Plano Mayoral Candidate’s Controversial Muslim Support

Hasna Shaheen Salam, Community ActivistHasna Shaheen Salam is a prominent resident of Plano, where she is co-chairwoman of a city advisory group called the Plano Multicultural Outreach Roundtable, as well as a former president of the Texas Muslim Women's Foundation and an active and enthusiastic supporter for Harry LaRosiliere and his candidacy to become the next mayor of Plano.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/world/CHRIS-BRUMMITT-and--137642183.html

http://www.harry4mayor.com/13Supporters2.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PKRDP-JzaAMVideo of Muslim Forum Held for Harry at Salam Home

3:00am Friday Morning, November 18, 2011 Karachi, Pakistan

Pakistani Sindh Rangers, acting on information from terror suspects, raid an apartment on the 3rd floor of a building located in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar neighborhood. Just before reaching the door, there is an explosion and the officers find the suspect dead. He is identified as 36 year old Abdul Moeedul Islam, “a commandeering chief of al-Qaeda in Pakistan” who killed himself with a grenade. The suspect had “computers” and the US cash equivalent of over $1.5 million dollars.

They stated that “Mooed was a Yemen national, but also possessed Pakistani citizenship. He had come to Pakistan 13 to 15 years ago. He was trained in militant camps in Afghanistan and later appointed as al-Qaeda commander in Pakistan” and a few months earlier “had a dispute with his wife, who got a divorce from a court.”

The next day officials reveal that the dead al-Qaeda chief was an American and had a US passport with the name of Moeed Abdul Salam and son of Hasna Shaheen Salam.http://pakistancriminalrecords.com/2011/11/19/al-qaeda-commander-moeedul-islam-killed-in-karachi-raid/

http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2011/11/pakistani_rangers_kill_al_qaed.php

http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=10387&Cat=13

The Death of a North Texan in Pakistan

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088399/Moeed-Abdul-Salam-From-US-boarding-school-student-al-Qaeda-terrorist.html#axzz2KRmpmqlN

http://www.wfaa.com/news/world/CHRIS-BRUMMITT-and--137642183.html

From Plano to al-Qaida

Moeed Abdul Salam – al-Qaeda Operative?

Immediately, there were questions and suspicions about Moeed’s death and his connections to terrorists. An denials that Shaheen knew anything about her son’s activities with a-Qaeda. One report “did not find any link between the suspect and any local or international terrorist outfit and the suspect had no criminal or terrorism record” and noted it was odd the “Rangers did not let any other law enforcement agency have access to evidence or the blast site.”  After claiming their son’s body from the morgue, Moeed’s parents were reported to have said “that their son did not commit suicide” and asked that a “proper inquiry be conducted”.

In January 2012, Moeed death and connection to North Texas becomes public knowledge in a Dallas morning news article entitled “Family of man thought to be al-Qaeda operative is known for interfaith work in Dallas-Fort Worth”. Christopher Parr, who worked with Shaheen Salam at the Plano Multicultural Outreach Roundtable said that Shaheen Salam “doesn’t want to talk about it because it is too painful” and “they didn’t know where he was or what he was doing.” Other family friends echoed the premise that Salam’s parents didn’t know about his involvement in al-Qaeda, including Mike Ghouse, president of the Foundation for Pluralism in Dallas, who said “The one thing I can tell you is that his parents had nothing to do with it, his mother would not have put up with it.” Mohamed Elibiary, who is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, recalls that the Salam’s “were pillars of the community as I was growing up” in North Texas.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/302277/gulistan-e-jauhar-grenade-suicide-fia-report-casts-doubts-on-rangers-claims/

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/plano/headlines/20120118-family-of-man-thought-to-be-al-qaeda-operative-is-known-for-interfaith-work-in-dallas-fort-worth.ece

Was Shaheen Really Completely Unaware of her son’s Activism?

In spite of her friends’ adamant defense that Moeed’s mother “didn’t know where he was or what he was doing”, her Facebook activities hint otherwise.

Shaheen Salam had been a Facebook “friend” of her son Moeed Salam since 2009.

In August of 2011, she shared a link via Moeed Salam regarding the celebration of Laylat al-Qadr. A few weeks later, on October 14, “He had also recently linked to a document praising al-Awlaki martyrdom and to a message urging Muslims to rejoice "in this time when you see the mujahideen all over the world victorious“.

http://www.facebook.com/moeed.salam?fref=ts

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/plano/headlines/20120118-family-of-man-thought-to-be-al-qaeda-operative-is-known-for-interfaith-work-in-dallas-fort-worth.ece

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46037238/ns/us_news-life/

Mrs. Salam would have noticed that Moeed also posted this picture of the burning USA flag and American born terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a drone strike, ordered by

President Obama on September 30, 2011.

If the Americans want me, then let them find me, and Allah is the Best of Protectors. If Allah Almighty wills to save me from them. If the Americans were to spend all the wealth in the world, they will never reach me and if Allah wills that my death be at their hands,

or the hands of their agents, then this is my dream.”

Moeed Salam aka Abu Umar, al-Qaeda Operative

Any doubt of Moeed’s activism was erased when the Jihadi Media Outlet “Global Islamic Media Front” (GIMF) released a statement celebrated the death of “Yemeni citizen Abdel Moeed Bin Abd al-Salam aka “Abu Umar” noting.

“He established diffuse Jihadi media groups and trained his brothers who followed the path of the Jihadi media. He administrated many websites and Jihadi forums, and he guided and planned and attacked the enemy masterfully. He led the Jihadi forums and websites of splendor, attacking the strongholds of arrogance and infidelity, weakening the determination of its troops, and sabotaging their great media plans”.

“And after a period of time, in 2001, when the knights of Qaedat al-Jihad executed the Manhattan raid in the land of infidelity America where our hero lived with his family, our brother heard the news of the blessed operation from his father, and his yearning for Jihad and fighting in the path of Allah increased, as did his desire to live among the Mujahideen happily. So when the Crusader attack was launched on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, he changed his life completely and left all the comforts of the world and its concerns, dedicating his life to the support of Jihad and thwarting the oppression and aggression against the Islamic Ummah.” http://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/the-global-islamic-media-front-statement-on-the-martyrdom-of-one-of-its-command

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In the eleven months after Moeed’s death, Pakistani Taliban mounted at least ten

revenge attacks on Rangers.

The November 2012 attack “was the fifth deadly attack on paramilitary soldiers in Karachi within a span of just 11 months. Another five potential threats targeting Rangers have been averted within the same period, all of which seem to have taken off soon after the killing of Moeed Abdul Salam”.

If Moeed Salam was not a valuable asset of al-Qaeda, they put a lot

effort into “faking” it.http://tribune.com.pk/story/462872/attack-on-rangers-a-link-in-the-chain/

Shaheen Salam continues to be a big supporter of Harry

LaRosiliere, and still refuses to publically discuss the death of her son and his connection to the Global Terrorism Network.