✈️✒️🗽9/11 Families Erupt After Mamdani Gives Ceremonial Pen To Lawyer Who Defended Al-Qaeda Operative New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing fierce backlash after giving a ceremonial pen used to sign two 9/11 executive orders to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem. Kassem previously represented convicted Al-Qaeda operative Ahmed al-Darbi, whose brother-in-law was one of the terrorists who hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 and crashed it into the Pentagon. For families of those murdered on September 11, the symbolism was impossible to ignore. “It’s BULLSHT. How can you defend a guy like that who wants to do Americans or any innocent person harm?” said a man whose brother was killed in the North Tower. Twenty-five years later, critics say New York’s leaders have already forgotten.
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