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02-22-2011, 10:38 PM
Highland Park man facing terrorism charge
A Highland Park resident is facing federal charges he conspired to aid terrorists in Afghanistan by attempting to obtain and sell anti-aircraft missiles to the Taliban.
Oded Orbach, who was arrested Feb. 10 in Romania, was one of seven people — two of whom are U.S. citizens — who tried to provide weapons, drugs or money to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration sources who posed as Taliban representatives, according to a complaint unsealed last week by federal prosecutors in New York.
Beginning last summer, Orbach worked to sell weapons to the Taliban, including surface-to-air missiles to be used to protect Taliban-owned heroin labs from U.S. attack in Afghanistan, prosecutors said.
During October meetings in Ghana, Ukraine and Romania, he and two other defendants began arranging the sale of weapons through a co-conspirator described as a weapons trafficker affiliated with the Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah.
At a meeting with the undercover DEA sources, Orbach “discussed specifications, pricing and the provision of training for the sale of various weapons, including, ‘surface-to-air missiles,’ anti-tank missiles, grenade launchers, AK-47s and M-16s,” prosecutors said.......Published reports said Orbach is 52, was born in Israel and is the father of a recent Highland Park High School graduate.
full article:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/3937883-418/highland-park-man-facing-terrorism-charge.html
A Highland Park resident is facing federal charges he conspired to aid terrorists in Afghanistan by attempting to obtain and sell anti-aircraft missiles to the Taliban.
Oded Orbach, who was arrested Feb. 10 in Romania, was one of seven people — two of whom are U.S. citizens — who tried to provide weapons, drugs or money to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration sources who posed as Taliban representatives, according to a complaint unsealed last week by federal prosecutors in New York.
Beginning last summer, Orbach worked to sell weapons to the Taliban, including surface-to-air missiles to be used to protect Taliban-owned heroin labs from U.S. attack in Afghanistan, prosecutors said.
During October meetings in Ghana, Ukraine and Romania, he and two other defendants began arranging the sale of weapons through a co-conspirator described as a weapons trafficker affiliated with the Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah.
At a meeting with the undercover DEA sources, Orbach “discussed specifications, pricing and the provision of training for the sale of various weapons, including, ‘surface-to-air missiles,’ anti-tank missiles, grenade launchers, AK-47s and M-16s,” prosecutors said.......Published reports said Orbach is 52, was born in Israel and is the father of a recent Highland Park High School graduate.
full article:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/3937883-418/highland-park-man-facing-terrorism-charge.html