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NYC: Hizballah sleeper agent gets 40 years for jihad terror activity, New York Times sheds bitter tears

Dec 7, 2019 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The New York Times describes Ali Kourani as a “Lebanese immigrant,” for an audience that believes Donald Trump is a new Hitler for wanting to restrict mass immigration. The New York Times wants you to think Kourani’s sentencing was unjust. Emily Palmer of the Times mentions in passing, but doesn’t bother to give you full information, much less details, about how Kourani collected information on the Toronto and JFK airports and US government facilities. What’s in it for the New York Times?

“A Sleeper Agent Wanted to Cooperate. He Just Got 40 Years in Prison.” By Emily Palmer, New York Times, December 4, 2019:

He was a Lebanese immigrant named Ali Kourani, and he told the F.B.I. that he was a sleeper agent for a terrorist organization. He said he was scouting targets in New York City for possible attacks, including airports and government offices, while leading a second life as a telephone salesman and family man.

The plan, he told agents, was for him to become a suicide bomber.

Over a series of five meetings, Mr. Kourani believed he was offering this and other information to the F.B.I. in exchange for leniency from the United States government and protection for his family.

But instead, the F.B.I. arrested him in June 2017 and charged him with eight counts related to terrorism. In May, a Manhattan jury convicted Mr. Kourani on all charges — largely as a result of what he had told the agents.

On Tuesday, in federal court in Manhattan, Mr. Kourani was sentenced to 40 years in prison, less than the life sentence prosecutors had sought but more than his lawyer said he deserved. In the end, he told the court that the government was “overreaching” and that his ties to the terrorist organization Hezbollah were strictly political.

Since his arrest, Mr. Kourani has maintained that many of the statements he gave the F.B.I. were false, and his lawyer has said his client was duped into cooperating with the government.

In addressing the court on Tuesday, Mr. Kourani told the judge that he was still willing to help the American government, and that law enforcement should look into the three aliases associated with Hezbollah that he had provided to the F.B.I. “I didn’t lie about that,” he said….

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Filed Under: Featured, Hizballah, immigration, Jihad in the U.S., journalistic bias Tagged With: Ali Kourani, New York Times


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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Dec 7, 2019 at 5:09 pm

    But …. he’s not lying about being a liar. Why won’t anyone believe him?

    • william carr says

      Dec 8, 2019 at 4:59 am

      Defence lawyers or Defence liars, I wonder how they can sleep at night. maybe the coffins lined with earth help!

      • Marie P. says

        Dec 9, 2019 at 12:04 pm

        Lawyers aaffiliated with CAIR. they were raised to lie & they get caught with what they were bragging about to our police officers what they were doing to do & they get arrested & when we take action & procure them for it they want to tell us we didn’t have the right to convict him! They then go back & call CAIR & our media & tell them they thought they were helping! He was convicted by us -infidels to him & him & CAIR want to tell the world we we wrong even though they don’t tell the news the evidence we say in court that convicted him! I’m so sick of these people doing this on US soil & think it’s OK to do what they do like they do in their homelands in the Middle East where they should stay there if they have these deadly intentions in our country! Thank Obama for letting these terrorists in our country to cause this kind of things in the USA! They don’t belong here because they will never assimilate to our country they will always plan to kill as many infidels when the come here where our founders fought for the freedom they don’t want any human to ever have! Their main goal is to kill anyone who doesn’t convert to their beliefs when we have laws here in the US they don’t ever follow since theyre not sariah laws that CONTROL us like they do in their homeland but we will never hve then our freedoms!

  2. DHazard says

    Dec 7, 2019 at 5:15 pm

    “The New York Times describes Ali Kourani as a “Lebanese immigrant,” for an audience that believes Donald Trump is a new Hitler”

    The BBC describes Ali Kourani as an “Asian immigrant,” for an……
    CNN describes Ali Kourani as an “Immigration Activist”, for an……
    MSNBC describes Ali Kourani as an “FBI Entrapment victim”…..
    The Des Moines Register describes Ali Kourani as a “Political pawn,” for an….

