Posted on 06/14/2017 7:17:02 PM PDT by huldah1776
Hezbollah is a greater and more longstanding foundational threat to our homeland than ISIS. This was brought to the forefront last week when two Hezbollah operatives were arrested on charges of surveilling targets for the Iranian-backed terror group on our own soil. They were also naturalized citizens who were admitted from Lebanon as immigrants years ago.
Sadly, this story received very little media coverage. President Trump would be wise to give a televised address making the case for his immigration moratorium and travel ban by using this case as a perfect case study for the need for smarter vetting and more controlled immigration.
Last Thursday, the Justice Department announced the arrest of Ali Kourani, 32, of the Bronx, New York, and Samer el Debek, 37, of Dearborn, Mich. – both naturalized U.S. citizens from Lebanon – for engaging in terror operations for Hezbollah.
Per federal prosecutors, both Kourani and Debek got training from Hezbollah in Lebanon over the past decade. Debek allegedly conducted espionage for Hezbollah, likely using the terrorist organization’s extensive Latin American network to identify U.S. and Israeli targets in Panama. Kourani was surveilling targets in New York City, including U.S. military bases and Israeli military personnel.
These two terrorists were working for the Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO), which is the arm of Hezbollah responsible for carrying out terrorist attacks and counterintelligence outside of their Lebanon base. According to the official complaint filed in the Southern District Court of New York, “Kourani transmitted some of the products of his surveillance and intelligence-gathering efforts back to IJO personnel in Lebanon using digital storage media.”
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Actually, Islamic terror charities in the US have been known to simultaneously support both.
Contrary to popular opinion- which has a history of being wrong to the point of silliness - Sunni and Shiite can get along just fine when they find it convenient for attacking any mutually loathed third party.
These guys were scouting out security at Pearson Airport in Toronto and also JFK. They even found employees at the airports willing to carry bags on board planes and tell them where cameras and magnetometers were located, uniforms, and other details useful to an attacker but not a tourist.
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