Posted on 09/16/2013 5:37:56 PM PDT by IChing
I’ve discovered some startling weirdness in the news of the day: A shooting rampage massacre was carried out this morning at an American military base in Washington, D.C., by a serviceman from the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of Texas, and has resulted in the deaths of thirteen people.
A shooting rampage massacre was carried out four years ago at a military base in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of Texas, by a serviceman from the Washington, D.C. area, and it resulted in the deaths of thirteen people.
It’s early in the investigation and information is still coming in, but as I sat down to write my report of today’s drama for ClashDaily.com, it occurred to me that the incident featured more odd correspondence with Major Nidal Hasan’s jihad attack at Fort Hood than only the number of confirmed dead.
Nidal Hasan was born and raised in the Arlington, Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. He shot dozens of his fellow U.S. Army personnel, killing 13, at Fort Hood, which is located just outside the greater Dallas-Ft. Worth area in Texas.
Aaron Alexis, this morning’s Navy Yard shooter, is reported by NBC News to be originally from Fort Worth, Texas (although, other sources have him from Brooklyn, NY). He shot dozens of his fellow U.S. Navy personnel, killing 13, at the Washington Navy Yard, which is located just across the Potomac River from Hasan’s hometown of Arlington, Virginia–incidentally, the site of the Pentagon.
I’m not suggesting any particular kind of conspiracy here, but it does seem like a bizarre set of ironic circumstances among the two attacks.
I live and work in the Washington, D.C. area, and I was driving past the Navy Yard on I-295 this morning as the horrific incident took place there. Not only was the highway scene chaotic with police vehicles screaming to try to get through the heavy rush-hour traffic to the base, there were multiple wrecks all over the place, and police had certain exits blocked off.
Later, in the afternoon, my work had me driving past the base again, and I contemplated the evacuated federal facilities and police-barricaded highway ramps. I reflected on the 9/11 attacks of a dozen years ago, the anniversary of which we observed just last week, and how the Washington, D.C. area was affected so much by that event. I also recalled how the “Beltway Snipers” held the entire D.C. area in their grip of terror for three weeks in 2002, as they drove around the District, and the suburbs of Maryland and Virginia, picking off random victims. Their victims, by the way, also happened to number thirteen killed and wounded–with additional victims suspected (but not completely confirmed) to be associated with the sick sniper spree jihad of John Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo.
As we learn more about Aaron Alexis and about the exact details of what happened at the Navy Yard today, we can be sure that various parties will politicize (already have, actually) the awful loss of innocent life to their own cynical advantage.
Today I witnessed and heard a couple of my fellow Beltway-area denizens seek to downplay and even ignore completely what was going on at the Navy Yard. Such people seem, to me, to be so jaded and calloused to the nearly routine terrorism threats and occasional occurrences of random, mass violence associated with life in and around our nation’s capital that they try to act as if they just can’t be bothered to focus their personal alertness on such events, possible or actual, anymore, much less meditate upon their meaning…as long as they can somehow distance themselves from the occurrences, and from the victims and perpetrators, in whatever way.
I can’t. I have to focus and meditate on the import of such happenings. It’s my work, and apparently it’s my nature. Furthermore, I have to wonder what the patterns mean, and what else–coincidences, conspiracies, and/or confluences included–we might find out about.
Stay tuned, stay vigilant, and stay weird. More will be revealed.
That’s what I thought...stay in touch.
/johnny
Ft. Hood is a little more than “just outside” Dallas-Ft. Worth.
150 miles in TX = ____ miles in D.C.?
Mentally ill...islam is a mental illness (introduced into its subject as a cult)...are you saying that Alexis might be--gasp--muslim?
At least you’re starting to demonstrate some ability to be weird. Now pull back from the map close-up and see the big picture.
I didn’t realize we’re next-door neighbors...proportionally speaking of course. Well, look at a map. AZ is just one little state away from Texas. Straight over, see?
Meaningless numerology. A blank mind desperately looking for connections where none exist.
/johnny
Texas is to D.C. as ______ is to Luxembourg
From a satellite in orbit, Dallas and Ft. Hood seem very close...
From the surface of Mars, even D.C. appears to be close to Dallas...
Hmmmm..
You might say - 270,000 square miles of area...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3066342/posts
Al-Qaida leader calls for attacks inside US [Obama’s “allies” in Syria]
Daytona Beach News Journal ^ | 13 sep 13 | MAAMOUN YOUSSEF
Posted on Friday, September 13, 2013 6:21:50 AM by xzins
Al-Qaida’s leader on Friday marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by calling on Muslims to strike inside the United States, with big attacks or small, using any opportunity they can to “bleed” America financially.
In an audio message released two days after the 12th anniversary of the attacks, Ayman al-Zawahri said America is not a “mythic power” and that the mujahedeen - Islamic holy warriors - can defeat it with attacks “on its own soil.”
Al-Zawahri, the successor to Osama bin Laden, used the anniversary to argue that the United States can be defeated by targeting its economy. At the same time, he also addressed the ongoing upheaval in the Arab world. Pointing to a power struggle going on within the rebellion against Syria’s regime, he warned jihadi fighters in that country’s civil war not “compromise” with more secular or moderate rebel factions, who he said would eventually turn against the al-Qaida-linked radicals.
Al-Zawahri, who is believed to be hiding in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border regions, said al-Qaida sympathizers should stage small attacks or a “big strike” against the United States, similar to the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, leaving America in “a state of tension” about when and where the next hit would come.
“We should bleed America economically by motivating it to continue its huge expenditure on its security as America’s weak point is its economy,
On Syria’s civil war, al-Zawahri addressed al-Qaida-linked jihadis - including many foreign fighters - who have taken an increasingly prominent role in the fight against President Bashar Assad’s regime.
“I warn my brothers in Syria against any compromise with those factions. They have to learn the lesson of Egypt,” al-Zawahri said. He was referring to the army-backed overthrow of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood.
FT Hood is NOT in the DFW area.
I sorta quit reading right there.
At times like this, I miss Michael Rivero.
cool..was just drivin through DC the other day....when I visit Texas at Christmas...I guess I can drive all over the damn place on a gallon or two...thanks for the heads up..
Look at a map of the U.S.
If your work involved profiling and pattern recognition and drawing analogous relationships among phenomena, would you say the same thing?
I don’t have to belabor all of this to people who don’t suffer from cognitive myopia.
No coincidences here.
In both cases individuals around the perp deliberately refused to say or do anything about the obvious signs that something was wrong and that they were dealing with a dangerous individual.
In one case it was about a member of the peaceful religion of peace. In the other, America’s first and foremost victim group.
That was the connection between the two events.
And yes, he might have been inspired by hasan.
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