A suspected terrorist pal of Iran\u2019s late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sported a brazen smirk in Manhattan court Monday \u2014 screaming all\u2019s fair in war \u2014 as he pleaded not guilty\u00a0 to plotting to bomb a city synagogue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not a criminal! \u2026 Our children are being killed by your rockets!\u201d Mohammad Baqer Saad Dadwood al-Saadi, 32, shouted during the unhinged outburst.<\/p>\n
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi with late Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani. DOJ<\/p>\n
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi with late Gen. Qasem Soleimani. FBI<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not guilty! \u2026 I\u2019m in a war situation!\u201d said the suspect, who\u00a0 allegedly planned to\u00a0\u00a0 bomb the Big Apple house of worship as part of a global reign of terror that spanned nearly a decade, federal prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi has been accused of planning to bomb NYC synagogues. DOJ<\/p>\n
Al-Saadi, a reputed leader of the terror group Kata\u2019ib Hizballah with ties to Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, coordinated the bombing of a Bank of New York in Amsterdam, a synagogue in Belgium and the stabbing of two Jewish victims in London, authorities have said.<\/p>\n
In all, federal prosecutors said al-Saadi has been linked to 16 planned or executed attacks of international targets in March and April alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cAl-Saadi claims to be part of the \u2018resistance,\u2019 a group that includes IRGC, an Iran-based designated foreign terror organization,\u201d US Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll Americans should recognize that we have sworn enemies and when your enemies tell you something and when they act, you should know that they mean it,\u201d Clayton said.<\/p>\n
The FBI transported Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saad to the US. SDNY<\/p>\n
The feds have not identified the \u201cprominent\u201d synagogue that was targeted but said al-Saadi allegedly paid a person who turned out to be an undercover agent $10,000 to carry out the attack.<\/p>\n
He was nabbed in Turkey earlier this month and hauled to Manhattan federal court Monday, where he entered his plea on indictment charges of conspiring to provide material support for terrorist groups, conspiracy to bomb a place of public use and other counts.<\/p>\n
Al-Saadi, who is believed to have ties to Hezbollah, is being held in solitary confinement at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspected terrorist pal of Iran\u2019s late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sported a brazen smirk in Manhattan court Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8749,419,67339,57,9,56,63,65,64,9500,3694,58],"class_list":["post-251211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bomb-threat","tag-courts","tag-iraq","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-synagogues","tag-terrorism","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}