:08 PM PST by STD (Stock Up on Precious Metals While You Still Can)
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To: Godwin1

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41675168/ns/local_news-chicago_il/

More considerable links to Israeli spy agency, drug, arms and treason by another dual citizen. Hang Him!


11 posted on 02/19/2011 8:55:00 PM PST by STD (Stock Up on Precious Metals While You Still Can)
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Those also charged are U.S. citizen Alwar Pouryan, Maroun Saade, Walid Nasr, Francis Sourou Ahissou, Corneille Dato and Martin Raouf Bouraima.


12 posted on 02/19/2011 9:09:19 PM PST by piasa
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To: piasa
Under newly incorporated businesses we find Alwar Pouryan Sena Pizza LLC 3130 E. Union Hills Drive, Suite 101, Phoenix, 85050.

Gotta launder that drug, arms and treason money somewhere.

13 posted on 02/19/2011 11:51:28 PM PST by STD (Stock Up on Precious Metals While You Still Can)
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To: STD
He's come along way from serving in the US Army. Drugs, arms and international smuggling of MANPADS and smack. Attaboy Alwar, you sh*tbird traitor!

Guns and Butter Blog: February 2005 Alwar Pouryan, a translator for the 278th, said this region near the Iranian border is full of families who have endured similar losses. "I have a story of five brothers who died ...

gunsandbutter.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_archive.html

14 posted on 02/20/2011 12:11:00 AM PST by STD (Stock Up on Precious Metals While You Still Can)
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To: STD
He's come along way from serving in the US Army. Drugs, arms and international smuggling of MANPADS and smack. Attaboy Alwar, you sh*tbird traitor!

Guns and Butter Blog: February 2005 Alwar Pouryan, a translator for the 278th, said this region near the Iranian border is full of families who have endured similar losses. "I have a story of five brothers who died ...

gunsandbutter.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_archive.html

15 posted on 02/20/2011 12:15:09 AM PST by STD (Stock Up on Precious Metals While You Still Can)
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To: STD
Weird, he's got a pizza parlor in an apartment suite, go figure?

We also learn that after serving 'somebody' in the US Army as a Farsi translator, our hero Mr. Pouryan has become an arms trafficker with ties to Hezbollah, the militant Muslim group based in Lebanon.

Now, perhaps our boy has been working both sides for sometime now?

Hang them all!

16 posted on 02/20/2011 12:21:05 AM PST by STD (Stock Up on Precious Metals While You Still Can)
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To: ConservativeStatement
.....honestly, he slipped and fell aaaaall the way down.
17 posted on 02/20/2011 7:05:34 AM PST by SQUID
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http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/September13/PouryanSentencingPR.php

“U.S. Citizen Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 25 Years In Prison For Conspiring To Aid The Taliban”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

SNIPPET: “Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALWAR POURYAN, 38, a U.S. citizen, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 25 years in prison for conspiring to provide material support to the Taliban and conspiring to acquire anti-aircraft missiles. The case arose out of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) undercover operation in which POURYAN and a co-defendant, Oded Orbach, also a U.S. citizen, agreed to provide various military-grade weapons, including heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles, to an individual they believed to represent the Taliban. POURYAN and Orbach were convicted in August 2013 after a two-week bench trial.”


18 posted on 09/26/2013 3:21:32 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: ConservativeStatement

Oded’s big mistake was not going into politics as a DemocRat first. Had he done that, he would be getting a pass right now for weapons trafficking, just as King FUBO has.


19 posted on 09/26/2013 3:34:09 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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http://www.jpost.com/International/Israeli-American-gets-25-years-in-Taliban-weapons-sting-335470

“Israeli-American gets 25 years in Taliban weapons sting”
By REUTERS
12/19/2013 04:53

SNIPPET: “Oded Orbach was convicted of trying to sell $25 million worth of weapons to people he thought to be Taliban militants. Members of the Taliban.”

SNIPPET: “Orbach, 55, and former US Army translator Alwar Pouryan, the other US citizen netted in a sting, were convicted in April of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to acquire anti-aircraft missiles.

The two men were among seven indicted in 2011 following an undercover investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration into drug trafficking in West Africa.”


20 posted on 12/19/2013 3:03:36 AM PST by Cindy
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