Yes, at one time I was a Terrorist, and I can prove it.
By Walid Shoebat
Why do certain media outlets declare a war on X-terrorists instead of a War on Terror? I am handed the phone with a call from reporter Neil MacFarquhar of the New York Times who was not interested in an interview with me, but a debate to discredit my claims. According to him I must have never been a Muslim terrorist. My story doesn’t add up, Islamic terrorism rose during the 1990’s MacFarquhar said, and my active life of terror and support for terror was between 1976 and 1981. I offered him a video tape to prove to him the extent of Islamic terror recruitment which I was involved in on American soil during 1980-1981. He declined to examine my proof and chose to simply jump to the next issue asking for a verification that I was indeed in prison. I mentioned to him that a response which even OpEdNews.com will publish and in it the evidence for such claims will surely convince him, but instead he declined to examine the evidence and insisted on publishing his smear campaign article
After reporter Eileen Fleming made baseless claims about my credentials (click here to read Fleming's article) on OpEdNews.com, I contacted them and requested an opportunity to counter her claims and provide proof of my identity and credentials. After examining my evidence OpEdNews.com published my article (click here to read Shoebat's response), which provided damning evidence discrediting Fleming's claims.
Eileen Fleming was happy to announce that “Walid's entire biography is a manufactured fabrication. His handlers have taken one point and have twisted it and built up a fictional story.” Walid they claim “has built a lucrative speaking career by manipulating the fears and whipping up hatred between Jews and Muslims and he claims to be a former Islamic terrorist who has converted to Christianity.” She obtained all the facts and testimonies from my own family, they collectively testified against me.
Kamal Younis, Fleming's key witness, who currently lives in the U.S., failed to mention to her that his brother is the prominent attorney Jawad Younis who defended Abu Zubaydah a key aide to Osama bin Laden himself. Jawad even sent a letter alongside with other delegates to congratulate Nasrallah the terror king pin of Hezbollah for his attacks to kill Israeli civilians. Jawad was convicted by Israel in the good old days for his involvement and support for terrorism in the P.L.O and was exiled to Jordan where he became a prominent attorney and activist supporter of terrorists.
Thursday the smear campaign moved even upwards on the sewage-pipelines to be published in the New York Times who were not wiling to entertain the overwhelming evidence I could provide them to substantiate my story.
In no way can anyone just leave us alone to do our job in our effort to expose and oppose terrorism. We are constantly shunned, silenced, and discredited. We have had even our basic identity denied publicly on T.V, radio, Newspapers and university campuses across the West by entire groups of “decent” and “loving” Muslims who accuse me of being a “Christian Lebanese Falangist,” a person who “never lived in Palestine,” “was never Muslim,” “no one knows him in Palestine,” “nothing can be confirmed of his origin, name, or identity,” “a fabrication,” “liar,” “imposter,” “Zionist paid agent,” “doing it for Zionist money,” “Islamophobe disguised as X-terrorist,” and of course an infamous “racist.”
Even on university campuses entire Muslim groups unanimously claim that I am a liar, that in no Muslim country did there ever exist any persecution of Christians. When the students asked for a vote all hands erected up like a switch blade. No Coptic Christians suffer in Egypt, No Christians ever suffered persecution in Lebanon or Iraq. The Middle East is a safe haven for Christians. The lying is collective and in masse. I know, because I was once part of this collective lying machine. But there are so many in the West that love to aid and abet the collective attacks on anyone including repentant terrorists.
In fact, my Muslim family’s testimony provides many clues that were denied by so many who hate repentant terrorists, and are apologists for the active ones. My birth date, place of birth (Bethlehem), proof that I am a son of an American woman, my sister and brother “Walid was born in September of 1960 in Beit Sahour after his American mother and father returned there from America…His older sister and brother were born in the USA” all the denials of my origin are now proven bogus. In fact, Daniel Pipes of Middle East Forum who reads fluent Arabic examined my birth certificate himself. This can be found on: http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/27999 But Pipes is a right-winger, how could anyone believe him? Well, will anyone dare deny what is now confirmed by a left-wing reporter? It’s all now confirmed, but why do people have to wait for a leftist to confirm the truth?
Pipes examined many documents to prove not only my connection with that land, but my American family’s connection with Winston Churchill as I always claimed. Even my arrest and imprisonment is now verified, and for years I had to endure accusations that no one can verify I was ever in prison “In 1977 Walid was caught distributing Palestinian flags and was arrested and held for about two weeks in Mascubia [Russian Compound] Prison, until his mother went to the Embassy and got him released.”
Even my terrorist connection is verified “But, when he was in jail he met someone who invited him to join a group against Israel” This further collaborates that I was recruited by Mahmud Al-Mughrabi a known bomb-maker and was in prison as I claimed. Had Fleming did what she accused the Air Force of not doing (proper due diligence) and checked on files in the Russian Compound prison to find both myself, Al-Mughrabi and Abu-Sneineh who served these short term prison time, she would have realized her stupidity to trust and eat out of the den of a pigsty. Let’s not forget, Mahmoud Al-Mughrabi was a very close relative of Dalal Al-Mughrabi who killed more then 30 Israelis in a bus operation. Even my bank operation is verified, of course with a denial of an actual explosion “In 1977 Walid and his friends put packages behind a bank, but there were no explosives in it.” Does it make any sense that my entire family since 1977 remembers such and uneventful event of us placing empty boxes on the roof of a bank?
Eiad, another family member is wanted by the United States of America for money laundering and for a major fraud scandal of millions of dollars and is currently in hiding from U.S. authorities. This alongside other family members who drained by fraud the social security system collecting Social Security checks while living overseas by manipulating their identities. This and the siphoning of Social Security is all linked to financial terrorism. Even their citizenships is fraud. Eiad who claimed to be a Mexican Farm worker while working for Cal-Trans bribed and obtained fake documents should not have been granted a U.S. citizenship.
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