Orlando Jihad Mass Murderer Tied to “Radical” Imam Recently Released from Prison

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Another jihad imam — another Islamic holy man inciting to murder. When are our intel agencies going to start monitoring the mosques? The Ohio mosque, the mosque in Boston, the Arizona mosque (behind the Garland attacks), the Greater Oklahoma city mosque behind Colleen Hufford‘s beheading, the Philadelphia mosque of the cop shooting ….. one after the other, these mosques get a free pass. Worse, they get letters of commendation from the President and “Muslim Outreach” from the FBI.

If the Orlando jihadi was at Abu Taubah’s Fundamental Islamic Knowledge Seminary, the FBI should have been all over him. Taubah financed terror training for his followers. While this war rages on, inciters to murder in the cause of Islam such as Abu Taubah should stay behind bars.

Mateen was a regular mosque attendee and had become very religious over the past year.

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“Orlando gunman tied to radical imam released from prison last year, say law enforcement sources,” By Malia Zimmerman, June 12, 2016 FoxNews.com:

Background of Orlando shooter shows ties to radical ideology

The gunman who murdered at least 50 people in a Florida nightclub early Sunday morning was a follower of a controversial gang leader-turned-bank robber who was released from prison last year despite warnings from prosecutors that he would recruit people to carry out violent acts, sources told FoxNews.com.

Omar Mateen, whose bloody siege inside a packed Orlando gay nightclub ended when SWAT teams stormed the building and killed him, was a radical Muslim who followed Marcus Dwayne Robertson, a law enforcement source said.

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Marcus Dwayne Robertson, a former U.S. Marine known to his supporters at his Orlando-based Fundamental Islamic Knowledge Seminary as “Abu Taubah.”

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“It is no coincidence that this happened in Orlando,” said a law enforcement source familiar with Robertson’s history of recruiting terrorists and inciting violence. “Mateen was enrolled in [Robertson’s online] Fundamental Islamic Knowledge Seminary.”

Robertson and several associates were rounded up for questioning early Sunday, according to law enforcement sources, a development his attorney refused to confirm or deny.

“No comment,” Corey Cohen said in an email reply when asked if his longtime client was in custody. Police also did not confirm or deny picking up Robertson.

Robertson’s school may not have been the only source of Mateen’s spiritual guidance. The gunman was at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce with Imam Shafiq Rahman two days before the nightclub attack, according to The Washington Post. That mosque was frequented by American-born suicide bomber Monar abu Salha, who blew himself up in Syria in 2014, and the two knew each other, according to officials. Mateen’s association with Salha led the FBI to interview him in 2014. Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Mike McCaul told Fox News law enforcement determined at the time their contact “was minimal.”

FoxNews.com has reported extensively on Robertson, a former U.S. Marine who served as a bodyguard to the Blind Sheik involved in the 1993 World Trade Center Attack and led a gang of New York bank robbers called “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves” before resurfacing in Orlando, where he started an Islamic seminary.

The school, recently renamed the Timbuktu Seminary, is operated by Robertson, a 47-year-old firebrand known to his thousands of followers as Abu Taubah.

Robertson, who recently spent four years in prison in Florida on illegal weapons and tax fraud charges before being released by a Florida judge one year ago, has openly and enthusiastically preached against homosexuality. The targets of Mateen’s bloody rampage were members of the gay community of Orlando, an hour’s drive from the 29-year-old’s home in Fort Pierce.

Prosecutors said wiretaps from 2011 proved Robertson instructed one of his students, Jonathan Paul Jimenez, to file false tax returns to obtain a tax refund to pay for travel to Mauritania for terror training.

Jimenez studied with Robertson for a year in preparation for his travel to Mauritania, where he would study and further his training in killing, suicide bombing, and identifying and murdering U.S. military personnel. He pleaded guilty in 2012 to lying to authorities and conspiring to defraud the IRS and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

Robertson was arrested on a firearms charge in 2011 and pleaded guilty in January 2012. On March 14, 2012, federal authorities charged him with conspiring to defraud the IRS, which he was convicted of in December 2013.

While in the John E. Polk Correctional Facility in Seminole County, Robertson was considered so dangerous, he was kept in shackles and assigned his own guards. Whenever he was transported to court, a seven-car caravan of armed federal marshals escorted him. He was initially moved into solitary confinement after prison authorities believed he was radicalizing up to 36 of his fellow prisoners.

In seeking enhanced terrorism charges during sentencing for the two crimes, prosecutors said Robertson has been involved with terrorism activities, “…focused on training others to commit violent acts as opposed to committing them himself” … “overseas instead of inside the United States.”

Yet efforts by federal prosecutors to tack on another 10 years to his sentence, based on enhanced terrorism charges under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, were not persuasive enough for U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell, who freed Robertson in June 2015 with time served.

Robertson had denied being involved with terrorist activities, in court and in postings on social media and in statements from his attorney to Fox News.

Federal law enforcement has been familiar with Robertson since 1991.

As a former U.S. Marine who became the leader known as “Ali Baba” of a notorious New York gang “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves”, Robertson and his crew robbed more than 10 banks, private homes and post offices at gunpoint, shot three police officers, and attacked one cop after he was injured by a homemade pipe bomb.

