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Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Joining Army
Judicial Watch ^ | January 10, 2017

Posted on 01/10/2017 1:55:24 PM PST by jazusamo

The Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter 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, according to public records dug up by the investigative news site of an award-winning, California journalist. This is pertinent information that the Obama administration apparently wants to keep quiet, bringing up memories 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.

Information is slowly trickling out that links the Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter to radical Islam while the official story from authorities is that the gunman is a mentally ill, Hispanic Army veteran named Esteban Santiago that became unhinged after a tour in Iraq. Only one mainstream media outlet mentions the possibility of Santiago’s “jihadist identity,” burying it in a piece about New York possibly being his initial target. A paragraph deep in the story mentions that investigators recovered Santiago’s computer from a pawn shop and the FBI is examining it to determine whether he created a “jihadist identity for himself using the name Aashiq Hammad…” The reset of the traditional mainstream media coverage promotes the government rhetoric that omits any ties to terrorism even though early on a photo surfaced of Santiago making an ISIS salute while wearing a keffiyeh, a Palestinian Arab scarf.

The public records uncovered in the days after the massacre suggest Santiago (Hammad) is a radical Islamic terrorist that’s seriously committed to Islam. Besides taking on a Muslim name, he recorded three Islamic religious songs, including the Muslim declaration faith (“there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger”) known as the Shahada. He also posted a thread about downloading propaganda videos from Islamic terrorists on a weapons and explosives forum. The investigative news site that unearthed this disturbing information connected the dots between Santiago, who is of Puerto Rican descent, and Hammad, an identity he created in 2007.

This week a prominent Ft. Lauderdale businessman and longtime resident addressed a letter to the city’s mayor and commissioners blasting county and federal officials for covering up that “Aashiq Hammad, not Esteban Santiago, attacked our city and county.” The businessman, respected Ft. Lauderdale real estate entrepreneur Jim Morlock, specifically names Broward County’s elected sheriff Scott Israel, Florida senator Bill Nelson, the first to identify Santiago as the shooter on national television, and congressman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, ousted last summer as Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair over a scandalous plot to damage Bernie Sanders during the primary.

“Since when does a US Senator (Bill Nelson), not law enforcement, be the one to so quickly release this terrorist’s Hispanic name but nothing about his more relevant Islamic background?” the letter asks. Obama must have told Sen. Nelson to keep this from looking like a Muslim Terrorist attack during the last 12 days of his watch. Bad for his legacy.” Morlock goes on to state that it’s “better to portray this atrocity as white Hispanic Alaskan mental Iraq war vet gun violence.” The real estate entrepreneur proceeds to reveal that Santiago lives in walking distance to the only mosque in Alaska, was radicalized before he entered the military and was knowingly allowed to serve despite his Islamic sympathies thanks to “Obama’s PC military.”

The letter poses interesting questions, including why this Muslim terrorist chose Ft. Lauderdale out of all the nation’s airports and who Santiago knows in Broward county, which has a large and growing Islamic community. In 2015 Judicial Watch obtained records from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) that show and Al Qaeda terrorist who helped plan several U.S. attacks lived in Broward County and graduated from the local community college with a degree in computer engineering. His name is Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, but he also had a Hispanic identity, Javier Robles, and for years he appeared on the FBI’s most wanted list. Back in 2012 Judicial Watch reported on a terrorist front group’s demands that Broward County public schools close twice a year to celebrate Islamic holy days, illustrating the influence that Muslims have in the region.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Alaska; US: Florida; War on Terror
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To: jazusamo
The Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter 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, according to public records dug up by the investigative news site of an award-winning, California journalist.

Since the info is out there now, let's see if anyone else confirms or debunks this. -Tom

41 posted on 01/10/2017 2:20:46 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: onyx

Yep, the enemedia will be going from lying to back up 0bama in 10 days to lying about everything they can to shoot down President Trump.


42 posted on 01/10/2017 2:21:04 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

Did this guy miss the part where you have to die to get the raisins.


