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Israeli-American nabbed in Taliban weapons sting gets 25-year jail term[W:23]

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(JTA) — An Israeli-American man caught in a sting operation trying to sell weapons to Taliban terrorists was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Oded Orbach, 55, of Highland Park, Ill., was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Orbach was convicted in April of conspiring to provide material support to the Taliban and conspiring to acquire anti-aircraft missiles.
He was convicted based on evidence from a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency undercover operation in which seven men, including Orbach, agreed to provide various military-grade weapons to an individual they believed to represent the Taliban. The weapons included heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles.
Another U.S. citizen caught in the sting, Alwar Pouryan, a former U.S. Army translator also from Highland Park, received the same sentence in September.
The men traveled to Africa, Ukraine and Romania in order to arrange a sale of $25 million in weapons, ammunition and training to the man they believed to be a Taliban official. They planned to make $800,000 on the deal. They were arrested in February 2011 in Romania and extradited to the United States to face trial.


Read more: Israeli-American nabbed in Taliban weapons sting gets 25-year jail term | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
 
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It's teh JOOZ!!!!
 
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(JTA) — An Israeli-American man caught in a sting operation trying to sell weapons to Taliban terrorists was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Oded Orbach, 55, of Highland Park, Ill., was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Orbach was convicted in April of conspiring to provide material support to the Taliban and conspiring to acquire anti-aircraft missiles.
He was convicted based on evidence from a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency undercover operation in which seven men, including Orbach, agreed to provide various military-grade weapons to an individual they believed to represent the Taliban. The weapons included heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles.
Another U.S. citizen caught in the sting, Alwar Pouryan, a former U.S. Army translator also from Highland Park, received the same sentence in September.
The men traveled to Africa, Ukraine and Romania in order to arrange a sale of $25 million in weapons, ammunition and training to the man they believed to be a Taliban official. They planned to make $800,000 on the deal. They were arrested in February 2011 in Romania and extradited to the United States to face trial.


Read more: Israeli-American nabbed in Taliban weapons sting gets 25-year jail term | Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The Romanians seem to be reliable allies.
 
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The Romanians seem to be reliable allies.
Your right..
 
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Were the weapons to be used as a defense or an offense? I believe in equal playing fields, what I do not believe in is "our" government/media.
 
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It seems that if it were not for US run "stings", the War On Terror would produce no bad guys. :confused:
 
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Were the weapons to be used as a defense or an offense? I believe in equal playing fields, what I do not believe in is "our" government/media.

hahaha

Go supply weapons to the Taliban.
 
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It seems that if it were not for US run "stings", the War On Terror would produce no bad guys. :confused:

Would you like a list of badguys caught without "stings"?
 
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Would you like a list of badguys caught without "stings"?

Thanks, but no.

The GWOT is a fraud of epic proportions, and all the stings conducted in its name demonstrate that.

There are many stories of men sitting in Gitmo that are there because some other human turned them in to the US authorities for a bounty.

Any list you might provide would simply be the fiction of government "talking points"
 
Re: Israeli-American man caught in a sting operation trying to sell weapons to Taliba

Thanks, but no.

The GWOT is a fraud of epic proportions, and all the stings conducted in its name demonstrate that.


So, the only time the West catches terrorists is in fake operations to bust innocent people?
 
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So, the only time the West catchs terrorists is in fake operations to bust innocent people?

It sure seems that way. Agencies and bureaucracies have a way of justifying their existence.

The truth is that the average American has a greater chance of being struck by lightning or killed in an automobile or train accident than he has of being the victim of a "terrist attack".

Why is it that we are told that the rule of law must be suspended to defend against the latter, but not the former?
 
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It sure seems that way.

I like how people probably tucked safely away in institutions presume all the world is really a safe place. The lack of perspective is fun.

You should go to Afghan, Paki or somewhere like that and see if terrorism is all a fraud.
 
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I like how people likely tucked safely away in institutions presume all the world is really a safe place. The lack of perspective is fun.

You should go to Afghan, Paki or somewhere like that and see if terrorism is all a fraud.

Life is dangerous. A friend of mine just perished by crashing his airplane into the ground. Took his 2 daughters with him.

I did the Southeast Asia thing 40 years ago. The term "terrorist" had not yet been coined for the public anxiety, but it was the same crazy kind of thinking--oh, the world is going to end if we don't kill 55,000 americans and many times more yellow-skinned people. I was there--it was silly then and it's silly now. Fear-mongering at its best, to justify the use of military force.
 
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It appears that the conspiracy theory denizens have once again escaped the confines of the forum designed to contain them.
 
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Poor Baby! So threatened by truthful, radical, statements. :roll:
 
Re: Israeli-American man caught in a sting operation trying to sell weapons to Taliba

It appears that the conspiracy theory denizens have once again escaped the confines of the forum designed to contain them.

Such "arguments" make the whole forum look stupid. What an embarrassment.
 
Re: Israeli-American man caught in a sting operation trying to sell weapons to Taliba

Were the weapons to be used as a defense or an offense? I believe in equal playing fields

There's no word in English which adequately describes how stupid that is.
 
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Such "arguments" make the whole forum look stupid. What an embarrassment.

But, Eco -- those Joos are the mother of all conspiracies!

If one sold arms to the Taliban, that PROVES that they can't be trusted, and that terrorism is just a figment of the imagination they created in order to fool us all in that scheming, conniving way they have!
 
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There's no word in English which adequately describes how stupid that is.

You aren't forgetting the word "psychotarded", are you?
 
Re: Israeli-American man caught in a sting operation trying to sell weapons to Taliba

But, Eco -- those Joos are the mother of all conspiracies!

If one sold arms to the Taliban, that PROVES that they can't be trusted, and that terrorism is just a figment of the imagination they created in order to fool us all in that scheming, conniving way they have!

What have I told you about outing the conspiracy. You're gonna get demoted.
 
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What have I told you about outing the conspiracy. You're gonna get demoted.

Please don't tell.

I am already on shaky ground with the Elders.
 
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(JTA) — An Israeli-American man caught in a sting operation trying to sell weapons to Taliban terrorists was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Oded Orbach, 55, of Highland Park, Ill., was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Orbach was convicted in April of conspiring to provide material support to the Taliban and conspiring to acquire anti-aircraft missiles.
He was convicted based on evidence from a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency undercover operation in which seven men, including Orbach, agreed to provide various military-grade weapons to an individual they believed to represent the Taliban. The weapons included heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles.
Another U.S. citizen caught in the sting, Alwar Pouryan, a former U.S. Army translator also from Highland Park, received the same sentence in September.
The men traveled to Africa, Ukraine and Romania in order to arrange a sale of $25 million in weapons, ammunition and training to the man they believed to be a Taliban official. They planned to make $800,000 on the deal. They were arrested in February 2011 in Romania and extradited to the United States to face trial.


Read more: Israeli-American nabbed in Taliban weapons sting gets 25-year jail term | Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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Moderator's Warning:
Alright guys. Y'all need to stick to the topic, which is not conspiracies or any of the other off-topic nonsense already posted.
 
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Beautiful shoes Gina! :)
 
Re: Israeli-American man caught in a sting operation trying to sell weapons to Taliba

Were the weapons to be used as a defense or an offense? I believe in equal playing fields, what I do not believe in is "our" government/media.
Thats not relevant to the law. Now...had he just worked out a deal with the current administration to sell to Al Qaida in Syria he would have been aces...
 
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