…read the following excerpts from Melissa Leon’s article at foxnews.com, and understand, clearly, that it can:
A New Jersey man is accused of being a secret Hezbollah operative in the United States for more than a decade, surveilling potential attack sites in New York City, Boston and Washington, prosecutors said Thursday.
Alexei Saab, 42, from Morristown, was charged under a nine-count indictment in connection with a range of alleged terror activities. They included providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO) and receiving military-style training from that group, the Justice Department said.
“Even though Saab was a naturalized American citizen, his true allegiance was to Hezbollah, the terrorist organization responsible for decades of terrorist attacks that have killed hundreds, including U.S. citizens and military personnel,” U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said. “Thankfully, Saab is now in federal custody and faces significant prison time for his alleged crimes.”
Saab allegedly surveilled dozens of locations throughout New York City, including the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the Statue of Liberty, Times Square and United Nations headquarters, prosecutors said.
He also scouted various bridges, tunnels and airports, specifically focusing on “the structural weaknesses of locations he surveilled in order to determine how a future attack could cause the most destruction,” the Justice Department said.
He moved to the United States. He lived here in freedom. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 2008. And, assuming the charges against him are correct, his allegiance was, and remained, 100% with an Islamic terrorist group bent on destroying this country.
Anyone who thinks it can’t happen again is living in a dream world.
And anyone who thinks we don’t need border security – so that others just like this would-be terrorist murderer can sashay across our borders with no scrutiny – need to think long and hard about the consequences of such a policy.
