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Kamal Saleem was a big hit at the Values Voters Summit. But confronted with the holes in his story, he clammed up.But as I reported in a piece for the magazine last spring, much of Saleem's story doesn't add up. California police have no record of an incident he describes vividly in the first chapter of his book; the FBI says it has no record of meeting with him. And those who knew him before he began traveling the country under a stage name say they have serious doubts about huge portions of his narrative. Wally Winter, a former roommate during the period Saleem purports to have been grooming terrorists, told me, "He could sell swampland in Louisiana. I really do not believe the story about the terrorism."
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Saleem goes to great lengths to explain that he must guard his identity closely. The problem with Saleem's plea is that everyone already knows who Kamal Saleem isor at least they can find out pretty easily. His real name, Khodor Shami, is readily available in media reports and on the 990 forms of the nonprofit he publicizes at every opportunity. He lives in Colorado Springs, according to both his publicly available LinkedIn profile and White Pages. Under oath last year, he told the Michigan legislature that there is a $25 million bounty on his head by the Muslim Brotherhood, whichin the event that he was telling the truthmeans that whoever it is Saleem's afraid of already knows exactly who he is, where he came from, and what he's done. Of course they would; they were his old employers.
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It was around this point that Saleem remarked that the interview was starting to feel like an "interrogation." Which reminded me of something: In his speech, he'd described advising law enforcement and intelligence agencies on Islamic terrorism, but he hadn't given any more specifics. The only agency mentioned in his book is the FBI, and a spokeswoman for bureau's public affairs division had told me she had no record of any such a meeting. "I was wondering," I asked, "which law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies you've worked with?
"The majority of them," he said. "It was in Homeland. There were a whole batch of them."
Any specifically?
"Whole batch of them. All of them. Homeland."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/ex-terrorist-walks-conservative-conference
Yeah I always have a terrorist or two I can pull out of my back pocket when I need them to speak against a sitting U.S. President on our soil, at a GOP sponsored/led conference.
surrealAmerican
(11,369 posts)... and he's a whole lot smarter than the people who believe him.
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)If the GOP believes him, then they are pals with terrorist whom they are using to speak against a sitting Democratically elected President. I'm not sure which is worse, I know the optics of both scenarios does not paint the GOP in a very good light.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)and now is writing campaign speeches for Paul Ryan ...
wait ... that last bit could be the truth ...
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)that last bit might not be such a stretch. Their desperation is strong!
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)kick
Spazito
(50,627 posts)he sounds just like her:
"I was wondering," I asked, "which law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies you've worked with?
"The majority of them," he said. "It was in Homeland. There were a whole batch of them."
Any specifically?
"Whole batch of them. All of them. Homeland."
I bet if he was asked which newspapers he read he would say "All of them" to that one too.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)A converted muslim and allow him to be Christian and continue to call Obama a Muslim though he profess Jesus Christ as his Savior, is not a terrorist and embrace the terrorist. Smart huh
freshwest
(53,661 posts)The billionaire barbarians as they were referred to here in a video tells what all these front groups, including the GOP are doing. One might feel a bit of sympathy for the GOP if wasn't so deadly.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101757646