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Muslim scouted landmark sites in Boston, NYC, and DC including Fenway Park and Statue of Liberty for jihad massacres

Sep 19, 2019 6:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Hizballah, being a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran, may be looking to mount attacks in the United States now, in view of the increasing tensions. It has had sleeper cells here for years. Back in 2008, I quoted an intelligence agent in my book Stealth Jihad who had picked up on Hizballah cell communications in the U.S. They were saying that they were doing so well in attaining their goals without jihad terror attacks that there was no need to mount any at time; they would only bring unwanted scrutiny. That may be changing.

Alexei Saab is also known as Ali Hassan Saab or Rachid.

“Alexei Saab of New Jersey accused of scouting Fenway Park, Prudential Center and Quincy Market for possible Hezbollah terrorist attacks,” by Scott J. Croteau, MassLive.com, September 19, 2019:

A 42-year-old New Jersey man is facing federal charges in New York after authorities say he was supporting a terrorist group and scouting locations in New York, Boston and Washington D.C. for possible attacks.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced that Alexei Saab, of Morristown, New Jersey, is facing nine federal charges related to his support for Hezbollah, an Islamic militant group based in Lebanon….

Saab, according to investigators, admitted to taking pictures of Quincy Market and the Prudential Center. Photographs also showed Saab had conducted surveillance on Fenway Park.

Saab, while living in the United States, served as an operative for the terrorist group and conducted surveillance of possible target locations to help the foreign terrorist organization prepare for potential future attacks against the United States, authorities said….

Authorities say Saab joined the terrorist organization in 1996 and his first operation was in Lebanon, where he was tasked with observing and reporting on the movements of Israeli and Southern Lebanese Army soldiers in Yaroun, Lebanon….

Saab’s first training was in 1999 where he allegedly learned to use an AK-47, an M16 rifle, and a pistol, and grenades. In 2004 and 2005, Saab attended explosives training in Lebanon, the federal records said.

It was in 2000, that Saab lawfully entered the United States using a Lebanese passport.

“In 2005, SAAB applied for naturalized citizenship and falsely affirmed, under penalty of perjury, that he had never been ‘a member of or in any way associated with . . . a terrorist organization’,” records said.

He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in August 2008.

Authorities claim Saab surveilled dozens of locations in New York City including the United Nations headquarters, the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Empire State Building, and local airports, tunnels, and bridges – and provided detailed information on these locations, including photographs.

Saab allegedly conducted operations overseas and attempted to kill a man he believed was a suspected Israeli spy….

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Filed Under: Featured, immigration, Jihad in the U.S., New York City Tagged With: Alexei Saab, boston, Empire State Building, Fenway Park, Prudential Center, Quincy Market, Rockefeller Center, Statue of Liberty, Times Square


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  1. gravenimage says

    Sep 19, 2019 at 6:06 pm

    Muslim scouted landmark sites in Boston, NYC, and DC including Fenway Park and Statue of Liberty for jihad massacres
    …………………

    Jihad at ballparks and the Statue of Liberty.

    God, I hate Islam.

    Saab should be stripped of his citizenship and deported after he serves his sentence.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 19, 2019 at 6:35 pm

      Agree. To quote a famous president, ‘IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE.’

      A new bill is needed to 1) automatically strip terrorists of their citizenship, 2) encarcerate them on a Devil’s Island (like Gitmo) or 3) let them voluntarily leave the country forever.

      If they love Islam enough to die for it, then they should go to a Sharia-law BERZERKISTAN and eke out the rest of their miserable days in a dubious, 100%-Sharia paradise-on-earth.

      • Wellington says

        Sep 19, 2019 at 7:58 pm

        Seconding your seconding of gravenimage’s post, mortimer.

        Guess where Boston is concerned, going after the Boston Marathon is simply not enough. Ditto for Manhattan and DC yet again in one way or another.

        God, what a sicko religion Islam is. Those averring otherwise are either manifesting their ignorance or their mendacity. There is no third alternative.

        Oh yeah, shame on ALL Muslims. Even the most benign of you are still in league with iniquity. Get this.

        • J D S says

          Sep 20, 2019 at 10:21 am

          Completely agree with your post graven, Mortimer and Wellington…..and many others..it seems that we here on JIHAD WATCH know what’s happening in the stealth jihad world.
          I’m glad they caught this guy but he should have never been given citizenship in the first place. I WONDER HOW MANY MORE OF HIS TYPE ARE OUT THERE.

