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

The Left continues to deny reality. How can anyone still be surprised that islam is involved in these events?


2 posted on 01/10/2017 1:57:38 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: jazusamo

Sounds like a friend of the Obama Administration.....John Brennan, Muslim head of the CIA missed giving him a job appearantly...


3 posted on 01/10/2017 1:57:59 PM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (career libs @ BIG BROTHER Inc.,..... President Trump says your fired!)
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To: jazusamo

But Islam had nothing to do with it.

He was just mentally ill.

Cue the gun grabbers.


4 posted on 01/10/2017 1:58:30 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: jazusamo; LucyT; Liz

Big Ping!


5 posted on 01/10/2017 1:58:36 PM PST by KC_Lion ("I'm a believer that you don't need a title, and you don't need an office to make a difference"~S.P.)
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To: trisham

Can’t be.

He was a Catholic Hispanic White male with mental issues.


6 posted on 01/10/2017 1:59:08 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: jazusamo

Just because they are Muslim killers and attackers, that doesn't mean they are Muslim terrorists!

7 posted on 01/10/2017 2:00:10 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Challenge Freepers, who post a bs article from the left and they don't challenge it!)
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To: trisham

You’re exactly right.


8 posted on 01/10/2017 2:01:12 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Grampa Dave

Now that we know, send him to collect his virgins.


9 posted on 01/10/2017 2:01:37 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: jazusamo

This murder has certainly been swept under the rug by the media! Unlike Israel, who puts up the photos of the recently martyred, we dump them in the trash can of history. May God rest their souls and may Trump avenge them.


10 posted on 01/10/2017 2:02:10 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: jazusamo

IF ODUMBI HAD A SON


11 posted on 01/10/2017 2:02:24 PM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: KC_Lion; Tennessee Nana; AuntB; TADSLOS
Thanks for the heads-up, KC.

SHOCKING--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.

12 posted on 01/10/2017 2:03:09 PM PST by Liz
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To: jazusamo

Sure he did

And 72-96 hours this is Old News in favor of the weeks long Russians Are Coming Fake News


13 posted on 01/10/2017 2:03:14 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: jazusamo

So much for nothing to do with Islam or terrorism. The 0bomb’s record remains unblemished, according to “The One.”


14 posted on 01/10/2017 2:04:08 PM PST by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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Go President-Elect Trump!

Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

15 posted on 01/10/2017 2:04:18 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

Since the FBI seemed to let this guy slip through the cracks, and the FBI seems to be doing the “full investigation” on this event, does anyone think that the truth will prevail?


16 posted on 01/10/2017 2:04:18 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: jazusamo

How do you spell coverup in Arabic?


17 posted on 01/10/2017 2:04:44 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: jazusamo

But But, we have been told by the Commie media that this guy went nuts after going to Iraq for 5 seconds..but then we find out that in 2007 when this scum bag was 17 years old, he was posting on Jihadist web sites, guess he was “hearing voices” then too/sarc


18 posted on 01/10/2017 2:04:59 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: jazusamo

We all knew this within a few hours.


19 posted on 01/10/2017 2:05:26 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: trisham

Many Freepers were doubting it was Islam when they revealed his name and background, but I knew. It’s always Islam.


20 posted on 01/10/2017 2:06:40 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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