Detroit-Hezbollah-USMC Connection

By Bull Nav

This was not surprising news this week:

DETROIT -- Fugitive LaShish Restaurants owner Talal Chahine was indicted for a third time today by a federal grand jury.
A grand jury returned an indictment charging Chahine, 52, with conspiracy in connection with phony marriages used to obtain citizenship for three Lebanese-born women associated with Chahine, who owns a chain of Middle Eastern restaurants in southeastern Michigan.

Chahine left the country two years ago when he was indicted on tax evasion.

The La Shish chain of restaurants he owns here in SE Michigan are renowned for their Arab cuisine. Not that I will go there...

But what really gets me about this whole affair is that there appears to have been a concerted effort not only to get these women into the country, but to get them into sensitive positions.

Elfat El Aouar, who later married Chahine, her sister Nada Nadim Prouty, and their Taylor roommate Samar Khalil Spinelli, have all pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining their U.S. citizenships through fraudulent marriages they entered into around 1990.
Chahine provided references and false statements to federal officials, saying the marriages of El Aouar and Prouty were legitimate, the indictment alleges.
Although he knew about her bogus marriage, Chahine in 1998 provided Prouty with a reference to the FBI, where she landed a job as a special agent before moving on to the CIA. She recently resigned from the CIA after her past was revealed and she was criminally charged in federal court.

That was kind of old news, too, but when I read this, it really made my head spin.

On Tuesday, Marine Capt. Samar Khalil Nabbou Spinelli, 39, of Okinawa, Japan, who lived with the two women in Taylor in the early 1990s, pleaded guilty to citizenship and passport fraud.

When you put all this together, it makes me think that this was a covert intelligence operation, worthy of something the KGB would do.

The women are all going to most likely be deported, which is good, but I have to wonder how many more are out there.

December 6, 2007 05:17 AM The Long War

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David Dunn · December 7, 2007 03:43 AM

Don't forget there is also a former ICE special agent that was indicted with Chahine. At the time of the original indictment he was the acting person in charge of the ICE Detention & Removal Operations office for the Detroit area.

This person would have full access to all kinds of databases.

Bob Trent · December 7, 2007 04:46 AM