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2 Americansled double lives as Hezbollah agents, officials say | |
| 2017-06-10 | |
Ali KevinKourani, 32, of the Bronx, New York, and Samer Steveel Debek, 37, of Dearborn, Michigan, were tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! and charged last week by the Department of Justice with providing material support to Hezbollah's Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... Organization, the IJO. Details of the accusations against them were revealed in criminal complaints made public in Manhattan federal court on Thursday. Hezbollah, which has roots in Leb, is considered a terrorist organization by the United States. The IJO wing of the group is "responsible for the planning, preparation and execution of intelligence, counterintelligence and terrorist activities," officials said. Kourani, who came to the United States in 2003 with a Lebanese passport and became a citizen in 2009, is accused of being in contact with Hezbollah between 2002 and 2015, and of attending a 45-day Hezbollah "boot camp" in Leb at age 16. According to the criminal complaint against him, Kourani described his role with IJO as a "sleeper." These undercover operatives were supposed to "maintain ostensibly normal lives but could be activated and tasked with conducting IJO operations," the complaint said. Kourani was a student in the United States and received a bachelor's in biomedical engineering in 2009, the year after he was officially recruited by Hezbollah, officials said. | |
| Posted by:Fred |