Mouaz Moustafa

Washington D.C., Syria

Causes:

Community Empowerment

Mouaz Moustafa was born and raised in Damascus, Syria before moving to the United States as a teenager. He earned a degree in political science from the University of Central Arkansas and went on to spend four and a half years working in Congress as a staffer for U.S. Congressman Vic Snyder and for U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln. Mouaz left the Hill to work briefly with the U.S.-based branch of Egypt’s opposition party at the onset of their revolution. Mouaz then transitioned to working with leaders of the Libyan revolution as the Executive Director of the Libyan Council of North America and Political Director of the Libyan Emergency Task Force. In 2011, the wave of Arab Spring revolutions reached his native Syria and the conflict quickly turned violent. Mouaz sprang into action, helping a group of his fellow Syrian-Americans to launch the Syrian Emergency Task Force.

The Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF) aims to support the demands of the Syrian people for freedom and democracy while also addressing the colossal humanitarian crisis the war has created. SETF works with leaders in Congress, the White House, the State Department, NGOs, and the United Nations to advocate for the protection of civilians in Syria. SETF also operates several humanitarian projects inside Syria including a school for orphans in the Northern Idlib Provence and a bakery that provides bread to thousands affected by the war. SETF also helps to document the horrendous war crimes that have been committed against Syrian civilians to bring justice and accountability to those in power.

Our Collaboration:

MNSF began working with Mouaz and his team in 2017 when the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum first introduced us to their incredible work in Syria. We have since helped them to launch the Tomorrow’s Dawn Women’s Center in Idlib Province which provides women with education, professional training, and psychological therapy, and creates an amazing bridge between the American people and Syrian women who have been living with little hope for the future. We have also provided critical general operating support to help the organization sustain and grow its important programs.

https://mnsfoundation.org/leader/mouaz-moustafa/

>>16041002

Passenger bashed in head with coffee pot after trying to storm cockpit mid-flight from LA to D.C.

February 14, 2022

It was a turbulent ride for passengers on board American Airlines Flight 1775 on Sunday when a coast-to-coast flight from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. was diverted to Kansas City after an “unruly” passenger ran amok.

The flight departed from LAX at about 11:15 a.m. and was bound for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in the nation’s capital but made an emergency landing at Kansas City International Airport where it arrived around 2:30 p.m. due to the ruckus after passengers and flight attendants subdued the yet to be identified man.

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In the middle of the flight, the agitated individual allegedly attempted to storm the cockpit and later tried to open a door to exit the plane in midair, leading to the dramatic struggle to get him under control.

(Video: Fox 4 Kansas City)

One eyewitness, Mouaz Moustafa posted a video to Twitter along with his account of what happened.

“A flight attendant comes to the middle of the plane where I am, yells to another flight attendant in the back to turn on the lights. At this time, the plane starts descending very rapidly, I think we reached 5,000 feet per minute,” he said, according to Fox 4 Kansas City.

Moustafa added, “As that’s happening, a lot of people don’t know what’s really going on. I mean, people assume, maybe something happened to the pilot, maybe we’re just literally crashing. So, a lot of people, including me, honestly thought we might, this might be it.”

“One of the flight attendants jumps all the way to the back and grabs a coffee pot and walks up to the front,” he said. “There’s a man who’s trying to get into the cockpit, and afterwards, also tried to open the door to get out the plane. So, some of the passengers that were very heroic, helped the flight attendant who went to the back and got the coffee pot, came up and kept, sort of, bashing him in the head,” Fox 4 reported.

In a video posted to Twitter showing the man on the floor, Moustafa wrote, “passengers held the individual and a flight attendant used a coffee pot to subdue him as the plane descended rapidly. the man was bleeding as the police in this video are taking him off the flight after landing in Kansas.”

In additional tweets about the harrowing experience, Moustafa posted a screenshot showing the plane’s rate of descent during the incident.

“The flight descended 30 thousand feet in about minutes. Flight was dropping and veering as people struggled to subdue the individual attempting to open the door of the plane. Usual descent is 500-700 but our plane was descending at 5000!!!”

He also shared a video that a friend sent him showing the flight path of Flight 1775 as it was diverted to KCI.

The FBI was on the scene when the plane landed and took the unruly passenger into custody.

According to a statement issued by the Kansas City FBI office: “Earlier today, an American Airlines flight originating from Los Angeles Airport (LAX) en route to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) was diverted to Kansas City International Airport (MCI). The flight was diverted due to an unruly passenger interfering with the flight crew. The individual has been taken into custody. As this is an ongoing matter, the FBI is unable to comment further.”

FBI agents also spoke to passengers on the plane after the unscheduled stop as flight attendants cleaned up, according to another video posted by Moustafa.

The Association Of Professional Flight Attendants posted a statement to Twitter on the incident.

“This violent behavior must stop. APFA will continue to collaborate with other Flight Attendant and Customer Service Agent Unions, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and Congress to ensure these offenders are prosecuted to the full extent of the law with appropriate fines, criminal penalties, and applicable flying bans,” the organization wrote.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/02/14/passenger-bashed-in-head-with-coffee-pot-after-trying-to-storm-cockpit-in-flight-from-la-to-d-c-1200835/

>>16041033

Syrian News Free Press

MOUAZ MOUSTAFA, A SHAMEFUL SYRIAN RENEGADE, CALLS FOR BOMBING ON HIS LAND & PEOPLE

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Abby Martin, Breaks the Set, from Russia Today, is talking to Brian Becker, of the ANSWER Coalition, and Mouaz Moustafa, of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, about whether or not the US should militarily intervene in Syria's civil war, citing the rhetoric of chemical weapons, humanitarian intervention, and the lack of public support for a strike

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recorded from Russia Today satellite television

on September 4, 2013

by SyrianFreePress.net Network

http://www.syrianfreepress.net/

https://youtu.be/VMI2M6aDBuQ