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Hizballah sleeper agent in NYC studied FBI and National Guard facilities, researched security at JFK airport

Dec 25, 2017 3:34 pm By Robert Spencer

As I detail in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran, Hizballah is a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the Islamic Republic. These were, therefore, acts of war by Iran inside the United States.

“Feds: Hezbollah Recruited American to Be Sleeper Agent,” by Katie Zavadski, Daily Beast, December 21, 2017:

When U.S. authorities allegedly discovered a Bronx man with terror training checking out potential targets in New York, they might have assumed he was inspired by ISIS.

Instead, it seems the city was facing a very unusual terror threat.

Ali Kourani was an alleged sleeper agent recruited by Hezbollah’s external terror arm, the Islamic Jihad Organization, or IJO.

It is claimed that his Hezbollah handler ordered him to surveil facilities belonging to the FBI and Army National Guard in New York City. He took detailed notes on security protocols at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

In interviews with the FBI after being “deactivated” from the terrorist group’s external operations wing, Kourani allegedly told the feds he was recruited because of Hezbollah’s interest in obtaining dual-citizen sleeper agents who could be activated in case of an emergency.

“Kourani believes that he was recruited to join the IJO in light of his education and residence in the United States, and in connection with efforts by the IJO to develop ‘sleepers’ who maintained ostensibly normal lives but could be activated and tasked with conducting IJO operations,” according to the complaint.

Kourani was arrested in June and his case highlights the complexities of dealing with an organization that is simultaneously the most powerful political force in Lebanon, an organized-criminal enterprise, an Iran-backed militia, a social-services provider, and a designated foreign-terrorist group.

Hezbollah has been at war with the United States longer than any other foreign terrorist organization. In the 1980s, its operatives killed more than 250 Americans in attacks on a U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon. Its operatives also attacked a U.S. military barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1996. (Hezbollah also carried out attacks on Jewish targets in Buenos Aires in the 1990s, killing more than 100 people.)…

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  1. Ray Jarman says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 4:14 pm

    It seems that people have forgotten that Lebanon used to be so peaceful and that Beirut was considered the Paris of the Middle East. Both Christians and Muslims lived with other for the most part in amity and then the Shias, i.e., Hezbollah started their pernicious internecine polemics (my favorite political term from William F. Buckley). First they claimed they were being left out of the economic prosperity while the Christians, Sunnis and my favorite people in Phoenicia, the Druze. Like a plague, Hezbollah started to increase it influence and then from polemics came civil war and Hezbollah has become an incubus upon not only Lebanon but Syria, Libya and Israel and to think that Obama protected them when they were on the brink of destruction economically.

    • rose says

      Dec 25, 2017 at 5:01 pm

      words to remember for 2018—-*) Hezbollah…….LIKE A PLAGUE (*

    • CRUSADER says

      Dec 25, 2017 at 7:24 pm

      Lebanon’s example for the USA is the prime reason Brigitte Gabriel developed ACT for AMERICA….

      Most definitely, the Jihadists are casing joints, doing recon on targets, analyzing responses, and figuring secondary and tertiary followups….

      Need to make a movie called “The Last Jihadi”

      Let’s make it so! DEUS VULT

      +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 25, 2017 at 9:32 pm

      Actually, things got ugly in Lebanon beginning with an influx of “Palestinians”–both Sunni and Shia–in the late 1960s, whose violence led to the “civil war” in the 1970s. Hizb’allah came out of that ugliness.

      • Januk36 says

        Dec 26, 2017 at 10:44 am

        +1

        And “palestininans” proved to be ungrateful in Jordany as well.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 26, 2017 at 7:56 pm

          True.

  2. Wellington says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 4:23 pm

    There’s invariably something extra creepy about an evil person smiling. As here.

    Islam has been “superb” at producing such “folks.” Nazism and Marxism too.

    • Januk36 says

      Dec 26, 2017 at 10:45 am

      I’m always baffeld how different the facial expression differ between christians and muslims of the SAME ethnicity.

      • Johnny says

        Dec 26, 2017 at 2:56 pm

        Oh so true, what a great observation. Muslims exude such a pernicious aura around them, symbolic with some extreme evil waiting to happen.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 26, 2017 at 8:43 pm

        Yes, this is true. Even looking at Muslims and those who have apostasized from Islam is very different.

    • Papa Whiskey says

      Dec 26, 2017 at 2:52 pm

      “O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain!
      My tables!—Meet it is I set it down
      That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”

      — Hamlet, Act I, scene v

  3. Undaunted says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 5:15 pm

    There are hundreds if not thousands of these sleeper agents already here, some of them Chechen. Chechen’s. You know… Beslan.

    As detailed in my book, we’d better be ready because we can’t count on the cops.

    https://smile.amazon.com/Six-Actual-Need-Charge-These-Dangerous-ebook/dp/B075Z4PLKC/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_g2609328962?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0&ie=UTF8

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 25, 2017 at 10:36 pm

      Grimly true, Undaunted. Thanks for the link.

