Didn't see this coming......... On Jun 27, 2016 2:06 PM, "plainolamerican" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Former U.S. Army employee pleaded guilty on Tuesday to acting as an > unregistered agent of Israel and admitted he gave classified documents to > the Jewish state. > > Court documents show the defendant, Ben-Ami Kadish, reported to the same > handler as Jonathan Pollard, an American who spied for Israel in the 1980s > and triggered a scandal that rocked U.S.-Israeli relations. > > Kadish's plea indicates the Israeli spy network that obtained U.S. nuclear > secrets through Pollard spread further than previously acknowledged. > > Prosecutors say Ben-Ami Kadish provided classified documents, including > some relating to U.S. missile defense systems, to an Israeli agent, Yosef > Yagur, who photographed the documents at Kadish's residence. > > Yagur was one of Pollard's handlers, according to court documents. > > Yagur asked Kadish to obtain classified documents, which Kadish retrieved > from the U.S. Army's Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, New Jersey, according to > Kadish's sworn statement. > > Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, who served three decades > in prison after pleading guilty to spying for Israel in 1986. His case led > Jews in the United States and Israel to plea for his clemency. > > Israel gave Pollard citizenship in 1996 and acknowledged he was one of its > spies in 1998. > > Kadish, a Connecticut-born U.S. citizen, faces a maximum of five years in > prison at his February 13 sentencing in federal court in Manhattan but it > is possible he will not serve any time. > > Sentencing guidelines call for a maximum of six months and prosecutors > said they would not oppose a sentence without jail time, according to his > plea agreement. > > The Israeli embassy had no immediate comment. > > Kadish used his security clearance to borrow 50 to 100 classified > documents from the arsenal's library, including some "concerning nuclear > weaponry" and others relating to a modified version of an F-15 fighter jet > that the United States had sold to an unidentified country, the complaint > said. > > A third pertained to the U.S. Patriot missile air defense system. > > On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 1:56:04 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://politichicks.com/2016/06/robert-spencer-muslim-pleads-guilty-to-selling-nuclear-technology-to-iran/ >> >> >> >> Robert Spencer: Muslim Pleads Guilty to Selling Nuclear Technology to Iran >> <http://politichicks.com/2016/06/robert-spencer-muslim-pleads-guilty-to-selling-nuclear-technology-to-iran/> >> >> *Posted On Jun 27 2016 <http://politichicks.com/2016/06/27/>* >> >> [image: Description: Screen Shot 2016-06-20 at 9.28.06 AM]From Robert >> Spencer’s Jihad Watch >> <https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/06/new-york-muslim-pleads-guilty-to-selling-nuclear-technology-to-iran> >> : >> >> *The irony here is that Obama has just given the Iranians so much money >> that they can pursue many deals of this kind. Then the U.S. government >> prosecutes people like Erdal Kuyumcu. If the U.S. government doesn’t want >> Iran to obtain material it can use to build nuclear weapons, why did it >> give the Iranians so much money? It won’t, after all, be able to monitor >> and stop all of Iran’s transactions the way it did this one.* >> >> *“Turkish actor in US admits selling nuclear technology material to >> Iran,” by Nafiz Albayrak, Doğan News Agency, June 15, 2016:* >> >> *A former Turkish actor, detained in New York for illegally selling to >> Iran a restricted metallic powder used in missile production, pleaded >> guilty on June 15.* >> >> *Erdal Kuyumcu, 44, the chief executive of Global Metallurgy LLC, pleaded >> guilty in a Brooklyn federal court on June 15 to deliberately violating the >> International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which limits trade >> with Iran.* >> >> *The indictment said Kuyumcu collected more than 450 kilograms of >> cobalt-nickel metallic powder, which is used in aerospace, missile >> production and nuclear applications, to export them to Iran.* >> >> *It added that Kuyumcu, along with another partner, then hid the metal >> powder in Turkey before sending it to Iran.* >> >> *The indictment demanded 20 years in prison for Kuyumcu, in addition to a >> $1 million fine, but Kuyumcu is expected to be sentenced to up to five >> years in jail after reaching a deal with the prosecutor’s office and >> disclosing the partners and institutions involved in the plan.* >> >> *The final verdict on Kuyumcu will be given in October.* >> >> *According to a statement by the U.S. Justice Ministry, Kuyumcu sold >> nickel metal powder, which he bought from a U.S. company in Ohio, to Iran >> via a firm in Turkey without receiving a license from the U.S. Treasury >> Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).* >> >> *Kuyumcu’s lawyer Patrick Mullin denied that the powder would have been >> used in missile production, claiming that it was also often used for >> industrial purposes.* >> >> *Kuyumcu had appeared in many TV series and movies in Turkey….* >> >> >> >> >> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=icon> >> Virus-free. >> www.avast.com >> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=link> >> >> __._,_.___ >> ------------------------------ >> Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> Visit Your Group >> <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmM3M5dWJmBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NjcwMzY0ODI-> >> >> >> [image: Yahoo! 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