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Fort Lauderdale airport shooter indictment doesn’t mention that he did it for the Islamic State

Jan 29, 2017 9:26 am By Robert Spencer

The Obama-mandated cover-up continues.

A pivotal yet overlooked action of the Obama administration was its purge of all mention of Islam and jihad from law enforcement counter-terror training materials in 2011 to heed the demand of U.S. Muslim groups and their allies. Since then, the U.S. has failed to identify, confront, and oppose the ideology that has enabled jihadis to behave more boldly and aggressively then ever. That ideology has spread unchecked in the U.S. in large part because Barack Obama didn’t want law enforcement officials learning about it: that would have been “Islamophobic.”

It is an adage as old as warfare itself: one cannot defeat an enemy that one does not understand. It could be added that one certainly has no chance whatsoever of defeating an enemy that one refuses to understand. Yet Obama’s “Countering Violent Extremism” program pointedly and ostentatiously avoided all mention of Islam and jihad in connection with terrorism. He did this in accord with the claim that investigating and speaking honestly about the beliefs and goals of jihadis would so mortally offend moderate Muslims that they would become “radicalized” and join the jihad themselves.

Will President Trump change this? We can only hope. But right now the denial is still firmly in place.

“Feds Still in Cover-up Mode: Ft. Lauderdale Airport Shooter Indictment Omits Terrorism,” Judicial Watch, January 27, 2017:

A grand jury in south Florida just indicted the Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter, but the feds are still in cover-up mode so terrorism isn’t even mentioned though an FBI agent testified in court that the attack was carried out on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Instead the gunman, who years ago took on an Islamic name, was charged with murder for killing five people and wounding six others during a bloody rampage in the airport’s baggage claim area earlier this month.

Days after the massacre that shut down one of the state’s busiest airports, Judicial Watch reported that the shooter, Esteban Santiago, is a Muslim convert who years before joining the U.S. Army took on an Islamic name (Aashiq Hammad), downloaded terrorist propaganda and recorded Islamic religious music online. A California-based investigative news site dug up the information while the mainstream media blindly repeated the Obama administration’s version of the facts though early on a photo surfaced of Santiago making an ISIS salute while wearing a keffiyeh, a Palestinian Arab scarf. This was disturbingly reminiscent of the Benghazi cover up, in which the president and his cohorts knowingly lied to conceal that Islamic terrorists attacked the U.S. Special Mission in Libya.

The records contradict the official government version that Santiago is a mentally ill, Hispanic Army veteran who became unhinged after a tour in Iraq. Additionally, at a bond hearing in a south Florida federal court last week, an FBI special agent with the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) testified that Santiago carried out the attack on behalf of ISIS. The agent, Michael Ferlazzo, also said that Santiago had communicated with Islamic terrorists who were planning attacks on internet “jihadi chat rooms.” Regardless, the initial criminal complaint omits any reference to terrorism. It charges Santiago with performing an act of violence at an airport, using a firearm in the course of a crime of violence and causing death through the use of a firearm. It also reveals that he fired 10 to 15 rounds of ammunition from his firearm, aiming at his victims’ heads and walking while shooting on a methodical manner….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Barack Obama, converts to Islam, FBI, Featured, Jihad in the U.S., Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: Esteban Santiago


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  1. mortimer says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 9:43 am

    The coverup of jihadist Esteban Santiago’s motive is UNCONSCIONABLE and typical of the PERVERSE Obama whitewashing of jihad.

    For the public to understand the jihad threat there must be a THOROUGH PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN to instruct people step by step to recognize a jihadist! Only through recognizing jihad can we avert a successful attack by solitary jihadists. Furthermore, when a jihadist is identified by members of the public, they will also be able to take pictures of the jihadists contacts and possible covert TRAINERS and JIHAD COMMANDERS. This will expose jihad networks already in place and lead to valuable intelligence and ARRESTS of hidden RINGLEADERS.

    A well-informed public will impede and thwart jihadists.

  2. Phil Copson says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 9:59 am

    Arrest Obama and Clinton over Benghazi; regardless of whether or not they are subsequently tried and convicted, the world-wide circulation of images of them being brought in in handcuffs will have a salutary effect on Leftists and Islamists alike.

