Orlando Shooter: Deeper Hidden Ties to the FBI?By Jon Rappoport The website Cryptogon has pieced together some interesting facts, and a quite odd coincidence. Im bolstering their work. First of all, the Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, changed his name in 2006. As NBC News notes: Records also show that he had filed a petition for a name change in 2006 from Omar Mir Seddique to Omar Mir Seddique Mateen. Why is that important? Why is his original last name, Seddique, also spelled Siddiqui, significant? Because of a previous terrorism case in Florida, in which the FBI informants name was Siddiqui. And because that previous case may have been one of those FBI prop-jobs, where the informant was used to falsely accuse a suspect of a terrorist act. The New Yorker (cited above) has details: This is not the first time that the F.B.I. has attracted criticism from national-security experts and civil-liberties groups for generating terrorism cases through sting operations and confidential informants. In The Imams Curse, published in September, I reported on a Florida family that was accused of providing material support to terrorists. In that case, a father, Hafiz Khan, and two of his sons were arrested. The charges against the sons were eventually dropped, but Hafiz Khan was convicted and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. At Khans trial, his lawyer, Khurrum Wahid, questioned the reliability of the key [FBI] informant in the case, David Mahmood Siddiqui. Wahid accused Siddiqui, whod had periods of unemployment, of lying to authorities because his work as a confidential informant was lucrative. For his role in the case, Siddiqui had received a hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars, plus expenses. But in a subsequent interview with the Associated Press, Siddiqui stood by his testimony and motives: I did it for the love of my country, not for money. The website Cryptogon, which pieced this whole story together, comments: What are the odds that an FBI informant in a [previous] Florida terrorist case shares the same last name as the perpetrator of the worst mass shooting in U.S. historyalso in Florida[Omar Mateen] a lone wolf cop poser with multiple acknowledged contacts with the FBI, who was formerly listed on the terrorist watch list and associated with a suicide bomber while holding a valid security guard license? Indeed. And in case you think Siddiqui is a common last name, here is a statement from Mooseroots: Siddiqui is an uncommon surname in the United States. When the United States Census was taken in 2000, there were about 4,994 individuals with the last name Siddiqui, ranking it number 6,281 for all surnames. Historically, the name has been most prevalent in the Southwest, though the name is actually most common in Hawaii. Siddiqui is least common in the southeastern states. If for some reason the name Siddiqui throws you off, suppose the last name was, let me make something up, Graposco? A few years ago, an FBI informant in Florida, Graposco, appeared to have falsely accused a man of terrorist actsand in 2016, another Graposco, who changed that last name to something else, killed 50 people in a Florida nightclub shootingafter having been investigated twice by the FBI? Might that coincidence grab your attention? Againthe 2016 Orlando shooter had extensive contact with the FBI in 2013 and 2014. The FBI investigated him twice and dropped the investigations. The FBI used an informant in a previous Florida case, and that informant had the same last name as the Orlando shooter. Its quite possible the previous informant was told to give a false statement which incriminated a man for terrorist acts. You can say this is a coincidence. Maybe it is. But it seems more than odd. Are the two Siddiqui men connected? Was the Orlando shooter involved in some kind of FBI plan to mount a terror op that was supposed to be stopped before it went ahead, but wasnt? Was the Orlando shooter helped over the edge from having radical ideas to committing mass murder? I could cite a number of precedents. Here is one I reported on in 2014: There seems to be a rule: if a terror attack takes place and the FBI investigates it, things are never what they seem. Federal attorney Andrew C McCarthy prosecuted the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing case. A review of his book, Willful Blindness, states: For the first time, McCarthy intimately reveals the real story behind the FBIs inability to stop the first World Trade Center bombing even though the bureau had an undercover informant in the operationthe jihadists supposed bombmaker. In the first sentence of his hard-hitting account, the author sums up the lawyerlybut staggeringly incomprehensivereason why the FBI pulled its informant out of the terrorist group even as plans were coming to a head on a major attack: Think of the liability! The first rule for government attorneys in counterintelligence in the 1990s was, McCarthy tells us, Avoid accountable failure. Thus, when the situation demanded action, the feds copped a CYA posture, the first refuge of the bureaucrat. Thats a titanic accusation, coming from a former federal prosecutor. Yes, the FBI had an informant inside the group that was planning the 1993 WTC bombing that eventually, on February 26, killed 6 people and injured 1042. His name is Emad Salem, a former Egyptian Army officer. Present whereabouts unknown. Yanking Salem out of the group planning the Bombing was a devastating criminal act on the part of the FBI. But there is more to the story. On October 28, 1993, Ralph Blumenthal wrote a piece about Emad Salem for the New York Times: Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast. It began: Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer [Emad Salem] said after the blast. Continuing: The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used, the informer [Emad] said. The FBI called the plan off, but left the planners to their own devices. No harmless powder. Instead, real explosives. The Times article goes on: The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York Citys tallest towers. This is a shockingly strong opening for an article in the NY Times. It focuses on the testimony of the informant; it seems to take his side. Several years after reporter Blumenthal wrote the above piece, I spoke with him and expressed my amazement at the revelations about the FBIand wondered whether the Times had continued to investigate the scandal. Blumenthal wasnt pleased, to say the least. He said I misunderstood the article. I mentioned the fact that Emad Salem wasnt called as a prosecution witness in the 1993 WTC Bombing trial. Of course, why would the Dept. of Justice bring Salem to the stand? Would they want him