In an announcement made earlier today, the Justice Department reported that they have arrested and indicted Mohamad Soueid, a US citizen from Leesburg, Virginia, on charges that he was spying on protesters for the Syrian government.
The charges against Soueid included acting as “an unregistered agent of the Syrian government,” and he faces up to 40 years in prison on the various allegations, if convicted.
The Justice Department further claims Soueid was part of a vast conspiracy to “silence, intimidate and potentially harm the protesters.” This was accomplished by video-taping protests in the US.
Officials and opposition figures have repeatedly accused the Syrian government of spying on Western protesters against the Assad regime, and some reports have them going after their families living inside Syria. This is the first confirmed arrest related to those allegations, however.
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The charges against Soueid included acting as “an unregistered agent of the Syrian government,” and he faces up to 40 years in prison on the various allegations, if convicted.
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Does that mean that Rahm Emanuel, Dennis Ross, 80 Congress members, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Hilary Clinton, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Jon Huntsman Jr., Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Howard Dean, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Daniel Pipes, Alan Dershowitz, John Bolton, William Kristol, Elliott Abrams, John Podhoretz are all registered agents of the Israeli government?
I ask because they haven't been charged with anything. So I can only conclude that they are all registered as agents of the Israeli government.
I can't think of any other explanation. Can you?
Stating facts without connecting logic does more harm then good, for this we get from mainstream news and the reason why we don’t bother reading it.
And here I thought that with preparations for the war with Iran, the USShadownGovernment would forget about Syria. I guess not. Which will be first though? Syria or Iran?
You forget about Pakistan. They're rooting hard for that one. I think Syria is #2, the question is who will be first Iran or Pakistan?
This is like an eating contest. BRING ON MORE WARBURGERS. EXTRA MAYO AND FRIES!! Can the contestant swallow them all?
It's not a cliche.
I'm actually in favor of the charges brought against the Syrian. If a foreign agent is operating in a foreign country, then he or she should be registered.
A few years ago the US deported Russian citizens for having been unregistered agents.
Countries have a right and an obligation — as was discussed in another thread — to protect their own citizenry and interests.
But, the point is that when it comes to the Israel Lobby, the US government continues to put Israel's interests ahead of those of the United States and the American people.
And that brings me to the point of my post above, the laws pertaining to foreign agents are in place, then why is it that the Israel Lobby, AIPAC, manages skirt that law, and why do American politicians kowtow to the same entity (Israel) that has been violating the laws of their own country? We all know the answer to that question.
Stories like this make me think it is time to end all immigration and begin the digestion of the many different people now here.
I couldn't agree more! Let's start by sending the entire US Congress back to Israel.
Oh, heavens to Betsy! Yesterday, it was some taco-eating Iranians wanting to whack the ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the US. Today, it's a Syrian. Why doesn't the US of Israel already invade the rest of the Middle East and get it over with? Two things will be accomplished by that: (1) the US would completely fall within a week; and (2) we won't have to hear this cheap sh*t anymore. I'm so sick of it!