Obviously Omar Mateen's most fundamental point of inspiration was the Koran. But the Koran is filtered through various subsidiary religious preachers and thinkers. And this may have been Omar's Islamic muse.
The one Islamist who has been identified by a senior law enforcement source as a radicalizing influence on mass murderer Omar Mateen is presently at liberty despite having been convicted of murders of his own— along with shooting three police officers and wounding a fourth with a pipe bomb, as well as numerous robberies of banks and post offices, possession of explosives, and hostage taking.
He is now known as Abu Taubah, but his legal name remains the one used in a Nov. 5, 2012 government memo that summarized his criminal history:
“The defendant, MARCUS DWAYNE ROBERTSON, has been an extremist for many years. In the early 1990s, the defendant was a leader of the ‘Forty Thieves,’ which was a group of Muslims who conducted numerous armed robberies of Government installations and banks to generate funds that were used, among other things, to buy weapons and explosives. As part of his crimes, the defendant murdered several individuals; participated in assassination attempts; used pipe bombs, C-4, grenades, other explosives, and automatic weapons; participated in a robbery resulting in a hostage situation; and attempted the murder of police officers. Following the first Gulf War, the Forty Thieves stockpiled weapons and explosives in preparation to fight against the perceived threat of internment of Muslims by the United States. The defendant served as personal protection for the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel-Rahman, and personally gave over $300,000 of the stolen funds to mosques that the defendant attended.”
Beyond bank robbing, Abu Taubah also served as an Imam.
New court documents show a central Florida Imam is suspected of being involved in a travel network to send people overseas to commit violent jihad or holy war.
He's a former prayer leader of the Masjid Al-Ihsaan mosque in East Orange County. Federal agents said the Imam is really convicted felon Marcus Dwayne Robertson.
According to documents, during a recorded call, Jimenez told a confidential government source that Robertson told him "it was permissible or obligatory to kill members of the armed forces, specifically generals" and that Robertson showed him what a general's stars look like.
Jimenez also was recorded saying Robertson told him suicide bombings were "permissible," according to documents.
Surprising that he would turn up in a terrorist case. Sorry, in yet another terrorist case.
One problem with polygamy in the United States arises when it comes time to file a tax return. The IRS was not about to accept as dependent two wives and their respective children. Robertson told the Florida businessman who brought him down there that he needed a tax preparer who was flexible, but not of a particular ethnicity.
“This may sound funny, ‘I don’t like to work with black people,’” Robertson later testified. “Because there’s always some type of scam going on sometimes and I want the work done professionally.”
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Electronic eavesdropping recorded Jimenez telling an informant how Robertson had tutored him in various ways of killing and of Robertson wishing aloud that a huge tornado would wipe out America.
“May it destroy the land of the disbelievers,” he says in one recording.
The former Marine and brother of soldiers speaks of the importance of killing American service members.
“It’s obligatory… if you see them and you can kill them and get way with it,” Robertson said to Jimenez, according to court papers.
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As the innocents who died at the scene still lay inside the Pulse nightclub, FBI agents took Robertson in for questioning. He was soon after released because there was no legal reason to hold him.
At last report, he was again at liberty.
Maybe we ought to start denaturalizing and deporting enemies of this country. It's an idea so crazy that it might actually work.