Posted on 11/05/2009 12:18:55 PM PST by DCBryan1
Edited on 11/05/2009 2:37:55 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Twelve people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting spree at a Texas military base by what officials believe was possibly carried out by an Army officer.
The suspected gunman was identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan.
The shooter was killed and two other suspects, who are also soldiers, have been apprehended, Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone said.
The gunman used two handguns, Cone said. He wasn't sure if the shooter reloaded the weapons during the attack.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/58470
“Obama Administration is Stalling on Giving Congress Intelligence About Fort Hood Shooter, Says Hoekstra”
Monday, December 14, 2009
By Chris Neefus
SNIPPET: “(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, says the Obama administration is stalling in providing information to the leaders of the House and Senate and the congressional intelligence committees on the multiple murders allegedly committed by a radical Muslim Army officer at Fort Hood more than a month ago.
So far, the committee chairman and congressional leaders have received no detailed, substantive briefing on the event and what is known about its perpetrator.
“You know, they’re playing out the string,” Hoekstra said Thursday. “We’re going home next week, (and) they will have effectively made it through three months with giving no substantive briefings on Fort Hood.”
CNSNews.com asked Hoekstra whether it was “a constitutional affront not to have the Gang of 8 briefed on this?”
“Oh yeah, sure, absolutely,” said Hoekstra.
The Gang of 8 is a group of leaders from the House and Senate who by law are supposed to be briefed on U.S. intelligence activities when the matter is too sensitive to share with the full intelligence committees. The group includes the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees and the majority and minority leaders of each chamber.”
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=515413
VIEWPOINT
“Soldiers Of Allah Or Of America: Does Military Know — Or Care?”
By PAUL SPERRY
Posted 07:11 PM ET
(December 16, 2009)
IBD Special Series:
Jihadist 5th Column: Part 1 | Part 2
SNIPPET: “The Pentagon has launched a 45-day probe into the Fort Hood massacre, promising to find answers to why it happened and how it can be prevented from happening again. But the investigation may prove an exercise in futility, judging from PC remarks by military brass.”
SNIPPET: “Military brass appear to be doubling down on the political correctness that blinded them to warning signs telegraphed by the Quran-waving Muslim officer accused of the worst mass killing on a domestic military base in U.S. history and the bloodiest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.”
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http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=515484
VIEWPOINT
“The Terrorist-Certified Chaplains Who Minister To Muslim Soldiers”
By PAUL SPERRY
Posted 06:30 PM ET
(December 16, 2009)
IBD Special Series:
Jihadist 5th Column: Part 1 | Part 2
SNIPPET: “Lost in all the coverage of accused Islamic terrorist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s penetration of the military’s officer corps is a deeper problem within the military — its radical Muslim chaplain corps.
One of the groups the Pentagon turns to for clerics to minister to its growing ranks of Muslim soldiers is the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council. The group was founded by presumed “moderate” Muslim leader Abdurahman Alamoudi, who described his endeavor as “an excellent opportunity to show my community we have people who are patriotic.”
This flag-waving patriot turned out to be one of al-Qaida’s top fundraisers in the U.S., and is now serving 23 years in federal prison.”
Fort Hood shooter out of ICU.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580377,00.html
Thank you amom for the update.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/58737
“Administration Slow To Cooperate with Congress in Fort Hood Slayings Investigation, Senators Say”
Friday, December 18, 2009
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
SNIPPET: “(CNSNews.com) – Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) told reporters earlier this week that information-sharing policies between the federal government and the U.S. military do not seem to have evolved since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by Islamic extremists that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.
The senators said the Obama administration took too long to brief the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on the Fort Hood shootings. The Senate panel has launched its own investigation into the Nov. 5 slaying of 13 people at the Army base in Killeen, Texas.
Lieberman and Collins, the committee’s chairman and ranking member, respectively, said although a recent closed-door meeting with Defense Department officials on the Fort Hood shootings was “helpful,” the Obama administration is not being transparent about its investigation into Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, a Muslim with ties to Islamic extremists, who is charged with the killings. The senators said the administration is not fully cooperating with the congressional probe of the case. “
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581053,00.html
“Imam Linked to Ft. Hood Rampage Believed Among 30 Al Qaeda Killed in Airstrike”
Thursday, December 24, 2009
SNIPPET: “Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical imam in Yemen with alleged terror links, whom Maj. Nidal Hasan corresponded with.
The radical Muslim imam linked to the rampage at Fort Hood is believed to have been killed in a Yemen airstrike that may have also taken out the region’s top Al Qaeda leader and 30 other militants, a security official told Reuters on Thursday.