          So many of our laws need to be changed. and the ones already on the books enforced and more laws need to be enacted …I WOULD ESPECIALLY LIKE TO SEE ONE LAW PASSED……DEFINING JUST WHAT A RELIGION CONSIST OF Anand make sure mURDER is not in the package. No other main stream religion allows for the atrocities that does Islam and of course Murder is illegal bbut to allow a “religion” to have in writing the act of MURDER is just not compatible with what other religions beliefs are….but…Muslims don’t believe that MURDER is murder…according to their written Word but no one will touch this because it’s a RELIGION…I do believe in FREEDOM OF RELIGION..if it is a sane religion.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 21, 2019 at 5:51 pm

          Islam does fit the definition of a religion. And freedom of religion *does not* mean that thugs like this are free to murder in its name.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 19, 2019 at 8:05 pm

        Agreed, Mortimer and Wellington. We should be deporting these Muslim thugs on a regular basis.

        • James Lincoln says

          Sep 19, 2019 at 10:19 pm

          +10

      • Trick_or_Treat says

        Sep 19, 2019 at 9:10 pm

        It’s a bit of a dilemna isn’t it, outside of a declared state of war (because, as you know, ‘All’s fair in Love and War’) we are constrained/restrained in all manner of ways from just taking shit like this staight out the back of the courthouse, putting a .38 to their head and pulling the trigger, so the initial gut and emotional response is to want to just immediately strip such mutts of their so-called naturalised ‘citizenship’ and have their mangy hides airborne and on their way to their way to the nearest islamic sandpit ASAP (because, at the same time, we don’t want to spend one more red cent keep such scum in bed and breakfast prison), but then the secondary logical response kicks in with the realization that , given the mutt’s previous training, we are, in effect, as good as handing back to ‘the enemy’ an enemy combatant POW, with all the possibility of them at a later time being just as much a problem and threat to us on the outside as they were trying to be from within. So, when you think about it, short of just being able to ‘splash’ these bastards outright (with the way things are in the world at the moment) spending money keeping their arses locked up in places Gitmo calculates (begrudgingly) as ‘good investment’.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 19, 2019 at 10:29 pm

          I take your point, Trick_or_Trea–but remember that we were safe from Jihad when the Muslim world was largely isolated from us–as it was just a couple of decades ago. I don’t think we should take in more Muslims, and we should deport them, starting with Jihadists like this one.

        • Rhonda says

          Sep 20, 2019 at 8:02 am

          You could send them back but conveniently drop them just short of their destination…like the Pacific.

        • David Pimentel says

          Sep 20, 2019 at 5:29 pm

          Emphasis on the word “drop” — preferably from approximately 30,000 feet.

    • James Pierce says

      Sep 20, 2019 at 6:31 am

      This is why the procedure for entering a Major League Baseball game now resembles that of boarding an airplane. What a world

      • J D S says

        Sep 20, 2019 at 10:34 am

        You are right James…Not only have the Muslims caused us an “inconvenience”” JUST THINK OF THE TAX $$$$$$ THEY HAVE COST US.
        We as Americans should not have to endure this it never should have happened…but that’s what happens when we sit on our hands and close our eyes.
        After 9/11. (which should never have happened ) the whole sane world should have shut Islam and the Muslim world down…but no it didn’t happen and now just look. at what’s happened to the whole if Europe…..COMING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU VERY SOON!!!

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 20, 2019 at 5:44 pm

        True, James. My husband just took a trip to Atlanta and attended a Braves game, and we had to get him a clear bag, because you can no longer take an opaque bag of any kind into the game. I’m sure it will be like this at every MLB ballpark. We already have bag searches, strict limits on bag sizes, and metal detectors.

    • abad says

      Sep 21, 2019 at 5:30 pm

      Agree. Moslems keep coming to the USA, we make the very stupid move to allow them in, then authorities are shocked when these Moslems plot Jihad in a public setting.

      Prevention is a much better solution but of course it would be “Islamophobic”.

      smh

  2. Oldone says

    Sep 19, 2019 at 6:31 pm

    We will eventually have to go to war with these “rug rollers”, and I hope, when we do, we throw out the Marquis of Queensberry rules…The “dog lovers”, don’t follow them, so why should we???…Where is George Patton when we need him???…

  3. Canada says

    Sep 19, 2019 at 6:48 pm

    Hello Robert,
    Hey, they were found and thank God for the good guys in America.
    Could you please work on a Canadian Jihad Watch with others?.
    It is! not good in Windsor, or all of Ontario and Quebec.
    Deep sleepers here and everywhere.
    Very sad to see what is happening to the ” light moderates, non moderates, or mostly the stuck Muslims in Windsor.
    Women prisoners, men captive.
    Period.