to blame the FBI for abetting the Bombing? Again, Blumenthal told me I didnt understand. He became angry and that was the end of the conversation. I remember thinking: letting the bomb plot go forwardwhat else do you need for a criminal prosecution of the FBI? Here is an excerpt from one of those tapes Emad Salem made when he was secretly bugging his own FBI handlers. On this phone call, he talks to his Bureau friend John. Others have claimed this is an agent named John Anticev. The conversation is taking place at some point after the 1993 WTC Bombing. The main topic is Salems fees for services rendered as an informant. He apparently wants more money. He also wants to make sure the Bureau will pay him what theyve agreed to. During the conversation, Salem suddenly talks about the bomb. His English is broken, but his meaning is clear enough. When he finishes, his Bureau handler John just moves on without directly responding. Salem: we was start already building the bomb which is went off in the World Trade Center. It was built by supervising supervision from the Bureau and the DA and we was all informed about it and we know that the bomb start to be built. By who? By your confidential informant. What a wonderful great case! According to Salem, there was a bomb, it was built under FBI and DA supervision, Salem himself built it, and it exploded. Questions remain. Did Salem literally mean he built the bomb? Or was he claiming he successfully convinced others to build it? As a provocative agent for the FBI, did Salem foment the whole idea of the WTC attack and entrap those who were eventually convicted of the Bombing? Without his presence, would they have planned and carried out the assault? Was the truck bomb set off under the North Tower the only weapon? Were there other bombs? If so, who planted them? But the role of the FBI seems to be clear enough. They aided and abetted, and at the very least, permitted the 1993 attack on the Trade Towers. What about Omar Mateen in 2016, in Orlando? As the LA Times, reports, the FBI investigated him on two occasions (LA Times, June 13, Orlando terror attack live updates): While working as a courthouse guard in 2013, Mateen made inflammatory and contradictory statements to co-workers about having relatives in Al Qaeda, the radical Sunni terrorist group, [FBI Director] Comey said. Mateen also claimed to be a member of Hezbollah, Lebanons Shiite militia, and his remarks drew an 11-month FBI investigation, Comey said. Both groups oppose Islamic State. Comey said the FBI also briefly investigated Mateen in 2014 for allegedly watching videos by Al Qaeda propagandist Anwar Awlaki and attending the same mosque as an American who would later become a suicide bomber for Al Nusra Front in Syria another Al Qaeda affiliate opposed to Islamic State. Both investigations were closed without charges. Did the FBI just investigate the Orlando shooter? Or did they in some way enlist him in an operation? Is it merely a terrible mistake that enabled the shooter to work nine years for G4S, the worlds biggest guarding company and one of the biggest contractors to the DHS, as Bloomberg News states? Is it merely a terrible mistake that G4S was aware the FBI was investigating the shooter in 2013 and did nothing about it? Or did some federal group intervene and tell all parties to leave the shooter alone and in placebecause he was part of an operation? (To read about Jons mega-collection, Power Outside The Matrix, click here.) Image Credit: TheFreeThoughtProject.com The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here. It sounds like a sting operation was going down, but live ammo got switched in somehow. By accident? By Mateens intent? We may never know. The news cycle may mysteriously end abruptly on this one. The actual case, this terror act witch I question because of the lack of wounded and so on, isnt the issue, all in its horror, but its the spin offs, as we read articles upon articles about, we all are ham-riders now, and of course the usual hate propaganda against Islam and Guns. THAT is the goal, as all the latest false flags have been about, and the agenda is totally MSM controlled. peace Keep an eye on your neighborhood FBI agent. Jon, youre quite wright about the FBI and their secret agenda. Some of us recall the first news stories from OKC following the bombing. It was reported on local TV that police had discovered unexploded bombs which had been planted in the building. Thanks to the FBI. that went nowhere. Isnt it sad that none of these agencies can be trusted. Its much worse than that none of these agencies can be trusted, as they appear to be to be the instigator and promoter of terrorism, part of an ongoing effort to enslave mankind. DO ANY FBI EMPLOYEES CONSIDER THEMSELVES TRAITORS TO THE NATION ? Wow, Joseph Congrad, youre amazingly prolific on Disqus alone! 9 comments one hour ago, 9 more two hours ago, and 15 three hours ago, etc, etc. All spewing extremely negative anti US and anti UK sentiments, most urging the Europeans to break away from their western allies. We know our governments are corrupt but we also know the govt you live under is at least equally corrupt with the historical tragedy of ten of millions of dissidents slaughtered at the hands of your leaders. Its human nature that psychopaths wiggle into positions of power all over the globe. The divide and conquer routine is not OK, even when a paycheck is attached. Thank you for that information. When I recently attempted to suggest a reason for the club attack in a response on Daily Kos, they pulled it and wouldnt allow it to be published. I have since unsubscribed from their blog. Censorship such as that has no place in a democratic internet regime. So, yes there are many including the alternate media that will withhold information and opinion from the public. If your comment is not politically correct and hits too close to the truth; exposing in a bad light our authorities many cowardly sites will not publish it. I guess it has always been thus but it is sad to see so many American institutions aiding and abetting those who are destroying America. Eventually the truth will out. The question is will this happen AFTER the iron fist to total tyranny prevents the truth from being uttered in public in any manner? Again, Blumenthal told me I didnt understand. He became angry and that was the end of the conversation. Jon, what is it precisely that you didnt understand? Or dont you understand? This was not made clear. Or did I miss something? Yes please. dont leave us hanging. What was it you didnt understand? Was Blumenthal under some threat? The dads last name is also Mateen would explain why the police chose to deliberate for 3 hours. If they were ordered to stand down I mean. 