The raid in Yemen’s east targeted an Al Qaeda leadership meeting held to organize terror attacks. It is believed to have killed Anwar al-Awlaki and at least two senior members in the organization, including the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
“Awlaki is suspected to be dead [in the air raid],” Reuters quoted an unnamed Yemeni official as saying.
The head of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasser al-Wahishi and his deputy, Saeed al-Saudi Shahrani, were present at the meeting and are believed to have died, but their deaths could not immediately be confirmed.”
UPDATE to post no. 2766:
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/12/radical_us_cleric_su.php
“Radical US cleric survived airstrike in Yemen: family”
By BILL ROGGIO
December 25, 2009 8:05 PM
SNIPPET: “The radical US cleric who is thought to have advised three of the Sept. 11 hijackers as well as the Muslim-American US Army major who went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, survived Thursday’s airstrike in Yemen’s Shabwa province.
Friends and relatives of Ansar al Awlaki claimed he was not killed in the attack, but they refused to disclose if he was in attendance at a meeting of al Qaeda leaders when it was hit by what the Yemeni government claimed were Yemeni Air Force fighter-bombers.
Awlaki was thought to have been attending a high-level meeting of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Dec. 24. He was at the meeting to provide the needed religious justification for a planned al Qaeda campaign to conduct attacks against Yemeni and US targets in response to the controversial Dec. 17 airstrikes against al Qaeda in Abyan and Sana’a, US intelligence officials told The Long War Journal.
Among those believed to be at the meeting were Nasir al Wuhayshi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula; his deputy Said al Shihri; and Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al Quso, an al Qaeda operative wanted by the FBI for his role in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. Wuhayshi and Quso are also thought to have escaped the strike, while the status of Shihri is still unknown.”
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Anwar Al Awlaki: They Only Wish To Deceive Us
Friday, 25 December 2009 14:22 Abu Shabab
Last Updated on Friday, 25 December 2009 14:26
www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/nefaAQIYChristmas1209.pdf
www.nefafoundation.org/documents-area-yemen.html#aqiytgtairports
www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/nefaAQIYTGTAirports1209.pdf
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/12/al-qaida_in_yemen_claims_respo.php
“Al-Qaida in Yemen Claims Responsibility for Christmas Day Airline Terror Plot”
By Evan Kohlmann
SNIPPET: “Al-Qaida’s network in Yemen (otherwise known as “Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula”) has issued an official communique claiming responsibility for the failed terrorist bomb plot targeting a Delta/Northwest airliner traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day. The communique included original photographs of would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab grinning in front of an Al-Qaida banner. The group acknowledged that the device had failed to properly detonate, but promised that it would “continue on this path until we achieve success.” The statement also congratulated Ft. Hood shooter Maj. Malik Nidal Hasan and urged fellow Muslims to follow in his footsteps and kill American soldiers.
A complete translation of the communique from AQIY/AQAP can be accessed via the NEFA Foundation website.
December 28, 2009 08:51 PM
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2417130/posts
Muslim Cleric Anwar Awlaki Linked to Fort Hood, Northwest Flight 253 Terror Attacks
ABC World News ^ | Dec. 29, 2009 | RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Posted on December 29, 2009 12:03:00 PM PST by jersey117
Most Americans have never heard of Anwar al Awlaki, but the radical Muslim cleric who may have inspired a young Nigerian man to try to blow up a plane on Christmas Day has been linked to the alleged perpetrators of the deadliest terror attacks on U.S. soil this decade, from 9/11 to the massacre at Fort Hood....
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1472411/posts?page=66#66
To: RWR8189; Cindy; Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472411/posts?q=1&;page=41
...HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW TODAY about Ahmed Hikmat Shakir. In August 1999, Shakir, a 37-year-old Iraqi, accepted a position as a “facilitator” at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A “facilitator” works for an airline and assists VIP travelers with paperwork required for entry and other logistical issues. Shakir got the job because someone in the Iraqi embassy in Malaysia wanted him to have it. He started that fall.
Although Shakir officially worked for Malaysian Airlines, his contact in the Iraqi embassy controlled his schedule. On January 5, 2000, Shakir apparently received an assignment from his embassy contact. He was to escort a recent arrival through immigration at the airport.
Khalid al Mihdhar, a well-connected al Qaeda member who would later help hijack American Airlines Flight 77, had come to Malaysia for an important al Qaeda meeting that would last at least three days. (Shakir may have also assisted Nawaf al Hazmi, another hijacker, thought to have arrived on January 4, 2000.)
