I have only seen this segment once, and that was back in the first half of 1993 when it was being shown for the first time. I thought it was going to be on the second hour today but they did not show at the beginning previews of the cases. Was it on at all?

Anyway what ever happened with this one. Did Bashir (last name forgotten) ever get left in peace by who ever was stalking him? Is it still going on, or have arrests been made? Also, where did these threats take place. I recall that the episode guide said it was in DC. When did it happen too?

Here's a discussion about the case from last year:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=121335&highlight=l%27enfant

No updates on "L'Enfant." I know the case has been shown on Lifetime, but I haven't seen it within the last year or so.

The Reliable Source
Washington Post - Thursday, July 11, 2002
Author: Lloyd Grove, Washington Post Staff Writer
Washington's popular Marrakesh restaurant -- where patrons eat without utensils in the colorful surroundings of a Moroccan casbah -- is in PR hell over the sociopolitical musings of Bashir "Gaby" Kouchacji , a man widely assumed to be the restaurant's owner. Kouchacji described himself yesterday as a 57-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who has been in and out of "mental hospitals" for the past 15 years. He said he blames the Jews and the Israeli government for his three-month kidnapping three decades ago in his native Lebanon, his subsequent intermittent hospitalizations and his decades-long estrangement from two sons and four daughters. "They did this to me!" he shouted at us.

On his Web site www.doubtcome.com, Kouchacji poses such unusual questions as: "Are the Arabs convinced that the Western world is fully behind them, because they know that the Jews targeted their families by exciting and corrupting their women and persuaded their sad homosexuals that they are gay?"

On a second Web site registered in his name, Kouchacji identifies himself as "a "restaurateur and philanthropist." But yesterday he told us that he only briefly managed Marrakesh when it opened two decades ago, and that Marrakesh and a successful Moroccan-themed restaurant in Philadelphia are owned by other family members, including an older sister, Viviane Kouchacji . "I am not involved in the restaurants," he said yesterday. Viviane's daughter Nina Kouchacji , manager of the Philadelphia restaurant, confirmed her uncle's assertion.

Marrakesh's trouble started when The Post's June 23 Outlook section published Kouchacji 's quarter-page issue ad "sponsored by Marrakesh Enterprises" and listing the restaurant's address and phone number. "Have Zionists turned Jewish beliefs into a political party in the service of hatred and greed?" demanded the ad, which would have cost Kouchacji an estimated $20,000 if he didn't receive a discount for buying about 10 quarter-pages every year "for the past several years," according to Marc Rosenberg, The Post's manager of public policy advertising.

The ad predictably raised hackles among Jewish readers, sparking a letter of protest from the Anti-Defamation League as well as an article in Washington Jewish Week. The Post responded by refusing Kouchacji 's payment to repeat the ad, which directed readers to Kouchacji 's Web site.

Enter Mark Plotkin, not the radio personality but a mild-mannered regulatory lawyer at the firm of Covington & Burling. The 41-year-old partner sent a mass e-mail with a detailed description of Kouchacji 's site, which he called "misogynist, racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic." He urged his recipients to boycott Marrakesh. Kouchacji responded: "Don't you feel sick to your stomach when you know that those big shot Washington lawyers, partners of Covington and Berlin [sic], have given permission to the agents of the Mossad to use their offices to send salvos of organized terror, intimidation, blackmail, and threats...?"

Yesterday, Nina Kouchacji , 37, tried to distance Marrakesh from her uncle. "He has his own projects, and I can assure you he has nothing to do with Marrakesh, and we absolutely don't endorse them." She added she didn't realize that he was using the Marrakesh name.

But Plotkin was unimpressed. "If they're serious," he said, "they have a responsibility to intercede with their uncle and take action to stop the ads and stop him from using the Marrakesh name to promote his hate speech."

Months ago we published a photograph of President Bush with a document clip strangely attached to one of his fingers, and we speculated fruitlessly as to its purpose. Today we do it again -- this time from Bush's speech at Constitution Hall yesterday morning -- in the hope that someone, anyone, will give us an answer. Is it a mnemonic device? Perhaps a way of keeping alert? White House press secretary Ari Fleischer was no help at all. We know just how he feels: Yesterday afternoon former D.C. mayor Marion Barry was spotted near 19th and R streets NW in the act of discovering that his late-model Jaguar sedan had been booted -- right on the left front tire. Hizexonner angrily kicked the tire and walked away -- presumably to catch a cab to Traffic Adjudication. Like brother, like brother's master? The Washington chapter of Lab Rescue, a group devoted to finding good homes for Labrador retrievers, has posted this notice to place Buck, the 4-year-old half brother of Buddy, the deceased dog of Bill Clinton: "Housetrained. ... Owner give-up, said good with kids. Is dominant and growly around other males, but OK with foster dog, though clearly in charge. Good looking, but needs obedience with strong owner." No comment yesterday from the former president's office.
Edition: F

good find everybodylovesrs...seems gaby's mind has deteriorated after that campain of terror. I am scared too, but morbidly wanting to subscribe to his website with the name l'enfant....anyone else have the balls or insidious enough to do it? wait never mind lol

That's insane (no pun intended). That article blew my mind; great find.

