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  • Couple sent by Iran as sleeper agents to murder Jews in Sweden

    02/06/2024 6:06:22 AM PST · by Uncle Miltie · 22 replies
    Israel National News ^ | 2/6/24 | INN Staff
    Couple sent to Sweden by IRGC lived in country for 5 years under fake names before being activated in plot to murder 3 Jewish citizens of Sweden, including community leader and dual US citizen. A couple was sent by the Iranian government to Sweden as undercover agents with the goal of murdering Jewish citizens, Radio Sweden reported. According to the investigation, the man and woman, who have been identified as Mahdi Ramezani and Fereshteh Sanaeifarid, were dispatched by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). They were tasked with murdering three Jews in Sweden, including Aron Verständig, Chair of the Official...
  • Kevin McCarthy warns of potential terrorist ‘sleeper cells’ in the US

    10/23/2023 8:27:52 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 54 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/23/2023 | Melissa Koenig
    Ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has warned there may be terrorist sleeper cells hiding in the US and waiting for the order to strike during the unprecedented illegal immigration at the southern border. “If you simply look at what’s the chaos right now, a wide-open southern border, I’m concerned about a cell sitting inside America today,” the Republican Congressman told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “We just caught 18 people just last month on the FBI Terror Watch List coming across our border, more than 160 have done it this year,” the former speaker said, citing a recently released...
  • old but timely:Inside Hezbollah’s American Sleeper Cells: Waiting for Iran’s Signal to Strike U.S. and Israeli Targets

    10/10/2023 4:07:36 AM PDT · by RaceBannon · 41 replies
    washington institute for near east policy ^ | by Matthew Levitt Aug 4, 2019 | by Matthew Levitt Aug 4, 2019
    Policy Analysis Articles & Op-Eds Inside Hezbollah’s American Sleeper Cells: Waiting for Iran’s Signal to Strike U.S. and Israeli Targets by Matthew Levitt Aug 4, 2019 Also available in العربية ABOUT THE AUTHORS Matthew Levitt Matthew Levitt Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow and director of the Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute. Articles & Testimony If hostilities break out with the United States, Tehran may try to minimize risk to its most important assets in the Middle East by drawing on black ops units further abroad instead. After Iran shot down an American drone in...
  • India: Islamic State using traveling trainers to teach IED-making

    10/03/2023 6:12:42 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 2 replies
    Jihad Watch ^ | 3 Oct, 2023 | ROBERT SPENCER
    Implementing the Qur’an’s call to “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5). “ISIS using travelling trainers to teach IED-making in states,” by Rahul Chhabra, Sunday Guardian, September 17, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Terror organisation Islamic State (ISIS) has switched to a new tactic of recruiting “roaming trainers” to make improvised explosive device (IED). The trainers shift base continuously and impart explosive-making training to sleeper cells in different states. Questioning of arrested ISIS operatives Imran Khan and Mohd Yunus Saki, who fell into the net of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) during an investigation into...
  • Hundreds of undocumented immigrants captured at southern Arizona military post

    11/18/2013 12:36:53 PM PST · by moonshinner_09 · 27 replies
    kvoa.com ^ | Nov 17, 2013 | Tom McNamara and Paul Birmingham
    TUCSON - How secure are U.S. military installations? You would think the answer is: very. But, as the News 4 Tucson Investigators uncovered, one installation, right here in southern Arizona, continues to face potential outside security risks, and the problem doesn't seem to be getting any better. Fort Huachuca is only 15 miles north of our state's border with Mexico. The Army post covers more than 73,000 acres. In many parts, the terrain is steep and rugged. Much of the work that goes on at Fort Huachuca is classified but, as the News 4 Tucson Investigators learned, keeping people who...
  • Beware of the Trolls

    08/05/2020 10:01:32 AM PDT · by MeganC · 129 replies
    Myself-Vanity ^ | 8/5/2020 | Megan
    I've been a member here since 2009 and over the years I've made an observation of my own. It's not scientific and it's not anything other than my own personal anecdotal observation. It seems that if we will see someone start to post negative comments about a conservative or conservatives in general these posters tend to have been on FR for more than a year but less than two years. There's the obvious trolls who sign up and get zotted in their first week or so. But these folks are what I would call 'sleepers'. They know how FR culture...
  • An unholy alliance