Malaysian intelligence photographed Shakir greeting al Mihdhar at the airport and walking him to a waiting car. But rather than see the new arrival off, he hopped in the car with al Mihdhar and accompanied him to the meeting.
Malaysian intelligence has provided its photographs to the CIA. While U.S. officials can place Shakir at the meeting with the hijackers and several high-ranking al Qaeda operatives, they do not know whether Shakir participated actively. (Also present at the meeting were Hambali, al Qaeda’s top man in South Asia, and Khallad, later identified as the mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole.)
The meeting concluded on January 8, 2000. Shakir reported to work at the airport on January 9 and January 10, and then never again. Khalid al Mihdhar and Nawaz al Hazmi also disappeared briefly, then flew from Bangkok, Thailand, to Los Angeles on January 15, 2000. Shakir, the Iraqi-born facilitator, would be arrested six days after the September 11 attacks by authorities in Doha, Qatar. According to an October 7, 2002, article by Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, “A search of Shakir’s apartment in Doha, the country’s capital, yielded a treasure trove, including telephone records linking him to suspects in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and Project Bojinka, a 1994 Manila plot to blow up civilian airliners over the Pacific Ocean.” (Isikoff, it should be noted, has been a prominent skeptic of an Iraq-al Qaeda connection.)
Shakir had contact information for a lot of bad people. As noted, one was a Kuwaiti, Ibrahim Suleiman, whose fingerprints were found on the bombmaking manuals U.S. authorities allege were used in preparation for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Suleiman was convicted of perjury and deported to Jordan. Another was Musab Yasin, the brother of 1993 Trade Center bomber Abdul Rahman Yasin. Yet another was Zahid Sheikh Mohammed, brother of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, now in U.S. custody. Shakir also had an old number for Taba Investments, an al Qaeda front group. It was the number long used by Mahmdouh Mahmud Salim, the highest-ranking Iraqi member of al Qaeda. According to testimony from al Qaeda informants, Salim maintained a good relationship with Saddam’s intelligence service.
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Who was it that Hikmat Shakir’s charges future 9/11 hijackers Khalid al Mihdhar and Nawaz al Hazmi, met with after their arrival in Los Angeles and later followed all the way to his new mosque in Falls Church, Va?
Imam Anwar al Awlaki / al Aulaqi, the Imam of Major Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter who wanted to try US troops assigned to him as his patients for war crimes and who opted to just murder 14 other US troops at fort Hood in November 2009.
Who was the inspiration of the Fort Dix plotters?
Imam Anwar al Aulaqi.
Who helped the crotch bomber Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab of Nigeria make his preparations to murder more than 200 people on Christmas Day this year when the bomber visited Yemen?
Imam Anwar al Aulaqi.
Given how the 9/11 Commission’s libs relegated Hikmat Shakir’s involvement with the perps in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing on up to the perps of the 2000 USS Cole bombing and even 9/11 hijackers to the footnotes...
No wonder the libs are freaked out over Ft. Hood and this latest attempt on an aircraft.
66 posted on December 29, 2009 11:32:10 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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“Revolution Kids - Education Time With Farfour: Episode 1 Iraq & Fort Hood For Toddlers & Americans”
Video Description - Quote:
IslamicRevolutionTV
November 16, 2009
Revolution Muslims presents the first of many in our new series for kids, ‘Revolution Kids’ and educational program with the well known Farfour. In this first episode Farfour explains to kids the reality behind some minor details of Iraq and the recent events of Fort Hood.
Even though this program is for kids, we have noticed many Americans lack the basic understanding to grasp most of what we say when we speak on an intellectual platform. So this program can also be for those Americans who have issues understanding our usual material that we put out.
Category: Education
Tags: farfour hamas revolution muslim kids fort hood nidal hassan iraq massacre military base americans palestine israel jews
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“Revolution Kids – Education Time With Farfour: Episode 1 Iraq & Fort Hood For Toddlers & Americans”
2009 DECEMBER 30
tags: Fort Hood, Muslim, New York, News, Nidal Hasan, Politics, Radical Islam, Revolution Muslim, Saddam Hussein
by Liz Blaine
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/12/imam-tied-to-fort-hood-and-flight-253-jihadists-wrote-in-october-that-yemen-would-soon-be-a-big-play.html
(WALL STREET JOURNAL, December 31, 2009)
“Imam tied to Fort Hood and Flight 253 jihadists wrote in October that Yemen would soon be a big player in the global jihad”
ADDING to post no. 770:
Note: Video included.
“Houston Muslim group hawked Al-Qaeda imam al-Awlaki’s writings even after Fort Hood jihad massacre”
SNIPPET: “This is the group that held a conference attended by the Flight 253 jihadist.
