(NY Post) The bumbling, bargain-bin hitman hired to assassinate an exiled Iranian-American journalist botched the high-stakes Brooklyn hit in spectacular fashion — including by trying to open her door, ordering food to his car as he lurked outside her home and then running a stop sign, leading to his arrest.
Jurors in Manhattan federal court heard Wednesday how Khalid Mehdiyev — a 27-year-old self-professed member of the Russian mob — inevitably tipped off his target, activist Masih Alinejad, in July 2022 despite trying to cozy up to the author with grammatically incorrect texts.
“U the best journalist,” the hitman typed in one text shown to the jury.
“Hey. How are you. I wanna make immigrants paper, do u can help for that?” read another, which referred to Alinejad helping with asylum requests.
