{"id":25847,"date":"2011-07-15T06:53:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T10:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25847"},"modified":"2011-07-15T06:53:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T10:53:54","slug":"stolen-valor-for-mujahadeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25847","title":{"rendered":"Stolen valor for mujahadeen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott sends us a CNN article<\/a> about famed anti-terrorist and former terrorist Walid Shoebat who has been making the speaking circuit condemning Islamic terrorism as a former participant since 2001;<\/p>\n

It’s a message Shoebat is selling based on his own background as a Palestinian-American convert to conservative Christianity. Born in the West Bank, the son of an American mother, he says he was a Palestinian Liberation Organization terrorist in his youth who helped firebomb an Israeli bank in Bethlehem and spent time in an Israeli jail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“I have never heard anything about Walid being a mujahedeen or a terrorist,” said Daood Shoebat, who says he is Walid Shoebat’s fourth cousin. “He claims this for his own personal reasons.”<\/p>\n

CNN’s Jerusalem bureau went to great lengths trying to verify Shoebat’s story. The Tel Aviv headquarters of Bank Leumi had no record of a firebombing at its now-demolished Bethlehem branch. Israeli police had no record of the bombing, and the prison where Shoebat says he was held “for a few weeks” for inciting anti-Israel demonstrations says it has no record of him being incarcerated there either.<\/p>\n

Shoebat says he was never charged because he was a U.S. citizen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that the Israelis would have no problem locking up a troublemaker in spite of his citizenship. Of course, there’s one of two things at work here; either CNN is trying to discredit Shoebat because he’s been a powerful voice against jihadists over the past ten years, or Shoebat is an opportunist profiting from American fears. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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