Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36, were taken into custody as more than a dozen FBI agents charged into a luxury apartment building in Southeast Washington on Wednesday evening. One of two Muslim men arrested in Washington for posing as US federal security officials and cultivating access to the Secret Service, claimed ties to Pakistani intelligence, a federal prosecutor told a judge.
Justice department assistant attorney Joshua Rothstein told the court that in 2019, just months before the two began cultivating security professionals in their Washington apartment building, Ali had travelled to Pakistan, Turkey, Iran and Qatar, and transited Doha multiple times.
Daily Mail (h/t Larry A) Taherzadeh and Ali are accused of posing as members of a fake Department of Homeland Security taskforce investigating gang violence and the January 6 Capitol riots. The pair, whose nationalities have not been revealed, are said to have driven around in an official-looking SUV equipped with flashing lights.
They are said to have successfully ingratiated themselves with Secret Service agents, who they supplied with rent-free luxury apartments, high-end electronics and policing equipment. Four members of the agency – including the first lady’s bodyguard – have been placed on leave, with their identities not revealed.
In one instance, Taherzadeh allegedly offered a member of First Lady Jill Biden’s security detail with a $2,000 assault rifle. He and Ali also reportedly supplied a USSS agent with a penthouse apartment valued at more than $40,000 a year. It is unclear what they had hoped to gain from the ruse, and prosecutors say the investigation is ongoing, even as four members of the Secret Service – including the one from the first lady’s security detail – have been placed on leave.
They are charged with impersonating federal law enforcement and obtaining handguns, rifles and other materials to pose as Department of Homeland Security officers. Federal prosecutors claim that Taherzadeh and Ali began posing as Department of Homeland Security officers back in February 2020. Since then, the two were seen flashing official-looking DHS ID cards and carried Glocks.
At the same time, they began loaning out iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, a flat screen television, a generator, a gun case and other policing tools, according to an FBI affidavit filed in the US District Court in DC.
At one point, Taherzadeh even allegedly offered a member of First Lady Jill Biden’s security detail a $2,000 assault rifle and loaned out his SUV equipped with emergency light – which he claimed was his ‘government vehicle’ to the agent’s wife, according to the Daily Beast.
In another instance, the suspects allegedly supplied an agent with a penthouse apartment that was rented our for more than $40,000 a year – a tab they claimed was paid for by the Department of Homeland Security.
They also reportedly set up fake websites to support their claim that they were members of the ‘special police’ and are accused of conning an unnamed ‘applicant’ to join their Homeland Security task force they had invented.
The recruitment process, according to the Daily Beast, included shooting the applicant with an airsoft rifle, supposedly to evaluate their pain tolerance, and have the applicant researching an unnamed person who worked as a contractor for the Department of Defense and the intelligence community.
Their scam finally started to unravel on March 14, when the U.S. Postal Inspection Service began investigating an assault on a mail carrier at the Crossing Apartment building in southeast DC – where Taherzadeh and Ali live along with many who work for the FBI, Secret Service, Department of Defense and the Navy.
Residents of the building told the inspector that Ali and Taherzadeh had identified themselves as DHS investigation special agents who may have witnessed the assault, the Washington Post reports. Others also reported that Taherzadeh and Ali used several apartments in the building, claiming DHS paid the rent, and used an SUV equipped with emergency lights they identified as ‘their official DHS vehicle.’
And when the investigator spoke to the two men, they once again claimed they were ‘special police’ officers involved in undercover gang-related investigations and probes related to the January 6 Capitol riot. But later, the FBI indictment says, the investigator learned that the men were in contact with several members of the Secret Service, and provided gifts to them and their families.
In the aftermath, the Washington Post reports, witnesses reported that they saw ‘a significant amount of law enforcement paraphernalia, including SWAT vests, a large safe, computers, a high-powered telescope and internal surveillance cameras’ in Taherzadeh’s apartment.
They also claimed the fake feds set up surveillance in the building, and told other residents they could access their cellphones and personal information at any time.
Rebel Patriot says
The Biden regime will see to it that this is all quietly swept under the rug. The defendants will be secretly flown out of the country and that will be the end of it. In DC, nothing surprises me, especially if I were right.