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      Sep 19, 2019 at 7:09 pm

      Q: “Could you please work on a Canadian Jihad Watch with others?” A: Check out
      https://vladtepesblog.com

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      Sep 19, 2019 at 7:11 pm

      “Could you please work on a Canadian Jihad Watch with others?” Check out
      https://vladtepesblog.com

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 19, 2019 at 8:09 pm

      Canada, there are stories from Canada covered here all the time, and one of the main contributors–Christine Douglass-Williams–is Canadian. Jihad Watch’s tech guru Marc Louis is Canadian, also.

      There are scores–possibly hundreds, I have not counted them all–of stories from Canada here:

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/category/canada

    • JW_Reader says

      Sep 19, 2019 at 11:14 pm

      You guys need to get rid of Trudeau first. He is a major enabler of Islamic agenda. One less Trudeau in parliament will go a long way to eliminate Islamic menace in your society.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 19, 2019 at 11:25 pm

        I( hope he’s voted out next month.

        • JW_Reader says

          Sep 20, 2019 at 12:22 am

          Yep. let’s hope so!

        • Keys says

          Sep 20, 2019 at 5:35 pm

          Me too, graven.

          Canadians should not black up Trudeau in the coming election !

      • abad says

        Sep 21, 2019 at 5:32 pm

        Trudeau will be voted out now that the whole world knows he is a “bigot” playing Arabian Nights.

  4. ,m says

    Sep 19, 2019 at 6:50 pm

    And Pollyanna Obama thought that handing over BILLIONS of that belonged to the Iranian people would soften the HATRED of the Iranian mullahs.

    It gave them a whole lot of whoopi money to spend on JIHADS.

  5. revereridesagain says

    Sep 19, 2019 at 8:53 pm

    The bastards already blew up Boylston Street across from the Prudential Center with their 2013 Boston Marathon bombs. They’re probably after Fenway Park not only because of the potential large crowd but because it’s where David “Big Papi” Ortiz made his famous “This is our f****n’ city!” speech following the vicious attack.

  6. gravenimage says

    Sep 19, 2019 at 9:20 pm

    Thanks for citing that, revereridesagain. Here’s “Big Papi”:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-YvMaXSk4s

    Yes–another reason for Muslims to hate Fenway Park.

    Of course, just the chance to blow up and murder families and children out for a fun time is enough for Jihadists, as well.

  7. Abraham says

    Sep 19, 2019 at 10:37 pm

    Keep your friends close and your guns closer. There will be a time that we will have to fight them on our own soil. We will need the same will that they bring us.

  8. Battle says

    Sep 19, 2019 at 11:53 pm

    Talk show host Melody Burns says about 9/11 (May be not an exact quote) to defend ourselves. She says Christians call and say “We have to forgive.” “Forgive.” “Forgive.”

    These ignorant Christian’s make me sick.
    These ignorant Christians make me sick literally.

    Ignorant Christians I remind, Jesus spoke “Forgive seven times seven” Second interpretation is “Forgive seven times seventy.”

    I take the larger “Seven times seventy.” Seven times seventy” equals four hundred and ninety.

    To comply with the command, I forgive the 9/11 terrorists for the first four hundred and ninety who were murdered in cold blood.

    Because more than four hundred and ninety were murdered, from number four hundred and ninety-one plus others up to the full two thousand, forgiving completed, the rest is self-defense, self-defense and more self-defense.

    (The ignorant Christians quoted, look way ignorant now.)

    Self-defense, self-defense and self-defense.

    Melody Burns is correct, self-defense.

    Melody Burns hits nail on head. Good.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 20, 2019 at 12:33 am

      It is one thing to forgive someone who is genuinely remorseful, no matter how great their crime. But none of those involved in 9/11 have ever asked for forgiveness, and they have millions of Muslims who support this savagery and want to see more of it.

      Christianity is *not* a suicide pact, despite what these foolish people believe.

      • Battle says

        Sep 20, 2019 at 9:57 pm

        If you all do not mind here gravenimage the 9/11 terrorists are dead.

        Thanks so much for making my comment look like excrement.

        Thanks again for making my comment look like excrement.

        Do not push me any more. Leave me alone.

        The alleged aiders and abettors are not dead. I hope trials soon.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 21, 2019 at 6:12 pm

        Battle, I was *agreeing with you*. I’m not sure what you found objectionable in my comment, nor how you feel it reflected badly on you own post.

