Brooklyn Jail Calls Used By Iran Operative To Direct Terror Plots in Europe and US
· World · Times of India, Hindustan Times
A suspected Iran-backed terror plot targeting a British airbase used by the U.S. military was allegedly coordinated in part from a New York prison, according to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday. Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, used coded phone calls with his mother and sister to relay instructions to outside associates. U.S. prosecutors claim the communications were intended to keep alive a plan to attack RAF Fairford in western England, where three suspicious vans were spotted on September 27. Mr. al-Saadi and two associates, Mohsen Mohajeri and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani, are accused of working with Iran-backed networks to plan nearly 20 attacks against Jewish communities in Europe and the United States. Neither Mohajeri nor al-Hassani is currently in American custody.
Why it matters
The case exposes vulnerabilities in prison communications security and underscores ongoing transnational threats directed at Western military installations and Jewish communities.
Read the original report — Times of India
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