43 posted on 01/10/2017 2:21:25 PM PST by depressed in 06 (I'm going to have to come up with a new tag line.)
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To: jazusamo

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Be Ready! Everyone is a heartbeat away from eternity . . .heaven or hell. And now the United States of America is on the Christian Persecution list. First time in history.

Our only Hope is Jesus for me, you, your family, neighbors. . .the world. Life on this earth is not even a blink compared to eternity.

It’s time we get serious about turning this country back to the God of our forefathers. . .God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

God used this country to spread His Gospel and now we have missionaries coming to the United States to spread His Gospel. . .it is all very sad. “To whom much is given much is required” . . .we have dropped the ball and will suffer the consequences.

http://www.thereishopeinJesus.com/


44 posted on 01/10/2017 2:22:41 PM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Tick.....tick......tick.....
This bull**** is going to end.


45 posted on 01/10/2017 2:25:59 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: jazusamo

You’re right.

It starts tonight. CNN has a countdown clock to Obama’s Farewell Speech! Imagine that!

I have not decided whether I’m going to watch or not. I hope all the cable channels are not going to carry it. I’d better look.


46 posted on 01/10/2017 2:26:58 PM PST by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: jazusamo

This has been completely purged from the news after a 24 hour cycle. The press is not interested in alerting the public to the danger it its midst.

Hopefully this clown is in a cell and the interrogators are upping the amperage slowly. I would not care if the fillings in his teeth melted until he gave up everything he knew. This was a well planned attack not some momentary flip out. So, he was discharged because of poor performance eh? More likely that was the excuse to rid the NG of a problem.


47 posted on 01/10/2017 2:27:20 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: onyx

The only fair well speech I’d like to hear from him are right after the warden says: do you have any last words.


48 posted on 01/10/2017 2:28:38 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: jazusamo

Solution times are coming up soon, its there.


49 posted on 01/10/2017 2:29:04 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey (MAGA)
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To: Grampa Dave

50 posted on 01/10/2017 2:30:11 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: KC_Lion
XOXOXO
51 posted on 01/10/2017 2:30:12 PM PST by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: Mouton

I couldn’t agree more.

Wishful thinking on my part but it would wonderful to have this blow up in 0bama’s face in his last 10 days.


52 posted on 01/10/2017 2:32:39 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: NEMDF

Has there been one ISLAMIC terrorist attack in US when the perp was:

1. Not on FBI list at some point in time?
2. Not initially portrayed as ABM (Anything but Muslim)??

Feel so safe knowing the government is surveilling the American public 24/7 in order to root out Terrorists...


53 posted on 01/10/2017 2:32:49 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: jazusamo

Amazing how the fake news media continues to shield the mass murdering muzzies, er excuse me, the activist Muslims.


54 posted on 01/10/2017 2:43:50 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: jazusamo

Stop with the phony cover ups. If it looks like a Muslim and acts like a Muslim, it’s a Muslim.


55 posted on 01/10/2017 2:45:04 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: jazusamo

Can’t say I’m surprised and thankful we have 10 Days until the adults are in charge.

It is sane, rational and ethical to:

- Not allow anyone in this country that cannot be properly vetted.

- Look critically at populations entering the country. Will they assimilate? Will they contribute to society? Do they introduce risk of any kind? Etc.

- Prioritize the interests and safety of US Citizens.

Barry O obviously didn’t think this way. His vision of ‘Fundamental Transformation’ and preference for all things Muslim is the root cause of why we’ve suffered Islamic terror within our borders. Disturbing to think the electorate was foolish to enable this disaster to fester for 8 years.


56 posted on 01/10/2017 2:49:49 PM PST by Made In The USA (Rap music: Soundtrack of the retarded.)
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To: jazusamo

Well, there you go.


57 posted on 01/10/2017 2:55:55 PM PST by DefeatCorruption
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To: Made In The USA

BUMP!


58 posted on 01/10/2017 2:56:13 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Mouton

LOLOLOLOL.


59 posted on 01/10/2017 3:04:05 PM PST by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: Liz
How did he get in the military after he was on the Most Wanted List? They usually have fingerprints for both.
60 posted on 01/10/2017 3:10:16 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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