[IsraelTimes] Intelligence service suspects Revolutionary Guards were preparing ’asymmetrical warfare’ for possible conflict with the US, Israel.Pak man accused of spying for Iran went on trial in Germany Wednesday, for allegedly searching out potential Israeli attack targets for the Revolutionary Guards.
The accused, named only as 31-year-old Haidar Syed M., remained silent -- "out of fear," according to his defense lawyer. He is accused of espionage "against Germany and another NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
member," La Belle France, for the Quds Force, the foreign operations wing of the elite Revolutionary Guards.
Prosecutors charged he had compiled dossiers on possible attack targets -- a German politician who is the former head of a German-Israeli organization, and a French-Israeli professor of economics.
Investigators found detailed dossiers on the men and their daily routines, with hundreds of photos and video clips, the Berlin court was told. Those documents allegedly detailed the targets’ homes and work places, various access routes to them, as well as information on security guards, surveillance cameras and nearby cop shoppes.
A representative of Germany’s domestic intelligence service, which handles counterespionage, said it was alerted to M. by a "reliable" source.
The service suspected the Quds Force was preparing for a possible future conflict with the United States and Israel, when it could hit targets in Europe in a form of "asymmetrical warfare."
The Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
-born M. came to Germany as a student in 2012 and most recently lived in the western city of Bremen. He had allegedly been in contact since 2011 with an Iranian named Mehmud who worked for the Quds Force, the court was told.
The Pak man had traveled to Iran at least twice, in October 2015 and February 2016, and received at least 2,052 euros ($2,166) for his intelligence activities.
He was incarcerated
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
in July 2016 and faces up to three and a half years jail if found guilty.
The court has set seven hearings in the trial which is scheduled to run till late March.
On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told an event commemorating the victims of a 1992 Iranian-sponsored terror attack against the Israeli embassy in Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
that the Islamic Theocratic
Republicwas the source of the vast majority of Israel’s security concerns.
"Iran is the greatest generator of terrorism in the world in the world and we need to to fight this terror because it is just one arm of Iranian aggression, which also seeks nuclear weapons and advances its ballistic missiles program," Netanyahu said.
Tehran continues to destabilize the region and to threaten Israel with annihilation, he went on. "One of our defense officials estimates that more than 80 percent of our security problems emanate from Iran."
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Syed Mustufa H., whose full name was not giving for privacy reasons, is due in court Wednesday on espionage charges.
H., who was locked away
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
in July 2016, faces a possible five years in prison.