Listening to “ex-terrorist” Kamal Saleem tell his life story is like listening to the Forrest Gump of terrorism as he relates who he was an extremely important figure working in terror networks ranging from Al Qaeda to those established by Moammar Gadhafi to Saddam Hussein.
Recently, Saleem has become the Religious Right’s favorite ex-Muslim as he spreads some of today’s craziest and wild conspiracies which the Right seemingly accepts uncritically despite the fact that his biography is rather questionable.
For the last week, Saleem has been the featured quest on Liberty Counsel’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program where he has been regaling Mat Staver with tales of being trained to be a terrorist from the age of seven, when he first led a mission to smuggle weapons into Israel from Syria.
As Saleem explained today, that mission was such a success that he became a hero and was then tasked with recruiting other children for future missions, which he succeeded in doing. Saleem claims that he recruited another child named Mohammed but only after promising Mohammed’s mother that he would let nothing happen to him and that Mohammed would return alive.
Now eight years-old, Saleem claims to have led a second weapons smuggling mission into Israel, only this time, when they emerge from the tunnel they had used to sneak into the country, they were confronted by the Israeli military “which started hitting us with everything they’ve got,” killing Mohammed after he “took shrapnel through his esophagus and severed his spine,” prompting Saleem to pick him up, put him on his shoulders, and run back across the border in Syria, with Mohammed serving as a shield to absorb the bullets being fired at him by the pursing Israeli soldiers:
Sounds plausible to me.
