According to the criminal complaint against him, NYC Kourani described his role with IJO as a "sleeper." These undercover operatives were supposed to "maintain ostensibly normal lives but could be activated and tasked with conducting IJO operations," the complaint said. Kourani was a student in the United States and received a bachelor's in biomedical engineering in 2009, the year after he was officially recruited by Hezbollah, officials said. For the IJO, Kourani looked for weapons suppliers in the United States to support IJO operations, gathered information about security operations at New York airports and surveilled numerous US military and law enforcement buildings in Manhattan and Brooklyn, ...

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