Who is shoebat

It's a message Shoebat is selling based on his own background as a Palestinian-American convert to conservative Christianity.

Born in the West Bank, the son of an American mother, he says he was a Palestinian Liberation Organization terrorist in his youth who helped firebomb an Israeli bank in Bethlehem and spent time in an Israeli jail. Neither Shoebat nor his business partner provided any proof of Shoebat's involvement in terrorism, despite repeated requests. Back in his hometown of Beit Sahour, outside Bethlehem, relatives say they can't understand how Shoebat could turn so roundly on his family and his faith.

CNN's Jerusalem bureau went to great lengths trying to verify Shoebat's story. The Tel Aviv headquarters of Bank Leumi had no record of a firebombing at its now-demolished Bethlehem branch.

Israeli police had no record of the bombing, and the prison where Shoebat says he was held "for a few weeks" for inciting anti-Israel demonstrations says it has no record of him being incarcerated there either.

I ended up released. He said his own family has vouched for his prison time. But relatives CNN spoke to described him as a "regular kid" who left home at 18, eventually becoming a computer programmer in the United States.

Shoebat, now in his 50s, says he converted to Christianity in and began spreading the word about the dangers of Islam. He has been interviewed as a terrorism expert on several television programs, including a handful of appearances on CNN and its sister network, HLN, in and Since al Qaeda's attacks on New York and Washington, expertise on terrorism has been in high demand.

The department doesn't keep track of how much goes to speakers, nor does it advise officials on the speakers hired by states and municipalities. Shoebat spoke at a conference in South Dakota and was so well-received that he was invited back for the May event in Rapid City, according to state officials.

He warned the police and first responders gathered in the hotel conference rooms that the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah had operatives working in Mexico and that drug cartels were raising money with Islamic groups. But Shoebat also told the group there were 17 hijackers when there were And perhaps more surprising from a man who bills himself as a terror expert, Shoebat said the Transportation Security Administration could have stopped them.

The TSA wasn't created until after the attacks. Jim Carpenter, South Dakota's homeland security director, said Shoebat brought "a point of view that certainly is not mainstream.

But he said Shoebat's appearance was "a small portion" of the two-and-a-half-day conference. That's not the case," Carpenter said. Carpenter said there is "no fear of threat" from Islamic terrorism in South Dakota, where the last census reports showed the state's Muslim community made up less than one-half of 1 percent of the population. According to Rapid City's local newspaper, about two dozen Muslims live in the city. During Shoebat's presentation, he criticized Muslim organizations and told audience members to be leery of Muslim doctors, engineers, students and mosques.

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