    He also probably loves Hitler.

  3. Wellington says

    Dec 7, 2019 at 5:16 pm

    Islam is an enemy of America.

    So is The New York Times.

    • John Lloyd Scharf says

      Dec 9, 2019 at 1:34 pm

      The New York Times is a dark nebula – a nonluminous nebula and gas observable because it obscures light from other sources.

      The New York Times Is An Occultation of the Truth. An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer.

      🄱🄱🄲, 🅲🅽🅽, 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄, 𝓥𝓘𝓒𝓔, 🗣️𝐏𝐁𝐒, 𝗺𝘀𝗻𝗯𝗰, 𝗕𝘂𝘇𝘇𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗱, 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤, 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴, 𝚆𝙸𝙺𝙸𝙿𝙴𝙳𝙸𝙰, 【𝙃𝙐𝙁𝙁𝙋𝙊𝙎𝙏】, 🎼𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞🎶, 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕲𝖑𝖔𝖇𝖊, 𝕷𝖔𝖘 𝕬𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖑𝖊𝖘 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘, 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘, and 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 ARE FAKE NEWS FOR CONSUMPTION BY🌬️: #DeviousDeviantDemocrats #MarginalizedSocialistMedia, #CorruptCoerciveCollectivists, #PettyPoliticisedPolice #PretentiousPovertyPimps, #MockMacysMarxists, #LatteLimousineLeftists and #SuperciliousSuperficialCelebrities.

      Muhammad lied to, betrayed, blackmailed, kidnapped, enslaved, tortured, raped, robbed, and murdered unarmed men, women, and children claiming the favor of Allah, who, in camouflage, is Satan. Of course Muhammadans make them their model and are an enemy of the US and Western Civilization.

      Saying someone is a Muhammadan alone, is an insult. Negative adjectives, profanity, and vulgarity to refer to a Muhammadan are superfluous and unnecessarily redundant to the term Muhammadan.

      There is no satan but Allah and Muhammad is the pimp for his whorehouse “paradise.”

  4. underbed cat says

    Dec 7, 2019 at 6:07 pm

    It must be in his nature….checking out airports…good job Canada

  5. Olufemi Ogunyipe says

    Dec 7, 2019 at 9:59 pm

    This time around, his taqiyya betrayed him!

  6. gravenimage says

    Dec 7, 2019 at 10:08 pm

    NYC: Hizballah sleeper agent gets 40 years for jihad terror activity, New York Times sheds bitter tears
    ……………….

    More ‘sympathy for the devil’ from the NYT. Disgusting.

  7. Relic says

    Dec 7, 2019 at 11:57 pm

    sleeper agent told agents – believer = protection for his family and leniency from the state.

  8. Mural says

    Dec 8, 2019 at 12:17 am

    Obviously, He should be given a Nobel peace prize for his change of mind in not blowing up the infidels. What a wonderful humanist

    NYT is beyond redemption
    .

  9. Mr. Cohen says

    Dec 8, 2019 at 2:09 am

    Pakistani Christian women being trafficked to China as Brides:

    http://jewishworldreview.com/1219/christian_women_trafficed.php3

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 8, 2019 at 11:06 pm

      Yes–this is awful.

  10. Robin Williams says

    Dec 8, 2019 at 5:26 am

    If he says his relationship with Hezbolah is “political” then he should be shot as a traitor.
    In the second world war someone who worked for the enemy as a spy war shot.
    HOW is this guys actions any different!???

    • jap says

      Dec 8, 2019 at 3:25 pm

      too true, been saying this for years.

  11. OLD GUY says

    Dec 8, 2019 at 8:13 pm

    A islam free America, now there’s an idea for you. Islamic ideology and freedom don’t mix, lets not allow the islamic ideology to destroy OUR country.

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