Via National Review:
Connecting dots between two of the two biggest terror attacks on U.S. soil.
According to Fox News, Omar Mateen, the jihadist who carried out the mass-murder attack at a gay nightclub in Florida this weekend, was a student of Marcus Robertson, an Orlando-based radical Muslim who once served as a bodyguard to Omar Abdel Rahman — the notorious “Blind Sheikh” whom I prosecuted for terrorism crimes in the early to mid 1990s.
Robertson, a former U.S. marine with a serious criminal record, is now 47. That means he was in his early twenties when the Blind Sheikh lived in the New York metropolitan area. It was a commonplace in those days for the Sheikh to travel with an entourage, including bodyguards from various groups (e.g., his fellow native Egyptians, Palestinians associated with Hamas, Sudanese Muslims who lived in New Jersey, and — often in Brooklyn, where he frequented the Farooq and Taqua mosques — African-American Muslims, most of them converts to Islam).
If we want to play more ‘Six Degrees of Separation’, we could note that Ismaiiyl Brinsley, the Black Lives Matter/Islamist assassin of two NYPD officers in December went to the Masjid at-Taqwa (referred to as ‘Taqua’ in the article), as we reported after the killings:
And may also have attended the Farooq mosque:
Not to mention the relationship of the attacks in Benghazi to the Blind Sheikh as well, both the one in June 2012 and the more well known one September 11, 2012…