    03/30/2005 1:16:28 PM PST · by white trash redneck · 6 replies · 472+ views
    CNN ^ | 30 mar 05 | Henry Schuster
    SEBRING, Florida (CNN) -- A couple of hours up the road from where some September 11 hijackers learned to fly, the new head of Aryan Nation is praising them -- and trying to create an unholy alliance between his white supremacist group and al Qaeda. "You say they're terrorists, I say they're freedom fighters. And I want to instill the same jihadic feeling in our peoples' heart, in the Aryan race, that they have for their father, who they call Allah."
  • BERGER PAPERS BARED TRANSLATION DISASTER

    07/29/2004 8:49:22 PM PDT · by Freesofar · 43 replies · 2,037+ views
    NY POST ^ | July 29,2004 | By NILES LATHEM
    In the latest twist to the document scandal, investigators said the revelation about translators was among several criticisms of America’s ability to deal with the looming al Qaeda threat contained in the “after action” memo on the millennium terror plot that is at the center of the Berger probe. Officials said an appeal to hire more translators familiar with Arabic, Pashto and other key “counter-terrorism” languages at the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency was among 29 proposals to tighten security contained in the report. The report written by former White House counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke also warned of the...
  • Iran Sending Elite Fighters Into U.S., Europe. IRGC will be in the U.S. and Europe soon

    11/02/2016 12:26:39 PM PDT · by PIF · 56 replies
    The Free Beacon ^ | November 2, 2016 1:08 pm | BY: Adam Kredo
    The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, the country’s elite military force, is sending assets to infiltrate the United States and Europe at the direction of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to recent Farsi-language comments from an Iranian military leader. The IRGC “will be in the U.S. and Europe very soon,” according to the Iranian military commander, who said that these forces would operate with the goal of bolstering Iran’s hardline regime and thwarting potential plots against the Islamic Republic. “The whole world should know that the IRGC will be in the U.S. and Europe very soon,” Salar Abnoush, deputy coordinator...
  • Iran Has Terrorists Embedded Inside The United States And Across Our Border

    01/07/2020 5:09:19 AM PST · by gattaca · 36 replies
    The Federalist ^ | January 7, 2020 | Todd Bensman
    So long as the world is entertaining worst-case scenarios, the media does Americans no favors in omitting that Iran-Hezbollah has for years prepared to strike in their own hometowns. Weirdly absent from much of the professional speculation about where and how Iran will exact its promised “severe revenge” for the U.S. drone strike killing of Quds Force Gen. Qassem Suleimani is mention of the dead man’s highly suggestive hint. During a time of intense saber rattling between Iran and President Donald Trump in July 2018, Suleimani gave a speech during which he called out the American president: “Mr. Gambler, Trump!...
  • Will Qassem Soleimani’s Death Activate Sleeper Cells In America?

    01/05/2020 5:44:51 PM PST · by blam · 89 replies
    For more than a decade, Hezbollah and therefore Iran have maintained “sleeper agents” in America who await only a coded signal to commit mass murder and wreak maximum chaos. “There would be certain scenarios that would require action or conduct by those who belonged to the cell,” one of three sleeper agents arrested by the FBI since 2017 is quoted saying in court papers. The sleeper agent, Ali Kourani, told the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force that he would have expected to be activated if Iran and the United States went to war. “The unit is Iranian controlled,” Kourani said....
  • Mattis: Obama Failed to Respond to Iran Bomb Plot on U.S. Soil Because of Nuclear Deal

    09/05/2019 4:33:35 PM PDT · by Liberty7732 · 82 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 09/05/19
    After the surprise resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis last December, Democrats were quick to politicize the news, and have certainly been hoping ever since that Mattis would provide them with new information they could use to attack Donald Trump. He does have a memoir coming out, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, but it looks like it’s Barack Obama and Joe Biden who get the bulk of the criticism. Prior be being Secretary of Defense under Trump, Mattis served as commander of U.S. Central Command under Obama and Biden. Mattis had predicted that Iran would continue to provoke...
  • Saudi envoy murder plot suspect pleads not guilty

    10/24/2011 8:28:07 AM PDT · by Cardhu · 1 replies
    ChicagoTribune ^ | October 24th 2011 | Reuters Staff
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Iranian-American man who U.S. officials say has links to Iran's security forces pleaded not guilty in federal court on Monday to plotting to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington in a bomb attack. , 56, who was arrested on September 29 in New York, faces several charges including conspiracy to murder a foreign official, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism. Another man, Gholam Shakuri, was also charged in the plot but is believed to still be in Iran. U.S. officials said he is a...
  • Next 9/11: Iran's death squad is here

    12/12/2012 6:38:11 AM PST · by Perseverando · 22 replies
    WND ^ | December 11, 2012 | Reza Kahlili
    Iran has infiltrated a team of Quds Force terrorist leaders into the United States to attack from within in 2013, according to a source. The source within the office of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic regime, said the team is to create instability in America through terrorism should the U.S. fail to accept the regime’s illicit nuclear program, increase sanctions, confront Iran militarily or intervene in the Syrian civil war. Members of the team, no more than 10 Quds Force officers, each lead cells totaling about 50 terrorists already in the U.S. The source is risking...
  • Hezbollah Isn't Just In Beirut. It's In New York, Too.

