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MORRISTOWN NJ, A New Jersey man has been arrested and is facing terrorism charges . Charges include planning attacks in New York City and other cities for the Middle Eastern Terrorist Group Hezbollah.
The Department of Justice claims Alexei Saab of Morristown was allegedly trained by the terror organization in bomb-making and intelligence-gathering which he used to scout potential targets in New York and Istanbul, Turkey.
The nine-count indictment accuses the alleged terror operative of sending all this information to Hezbollah’s External Terrorist Operations Component , which is also known as the Islamic Jihad Organization by U.S.
Authorities allege the 42-year-old has been working with Hezbollah.The group was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department as far back as 1997.
According to court documents, Saab also goes by the name “Ali Hassan Saab” and is a naturalized U.S. citizen who came from Lebanon in 2000.
According to Federal officials, “Saab surveilled dozens of locations in New York City , including the United Nations headquarters, the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Empire State Building, and local airports, tunnels, and bridges-and provided detailed information on these locations,”
