Altaf tells us that Shoebat's real name is "Walid Salameh" - Shoebat himself has been inconsistent on this point, sometimes claiming that Shoebat is a pseudonym for personal safety, and at other times asserting that he is indeed from the Shuyabat clan. Altaf also alleges that Keith Davies, Shoebat's "handler", is also known as "Qalman", and he tells us:

No ex-terrorist worth an ounce would put down his own family and this is a fact.  When we first found out about Keith Davies, a few years ago we recommended a Christian who came out of the ranks of the German Reich to hire Keith as a manager to tell the world about what the Nazis did and how they convinced the sixty million German population to turn against the Jewish people and many good Christians and Catholics too.  However, this Christian gentleman soon left Keith Davies...

The German Christian is not named, but is obviously Hilmar Von Campe (whom I wrote about here).

For details challenging Shoebat's supposed "PLO terrorist" past, Altaf quotes Eileen Fleming - whom Davies threatened to sue on the novel grounds that being accused of being a fake ex-terrorist is worse than being a real ex-terrorist - and the widely-discussed Jerusalem Post article. He adds:

This man may be a convert but is not a convert from terrorism or an ex-terrorist background.  It is clear he embellished his testimony because he knew he was going to make money out of it.  His actions speak louder than words.  He was converted by his American Christian mother who told him about the saviour while she lived in Israel with the family.  It was through her actions that Walid was converted but he would never admit that to you unless he repents of his past actions first.

His late Muslim father who married a Christian woman the poor man died in a nursing home in California not so long ago.  If he was so anti-Christian and anti-West then what was he doing marrying a Christian?  Why did he go and live in the USA if he hated the West? Walid claims that he was brainwashed from childhood.  Only foolish people can believe that a respectable Muslim family will allow their eight year old to be trained for jihad, this is pure fantasy and simply not true.

Respectable Muslim parents want to make their children doctors and Engineers not terrorists.   If you want truth then look at me I am an Engineer why not a terrorist like he claims?  My respectable Muslim family did exactly what I stated.  We have many engineers in our family but if you believe Walid they are all terrorists!!!

We would say Walid's parents the Muslim father and the Christian mother did a fairly good job because he became a programmer for a big sugar company in California.

Walid was never brainwashed by his parents.  He made up a nice tale.  Once I asked Walid why didn't you put more Bible prophecy in your book "Why I left Jihad" and less about yourself then he remarked "Ah people like to hear a sob story".

Altaf also makes claims about a disputed family inheritance, and that Shoebat has a Jewish ex-wife. There are other allegations of a personal nature which I won't repeat here; apologies for the lack of direct link, too. I have absolutely no idea whether Altaf's supposed revelations are true, and no endorsement should be inferred from the above. However, given Shoebat's current prominence and the controversy over his views concerning Muslims and Palestinian society, the spat is clearly in the public interest.

(Hat tip to a reader)