Pray Hard says
I would expect to read something like this out of Western Europe, but here? Nah, never mind.
Pray Hard says
Oh, surely, they weren’t planning an assassination or some other sort of terror attack … much.
My main question is about why would the SS officers get involved with them to begin with? PC dumbasses, apparently, and it is the Bitin’ administration.
Az gal says
WHERE DID THE MONEY COME FROM? Probably Iran, since the guys name is Ali. Musscum spies.
joe smith says
They used the money Obama gave them years ago; that was stolen from taxpayers.
Linda Rivera says
Muslims are ADORED by the US regime. They’ll walk free.
Veterans and other patriotic Americans are INTENSELY HATED and Denied basic Human Rights.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/07/greene-decries-treatment-of-capitol-riot-defendants-urges-panel-to-tour-jail/
Greene decries treatment of Capitol riot defendants, urges Jan 6. panel to tour DC jail
December 7, 2021
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed what she called the “outrageous” treatment of Capitol riot defendants in Washington, DC’s main jail Tuesday and urged lawmakers on the House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 to see the facility for themselves.
During a press conference with fellow Republicans Matt Gaetz of Florida, Louie Gohmert of Texas and Paul Gosar of Arizona, Greene (R-Ga.) claimed inmates are being physically abused, forced to read works of critical race theory, and mocked “for the color of their skin.”
“The Jan. 6 defendants are being treated differently on a whole ‘nother level,” Greene told reporters. “They have been beaten by the guards. They are called white supremacists. They are denied religious services, haircuts, shaving, the ability to trim their fingernails.”
“They’re denied time with their attorneys,” Greene continued. “They are denied the ability to even see their families and have their families visit there.
They are denied bail and being held there without bail. Many of these people have never been charged for a crime before. Some of them are veterans. And the treatment is unbelievable.”
Greene went on to highlight what she claimed were disparities between the handling of those arrested in connection with the Capitol riot and those who were busted on charges related to urban violence in the summer of 2020.
“It clearly demonstrates to the American people, [Congress] does not care about your business that got burned down,” she said. “It doesn’t care about the job you lost.
Congress doesn’t care about your city or community that was devastated by violence.”According to Greene, the protests and violence that broke out across America following the murder of George Floyd resulted in more than $2 billion in damage, while the Capitol riot did around $1.5 million of damage.
“But yet we have a January 6 committee that Nancy Pelosi is leading,” she said before calling the panel’s probe “nothing but a political witch hunt on Republicans and Trump supporters all across America, and anyone that was at the Capitol on Jan. 6.” ………..
Linda Rivera says
NO surprise that the Muslims have ties to Pakistani intelligence.
The January 6 POLITICAL prisoners are being held without charge. They committed no crime. It was a false flag attack by Deep State Democrats.
One of the political prisoners who harmed no one and damaged no property has committed suicide. This innocent man lost all hope of ever being released even though he was INNOCENT.
Courageous patriots, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Gaetz, and Gohmert are the only politicians with the goodness and ethics to protest their political imprisonment. God forever bless these wonderful Americans!
The Supreme Court have shown they are on the side of tyrants and persecutors against the American people. They allow this CRIMINAL ACT against innocents.
We have a Supreme Court that serves tyrants, persecutors and dictators. Instead of the people. It’s PURE COMMUNISM.
Linda Rivera says
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/565562-gop-reps-gaetz-green-and-gohmert-turned-away-from-jail-to-visit-jan-6/
Gaetz, Greene and Gohmert turned away from jail to visit Jan. 6 defendants
by Lexi Lonas – 07/29/21
Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Majorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Louie Gohmert (Texas) on Thursday were turned away from the D.C. Department of Corrections where they tried to visit accused Jan. 6 rioters.
Video shows officers, who said the group was trespassing and “obstructing entrance into this facility,” denying the trio entry.
“The supervisor came down and was standing right here and turned her back on me. The other one said she won’t talk anymore and that we’re trespassers,” Gohmert said in comments to the press after the situation.
“We’re in totalitarian, Marxist territory here. This is the way third-world people get treated,” he added………
Linda Rivera says
Note that in one of the pics of the Muslims, the Muslim gives the Devil’s hand sign.