Posted on 10/02/2026 3:09:03 AM PDT by Libloather
A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, including by buying materials for homemade explosives and drones and traveling to Yemen, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, 51, of Richland, Washington, was arrested Thursday and is due to make his first court appearance Friday. Court records do not list an attorney available to speak on his behalf.
The FBI says Ellaboudy had a goal of helping the Houthis improve their communications capabilities and traveled last September to Yemen, where the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces are now engaged in renewed violence that has killed hundreds and displaced tens of thousands.
The conflict began in 2014 when the Iran-backed rebels took over the capital, Sanaa, forcing the country’s government to settle into exile in Saudi Arabia.
Upon his return to the United States, authorities say, Ellaboudy told Customs and Border Protection officials that he was traveling back from Oman on a work trip and was part of a US government mission to inspect missile defense systems.
But investigators interviewed Ellaboudy’s supervisor, who reported having no knowledge of any international travel or of an Energy Department missile inspection program that Ellaboudy would have been assigned to, an FBI affidavit said.
Ellaboudy himself was recorded telling FBI informants, whom officials had introduced into the investigation, that he had to be smuggled into and out of Yemen and that he had hoped to reach the country’s capital to make government-level connections, the affidavit says.
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Ellaboudy/El Al Bouti has two choices.
Go up the river to Federal ‘pound-me-in-the-a**’ prison.
Or become a democrat representative in Congress.
He’ll have choices. This is what the islamo-marxists mean by ‘pro-choice’.
“Hamed Ellaboudy” the name alone should’ve been a clue.
“Hamed Ellaboudy” the name alone should’ve been a clue.
NO MUSLIMS should EVER be in our Government!!
Hire Moslems and then don’t be surprised when they are Moslems which is the entire problem. It is like hiring Chinese born or derived people for sensitive jobs or allowing them into American universities and then finding out that they are reporting everything back to the CCP. With Moslems it is their view of he world as set forth in the Koran. With the Chinese it is protection of relatives hostage to their cooperation.
A lot of someboys in our country just keeps hammering away trying to make it something it is not supposed to be. They need to be treated as traitors. Not sure what the current punishment is for that, but it needs to be increased to the point that those who try to become traitors will remember what they have done rather permanently.
“Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy”
If American guys were still permitted to go to US colleges we wouldn’t have to hire people with names like this.
What DOE bureaucrat hired this guy and what DOE bureaucrat gave him DOE security clearance?!?
Screening means testing, evaluating, or examining people, objects, or materials to find specific characteristics, risks.
The feds haven’t been to good at that takes to much time.
I’m not missing my coffee brake for anything..............
“Ashton” Hamed Al-Alboudi…? 🧐🤔
“What DOE bureaucrat hired this guy and what DOE bureaucrat gave him DOE security clearance?!?”
For me, the oddest part of this article is the failure to mention whether this enemy agent was given a security clearance and at what level.
Try him for treason. If he did it, then execute him.
I like your thinking, but Ellaboudy would have zero chance of
being elected as a Democrat in the Tri-Cities (Richland/Pasco/Kennewick)
Eastern Washington, with the exception of Spokane, is deeply conservative.
Most see the merger with Idaho as an attractive alternative to the
madness propagated in Seattle.
My post was entirely tongue-in-cheek.
Pointing out the fact that the dem party welcomes and supports treasonous anti-American mohammedans.
Hamed would be welcome as a ‘modern demoncrat multi-cultural’ politician.
Most Americans might see him as a treasonous terrorist that needs to be hanged.
(Speaking of needing a rope necktie, how is convict “Dr.” Nidal Hasan doing in Leavenworth lo these 17 years in Federal custody?)
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