[ April 23, 2024 ]
A jury in New York today convicted Ali Kourani in an Islamic terrorism case. Kourani scouted possible terrorism targets in the US and Panama for the Iranian-backed organization Hezbollah. Ali Kouraniand co-religionist Samer el Debek fromDearborn, Michigan were arrested together.
The two men, both of whom are naturalized US citizens, were charged with weapons-related crimes as well as multiple counts of providing material support for a terrorist organization, according to NBC News.
They are also believed to have received military training from Hezbollah, a Shi’ite Muslim group based in Lebanon. Kourani conducted ‘pre-operational surveillance’ of potential military and intelligence targets in New York. The targets included LaGuardia Airport and the FBI’s New York headquarters.
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The government says that Kourani attended Hezbollah training camps in Lebanon when he was 16 years old.
Associated Press May 16, 2019:
NEW YORK (AP) — A New Yorker was convicted Thursday of providing material support to Hezbollah by seeking targets in New York City for terrorist attacks.
NEW YORK – A New Yorker has been convicted of providing material support to Hezbollah.
A jury returned its verdict Thursday against Ali Kourani in Manhattan federal court.
Kourani could face life in prison at a sentencing scheduled for September.
The Bronx man has been held without bail since his June 2017 arrest.
Prosecutors say Kourani tried to support Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad organization.
They say Kourani surveilled American targets, including military and law enforcement facilities in New York City.
Authorities say the Lebanon-born Kourani received sophisticated military training overseas at least twice, including in 2000 at age 16. They say he was trained in the use of a rocket propelled grenade.
Authorities say he came to the U.S. legally in 2003, eventually earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
His lawyer says he’ll appeal.
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20 Comments
4 years ago
when you allow jihadis they will do their job. why act surprised.
Left/Liberal pro-jihadis/anti-nationals politicians/media are corrupt paid shills for islam . paid by saudi/qatar/OIC
Merkel govt funded Pro-jihadi Left/Liberals run propaganda to create more sex slaves out of little children like in UK https://tinyurl.com/yd9jo5mf
Do these scumbags have any conscience ?
4 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
they do not respect your cultural values as valid…..their belief system considers them heroic and faithful when they create sex slaves of non muslim women, who they consider meat.
4 years ago
Reply to
harriet
All of which tell us that true Muslims are truly evil and vile people with no decency and no conscience and should not be allowed to immigrate to Western countries. Their goal is always the same, to transform non-Muslim societies into Muslim societies and in the process they are prepared to murder and maim. They are the joyless trash of the earth – and Western leaders like Angela Merkel, Emanuel Macron, Theresa May and host of other brain-dead ‘leaders’ and too ignorant and stupid to recognize what they are bring upon their societies.
4 years ago
Reply to
harriet
Not just meat, but “uncovered meat.”
Senior Muslim Cleric Triggers Outrage in Australia by Blaming Women for Rape 10-26-2006 8:43 AM
By ROHAN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Write
SYDNEY, Australia — A senior Muslim cleric compared women who go
without a head scarf to “uncovered meat” left out for scavengers,
drawing widespread condemnation and calls Thursday for his resignation.
Sheik Taj Aldin al Hilali denied he was condoning rape when he made the
comments in a sermon last month, and apologized to any women he had
offended, saying they were free to dress as they wished.
Hilali was quoted in The Australian newspaper Thursday as saying in the
sermon: “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside … without
cover, and the cats come to eat it … whose fault is it, the cats’ or
the uncovered meat’s?”
“The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home,
in her hijab, no problem would have occurred,” he was quoted as saying,
referring to the headdress worn by some Muslim women.
4 years ago
Hang them.
4 years ago
Reply to
tom
They should be hung, but I’d be okay with them being marched into a prison cell, made to stand over an X marked on the floor and a guard put a bullet in their brain.
4 years ago
Reply to
tom
In every WESTERN country where Muslims are in the minority, they are obsessed with minority rights.
In every ISLAMIC country with a Muslim majority, …there are no minority rights!
islam is NOT a religion of peace, a race nor one of peace!!
islam is a sick and twisted terrorist ideology that is completely incompatible with western civilization!!
Deport all muslims, CITIZENS OR NOT, from the west at once!!
Ban all muslims from traveling to the west, …FOREVER
Implement muslim control, NOT gun control.
Defending your person, your family, your country from attack and invasion from those forcing a violent, terrorist, genocidal ideology on western civilization…is …not … islamophobia ….or racist. ….It is just common sense.
4 years ago
Reply to
tom
In every WESTERN country where Muslims are in the minority, they are obsessed with minority rights.
In every ISLAMIC country with a Muslim majority, …there are no minority rights!
islam is NOT a religion of peace, a race nor one of peace!!
islam is a sick and twisted terrorist ideology that is completely incompatible with western civilization!!
Deport all muslims, CITIZENS OR NOT, from the west at once!!
Ban all muslims from traveling to the west, …FOREVER
Implement muslim control, NOT gun control.
Defending your person, your family, your country from attack and invasion from those forcing a violent, terrorist, genocidal ideology on western civilization…is …not … islamophobia ….or racist. ….It is just common sense.
4 years ago
Maybe with Comey and gang out of there we won’t have to experience another
Boston Marathon Bomber under Coemy or a 9/11 under Mueller.
4 years ago
If Obama had a son, he would like him.
4 years ago
When is the hanging and will there be free Kosher hotdogs and corn-syrup free sodas?
4 years ago
Muslums attacking F_I-b headquarters? After Garland, TX why should I care again?
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
The West does NOT need to allow thousands of backward, 7th century, unvetted and violent muslim savages into our countries..
No, we have liberals…
4 years ago
What, no mention of stripping him of his citizenship upon completion of his sentence?
It proves what my Mom used to say about there being a very wide difference between an intelligent person and an educated one.
4 years ago
All this started when the Muslim anti American allowed these scumbags to enter my country. I hate Obama!
4 years ago
This will not be covered by news media in the US since it doesn’t fit their anti-Trump narrative.
It just about doesn’t matter what it’s about, the news media narrative is primarily anti-Trump. He’s seen as an existential threat.
4 years ago
Reply to
StevenRobert
The West does NOT need to allow thousands of backward, 7th century, unvetted and violent muslim savages into our countries that have ‘enshrined’ sexual slavery, rape, forced conversion, assault, murder and genocide in their FAKE religion!
Deport all muslims, CITIZENS OR NOT, from the west at once!
4 years ago
Reply to
StevenRobert
The West does NOT need to allow thousands of backward, 7th century, unvetted and violent muslim savages into our countries that have ‘enshrined’ sexual slavery, rape, forced conversion, assault, murder and genocide in their FAKE religion!
Deport all muslims, CITIZENS OR NOT, from the west at once!
4 years ago
Tlaib voters from Dearbornistan….
