Detroit-area Man Jailed for Seeking to Fight with Hizbullah
U.S. agents have said they arrested a Detroit-area man before he could fly to the Middle East to fight Syrian rebels.
Twenty-two-year-old Mohammad Hamdan is charged with breaking a law that prohibits support for terrorist organizations, they said.
The U.S. government said Hassan planned to fight with Hizbullah that the U.S. classifies as terrorist.
The party's fighters have been aiding Syrian President Bashar Assad against the Sunni rebels seeking to topple him.
Hamdan was arrested Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. He told the FBI he was traveling for dental work, not war in Syria.
The Dearborn resident appeared in federal court Monday. He was returned to jail to await a March 24 court hearing.
Defense attorney Art Weiss said Hamdan is "adamant that he didn't do anything wrong."
The FBI said an informant recorded conversations with Hamdan.
18 March 2014, 08:03
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terrorists wherever they are, wherever they live, wherever they work.
18 March 2014, 12:36
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dear southern; we have different political points of view on the issue of HA. I, like the rest of the world, consider them a terrorist group. You consider the syrian people's fight for freedom an act of terrorism. We will never agree
18 March 2014, 14:06
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Southern,
HA is a terrorist organization because it undermines the Lebanese State/LAF and pursues its own alliances with a Syrian regime that killed tens of thousands of Lebanese and occupied Lebanon for decades. And also because it is armed and maintained by Iran for Iranian/Sectarian purposes.
18 March 2014, 17:52
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the majority of the lebanese people?? shaklak baddak miskleiteit ya kabbareih!!! wahhahahahahaha ...love it when you just throw numbers and superlative adjectives hahahaa where are you getting your data IRNA? (islamic republic news agency)
18 March 2014, 08:24
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what is driving this young man to leave a good life in the USA and go fight for the Syrian regime is beyond me.
18 March 2014, 08:46
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Lack of education,backwardness, tribalism, feeling that they've been oppressed in the past...
Just look at them :
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=731455946885131&set=vb.694872423876817&type=2&theater
18 March 2014, 08:50
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I think it goes even beyond that. I think it is centuries old hate and revenge
18 March 2014, 12:45
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dont take it personally ft, i know u're an educated khomeynist or khokheynist despite education i should say. A recalcitrant...
Here ft, directly from the boss : http://youtu.be/02X00GTikMU
18 March 2014, 09:00
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Shias underwent persecution from Sunnis for centuries, and Persians were looked arrogantly at by Arabs. They want their revenge and they ll prove to be the most pityless persons if they have the upper hand on Sunni Arabs.
18 March 2014, 12:47
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' Persians were looked arrogantly at by Arabs. '
other way around kanaan... persians despised and still despise arabs, even hizbos or iraqis dying for them...
18 March 2014, 15:03
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thank u circassian, good to read somebody with some knowledge about Iran, very rare here, even among Khamenei boys...
18 March 2014, 08:55
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now some m8 idiots who do not want to see beyond their nose will tel us: bring us proof that Weiss is jew :)
blind endoctrinated Iranian extremist terrorists.
18 March 2014, 09:26
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better still they will ask of you to submit receipts, audited accounts, bill of lading and custom clearance documents)
18 March 2014, 14:59
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joespenirani is one of the most respected and level headed posters on this forum.
18 March 2014, 08:56
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It's a tactic to try to prove they are not against Jews but it doesn't fool many people there
18 March 2014, 08:58
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Sure the real ennemy of Hizbullah are Sunni Arabs. They want to control the region, so they endorse the most popular and easy stance in the Arab world: to be against Israel. That way no one cares about their real schemes. But in fact they just don't really care about Palestine (they care a little bit maybe).
18 March 2014, 09:18
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+1000 kanaan, palestine is the prefered and most used leitmotiv by arab dictators and mullahs..
18 March 2014, 15:41
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Detroit is a city in bankruptcy protection. Many of its residents live below the poverty line, yet this is what the American government feels is of bigger concern.
18 March 2014, 16:52
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So it seems the US is against fighting terrorists and thereby against everyone fighting terrorists, too! wlak ya friggin 3ein 3a heik You Ass!
18 March 2014, 20:06
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Seriously mate, don't you already have your hands full just living in Detroit? It's already almost as bad up there as it is in Syria...
