It is really refreshing to see the comments from well informed adults as opposed to the comment section from places like Yahoo n others.
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Kourani should be charged with treason. The death penalty is still applicable if he's found guilty, but might be counterproductive. Just gives fodder to future wannabe jihadists. Solitary confinement works just as well.
Denbeaux is clearly guilty of legal malpractice. Unclear whether the FBI would have agreed to a letter of immunity. But how could he not know that the USA, rightfully so, considers Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization? Seton Hall University should take a close look at the law professor. He may be too inept to be teaching law students.
Canada should take a really close look at "the wife." Seems her loyalty to Hezbollah outweighed her loyalty to her husband. Canadians aren't exactly keen on letting these types into their country. That's how you end up with far-right movements gaining more power, if not outright control, like we've seen in Italy, Hungary, Germany, and even Quebec.
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The problem for this guy is that he was born into a family of terrorists. You get the idea that he was becoming so Americanized that he probably wouldn't follow orders to carry out an attack, but he may still have provided intel to help others carry out an attack. The pressure from his wife shows how their families are all wrapped up with this terrorist group. If Kourani could have been used to catch bigger fish the FBI probably would have gone that route, but if not then there was nothing left to do but prosecute for the sake of public safety.
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Am I reading this article correctly?
Let me get this straight.....Trained by Hezbollah since a teen. He openly admits initially entering this country as a sleeper agent to do us harm. Has admitted to scouting out locations for terrorist attacks. Has second thoughts (maybe yes, maybe no, if u trust him or the FBI). And now he's complaining about being arrested?
In our part of the world, that's called Chutzpah.
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Sounds like he should go to jail! Seriously?! A man who entered our country to be a terrorist, turns down the FBI, then goes back to them saying he will be an informant!? Sounds fishy and he was going to work against us. He would have been executed by now if this occurred in the Middle East.
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Kourani has no business being a parent and/or roaming free not knowing what else he would do next.
As for Mr. Denbeaux, let me get this straight, a law professor with 1/2 century of litigation under his belt and he never thought of requesting a letter of immunity for his client and he now cries uncle that his former client, a confessed terrorist, could end up in jail for the rest of his life.
The final take : “The FBI’s job is to help convict the guilty and not to educate lawyers”....spot on!!
btw...Hizbullah’s international terrorist unit, aka known as the unit for overseas operations, is no myth or fiction, it’s for real, it was unmasked sometimes around 2013-2014, some of its leading members were arrested and detained by Hizbullah as they reportedly were also in bed with Israeli’s Mossad, some of its members reportedly carried out attacks in Burgass-Bulgaria in July 2012, 7 fatalities, and some were caught before carrying out their heinous crimes against unsuspecting tourists and civilian targets, in Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Turkey and Thailand.
This Hizbullah unit must’ve been developed by Iran so that it carries out international terrorist activities meant to be carried out by Iran’s IRGC Al-Quds, so that the blowbacks land in Lebanon instead of Iran.
It’s also noteworthy that Iran’s IRGC has a unit of 30,000 suicide bombers, but, the Iranian misfits figured out they’ll do much better recruiting Arabs, willing to blow themselves up, from across the MENA.
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Dude did not want to help, police do their duty, he should be in jail for 25 years, then deported. He accepts not one piece of responsibility. Probably was trying to be a double agent. By the way I am very pro immigration.
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I don't know anything about the facts of THIS case, but I am amazed that there are so few real attacks by foreign agents given the demonstrated ease of attacks by white nationalists.
I don't want to provide any ideas to attackers, but I have no doubt that any halfway competent attacker could bring NYC (or any major city) to a stop. Fifty people could cause thousands or millions of deaths and the only reason that it doesn't happen is that the forces of evil are even more incompetent than those who are charged with our protection.
Security is much like the man waving a piece of cardboard in Times Square who, when asked why, explains that it is to keep the elephants away. When told that there are no elephants in Times Square, s/he responds, "see, it works."
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Did Kourani ever share with Hezbola what he may have learned about potential US targets for terroism? I would keep a very wide berth between myself and the FBI when it comes to actual truth and accuracy on their part. I thought actual evidence was required.
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His lawyer was too inept to ask for immunity and so he paid the price. Good on the FBI for taking this guy down.
The FBI’s job isn’t to handhold criminals, and I can’t believe an ethics expert was necessary to elucidate that fact. The guy was literally training to harm Americans, he needs to pay the price.
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Kourani has a case to sue Prof. Denbeaux. Not that it would do much good now.
Casing sites for a terror attack is surely conspiracy to commit murder. 18 U.S.C. § 371. He’s looking at life inside, or more.
The FBI are perfectly right to prosecute. Whether it’s advisable considering the sign it sends to other potential informants is an open question.
Kourani’s best bet now would be to sing like canary, and beg for mercy. Hard to have too much sympathy. Sorry.
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You want to come to this country and try to work against it, then you should go to jail.
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The FBI doesn't need real informants just like the media doesn't need real whistleblowers.
The FBI s just in the business of committing the same crime it investigates in order to lay the blame on whatever is undesirable for political purposes. The FBI created sleeper cells. They're not a real world thing, except for copycat terrorism, which the FBI doesn't have time for, busy as it is doing the original stuff. All of this turns to fear which turns to more power for the FBI at a cost of liberty.
The FBI has plenty of actions planned to get us into war with Iran - it's just Syria's turn in the world-order queue.
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@Thomas Busse wrote "The FBI created sleeper cells."
That's false. As this article illustrates, there's a real danger of further terror attacks from muslim extremists living in our country. Hezbollah is not an imaginary entity created by the FBI. smh!
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“Mr. Kourani also described a frightening episode in which Hezbollah fired bullets at his family’s home in Lebanon. After his wife, whose family had ties to Hezbollah, took their two children to Canada, he could not persuade her to return them to the United States, he said. That’s when he decided to seek legal advice.”
So, he admits his in-laws have ties to Hezbollah, and the point of this article is exactly what?
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It's scary to imagine the invisible network of terror operatives living among us. The man on the train, on his way to work, he really is on his way to work. Yet he is also an operative awaiting instructions from Hezbollah, sure to be gruesomely successful surrounded by an endless supply of soft targets. I have to believe it is sheer ineptitude that has prevented anything calamitous from occurring thus far. They certainly have had enough time to formulate a plan of action. Which, in some ways is even more worrisome because I begin to wonder, what is their ultimate target?
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@Martin X
Fear monger in. Did you not read the article? One in 4 billion chance. Americans directly kill 60,000 Americans a year just with guns and alcohol. 4 a day through legal narcotics. 30,000 a year through auto’s. This is “fake fear”.