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Dawud Salahuddin
Dawud Salahuddin (born 1950; sometimes spelled Daoud Salahuddin, also known as Hassan Abdulrahman, Hassan Tantai) is an American-born Iranian international terrorist, and worked for the military, as well as in education, as a web designer, film and television. He converted to Islam in 1980 and killed Ali Akbar Tabatabai the same year at Tabatabai's home in Bethesda, Maryland; Tabatabai was an Iranian dissident and critic of Ruhollah Khomeini. Salahuddin is a fugitive from justice living in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Salahuddin is the last person known to have seen Robert Levinson, a CIA agent who disappeared in Kish Island, Iran, in March 2007.
Dawud Salahuddin was born David Theodore Belfield in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on November 10, 1950. He grew up in Bay Shore, New York, on Long Island, in a church-going Baptist family of four boys and one girl.
According to Salahuddin, as an African-American child, the "most damage done" to him was the feeling he had that it was "an indecency, an insufficiency, certainly a shame not to be white".[citation needed] In 1963 he describes himself as having become politicized while watching news footage from Birmingham, Alabama, showing commissioner of public safety Bull Connor turn back civil-rights marchers with fire hoses and dogs, which caused him to develop "an implacable hatred toward all symbols of American authority".[citation needed] After graduating from high school, he attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., for one semester, but dropped out having lost interest in his classes.[citation needed]
He joined a military-type group but eventually left because it opposed his interest in Marxism. He met a musician and a Korean War deserter who convinced him that "Islam was the way for black men to find their destiny." He met most militant Islamic leaders in the U.S. and became more radicalized. He found himself at odds with the Chicago version of Islam taught by Elijah Muhammad. He changed his name to Dawud Salahuddin at this time and began to visit Ernest Timothy McGhee, who had changed his name to Hamaas Abdul Khaalis. Salahuddin frequented Khaalis' mosque. In 1973, when Khaalis' family was murdered Salahuddin had "a moment of clarity" and realized "that the Black Islamic leadership in America was being run by, like, the Mafia".
He was attracted to Islam because he thought it was "color-blind," and he converted at the age of 18. He frequented an Iranian student center run by Bahram Nahidian. During the early 1970s, he visited prisons around Washington, D.C., to "bring the message of Islam to black inmates." He met Said Ramadan, an Egyptian lawyer and Islamic scholar, in 1975, and Ramadan later became his mentor. An article in the New Yorker quotes him stating that as an "angry and alienated" African-American, "my biggest aspiration was to bring America to its knees, but I didn't know how".
Salahuddin first worked for the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1980, shortly after the Islamic Revolution as a security guard at an Iranian interest office in the Algerian Embassy in Washington D.C. He accepted an assignment from the Islamic government to assassinate Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former member of the Shah's regime living in exile in Bethesda, Maryland.
According to a 2002 article in The New Yorker magazine, Salahuddin first attempted to convince his Iranian employers to let him kill a more prominent American target, such as Henry Kissinger or Kermit Roosevelt Jr.—the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt who orchestrated the 1953 plot to depose Iran's elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq.
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Dawud Salahuddin
Dawud Salahuddin (born 1950; sometimes spelled Daoud Salahuddin, also known as Hassan Abdulrahman, Hassan Tantai) is an American-born Iranian international terrorist, and worked for the military, as well as in education, as a web designer, film and television. He converted to Islam in 1980 and killed Ali Akbar Tabatabai the same year at Tabatabai's home in Bethesda, Maryland; Tabatabai was an Iranian dissident and critic of Ruhollah Khomeini. Salahuddin is a fugitive from justice living in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Salahuddin is the last person known to have seen Robert Levinson, a CIA agent who disappeared in Kish Island, Iran, in March 2007.
Dawud Salahuddin was born David Theodore Belfield in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on November 10, 1950. He grew up in Bay Shore, New York, on Long Island, in a church-going Baptist family of four boys and one girl.
According to Salahuddin, as an African-American child, the "most damage done" to him was the feeling he had that it was "an indecency, an insufficiency, certainly a shame not to be white".[citation needed] In 1963 he describes himself as having become politicized while watching news footage from Birmingham, Alabama, showing commissioner of public safety Bull Connor turn back civil-rights marchers with fire hoses and dogs, which caused him to develop "an implacable hatred toward all symbols of American authority".[citation needed] After graduating from high school, he attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., for one semester, but dropped out having lost interest in his classes.[citation needed]
He joined a military-type group but eventually left because it opposed his interest in Marxism. He met a musician and a Korean War deserter who convinced him that "Islam was the way for black men to find their destiny." He met most militant Islamic leaders in the U.S. and became more radicalized. He found himself at odds with the Chicago version of Islam taught by Elijah Muhammad. He changed his name to Dawud Salahuddin at this time and began to visit Ernest Timothy McGhee, who had changed his name to Hamaas Abdul Khaalis. Salahuddin frequented Khaalis' mosque. In 1973, when Khaalis' family was murdered Salahuddin had "a moment of clarity" and realized "that the Black Islamic leadership in America was being run by, like, the Mafia".
He was attracted to Islam because he thought it was "color-blind," and he converted at the age of 18. He frequented an Iranian student center run by Bahram Nahidian. During the early 1970s, he visited prisons around Washington, D.C., to "bring the message of Islam to black inmates." He met Said Ramadan, an Egyptian lawyer and Islamic scholar, in 1975, and Ramadan later became his mentor. An article in the New Yorker quotes him stating that as an "angry and alienated" African-American, "my biggest aspiration was to bring America to its knees, but I didn't know how".
Salahuddin first worked for the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1980, shortly after the Islamic Revolution as a security guard at an Iranian interest office in the Algerian Embassy in Washington D.C. He accepted an assignment from the Islamic government to assassinate Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former member of the Shah's regime living in exile in Bethesda, Maryland.
According to a 2002 article in The New Yorker magazine, Salahuddin first attempted to convince his Iranian employers to let him kill a more prominent American target, such as Henry Kissinger or Kermit Roosevelt Jr.—the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt who orchestrated the 1953 plot to depose Iran's elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq.