A former
“Multicultural Relations” officer at the Ohio Department of Homeland
Security (OHS), who was terminated for falsifying his background and for
lying about being fired from an earlier teaching position at a community
college for improper sexual relations with a female student, filed a notice
today in Ohio state court dismissing his “defamation” lawsuit filed against
several national security experts. In the lawsuit, Omar Alomari
claimed that counter-terrorism experts Stephen Coughlin, John Guandolo,
Patrick Poole, and Todd Sheets had defamed him by exposing his role as a
former high-ranking official in the Jordanian government and his ties to
terrorist organizations. The American Freedom Law Center
(AFLC) represents the counter-terrorism experts in this
litigation.
Alomari, a Muslim who emigrated from Jordan in 1978, claimed that the
experts cast him in a “false light” by publishing false statements about
him and, as a result of these statements, the OHS fired him. Just
recently, however, a federal court determined that the OHS terminated
Alomari because he lied about his prior relationships to undisclosed
organizations on his OHS application for employment, and he also lied about
the fact that he lost his teaching position at Columbus State Community
College as a result of an inappropriate sexual relationship with one of his
female students.
In Alomari’s lawsuit, he alleged that counter-terrorism experts Stephen
Coughlin, John Guandolo, and Todd Sheets had defamed him during
counter-terrorism workshops and training sessions conducted for the
Columbus, Ohio, police department by exposing Alomari’s nefarious ties to
terrorists. Alomari also alleged that Patrick Poole had published
articles linking him to terrorists.
Alomari’s notice of dismissal came in response to a letter sent on behalf
of the experts by AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel David
Yerushalmi. In his letter, Yerushalmi accused Alomari and his attorney
of filing meritless and frivolous claims, and he gave them an
ultimatum: either dismiss the frivolous claims by today or face a
motion for sanctions. Alomari chose the former, and
his dismissal is with prejudice, ending this long-running
litigation.
Yerushalmi commented: “Alomari filed his original lawsuit in April
2013. After we filed a motion to dismiss, rather than respond to our
motion and defend his lawsuit, Alomari voluntarily dismissed his complaint
without prejudice. Under Ohio’s rules, this meant he could refile the
lawsuit within a year. Not surprisingly, he waited almost a year to
the day and refiled essentially the same complaint. This is classic
Muslim Brotherhood lawfare doctrine: use and abuse the legal system to
frighten anyone who might stand up to the Muslim Brotherhood and its
ongoing effort to insinuate operatives into sensitive government
positions.”
Robert Muise, also Co-Founder and Senior Counsel of AFLC, noted that this
second voluntary dismissal is, by the court’s rules, with prejudice and
finally brings this litigation to an end, remarking: “AFLC is the only
public-interest law firm that focuses on representing counter-terrorism
experts and others pro bono
who are threatened with litigation by the many Muslim Brotherhood front
groups operating in this country under the guise of Muslim civic
organizations. AFLC has demonstrated time and again that when you
confront Islamist lawfare with better and even more aggressive lawyering,
the truth and the Constitution win out. We want the counter-terrorism
experts outside the government and those whistleblowers working for the
government to know that AFLC is ready, willing, and able to defend their
legal rights. The time has come for patriotic Americans to stand up
against the jihadist threat abroad and right here at home.”
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