Mamdani Blamed U.S. for Al Qaeda Leader's Terrorism

In the latest incident of Zohran Mamdani’s history coming back to haunt him, the Islamist Socialist candidate had in the past suggested that law enforcement was responsible for Anwar Al-Awlaki, the head of Al Qaeda in Yemen, becoming a Jihadist. The context for Mamdani’s tweets is a New York Times article which describes the (useless) FBI surveilance of Al-Awlaki due to his ties to the 9/11 hijackers even as the Bush administration and the media brought him out as a representative of “moderate Islam”. The premise of the Times was...