I think Bashir blames the zionists because of a woman named Melissa Carlson, who was his ex lover and told him that she was sent to spy him.
It's sounds very weird, but that's the explanation I found.

In his site, Bashir posted a confidential interview with this woman made at a law firm that secures the validity of it.
The link is: http://www.doubtcome.com/images/alec1.htm

I think Bashir was targeted for some reason, maybe he had conections with intelligence services (he would never confess something like that but I think it's the only explanation) in this fight between arabs-israelis-EEUU, etc.....

Is he still in an institution? I have wanted to know what became of Bashir after the segment aired.

Is he still in an institution? I have wanted to know what became of Bashir after the segment aired.

I think he's been out for a long time. From what I read, he voluntarily lived in the psychiatric place off and on for years. There's a big thread here that includes a ton of information not revealed in the segment. I'll go look it up and link here.

EDIT to add:

Here's one of the threads about this case. There was a several page long article linked in one of the posts. I hope that article is still available online. It was full of information.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=121335&highlight=bashir

I thought the whole thing was odd.

The Reliable Source
Washington Post - Thursday, July 11, 2002
Author: Lloyd Grove, Washington Post Staff Writer
Washington's popular Marrakesh restaurant -- where patrons eat without utensils in the colorful surroundings of a Moroccan casbah -- is in PR hell over the sociopolitical musings of Bashir "Gaby" Kouchacji , a man widely assumed to be the restaurant's owner. Kouchacji described himself yesterday as a 57-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who has been in and out of "mental hospitals" for the past 15 years. He said he blames the Jews and the Israeli government for his three-month kidnapping three decades ago in his native Lebanon, his subsequent intermittent hospitalizations and his decades-long estrangement from two sons and four daughters. "They did this to me!" he shouted at us.

On his Web site www.doubtcome.com, Kouchacji poses such unusual questions as: "Are the Arabs convinced that the Western world is fully behind them, because they know that the Jews targeted their families by exciting and corrupting their women and persuaded their sad homosexuals that they are gay?"

On a second Web site registered in his name, Kouchacji identifies himself as "a "restaurateur and philanthropist." But yesterday he told us that he only briefly managed Marrakesh when it opened two decades ago, and that Marrakesh and a successful Moroccan-themed restaurant in Philadelphia are owned by other family members, including an older sister, Viviane Kouchacji . "I am not involved in the restaurants," he said yesterday. Viviane's daughter Nina Kouchacji , manager of the Philadelphia restaurant, confirmed her uncle's assertion.

Marrakesh's trouble started when The Post's June 23 Outlook section published Kouchacji 's quarter-page issue ad "sponsored by Marrakesh Enterprises" and listing the restaurant's address and phone number. "Have Zionists turned Jewish beliefs into a political party in the service of hatred and greed?" demanded the ad, which would have cost Kouchacji an estimated $20,000 if he didn't receive a discount for buying about 10 quarter-pages every year "for the past several years," according to Marc Rosenberg, The Post's manager of public policy advertising.

The ad predictably raised hackles among Jewish readers, sparking a letter of protest from the Anti-Defamation League as well as an article in Washington Jewish Week. The Post responded by refusing Kouchacji 's payment to repeat the ad, which directed readers to Kouchacji 's Web site.

Enter Mark Plotkin, not the radio personality but a mild-mannered regulatory lawyer at the firm of Covington & Burling. The 41-year-old partner sent a mass e-mail with a detailed description of Kouchacji 's site, which he called "misogynist, racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic." He urged his recipients to boycott Marrakesh. Kouchacji responded: "Don't you feel sick to your stomach when you know that those big shot Washington lawyers, partners of Covington and Berlin [sic], have given permission to the agents of the Mossad to use their offices to send salvos of organized terror, intimidation, blackmail, and threats...?"

Yesterday, Nina Kouchacji , 37, tried to distance Marrakesh from her uncle. "He has his own projects, and I can assure you he has nothing to do with Marrakesh, and we absolutely don't endorse them." She added she didn't realize that he was using the Marrakesh name.

But Plotkin was unimpressed. "If they're serious," he said, "they have a responsibility to intercede with their uncle and take action to stop the ads and stop him from using the Marrakesh name to promote his hate speech."

