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Jordanian Immigrant Arrested for Multiple Attacks on Florida Businesses and Energy Facility
American Greatness ^ | 16 Aug, 2024 | Eric Lendrum

Posted on 08/16/2024 6:28:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber

A Jordanian national who currently lives in Orlando, Florida has been arrested and charged with destroying an energy facility and threatening the use of explosives to destroy multiple other businesses.

According to the Daily Caller, the charges were filed against 43-year-old Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The charges were announced in a DOJ press release on Thursday, detailing his campaign of violence against multiple businesses in the Orlando area that resulted in over $700,000 in damage.

Hnaihen’s attacks began in June of 2023, targeting businesses that he claimed, without evidence, were pro-Israel. He would carry out his attacks late at night and would wear a mask to conceal his face on security cameras. He smashed windows and glass doors and left behind “warning letters” that were addressed to the federal government. In the letters, he threatened to “destroy or explode everything here in whole America. Especially the companies and factories that support the racist state of Israel.”

One of his victims was a solar power generation facility in Wedgefield, Florida, where he “spent hours systematically destroying solar panel arrays.”

Hnaihen was ultimately arrested on July 11th after a multi-agency investigation. He faces five charges: One count of destruction of an energy facility, and four counts of threatening to use explosives. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for the destruction of the energy facility, and an additional ten years for each of the threats, thus reaching a potential total of 60 years in prison.

“Under the guise of expressing his beliefs, the defendant allegedly attacked a power facility and threatened local businesses, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray in a statement. “Violence and destruction of property to threaten and intimidate others will never be tolerated.”

“The FBI and our partners will work together to pursue and hold accountable those who resort to violence,” Wray added.

“We allege that the defendant threatened to carry out hate-fueled mass violence in our country, motivated in part by a desire to target businesses for their perceived support of Israel,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland in his own statement. “Such acts and threats of violence, whether they are targeting the places that Americans frequent every day or our country’s critical infrastructure, are extremely dangerous and will not be tolerated by the Justice Department.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has not yet confirmed what Hnaihen’s immigration status is; this unusually silent response appears to suggest that he could be an illegal alien.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: criminalalien; hashemhnaihen; illegalinvasion; jihad; jordanian; muslimterrorist
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1 posted on 08/16/2024 6:28:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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"Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has not yet confirmed what Hnaihen’s immigration status"

By not mentioning it they have confirmed "invader" status.

2 posted on 08/16/2024 6:28:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Where’s the Terrorism charge? Oh, add a hate crime.


3 posted on 08/16/2024 6:32:53 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: MtnClimber

Savages will never be civilized and should stay in their home country


4 posted on 08/16/2024 6:33:47 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

But he will still manage to vote for the Harris/Walz pro-terrorist ticket this Fall.


5 posted on 08/16/2024 6:35:18 AM PDT by twister881
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To: MtnClimber
Unrestrained immigration (invasion) is such a blessing . What can go wrong? We need the best and the brightest from these dark age holdouts to make us better, right? They just do the murdering, raping, destruction and freeloading our own citizens can't do...
6 posted on 08/16/2024 6:42:22 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, Orlando

"They're not sending their best."
-- President Donald J Trump

7 posted on 08/16/2024 6:46:39 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
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To: MtnClimber

Immigrant my arse.


8 posted on 08/16/2024 6:48:33 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: Menehune56

Orlando? Lots of alligators around there.


9 posted on 08/16/2024 6:49:38 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: MtnClimber

When are they going to arrest a few million of his buddies? We wouldn’t have this problem if Kim Jong Un ran our border.


10 posted on 08/16/2024 6:50:17 AM PDT by bgill
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To: MtnClimber

When refugees come from other cultures they bring their beliefs and politics with them. The more radical the assimilation.


11 posted on 08/16/2024 6:52:37 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Resolute Conservative

Remember when Boston was all hugs and kisses for illegals and inviting them to live in their homes. Place the call and there’d be one or more at your doorstep within the hour still not having been vetted. Strange how we’ve not hear a peep out of that program since.


12 posted on 08/16/2024 6:53:52 AM PDT by bgill
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To: TheDon

Jordan was happy to get rid of him so send him back


13 posted on 08/16/2024 6:56:33 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

Has chamaeleon and the rooster been notified?

There is no intelligent protective leadership in EITHER administration.


14 posted on 08/16/2024 6:56:48 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: MtnClimber

Has chamaeleon and the rooster been notified?

There is no intelligent protective leadership in EITHER administration.


15 posted on 08/16/2024 6:58:49 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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16 posted on 08/16/2024 7:00:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: MtnClimber

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-arrested-explosives-threats-and-attack-energy-facility

No mention of his immigration status by Deep State, either.


17 posted on 08/16/2024 7:01:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: MtnClimber

For all intents and purposes, they did.

From this same sentence you posted.
“Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has not yet confirmed what Hnaihen’s immigration status”

The rest of the sentence in question...
“; this unusually silent response appears to suggest that he could be an illegal alien’”


18 posted on 08/16/2024 7:11:30 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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To: MtnClimber

“Hnaihen’s attacks began in June of 2023, targeting businesses that he claimed, without evidence, were pro-Israel.”

So if he had evidence it would have been OK?


19 posted on 08/16/2024 7:37:31 AM PDT by roho (SemperFi)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

Jordanian or palestinian? There are a lot of palestinians residing in Jordan.


20 posted on 08/16/2024 7:46:51 AM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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