“Houston-based group hawked Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki’s cds even after Ft. Hood massacre, Undie-bomber attended their “Ilmfest” conference,” from The Jawa Report, December 31:”
Blog:
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/12/why-did-nidal-hasan-read-the-middle-east-forum
Daniel Pipes Blog
“Why Did Nidal Hasan Read the Middle East Forum?”
by Daniel Pipes
December 30, 2009
Translations of this item:
French
A startling fact just emerged in the course of some routine maintenance work on the mailing lists for www.DanielPipes.org: One “Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan” has been subscribed as nidalhasan@aol.com since March 2009 to all the Middle East Forum mailing lists, including my own. He opened some but not many of the mailings.
In addition to the name, there are several reasons to think this is the butcher of Ft. Hood: He received the mailings for over half a year before his identity became notorious; he has not opened any e-mails in a while, presumably since he has been jailed; and a search for nidalhasan@aol.com on the internet finds this address associated with the Texas jihadi (for example, by the Northeast Intelligence Network)..”
COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "NEFA BACKGROUNDER: SGT. MAJOR HASAN AKBAR AND 2003 ATTACK ON FELLOW SOLDIERS" by Madeleine Gruen (SNIPPET: "In Kuwait, in March 2003, Army Sgt. Major Hasan Akbar killed two fellow military officers and wounded 14 others in an attack that bore many similarities to the November 5, 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood by Muslim American Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Both Akbar and Hasan were born and raised in the United States, and both had personal, academic, and military careers punctuated with difficulty and failures. Both were influenced by militant brands of Islam...") (January 7, 2010)
Speaking of Yemen...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2423399/posts?page=17#17
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2423399/posts
Suspect in Soldier Attack Was Once Detained in Yemen (The almost forgotten terrorist attack)
NY Times ^ | 6/3/2009 | JAMES DAO and DAVID JOHNSTON
Posted on January 7, 2010 2:57:29 PM PST by tobyhill
A 23-year-old man charged with killing one soldier and seriously wounding another in a shooting outside an Army recruiting office in Little Rock, Ark., was once detained in Yemen for possessing a fake Somali passport and other counterfeit documents, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
The episode in Yemen prompted a preliminary inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other American law enforcement agencies into whether the man, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, had ties to extremist groups, the officials said. But that investigation was inconclusive, they said, leaving the bureau with insufficient evidence to wiretap his phone or put him under surveillance.
It is not clear when Mr. Muhammad, an American convert to Islam who was traveling on a valid United States passport, was detained in Yemen or why he would have been carrying counterfeit documents. His detention in Yemen was first reported Tuesday by ABC News.
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http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20100108_release.pdf
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ODNI News Release No. 04-10
January 8, 2010 www.dni.gov
DNI ASKS JOHN E. MCLAUGHLIN TO HEAD GROUP
THAT WILL EXAMINE RECENT INTELLIGENCE CHALLENGES
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair announced today that he has asked John E. McLaughlin, a former Acting Director of Central Intelligence, to head a small group of national security experts who will look into recent challenges facing the Intelligence Community.
The group will review the Dec. 25 bombing attempt by alleged terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard Northwest Flight 253, and the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood, allegedly carried out by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan.
The DNI has requested a careful examination of the sequence of events leading up to both incidents, as well as proposals to remedy potential weaknesses in intelligence systems and procedures that these incidents exposed.
“John McLaughlin is especially well-qualified to lead an independent assessment in this area and provide candid, constructive guidance to improve our future performance,” Blair said. “I am pleased that his more than three decades of experience and wide range of leadership responsibilities in intelligence will once again be put to use in service to our country. I thank him for accepting this assignment, and look forward to receiving the results of his work.”
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GUARDIAN.co.uk: "UK MUSLIM TV CHANNEL LINKED TO AL-QAIDA CLERIC AL-AWLAKI" by Jamie Doward (SNIPPET: "The channel's chief executive officer, Mohamed Ali Harrath, has been on an Interpol wanted list since 1992...") (January 10, 2010)
Blog:
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/23632.htm
“Yemeni Official: Christmas Day Bomber Abdulmutallab Met in Yemen with Extremist Sheikh Anwar Al-’Awlaqi”
SNIPPET: “Yemeni Deputy Prime Minister Rashad Al-’Alimi said that Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who attempted to bomb Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas Day, had hidden in the Shabwa governorate in Yemen, where he met with extremist sheikh Anwar Al-’Awlaqi (who is also suspected of having been in contact with Major Nidal Hasan of the Ft. Hood shooting).”
Posted January 8, 2010
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