Will Qassem Soleimani’s Death Activate Sleeper Cells in America?
For more than a decade, Hezbollah and therefore Iran have maintained “sleeper agents” in America who await only a coded signal to commit mass murder and wreak maximum chaos.“There would be certain scenarios that would require action or conduct by those who belonged to the cell,” one of three sleeper agents arrested by the FBI since 2017 is quoted saying in court papers. The sleeper agent, Ali Kourani, told the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force that he would have expected to be activated if Iran and the United States went to war. “The unit is Iranian controlled,” Kourani said.Other precipitating events would include major U.S. military action against Hezbollah or its Iranian overseers.“In those scenarios the sleeper cell would also be triggered into action,” Kourani said.That would certainly seem to include an airstrike killing Iran’s most prominent military figure, General Qassem Soleimani. In the aftermath of that startling action, a senior U.S. intelligence official said that if the Ira