    06/17/2019 6:15:26 PM PDT · by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis · 11 replies
    In recent years, Hezbollah has stepped up its activities beyond Lebanon’s borders. This uptick has been clearest in the Middle East—in Iraq, Yemen, and especially Syria—but plots have also been thwarted in South America, Asia, Europe, and now, possibly, the United States. Reports of Hezbollah activity in North America are not new, though such reporting tends to focus on the group’s fundraising, money laundering, procurement, or other logistical activities from Vancouver to Miami. But last month, the criminal prosecution and conviction in New York of the Hezbollah operative Ali Kourani revealed disturbing new information about the extent of Hezbollah’s operations...
  • Former NATO officer: Erdogan has sleeper cells in Germany

    11/24/2018 1:26:46 PM PST · by Texas Fossil · 14 replies
    ANF News ^ | 22 Nov 2018, 15:20 (Thursday) | ANF NEWS DESK
    Former NATO officer Cafer Topkaya said the Erdogan regime has sleeper cells in Germany and added: “A reliable source told me that SADAT is preparing for operations in Germany.” Following the coup attempt on July 15, 2016 in Turkey, Major Cafer Topkaya, stationed in the NATO Brussels headquarters at the time, was arrested. Topkaya stayed in prison for 1.5 years and was recently released on probation, after which he fled the country. Topkaya spoke to the German language version of the US-based HuffPost and claimed that the Erdogan regime is preparing to carry out operations in Germany and other European...
  • A sleeper-cell in SW Michigan?

    11/04/2016 2:13:06 PM PDT · by Paul46360 · 14 replies
    11-4-16 | Me
    I am presenting the news and you decide. Michigan restaurateur gets another chance to fight deportation http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/08/17/ibrahim-parkal-deportation-turkey-restauranteur/88905568/ "A decade later, however, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security began seeking his deportation, citing his past ties to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, or PKK, which had been designated a terrorist organization in 1997. Officials said Parlak did not initially reveal his PKK activities or his conviction. TODAY's NEWS https://sofrep.com/67010/bombing-in-southeastern-turkey-kills-nine-and-wounds-100/ "The bombing was likely carried out by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and Turkish officials have already blamed the group for the explosion."
  • Terror suspect named as 'enemy combatant'

    06/23/2003 10:25:43 PM PDT · by JohnHuang2 · 20 replies · 1,665+ views
    Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 | Jerry Seper
    <p>A Qatar native held on charges of lying to the FBI in an investigation into the September 11 attacks was designated yesterday as an "enemy combatant" and could be tried before a military tribunal for helping al Qaeda operatives relocate in the United States. Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, 37, in Justice Department custody since late 2001, was given the new designation by President Bush and handed over to the Defense Department.</p>
  • Activating the Sleepers: Islamic State Adopts a New Strategy in Europe

    04/25/2016 12:25:17 PM PDT · by StCloudMoose · 6 replies
    SPIEGEL ^ | March 29, 2016 | Christoph Reuter in Beirut
    Sleeper Cells Testimony from deserters suggests the terror organization began establishing sleeper cells in multiple European countries early on, in Turkey in particular. According to the former IS fighters, they are made up of men who aren't on any watch lists. This enables IS to elude the vulnerability suffered by many based in Europe -- namely that they are known terrorists. The biographies of many terrorists are very similar: an early period of radicalization precedes a period of preparation just before an attack. By this point, however, many are already known to the authorities as dangerous and are subsequently often...
  • Activating the Sleepers: Islamic State Adopts a New Strategy in Europe

    03/30/2016 10:00:58 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 27 replies
    Der Spiegel ^ | March 29, 2016 – 03:14 PM | Christoph Reuter
    Last week’s attacks in Brussels show that Islamic State has built up a sophisticated network of terrorists that goes well beyond Al-Qaida’s capabilities. It is now able to strike using sleepers who have not yet been identified by security officials. […] Testimony from deserters suggests the terror organization began establishing sleeper cells in multiple European countries early on, in Turkey in particular. According to the former IS fighters, they are made up of men who aren’t on any watch lists. This enables IS to elude the vulnerability suffered by many based in Europe — namely that they are known terrorists....