Posted on 12/31/2025 12:36:40 PM PST by Red Badger
On Tuesday, Socialist New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced the appointment of Ramzi Kassem as the city’s top attorney.
Kassem gained notoriety for defending al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed al-Darbi when he served as lead counsel.
In 2014, al-Darbi pled guilty in connection with an al-Qaeda terrorist plot to bomb a French oil tanker near Yemen in 2002, leaving a civilian dead and several others injured. He was convicted in 2017 and ultimately transferred to Saudi Arabia in 2018.
Al-Darbi’s brother-in-law was Khalid al-Mihdhar, one of the five hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The New York Post reports that in 2009, “Kassem founded a legal clinic at CUNY, which offers free legal representation to Muslims and other communities in New York City.”
The nonprofit, Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (CLEAR) is largely funded by progressive philanthropist George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, which have given the clinic more than $3 million, public records show.
The Associated Press and The New York Times reported at the time that Kassem said, “While it may not make him whole, my hope is that repatriation at least marks the end of injustice for Ahmed… He had 16 long and painful years in captivity.”
Kassem is also part of the legal team representing radical Islamist Mahmoud Khalil.
In his announcement, Mamdani said, “I am delighted to announce that I am naming Ramzi Kassem as Chief Counsel.”
“Ramzi will be joining the administration from CUNY, where he serves as a professor of law. Government service is no novel concept for Ramzi, who served as a senior policy advisor for President Biden from 2022 to 2024.”
“He has deep experience arguing in court, including before the Supreme Court.”
“I will turn to Ramzi for his remarkable experience and his commitment to defending those too often abandoned by our legal system.”
“City Hall will be stronger with him in it, and our work of building a more prosperous city for all will have a powerful advocate.”
“My sincere hope is that New Yorkers who have long felt on the margins of this city…the homeless veterans straining to survive, the patient searching for the care they need, an immigrant trying to get by, will feel that they now have leaders in their corner who understand their struggles and care to fight for them.”
It’s like watching work crews set up for a controlled demolition.
Looks like there is an agenda being put in place.
Read that he’s going to hire 500 lawyers to ‘Trump-Proof’ his administration............
Brother in law crashed into the Pentagon on 911. That atrocity is seldom discussed as part of the terror events that day.
American Airlines Flight 77.
The hijacked airliner was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, killing all 64 aboard and another 125 in the building.
May the victims rest in peace.
Breaking news: Mamdani is an anti-American Commie the fools in New York voted into office because he’s young, a fresh face and promised government food stores. And is dismantling all the good of New York City.
and there’s many people on this forum that think it was a hoax ...
Did the so-called “Republicans” bring up 9/11 during this SOB’s campaign?
Or were they too afraid to?
Wouldn’t wanna appear raciss an all, right?
Now he’s installing the actual terrorists into NYC’s government.
Anyone thought this could happen back in 2001?
If not, how DID it happen?
I would hope that any conservative groups would never plan any sort of event in that pathetic city now. Boycott that nut case city.
That is what the people voted for. Hell with them.
YES!!! It will be a disaster because the marxist muslims will be forever buried in the city government and most likely he wins the governorship in the future and the cancer will spread. But at least we get to watch a glorious destruction of that city. All the Jews who voted for this clown better start packing. All the property owners who voted for this are gonna love being forced to sell to an islamic NGO funded by tax dollars. All you poor people are gonna love empty store shelves.
I do predict one of his islamic pals takes him out though.
Islamic power struggles are messy.
Agree. But opponents were timidly reacting to Mamdani attacking them for not knowing the names of all the Mosques in New York, let alone honoring them with visits.
There may yet be another war, but he won that one.
CAIR is ecstatic...
Suspect Al Qaida is ecstatic too.
“Osama is dead but his cause won the war he started.”
Absolutely no question about that. And not just here, but most of Europe as well.
He’s rolling on the ground with his 72 former virgins laughing his head off.
How the HELL do the American people allow this kind of takeover of our country???????????????????????
No hoax. I watched the Pentagon burn.
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