During the same period, federal authorities claimed Robertson served as a bodyguard to Omar Abdel Rahman, nicknamed the “Blind Sheik,” who led the terrorist group that carried out the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and donated more than $300,000 in stolen funds to mosques he attended, both claims Robertson denied. Robertson has adamantly denied the claims.

After he was arrested in 1991 along with most of the other members of the gang, prosecutors cut a deal with Robertson, and let him serve four years in prison before going to work undercover for the FBI between 2004 and 2007 to document terrorists’ plans and networks in Africa, Egypt and the United States.

Many of the court’s filings, including Robertson’s own testimony from his most recent criminal case, remain under federal seal, which means only prosecutors, the judge and the defense can review the records.

Cohen told FoxNews.com in a statement that his client “never taught or condoned violence in any way.”

“In fact for his federal case the judge did not find terrorist acts, which led to his sentence of time served,” Cohen said.

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IndigoRed
IndigoRed
7 years ago

Obama* regime still can’t solve the puzzle.

empiresentry
empiresentry
7 years ago
Reply to  IndigoRed

“Liberalism Is What ‘Smart’ Looks Like To ‘Stupid’ People”…which is why they have to keep running around in circles screaming they are smarter than everyone else.

But here, they have boxed themselves in. They can’t call it what it is: Radical Islamist Terrorism…because they said anyone who calls it that is racist..or bigoted..or something.

They can’t address the issue because they will not even call it what it is…and they can’t even list it in their risk Assessments…regardless that they have plenty of historical and current facts to back it up.

The Political Identity uber rich Political Elite class in DC continues to protect their seats and power….and blame bathrooms or that he suffered discrimination…or that his life was tough..or its the guns.

pauljones6482
pauljones6482
7 years ago
Reply to  empiresentry

Well said , and so very true

http://uncensorednews.smnc-base.org/

Barnara Apon
Barnara Apon
7 years ago
Reply to  IndigoRed

Obama made the puzzle…..

pauljones6482
pauljones6482
7 years ago
Reply to  Barnara Apon
joe1429
joe1429
7 years ago
Reply to  IndigoRed

It was a gun issue, according to the left,lol

IndigoRed
IndigoRed
7 years ago

This would have been a different story if the imam was a Christian minister and the Orlando murderer had only been in the same coffee shop having a donut at the opposite end of the bar on a different day of the week. The media would’ve been all over this story.

joe1429
joe1429
7 years ago
Reply to  IndigoRed

Hopefully, now the left will WAKE up. Get off the gun issue. he would have used bombs

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
7 years ago

Portrait of a Psychopath

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
7 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Comparison photo: Bob Hope (former movie star, comedian). Abundant facial expression is present, showing several layers of emotion.

pauljones6482
pauljones6482
7 years ago

Team obama built this hatred

http://uncensorednews.smnc-base.org/

Liberty or Tyranny
Liberty or Tyranny
7 years ago

Robertson worked undercover for the FBI for 3 years, now we know why the judge turned him loose. They want him to keep doing exactly what he is doing. Just like the first World Trade Center bombing, that the US government helped set up and supplied the ammonium nitrate. WAKE UP AMERICA!

so,
so,
7 years ago

Paul Joseph Watson hits the mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYyrPHg_ag0

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
7 years ago

If the FBI was keeping no closer a watch on Robertson than the article states then they have no clue whether or not he held up his end of the plea deal by performing the undercover function. In view of what happened, he wasn’t.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

There is no point in trying to work with the present democrat administration, as they are in denial to the point of being totally useless, verging on retardation. All that can be done, is try to enforce existing laws to the degree possible, depending on interference and meddling from the white mosque. Elect a change in government to clear out the democrat filth. enforce the laws and Constitution.

Beth Jenkins Pickelsimer
Beth Jenkins Pickelsimer
7 years ago

One of the most alarming, jaw dropping stories I’ve read. Very similar to the Boston Marathon Bombers, the Tsarnaev brothers and the “known” radical mosque they attended in Boston, terror training in Chechnya, and over a year of advance warning about their nefarious activities from both the Russian and Saudi Arabian governments. The Obama Administration refused to act.

KitCarson CarsonCity
KitCarson CarsonCity
7 years ago

Oh for heavens sake, start packing heat and defend yourself and others not able to muster the courage to do the same. FIGHT and PROTECT yourself…. The police only come after the action is over. They are the clean up crew.

Vinnie Bertollini
Vinnie Bertollini
7 years ago

Hang the Imam! Slather his body in pig fat. Then burn his mosque to the ground. Maybe the ignorant raghead savages will get the idea!
If not, keep doing it until all mosques are gone, gone, gone!
@BigVUSA

joe1429
joe1429
7 years ago

Why, not ONE of the authorities, during the news conference, could NOT state the obvious, that it was a Radical Islamist attack, even after the killer CALLED in and stated it HIMSELF??? This pc is literally killing us!! Obama has got to RESIGN!!!

joe1429
joe1429
7 years ago

Was watching the grieving families on the news, most of the puerto rican. They want Revenge. I believe they blew up the wrong people this time, and the muzrats in Orlando, will be watching their backs

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