    • shortfattexan says

      Sep 20, 2019 at 7:47 am

      To forgive someone does not free them from the consequences of their actions. It merely means that you (the victim) will not make the search for retribution the focus of your life. True forgiveness is of little (if any) benefit to the perpetrator, but it is of enormous (potentially life-changing) benefit to the victim.

      So individuals can, and should, forgive, but governments cannot. Governments have the responsibility to protect their citizens, and they are required to take whatever steps are necessary to do this. Even if the required methods are not politically correct. I hope (but I am not optimistic) that our government will figure this out before it is too late.

      I personally forgave Muslims a long time ago. That means that I, as an individual, do not seek vengeance on any individual Muslim (vengeance is The Lord’s, and He can make people pay in ways that far exceed any puny abilities that I posess). But that doesn’t change at all the fact that the government still has the responsibility to protect its citizens. And it especially doesn’t change the fact that that the government should not be welcoming more Muslims into this country with open arms in an effort to prove how “tolerant” we are.

      • Battle says

        Sep 20, 2019 at 10:12 pm

        Shortfattexan: I stated self-defense.

        Not pacifism.

        The Texans I have met are more like Cinco de Remember The Alamo.

    • abad says

      Sep 21, 2019 at 5:38 pm

      Wrong..

      It is up to Jesus Christ to forgive sins. (March Ch 2) Unfortunately in the case of Satan’s minions (Moslems) when they commit Jihad, they cannot be forgiven since they do not accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior.

      It is our job as humans to prosecute these Moslems according to the laws of our land. And eventually deport every one of them to their Moslem majority nations.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 21, 2019 at 6:14 pm

        Individuals may forgive others–this has nothing to do with whether they are forgiven by Jesus.

        And one may forgive someone, but this does not mean they are exempt from state prosecution.

  9. Don McKellar says

    Sep 20, 2019 at 1:44 am

    There’s dozens and dozens of Alexei Saab’s out there right now, I have no doubt. Iran is almost certainly going to try something in the United States. That they had the brazenness to attack Saudi Arabia like they did, points to the US as next.

  10. jayell says

    Sep 20, 2019 at 3:41 am

    In the late 1930’s and throughout most of WW2 there were German agents and Nazi sympathisers in the UK who were doing this sort of thing. One of the most brazen cases was a group of Dutch ‘land drainage engineers’ (sic) who acquired areas of flat land on the eastern side of England around 1936 in order to ‘undertake land drainage work’. Locals on the ground noticed that the temporary buildings that these people erected on the sites were laid out in a rather curious way, but no doubt they were assumed to be ‘good chaps’ (or something like that) and nothing was done. A couple of years later, when WW2 was starting to look likely, the RAF flew reconnaissance flights over that side of the country looking for suitable sites for airbases, and they noticed these nice, flat areas that were undergoing ‘drainage work’ had groups of buildings laid out like swastikas. I don’t know happened to the ‘Dutch drainage engineers’, but they at least had more sense to cover their tracks than the character in this story, who frankly might as well gone around in the full gear with a false beards and dark glasses with an AK-47 slung over his shoulder. And, even after 9/11, the antics of Congrsswoman Omar and this story, ‘intelligent’ people still prattle on about ‘The Religion of Peace’ and ‘Islamophobia’!!!

  11. observer says

    Sep 20, 2019 at 4:52 am

    Nothing surprising in what Robert-the-Brave pounds away at 🔥💥
    Thank you Robert !

    Just heard that one ‘Moriarty’ is selling ‘Zombie art ‘ on e-bay that denigrates Christianity.
    So that’s the end of e-bay for me.

    Of course, if it were the other way around (…say, someone selling loo paper with an image of the prophet on each sheet) there’d be an outcry from the RoP.
    Have people on this site not been repeatedly warned that Amazon probably won’t stock Robert’s books for much longer…

    Well, no more e-bay dealings from me.

    • Craig Michael Vandertie says

      Sep 20, 2019 at 3:11 pm

      Accept I bet you can purchase the same art through Amazon because Amazon is all about the almighty buck, the most highly valued corporation in the world:

      https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-worth

  12. AP says

    Sep 20, 2019 at 6:11 am

    Ebay may be the new Gillette. lol. Vote with your money. It make all things move in the direction you want.
    Bye Ebay!

  13. Angemon says

    Sep 20, 2019 at 12:57 pm

    Oh, look, more Iranian shia attempted terrorism. Imagine my surprise…

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 21, 2019 at 6:17 pm

      Yes–some, like christianblood, pretend that the Shia never commit acts of Jihad, which is clearly false.

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