Months ago we published a photograph of President Bush with a document clip strangely attached to one of his fingers, and we speculated fruitlessly as to its purpose. Today we do it again -- this time from Bush's speech at Constitution Hall yesterday morning -- in the hope that someone, anyone, will give us an answer. Is it a mnemonic device? Perhaps a way of keeping alert? White House press secretary Ari Fleischer was no help at all. We know just how he feels: Yesterday afternoon former D.C. mayor Marion Barry was spotted near 19th and R streets NW in the act of discovering that his late-model Jaguar sedan had been booted -- right on the left front tire. Hizexonner angrily kicked the tire and walked away -- presumably to catch a cab to Traffic Adjudication. Like brother, like brother's master? The Washington chapter of Lab Rescue, a group devoted to finding good homes for Labrador retrievers, has posted this notice to place Buck, the 4-year-old half brother of Buddy, the deceased dog of Bill Clinton: "Housetrained. ... Owner give-up, said good with kids. Is dominant and growly around other males, but OK with foster dog, though clearly in charge. Good looking, but needs obedience with strong owner." No comment yesterday from the former president's office.
Edition: F

This story has many spiderwebs. Google "Melissa Alec Carlson Kouchacji", when you have a lot of time on your hands.

Ooh, intriguing!

Ooh, intriguing!

@LooksLikeCRicci - to say the least.

I've done a ton of research on this case, well over 10 years. Gaby Bashir Kouchacji is definitely not an innocent party to the 'L'Enfant' stalkers. First and foremost, Gaby Bashir Kouchacji is an anti Semite, who has blamed his capture in Lebanon on the Mossad. He in fact, launched a viral crusade against Israel for many years. In the article sited in my previous post, it states that in the 1990's and early 2000's, he regularly took out quarter page ads in the Washington Post blasting Israel. These ads cost around USD$20K.

To deflect, he has started a non-profit, https://www.facebook.com/coexistencebetweenchristiansandjews/?pnref=lhc (https://www.facebook.com/coexistencebetweenchristiansandjews/?pnref=lhc) A total sham of an organization.

The most disturbing info I found was on his (now defunct) website www.doubtcome.com, in which he outlines a web of 'Mossad Women (Sex) Agents' (think MK ULTRA), whose sole purpose is to take down powerful supporters of Israel. A lot of this info can be found online, mostly in foreign languages, but here is a good start:

http://hugequestions.com/Eric/TFC/Women-of-the-Mossad.htm (http://hugequestions.com/Eric/TFC/Women-of-the-Mossad.htm)

"Alec Gabrielle Kouchacji" aka "Melissa Weber" aka "Alec Carlson" is a United States citizen who was affiliated with Gaby Bashir Kouchacji; she gave a sworn testimony (published on his defunct website) that detailed nearly a decade of 'work' she did for him, including counter-surveillance with regard to Israel. He was one of her handlers. She is now missing and I wouldn't be surprised if she was deceased.

I can write more about what I believe Kouchacji's motives are and who has funded his organization, but I'll leave it up to those who want to do the research, because I like to hear others' opinions.

Best UM case by far.

Is he still in an institution? I have wanted to know what became of Bashir after the segment aired.

He is not in an institution. He has a sham organization 'supporting Christian and Jew relations': https://www.facebook.com/coexistencebetweenchristiansandjews/?fref=nf , and is very active in the DC social and political scene.

None of this sheds any light on who or what L'Enfant is and if they have any particular motive other than driving him insane.

None of this sheds any light on who or what L'Enfant is and if they have any particular motive other than driving him insane.

As I've stated previously, L'enfant can easily be described as an anti-PLO organization/faction. Bashir is affiliated with the PLO.

As I've stated previously, L'enfant can easily be described as an anti-PLO organization/faction. Bashir is affiliated with the PLO.

Care to explain what a PLO is?

Care to explain what a PLO is?

Palestine Liberation Organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization)

They are basically terrorists.

None of this sheds any light on who or what L'Enfant is and if they have any particular motive other than driving him insane.

How about the motive that Bashir is a loudmouth irritant who speaks ill about every minority in existence? I would say that's pretty good motive.

He is not in an institution. He has a sham organization 'supporting Christian and Jew relations': https://www.facebook.com/coexistencebetweenchristiansandjews/?fref=nf , and is very active in the DC social and political scene.

So I take it he's alive as of today? I didn't see anything on there mentioning Bashir or even a recent photo of him. Care to pinpoint me in the right direction?

How about the motive that Bashir is a loudmouth irritant who speaks ill about every minority in existence? I would say that's pretty good motive.

LOL yes, and other things he's been involved in would make him a 'target'.

So I take it he's alive as of today? I didn't see anything on there mentioning Bashir or even a recent photo of him. Care to pinpoint me in the right direction?

https://www.facebook.com/like.couchakji

https://www.facebook.com/like.couchakji


Good find

Good find

;)