Asif William Rahman was arrested by the FBI this week in Cambodia and was on account of make a court docket look in Guam.
A person who labored abroad for the USA authorities has been charged with leaking categorised data previous to Israel’s deliberate missile attack on Iran final month, in line with media stories citing court docket paperwork.
The person, recognized as Asif William Rahman, was arrested by the FBI this week in Cambodia and was on account of make his first court docket look in Guam, the Related Press reported on Wednesday.
Rahman was indicted final week in US court docket in Virginia on two counts of revealing nationwide defence data below the Espionage Act, and will face a prolonged jail sentence.
The New York Occasions reported that Rahman was employed by the Central Intelligence Company (CIA). A CIA spokesperson declined to remark to Al Jazeera.
Information of the arrest of Rahman comes a day after a Pentagon leaker, Jack Teixeira, was sentenced in Boston to fifteen years in jail for ‘important’ violations of the Espionage Act.
The leaked paperwork had been ready by the Nationwide Geospatial-Intelligence Company (NGA), which analyses photographs and knowledge collected by US spy satellites, the newspaper reported.
The NGA conducts work in help of secret US army operations.
The paperwork appeared final month on a channel of the Telegram messaging app. The paperwork famous that Israel was nonetheless transferring army property in place to conduct a military strike in response to Iran’s blistering ballistic missile attack on October 1.
Israel carried out a retaliatory assault on a number of websites in Iran in late October.
After the assault, Iranian Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei warned Israel and the US of “a crushing response” for actions in opposition to Iran and its allies, in line with state media.
