American Airlines 'saboteur' mechanic came to U.S. from Iraq

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A Muslim mechanic for American Airlines who has been charged with sabotaging a jet with 150 passengers aboard immigrated to the United States from Iraq,
Breitbart News confirmed.

Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani allegedly tampered with a navigation system on a plane in Miami that was bound for the Bahamas on July 17, federal prosecutors allege, according to court records revealed Friday.

He faces up to 20 years in prison.

Alani insisted he had no desire to harm the passengers and was seeking only to have the flight canceled so he could receive overtime work amid contract negotiations between his mechanics' union and his airline.

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Prosecutors allege Alani put foam glue inside part of the plane's navigation system.

Co-workers said surveillance footage shows Alani driving up to the plane before takeoff and working on the compartment that houses the navigation system for seven minutes.

Alani first arrived in the U.S. from Iraq sometime in the mid-1980s, a law enforcement official told Breitbart.

He came as the spouse of an American citizen and become a naturalized American citizen in 1992.