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The Hezbollah Sleeper Agent Busted for Black Ops in America

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Ali Kourani allegedly helped a global terrorist network plot revenge against the U.S. from a home in the Bronx. He was undone after running a stop sign with 190 pairs of Uggs.

Michael Daly

Special Correspondent

Updated Jul. 28, 2020 6:08AM ET / Published May. 05, 2019 12:05AM ET 

Naomi Rodriguez is an emergency medical technician who works 12-hour shifts in the streets of The Bronx, so she immediately recognized the irony when the unremarkable-looking man who lived one floor above her was alleged to be a terrorist sleeper agent.

“I save lives, and here’s this one trying to take them,” she remarked this week from the doorway of her apartment on West 238th Street in the borough’s Kingsbridge Heights section.

Neither Ali Kourani’s attire nor demeanor gave any hint of his religion or ideology.

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