    • CRUSADER says

      Dec 26, 2017 at 7:06 am

      Interesting premise:

      ” Too many people you expect to protect you and those you love from terrorist danger either don’t know what they’re doing, or don’t care what they’re doing – or both – leaving you on your own against an unknowable number of men and women who want to kill you for the simple reason that their god commanded them to do so, and their prophet set the “perfect” example for them. You can learn to identify these very real dangers and these very committed killers and respond properly. You can and must survive on this battlefield. ”

      >>>>>

      • Undaunted says

        Dec 26, 2017 at 8:59 pm

        The assertion above is based on hard-researched fact. There is no premise involved.

  4. Bodega says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 5:34 pm

    I feel very ignorant. I had no idea about Hezbollah. I thank you all for your contributions

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 25, 2017 at 10:36 pm

      We are all learning here, Bodega.

  5. CRUSADER says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 7:25 pm

    Trump at least knows that
    we Americans have much
    to learn from examples of
    such “Darkest Hours” that
    Britain and Israel discovered
    victory and redemption in….

    +++++++++++++++++++++

  6. Bezelel says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    hussein obola’s legacy

  7. gravenimage says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    Hizballah sleeper agent in NYC studied FBI and National Guard facilities, researched security at JFK airport
    …………………

    Well, that’s just terrifying.

  8. Blangwort says

    Dec 25, 2017 at 10:28 pm

    The problem with Hezbollah is that they’re not going to be satisfied even if Israel is wiped off the map. They will continue to wreak hate and evil on every other non-believer in the region or the world.

    Obama thought he could negotiate with these animals. He was dead wrong. But he was wrong about many things, particularly issues in the Middle East.

    This movement is a case study of what evil looks like. It’s an end-justifies-the-means approach against everyone and everything that does not conform to their orthodox point of view.

    I would wish nothing more upon them than to wake up one morning and realize what hatred and evil they have brought upon their neighbors and civilizations. But because that’s not likely, I would then suggest that everyone around them become very proficient at the arts of self defense. They can learn the error of their ways by understanding or through the barrel of a gun. I would rather the former, but I’ll settle for the latter.

    Lock and load, ladies and gentlemen.

  9. Relic says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 12:26 am

    shia stuff

  10. Sarah says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 5:35 am

    This scumbag, studying away in America. A SLEEPER AGENT for a half-baked terror group, sanctioned by Iran, in AMERICA of all places…

    The mind boggles. It really does.

    Honestly, all I can see in my mind’s eye at this point, is our grandchildren – and their grandchildren- cursing us all for the future we are creating. Those of us today alive and old enough to vote – we are going to be remembered with great disgust and hatred by the future generations, if we keep this nonsense up.

    History will not be kind to us all. And honestly, I really don’t even have an answer as to how to fix this. Sure its one thing to wave my arms around and declare ‘we need to revolt!’ but in reality, its not as cut and dry as that.

    How the hell do we make the rest of our fellow Western citizens stand up and take notice of this? Because there are SLEEPER AGENTS for ISLAM in AMERICA – that’s as bad as the ole Yellow Peril – or the Russian Bear. And no-one seems to be batting a damn eyelid.

  11. CRUSADER says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 7:12 am

    “Muslim Mafia” is about CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas infiltration into America…
    ….yet…

    ….there is also Hezbollah/Hizballah to consider and counter and combat….as well…

    (Either spelling, the party of god is a match to defeat!)

  12. Papa Whiskey says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 9:26 am

    For an account of the origin of Hizballah and the developer of its truck-bombing tactic, Imad Mughniyeh, see Kai Bird’s book “The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames.

    https://www.amazon.com/Good-Spy-Life-Death-Robert/dp/0307889769/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514297527&sr=1-1&keywords=the+good+spy

  13. Lu says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 12:54 pm

    “After the alleged Hezbollah training, Kourani immigrated to the U.S. in 2003, becoming a citizen in 2009.”

    “In the middle of his educational career in 2008, Kourani was recruited into Hezbollah’s external terror arm, the Islamic Jihad Organization or IJO, according to the complaint.”

    To me, he must have hidden the fact about his allegiance to IJO in the US citizenship interview/form in 2009; if that’s the case, it should be easy to take away his US citizenship and send him to Gitmo for a “detailed inquiry”.

    Has anybody (from the LE involved) the guts to start such a process? Are they realizing that there are good chances to succeed and handle him as a foreign enemy combatant afterwords?

  14. Kasey says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 7:50 pm

    Also,Why is it that even the authorities in Minnesota, in the Muhammed Noor case of shooting an Australia woman in her night attire, will only mention that he was a Somalian migrant who became a police office.

    Just another case of appeasement, and of course, he would never have heard heard of the ISIS directive to kill all Infidels at every opportunity, to inspire his opportunistic lethal action?

  15. Guy Forester says

    Dec 26, 2017 at 10:57 pm

    “Hizballah is a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the Islamic Republic. These were, therefore, acts of war by Iran inside the United States.”

    Mr. Spencer, I agree with you 100%. The 9/11 attacks should also have been correctly identified as acts of war and the state sponsors held accountable.

    Mr. Trump, keep GITMO open and running. Send these foreign operatives there for “debriefing.” Since he is an out of uniform foreign operative, he does not get the same protections as a uniformed soldier.

    Phil Haney was working on identifying these kinds of operatives and connecting all of the dots. The BHO administration not only closed down his work, all of his notes and information were ordered destroyed. Who needs enemies when your own leaders protect the enemy?

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