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2017-06-09 Home Front: WoT
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US Arrests, Charges Naturalized Hizbullah 'Operatives'
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[AnNahar] Two naturalized Americans from New York and Michigan have been charged with terrorism, accused of operating on behalf of Hizbullah
...Party of God , a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
in the United States, Panama and Thailand, US officials announced Thursday.
Ali Kourani, 32, and Samer el Debek, 37, were tossed in the slammer
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
on June 1 in the Bronx and just outside bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
, respectively, US officials said. They appeared before US magistrates separately.
Both were hit with a raft of charges that include providing material support to Hizbullah -- which Israel and the West consider a terror group -- weapons offenses and receiving military-type training from group.
If convicted they could spend decades in a US prison.
Debek, on Hizbullah's payroll for years, conducted surveillance in Panama, where he scoped out the US and Israeli embassies and assessed vulnerabilities of the Panama Canal and ships passing through it, US officials said.
Kourani allegedly monitored potential targets in the United States, including military bases in New York, acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim said.
Hizbullah is the most powerful gang in Leb. Although blacklisted as a terror group in the West, it enjoys widespread support in Leb because of its "resistance" to Israel and social welfare programs.
US officials said Kourani received weapons training from Hizbullah as a teenager in Leb before moving to the United States legally in 2003, to obtain degrees in biomedical engineering and business administration.
They alleged that he was recruited into Hizbullah's operations unit 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...
in 2008, and the following year became a naturalized US citizen.
He communicated with his handler through coded emails, and received bouts of weapons training and drills on tactics in Leb, US prosecutors said.
In the United States, he allegedly scoured for firearms suppliers, Israeli military personnel, airport security information and surveilled US military and law enforcement facilities in New York, sending information back to Hizbullah.
US officials say Debek visited Thailand in May 2009 on his US passport, tasked with cleaning up explosive precursors in a Bangkok house that had been abandoned by others because they were under surveillance.
In 2012, he went on a Hizbullah surveillance mission to Panama, tasked with identifying areas of weakness at the Panama Canal and providing information about how close someone could get to a ship passing through the Canal, officials said.
Panama's government expressed "satisfaction" over the arrests, saying "it maintains active cooperation with international intelligence bodies to prevent this type of threat."
The statement said US authorities had alerted Panama in 2014 that Debek might try to enter that country, and "actions were immediately taken in line with the law to impede his entry."
Debek allegedly told the FBI that he was detained by Hizbullah from December 2015 to April 2016, and falsely accused of spying for the United States.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that his military training included extensive instruction on bomb-making. 
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