  3. Angemon says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 10:00 am

    Feds Still in Cover-up Mode: Ft. Lauderdale Airport Shooter Indictment Omits Terrorism

    Let them enjoy their swamp while they can…

  4. Kay says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 10:37 am

    This coverup also serves to divide the nation. So many people are unaware of the jihadi threat– of course because they only look at MSM and FB. Then it makes it easy for them to be against the President’s sensible steps because they are unaware of jihad.

    • Pastor C says

      Jan 29, 2017 at 3:14 pm

      Unless, and until, this subversive policy is reversed, our national security remains significantly at risk.

      While our new president does have a host of challenges ahead of him, this matter must be prioritized! If it is not, any/all other attempts he makes to protect the homeland will remain partially-effective, at best.

  5. Undaunted says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 10:49 am

    I think this may be a situation like the soon-to-be former Secret Service Agent who said she wouldn’t take a bullet for Trump. The federal government is full of workers who are fucked up in the head and perhaps the US Attorney for the Fort Lauderdale area is just that: a liberal whose time is about… up. The President has the right to fire any US Attorney at any time, as I recall. Perhaps this one is on the way out.

    • Allan says

      Jan 29, 2017 at 12:57 pm

      She must be very stupid, but at least she can still take a bullet for the Democrats. In fact, why not make her take several bullets for those degenerates?

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 29, 2017 at 2:01 pm

      Yes–a disgusting story, Undaunted:

      “Secret Service agent who suggested she won’t take bullet for Trump on paid leave, report says”

      http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/28/secret-service-agent-who-suggested-won-t-take-bullet-for-trump-on-paid-leave-report-says.html

      At least she is not on duty–that’s something. Anyone not willing to do their job needs to go. God knows, I was no fan of Obama, and I’m sure some of the secret service were not, either–but they were tasked with protecting him, and they did their duty.

      • Undaunted says

        Jan 29, 2017 at 8:02 pm

        Having been a bodyguard for the SECDEF and having had the same training as the Secret Service, I can tell you that the “willingness” to take a bullet for the boss is not based on personal preference, or whether an agent likes the principal. Agents are trained day after day, hour after hour to respond in certain ways to certain threats, it’s not a decision, it’s an ingrained reaction.

        So, if this clown agent is possessed of the ignorance that doing her job was an option she was permitted to carry out based on whimsy, then she is in fact a fool and needs to be fired ASAP and deliberately humiliated… just for fun.

      • Undaunted says

        Jan 29, 2017 at 8:10 pm

        And, the bodyguard grapevine has said for years that the worst duty was the Clinton and Obama details. The SACs had a hard time keeping POTUS and FLOTUS teams teams together because the agents loathed the Clinton’s and Obama’s so much that they – the agents – were afraid their training and reactions would be clouded and delayed by how much they despised those four; Bill and Hillary, Barry and Michelle.

        My sources tell me the agents are happy again, everybody wants to be on Trump’s detail.

  6. Allan says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 1:02 pm

    What do “Federal” statutes say about prosecutors misrepresenting the motives of the accused? Furthermore, has the prosecutor put in jeopardy his (or her) membership in the federal bar?

  7. gravenimage says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 1:54 pm

    Fort Lauderdale airport shooter indictment doesn’t mention that he did it for the Islamic State
    ………………………

    The continuing disgusting whitewash of Jihad. Hope to see this change soon.

    • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

      Jan 29, 2017 at 9:19 pm

      This will change very soon indeed; and in this very case.

      AG Sessions will rewrite the indictment, featuring the jihad connection. Nothing easier.

  8. Dave Flang says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 4:48 pm

    Did Obama cry out with “Allah Akbar” every time he signed an executive order attacking America and Israel?

  9. Screeminmeeme says

    Jan 30, 2017 at 10:37 am

    I hope President Trump puts an end to the complicity extant in our government which aids and abets the cause of Islam through suppression of truth.

    One has got to wonder how an American official, failing to mention this salient point in the indictment, could feel proud of his work ethic and duty to the country.

  10. Domestic Goddess says

    Jan 30, 2017 at 4:33 pm

    Not naming ISIS or naming these actions terroristic, can have huge ramifications on the victims. Case in point, San Bernardino Shootings. A family friend was shot three tomes there, and although she survived, she won’t walk again. They refused to call it a terror attack, and so her Worker’s Comp had been covering her medical care. Now Workers’s Comp is tired of taking the hit financially, so they won’t cover her treatment any more, citing it as a true “terror” attack. So she has no assistance, yet she still has medical needs. Those in charge of the indictments need to trade places with her for a week.

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