Posted on 11/13/2009 6:27:17 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
Security Forces Pursuing Mastermind of Texas Attack
Yemen Post Staff
Yemeni security forces are currently pursuing cleric, Anwar Al-Aulaqi, who allegedly had links to N(i)dal Hassan who carried out the deadly attack in the port of Fort Hood army base, opposition media reported.
Reports have revealed that there were links between the two men where Hassan was frequently visited a mosque in the state of Virginia, in which imam Al-Aulaqi was leading prayers.
It is reported that the Yemeni authorities had arrested Al-Aulaqi in 2006, on suspicion of holding up religious militants to kidnapping foreigners, but he was released due lack of evidence of any direct link to Al-Qaeda.
It is also reported that Al-Aulaqi who uses its website to urge Muslims in the world to kill American soldiers in Iraq, had disappeared some eight months ago in Yemen.
The Yemeni security authorities say they believe Al-Aulaqi is hiding now a mountainous area in Yemen, which is believed to be one of the safe havens for Islamist militants.
According to investigations conducted by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Al-Aulaqi had sent Hassan 20 e-mail via the Internet in a few months last year.
A few days ago the Washington Post reported that investigators were looking into possible links between Al-Aulaqi, who was working as Imam of a mosque in Virginia, and officials in Al-Qaeda, including two of the perpetrators of the attacks of 11 September.
Hassan, who was a psychiatrist in the army, had opened fire from two handguns on the soldiers in a hospital in Fort Hood army base, before police were able to prevent him from shooting.
Yemen Post Staff
That's an easy one, He's in Japan right now praising himself and the dumb ass city that named itself after him. Otherwise if they miss him there, just tell the Yemen Security Forces to wait till he shows up again at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, D.C.
EVIL!
I would follow this angle very closely , if I were in the investigative reporter business.
By the way, "WELCOME TO FREE REPUBLIC".
discriminatee -- 13 November 2009
But some courageous, patriotic Republicans in Congress apparantly are stepping up to the plate, and leaking US intelligence which is showing prior USG knowledge of Major Hassan connection(s) to Middle East and South Asian terrorism, and with it, Jehadist intent--so that the libs and their coddling MSM are going to get embarrassingly boxed into a corner REAL SOON in my estimation.
Haman has really thrown a wrench in their plans to attempt to destroy Bush, the CIA and our military through allegations during the ‘trials’ hasn’t he?
LOL Flies are drawn to well... “THAT”.
MaYbE, just maybe foreign press will be our friends, and find out everything we need to know...if lieberman’s investigation does not. Maybe all of this grandstanding and apologist behaviour will self-destruct before Christmas.(prayers up!)
How reliable is this source?
thanks , for the ping :)
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According to investigations conducted by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Al-Aulaqi had sent Hassan 20 e-mail via the Internet in a few months last year.
They have three stories this one might be of interest:
Feds Point Fingers in Hasan Missteps
By Rob Quinn| Posted Nov 11, 09 5:43 AM CST
(Newser) – The FBI and the Pentagon are fighting off accusations that someone dropped the ball on Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. Department of Defense officials say that the FBI never notified them that Hasan had been in contact with extremist imam Anwar al-Aulaqi, while the FBI's defenders say that his exchanges with the Yemen-based imam were innocuous, and that Hasan's odd behavior should have raised red flags for military officials.
President Obama has ordered all agencies involved in national security to review how Hasan's case was handled, and FBI Director Robert Mueller has called for a probe into bureau procedures. The possible missteps over Hasan are especially worrying in light of the post-911 procedures set up to improve information-sharing and prevent attacks, counterterrorism experts tell the Washington Post.
Possible agency missteps debated
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Still, debate simmered even within FBI ranks about whether the bureau had been hampered by guidelines dictating when officials can open investigations, according to a government source.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president has directed agencies to evaluate what went wrong. And FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has ordered a "red team" of investigators to determine whether the bureau should have handled the information differently.
The FBI and Defense Department continue to assert that Hasan acted on his own, without direction from terrorists or radical elements, but they cautioned that the investigation could take "some time." Senior investigators have said that an alleged motive for Hasan, who has declined to talk to the FBI or the Army's Criminal Investigative Command, could long remain a mystery.
Irrespective of whether outsiders directed Hasan to allegedly commit the shootings, counterterrorism experts and former government officials say that the events indicate limits in the capacity to detect an actual terrorism plot, given that al-Qaeda has advocated infiltrating the U.S. and other militaries in the past, and that many attacks have involved people posing in uniform or using their military positions.
In a July 2006 propaganda video, for example, an al-Qaeda spokesman, California native Adam Gadahn, explicitly encouraged viewers with grievances against U.S. military actions in Iraq "to go on a shooting spree at the Marines' housing facilities at Camp Pendleton," according to the NEFA Foundation.
Investigators said that Hasan emerged last year only because he was in contact with Aulaqi, the subject of an investigation.
The Fort Hood tragedy: Why does it matter, or not, what we call it? Is it being politicized?
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James P. Pinkerton Fellow, New America Foundation :
If the Obama folks want to get a true sense of where they are, right now, they should look at the hard copy of the Washington Post this morning. On page one, above the fold, a Fort Hood story is headlined, "Possible agency missteps debated/Officials' handling of potential Hasan threat at issue." It's a damning account of failures of inter-agency cooperation, undoubtedly leavened with political correctness and ACLU-ish procedural punctiliousness. It's the same sort of blame-game story we read after 9-11. Instead of CYA, we could call it CYTI--Cover Your Tragic Incompetence.
Inside the story, terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann is quoted saying, "I find it unbelievable the FBI was not worried -- regardless of the content of the communications -- that an author in the U.S. military outside his job responsibilities was trying to contact somebody who is one of the world's most famous [English-speaking] advocates of jihad."
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