Posted on 11/09/2009 9:44:02 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON — Intelligence agencies intercepted communications last year and this year between the military psychiatrist accused of shooting to death 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., and a radical cleric in Yemen known for his incendiary anti-American teachings.
But the federal authorities dropped an inquiry into the matter after deciding that the messages from the psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, did not suggest any threat of violence and concluding that no further action was warranted, government officials said Monday.
Major Hasan’s 10 to 20 messages to Anwar al-Awlaki, once a spiritual leader at a mosque in suburban Virginia where Major Hasan worshiped, indicate that the troubled military psychiatrist came to the attention of the authorities long before last Thursday’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood, but that the authorities left him in his post.
Counterterrorism and military officials said Monday night that the communications, first intercepted last December as part of an unrelated investigation, were consistent with a research project the psychiatrist was then conducting at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington on post-traumatic stress disorder.
“There was no indication that Major Hasan was planning an imminent attack at all, or that he was directed to do anything,” one senior investigator said. He and the other officials spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying the case was under investigation.
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What did they know and when did they know it?
He wasn’t “troubled”, he *was* Trouble.
I hate them.
For much more on this Jihad attack see this thread:
Fort Hood Texas: Free Republic Archives
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The cleric said, “He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people.”
Mr. Awlaki added, “The only way a Muslim could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the U.S. Army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of men like Nidal.”
Democrats are still pushing the theory he snapped, absolutely disgusting.
Let’s see the email and see if there are any red flags or are they CTA?
Let’s call it 9/11 round 2.
DC is still connecting their dots. Give me a break!
The more I hear / read about this case the more I feel we have reached the culmination of political correctness in this country. If this had been a white, christian officer with Hasan’s background of misdeeds, he would have been drummed out of the Army long ago without question.
I’m waiting for the politicians to blame the Army when they are the ones who micromanage political correctness in the military.
Lieberman’s dog-n-pony show won’t accomplish a thing. We need to clean House now before the place becomes unlivable.
They took action...they promoted him!
WHAT?!
The United States Government was criminally negligent?!
Who’d ‘a’ thunk it?
Hasan, Radical Cleric Had Contact
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WASHINGTON -- Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 at the Fort Hood, Texas, Army base, communicated 10 to 20 times with a radical Islamic cleric in Yemen who on Monday called Maj. Hasan a "hero" and criticized U.S. Muslim groups that condemned the killing spree.
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Officials from the FBI, Defense Department, and National Counterterrorism Center on Monday conducted briefings for lawmakers on Capitol Hill, where some are already announcing plans for their own investigation. FBI Director Robert Mueller ordered a review of his investigators' handling of the matter, officials said.
We’ve gotten ourselves into this position. If you allow extremists to live among you, you reap the consequences. Kick’em all out or it’s “hit and miss” with arrests and/or failure to arrest resulting in murderous rampages. This is BS. Of course, recent appointments by Obama of DEVOUT Muslims to Homeland Security posts adds fuel to the fire (Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). http://www.adc.org/) AND (Obama and Janet Napolitano Appoint Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development Source for announcement: Homeland Security Press Room. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/obama-appointment-arif-ali-khan-asst-secretary-dhs.html)
"Nidal Hassan(sic)Did The Right Thing"-Blog text of Anwar al Awlaki
Radical Imam Praises Alleged Fort Hood Shooter, Urges Muslims to 'Follow in Footsteps'
“I’m waiting for the politicians to blame the Army when they are the ones who micromanage political correctness in the military.”
That is exactly what their doing.
Gibbering, blithering, dithering incompetents!
Would that be through one of those FISA things that were so bad during the Bush Administration?
I kind of think a good 90% are radical and the other 10% are too old to give a darn about anything.
Well,...he hadn’t found a wife yet and he was into middle age,...so he decided to take the Martyr’s route...like his good book suggests.
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