Not far from the agent and the four illegal aliens, Mahmoud Youssef Kourani, 30, of Yater, Lebanon, had also just infiltrated America. No Border Patrol agent intercepted him in his hiding spot: the trunk of a car crossing the border (he paid someone to smuggle him across). Kourani had arrived in Mexico after bribing a Mexican consular official in Beirut with $3,000. Soon after the successful infiltration into the land of the Great Satan, Kourani’s brother, head of security in southern Lebanon for Hezbollah, was notified that all was well and the operation devised in Lebanon and Iran was progressing.
In fact, Kourani had received extensive training in terror trade craft–counterintelligence, weapons acquisition and employment, target reconnaissance, covers (he would become a carpenter in Dearborn, Michigan, which has a huge Muslim immigrant population), logistics, fund raising–in Lebanon and Iran, with the latter’s government funding, training, equipping and deploying Hezbollah.
Kourani had just become a key member of a Hezbollah cell, joining at least nine other Hezbollah cells in the United States.
Jetjack74 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 7338 posts, RR: 52 Reply 3, posted (8 years 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 1011 times:
Well, here's the result of an enemy combatant(the way I see it) getting his day in court. Convicted. So let's start the trials of our friends in G'itmo.
Jaysit From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (8 years 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 995 times:
Well, here's the result of an enemy combatant(the way I see it) getting his day in court. Convicted. So let's start the trials of our friends in G'itmo.
I agree.
Let's try them in a real Court of Law under real laws in the United States.
Not the Kangaroo Court of the Banana Republic of Bush in Gitmo.
OD720 From Lebanon, joined Feb 2003, 1919 posts, RR: 36 Reply 7, posted (8 years 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 925 times:
I'm a little surprised that some are surprised by the story. They are enemies for the moment and I would assume that both the US and Iran/Hezbollah would try to infiltrate to the other side for whatever purpose.
If he was really engaged in terrorist activities, which the story fails to deliver in any way, he would have been sentenced to more than 4.5 years.
I don't think that this deserves to be given any more dimension than what it is. The article itself is very one sided and showing little respect to whatever Lebanon represents and a little offensive at times as well.
In another story, the US has allocated aid to the training of Lebanese Armed Forces units and officers. See the press release of the US Embassy in Beirut.
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