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Minnesota: “Dangerous” Muslim migrants conspired to export drone parts and technology to Hizballah

Nov 2, 2019 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“Federal prosecutors say two brothers charged with conspiring to export drone parts and technology from the U.S. to Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon are ‘dangerous’ and should remain in custody while they await trial.”

But remember, only racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” think that immigration and border controls are national security issues.

“Feds: Brothers with alleged Hezbollah ties are ‘dangerous,'” by Amy Forliti, Associated Press, October 28, 2019:

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal prosecutors say two brothers charged with conspiring to export drone parts and technology from the U.S. to Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon are “dangerous” and should remain in custody while they await trial, according to a court document filed Monday.

Usama and Issam Hamade are charged with conspiracy to violate U.S. export laws. Usama Hamade is also charged with smuggling. Prosecutors say that from 2009 to 2013, the Lebanese brothers repeatedly acquired sophisticated technology for drones then illegally exported them to Hezbollah, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.

The Hamades were arrested in February 2018 in South Africa and were recently extradited to the U.S. They will appear in a federal court in Minnesota on Tuesday for a hearing to determine whether they will be released pending trial. A third defendant, Samir Ahmed Berro, remains at large.

An attorney for Issam Hamade said in a court filing that his client was a member of the Lebanese Armed Forces, not Hezbollah. An attorney for Usama Hamade made no comment ahead of Tuesday’s hearing….

Prosecutors painted Usama Hamade as a “violent, drunken, gun-toting thug” who threatened to kill a government witness and his family by cutting him “to pieces” and once bragged that he cut off his gardener’s arms and bashed his gardener’s skull after an apparent theft.

The witness told authorities that he had regular contact with Usama Hamade from 2009 to 2011, and that he and his wife went to Lebanon with Usama Hamade in 2010. When they arrived in Beirut, the witness said, a group of armed men in darkened limos separated him from his wife and drove them with lights and sirens to a flat that Usama called his Beirut home.

The witness said Usama told him the Hamade brothers were both members of Hezbollah, and both brothers had pictures of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in their homes. Usama Hamade also had firearms around the flat and fired shots into the sky. Usama Hamade also filmed the inside of his apartment and posted the video to Facebook. A Hezbollah flag is visible, as well as an assault rifle propped against the nightstand, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said that as he was fighting extradition to the U.S., Usama Hamade said Nasrallah is a spiritual leader and there is nothing nefarious about the photograph. Hamade also said Hezbollah is a political party, not a terrorist organization.

Prosecutors called that “preposterous,” saying one of the drone parts acquired is only useful in military applications. They say Skype calls between Usama Hamade and an undercover agent show Hamade said he would be proud to be placed on the U.S. terror list….

But prosecutors said Issam Hamade posted pictures of the 9/11 attacks on Facebook and suggested the attacks wouldn’t have happened if the World Trade Center had been built in reverence to Allah….

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Filed Under: Featured, Hizballah, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Issam Hamade, Minneapolis, minnesota, Usama Hamade


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  1. mortimer says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 1:08 pm

    But … we were told these migrants are ‘not dangerous’. And yet, these migrants are EXPORTING DANGER in the form of money and weaponry for terrorism.

    Islam has TWO essential doctrines require that Muslims both believe AND practice them for admission to Islamic paradise: ISLAMIC APARTHEID (al Walaa wal Baraa) and WARFARE AGAINST DISBELIEVERS (jihad).

    Muslims who do not hate and show hostility to the dirty KUFAAR nor FIGHT THEM (fight to the death = Arabic: ‘Q-T-L’), will be sent to Islamic hell.

    Thus, AVOIDING JIHAD is NOT AN OPTION for Muslims, and INTEGRATING into Western society is also NOT AN OPTION for Muslims.

    Muslims must ‘hate’ kafirs and ‘fight’ (q-t-l) them.

  2. Jasmine says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 1:31 pm

    FYI

    The Intl Institute of Islamic Thought, Abdur Rahman Muhammad, created the term “islamophobe”. The intent created by this muslim think tank is for THE PURPOSE OF BEATING DOWN CRITICS. . . islamophobic was and is a term designed as a weapon to advance a totalitarian cause by stigmatizing critics and silencing them. This plan was an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood deceptive “General Strategic Goal for North America”. Read it, it is on the internet.

    Sura 1, Koran
    “Guide us to the straight path, the path of those whom you have bestowed favor (muslims) and not of those who have evoked your anger (Jews) and those who have gone stray(Christians).

    that pretty much says it all

  3. Sandra says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 1:36 pm

    One would think ‘islamic’ hell is actually now as the women are oppressed, suppressed, repessed, cut on against their will – that is the hell they are living. They do not have to die to experience it, they are living it now.

  4. abad says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 4:02 pm

    Usama and Issam Hamade should be deported, they do not belong in this country.

  5. FYI says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 6:36 pm

    They look like the islamic version of the Addams family

    Abdool Fester and Abdoool Lurch

  6. Angemon says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 6:38 pm

    Hamade also said Hezbollah is a political party, not a terrorist organization.

    That’s all I need to know about him…

  7. somehistory says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 8:39 pm

    Will their “rep” omar call for easy treatment for these two, as she did for other moslim terrorists?

    Perhaps she will and show more people just where her feelings of ‘justice’ lie, and whom she really “represents.”

  8. gravenimage says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 10:33 pm

    Minnesota: “Dangerous” Muslim migrants conspired to export drone parts and technology to Hizballah
    ……………….

    Just being a good Muslim. These thugs do not belong in the civilized West.

  9. underbed cat says

    Nov 3, 2019 at 3:54 am

    Where do they and how do they get “expert drone parts’? Do they have access from high tech companies or buy off the shelves of big box stores.? I often wiondered how the drones got to our market since I see them as extremely dangerous and for companies to allow deliveries is also insane. Too many possibilities to do harm, such as starting fires, spreading chemicals or worse ……to have drones interfere with aviation safety…it is endless for the ones who are disruptors. It is amazing they tracked these guys to South Africa… just curious are we talking big or little drones?

  10. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Nov 3, 2019 at 5:55 am

    Why would Iran still need drone parts, when Obama deliberately gave them a whole drone by landing a fully operational one right in their backyard for them?!

  11. Edgar Ethelred says

    Nov 4, 2019 at 10:29 am

    Minnesottans voted a Muslim alien into Congress. They’ve stood by clapping (or, with their tails between their legs b*tching) while the Obama Admin flooded their state with Muslim aliens.
    They deserve whatever naturally results from this stupid, suicidal virtue-signalling behavior. For now this is just a taste.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 4, 2019 at 11:22 pm

      You may be happy to write Minnesota off, but do you *really* believe that Muslim savagery would somehow be contained in this one state?

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