DANIEL PIPES.org (FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "SUDDEN JIHAD OR 'INORDINATE STRESS' AT FT. HOOD?" by Daniel Pipes (SNIPPET: "When a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about motives.") (November 9, 2009)
PAJAMAS MEDIA.com - blog: "UNDERSTANDING FORT HOOD: NOTHING 'SUDDEN' ABOUT 'SUDDEN JIHAD SYNDROME'" by Rusty Shackleford (SNIPPET: "For instance, reports in the press claim that Hasan had been under investigation for posting about suicide bombings on the internet. A person with a name matching Hasan's wrote the following in refutation to moderate Muslims who condemned suicide bombing:" SNIPPET: "And if this is what Hasan is writing under his own given name, one is left to wonder just how extreme any other thoughts belonging to him but written under a nickname -- the norm on the internet -- would be.") (November 7, 2009)
PAGE SNIPPET: "NidalHasan There was a grenade thrown amongs a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them. He inentionally took his life (suicide) for a noble cause i.e. saving the lives of his soldier. To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers. If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory. Their intention is not to die because of some despair. The same can be said for the Kamikazees in Japan. They died (via crashing their planes into ships) to kill the enemies for the homeland. You can call them crazy i you want but their act was not one of suicide that is despised by Islam. So the scholars main point is that "IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOUR INTENTION IS THE MAIN ISSUE" and Allah (SWT) knows best. 05/20/2009"
ABC NEWS.go.com: "SURVIVORS SAY FORT HOOD GUNMAN SHOT THE WOUNDED AGAIN" by Emily Friedman and Sarah Netter (SNIPPET: "Survivors of the Fort Hood massacre described today how Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly gunned down unarmed soldiers, and then shot them again as they lay wounded on the floor." SNIPPET: "Bono told "Good Morning America" today that she initially thought the scene of Hasan standing up, praising Allah and starting to fire was a drill. She didn't believe it was real even when she felt her own blood, she said.") (November 7, 2009)
FOX NEWS.com: Killeen, Texas - "FELLOW WORSHIPERS DESCRIBE FORT HOOD SHOOTING SUSPECT AS DEVOUT MUSLIM, TROUBLED BY WARS" by Jana Winter (SNIPPET: "The Army psychiatrist suspected in Thursday's shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, attended morning prayers at a local mosque hours before the rampage that killed 13, the mosque's imam told FoxNews.com. Imam Syed Ahmed Ali said Major Nidal Malik Hasan usually worn his uniform or civilian clothes to prayers, but on Thursday, he attended in his full robe.") (November 6, 2009)
THE JACKSONVILLE OBSERVER: "HORRIFIC: FT. HOOD RAMPAGE STUNS TROOPS" (SNIPPET: "U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, a Republican from Austin, was briefed by military officials and said Hasan had taken some unusual classes for someone studying about mental health. "He took a lot of extra classes in weapons training, which seems a little odd for a psychiatrist," McCaul said.") (November 6, 2009)
PAJAMAS MEDIA.com - blog: "THE VICTIMS OF FORT HOOD" by Bob Owens (SNIPPET from page 2: "But postings that are thought to be Major Hasan's don't match the portrait of a soldier who was conflicted. They present us with a picture of someone who housed beliefs that established him as a lurking enemy. U.S. Representative Michael McCaul attended a military briefing this morning and found out that Hasan had taken "a lot of extra classes in weapons training, which seems a little odd for a psychiatrist." In retrospect -- and combined with information that Hasan had started yesterday by giving away some of his personal effects, such as furniture -- it appears that his assault at Fort Hood wasn’t the result of a man under extreme pressure suddenly snapping. Instead, it looks like a calculating murderer took the time to prepare for his attack well in advance.") (November 5, 2009)
TELEGRAPH.co.uk - Home News World News North America USA: "FORT HOOD GUNMAN HAD TOLD U.S. MILITARY COLLEAGUES THAT INFIDELS SHOULD HAVE THEIR THROATS CUT" by Nick Allen in Fort Hood (SNIPPET: "Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America’s Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats." SNIPPET: "He also told colleagues at America's top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July. Colleagues had expected a discussion on a medical issue but were instead given an extremist interpretation of the Koran, which Hasan appeared to believe.") (Published November 8, 2009, 5:00 pm)
FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "JIHAD AT FORT HOOD" by Robert Spencer (SNIPPET: "Nidal Malik Hasan was born in Virginia but didn't think of himself as an American: on a form he filled out at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, he gave his nationality not as "American" but as "Palestinian." A mosque official found that curious, saying: "I don't know why he listed Palestinian. He was not born in Palestine."") (November 6, 2009)
FOX NEWS.com (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL): "MUSLIM POPULATION IN THE MILITARY RAISES DIFFICULT ISSUES" by Yochi J. Dreazen (SNIPPET: "Military personnel don't have to disclose their religions, and many officials believe the actual number of Muslim soldiers may be at least 10,000 higher than the Pentagon statistics. For instance, the military "Officer Record Brief" of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, said he had "no religious preference" and didn't identify him as a Muslim.") (November 7, 2009)
CNS NEWS.com: "ALLEGED FORT HOOD GUNMAN A HEREO, SAYS ISLAMIC CLERIC WITH SUSPECTED 9/11 LINKS" by Patrick Goodenough (SNIPPET: "The Muslim U.S. Army major accused of shooting dead 13 people at Fort Hood last Thursday was a "hero" who faced a choice of betraying his nation or betraying Islam, according to a radical U.S.-born cleric whose possible links with Maj. Nidal Hasan are now under investigation. The cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, led a northern Virginia mosque in 2001 which was attended by Hasan -- and by three of the 9/11 hijackers. Questioned but not arrested after the 9/11 attacks, he is now based in Yemen, from where his online lectures have been inspiring jihadists over the years since.") (November 9, 2009)
TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "FORT HOOD SHOOTING: TEXAS ARMY KILLER LINKED TO SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORISTS" by Philip Sherwell and Alex Spillius (SNIPPET: "Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001.") (Published November 7, 2009, 8:17 pm)
THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "Malik Hasan Tied to 9/11 Hijackers, Radical al Qaeda Preacher" (SNIPPET: "Did Nidal Hasan know them? Maybe, maybe not. But the most disturbing part is that the imam of the mosque at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki (pictured right). Awlaki is an American who now lives in exile in Yemen where his website incites Muslims to jihad and who has nothing but praise for al Qaeda. Awlaki is hands down the most cited English language preacher in the underworld of online jihad. And what was Hasan's view of al-Awlaki? Hasan's eyes "lit up" when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki’s teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday’s horrific shooting spree.") (Posted by Rusty on November 7, 2009, 8:20 pm)
THE STAR.com: "THE POWERFUL VOICE OF JIHAD Shadowy cleric revered by disenchanted Muslim youths throughout West cited in Toronto 18 case" by Michelle Shephard (SNIPPET: "But in recent months, as Awlaki's name has popped up in terrorism cases in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, intelligence services are closely monitoring the U.S.-born cleric.") (Published October 18, 2009)
CNN.com: "PEACEFUL PREACHING INSIDE, VIOLENT MESSAGE OUTSIDE A NEW YORK MOSQUE" by Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston (SNIPPET: "Outside a Manhattan mosque where the imam preaches against terrorism, the brothers of the "Revolution Muslim" are spreading a different message.") (Note: Video included.) (November 5, 2009, 3:24 pm EST)
GULFNEWS.com (AP): Abu Dhabi - "HOMELAND CHIEF WARNS AGAINST ANTI-MUSLIM BACKLASH" (SNIPPET: "Napolitano said her agency is working with state and local groups to try to deflect any anti-Muslim anger after the Thursday attacks by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim who reportedly expressed growing dismay over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The shootings left 13 people dead and 29 wounded. "This was an individual who does not, obviously, represent the Muslim faith," she said after meeting with a group of women university students.") (Published November 8, 2009, 15:21)
YNET NEWS.com (AP): "SOME SAW WARNING SIGNS AHEAD OF U.S. ARMY SHOOTING" (SNIPPET: "Danquah assumed the military's chain of command knew about Hasan's doubts, which had been known for more than a year to classmates in a graduate military medical program. His fellow students complained to the faculty about Hasan's "anti-American propaganda," but said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept officers from filing a formal written complaint.") (Published November 8, 2009, 10:08/Israel News)
C-SPAN VIDEO.org: George Washington University: "COMBATING TERRORISM" (Video Description: "George Washington University/Homeland Security Policy Institute Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies - Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor talked about Israeli counter-terrorism efforts against homegrown, regional and international terrorist organizations. He also talked about recent conflict in Gaza in its impact on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Israel's response to terror attacks in Mumbai, as well as other relevant regional security ...Read More) (Note: Includes video.) (January 6, 2009)
WorldNetDaily.com: "SHOOTER ADVISED OBAMA TRANSITION Fort Hood Triggerman Aided Tem on Homeland Security Task Force" by Jerome R. Corsi (SNIPPET: "Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in yesterday's massacre at Fort Hood, played a homeland security advisory role in President Barack Obama's transition into the White House, according to a key university policy institute document. The Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University published a document May 19, entitled "Thinking Anew -- Security Priorities for the Next Administration: Proceedings Report of the HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force, April 2008 - January 2009," in which Hasan of the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine is listed on page 29 of the document as a Task Force Event Participant. Hasan received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University School in Bethesda, Md, in 2001.") (November 6, 2009)
FOX NEWS.COM: Killeen, Texas - "ALLEGED FORT HOOD SHOOTER FREQUENTED LOCAL STRIP CLUB" by Jana Winter (SNIPPET: "The Army psychiatrist authorities say killed 13 people and wounded 29 others at the Fort Hood Army Base Thursday was a recent and frequent customer at a local strip club, employees of the club told FoxNews.com exclusively." SNIPPET: ""He asked us why we were working at the strip club, if we liked the lifestyle, if we had any kids," she said. "It was right before Halloween so he asked what our kids were dressing up as. He just wanted to know a lot about us." Jenner said she asked Hasan why he liked coming to Starz instead of another of the roughly half a dozen other clubs nearby, all about an 8-minute drive from the Army base. "I like it here because no one I work with is here," she said Hasan replied.") (November 8, 2009)
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Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret) Statement on Fort Hood Shooting.
Lt Col. Allen West ^ | 11/08/09 | Lt. Col Allen West (US Army, Ret)
Posted on November 8, 2009 6:30:17 PM PST by Brytani
“Tragedy at Ft Hood” Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)
This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas. As I watched in horror and then anger I recalled my two years of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004.
My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing.
A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.
A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.
On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.
There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America, an Army post.
We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.
This is not a “man caused disaster”. It is what it is, an Islamic jihadist attack.
We have seen this before in 2003 when a SGT Hasan of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire into his Commanding Officer’s tent in Kuwait. We have seen the foiled attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ. Recently we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to Yemen, receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting station. We thwarted another Islamic terrorist plot in North Carolina which had US Marine Corps Base, Quantico as a target.
What have we done with all these prevalent trends? Nothing.
What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into America, and possibly further into our Armed Services. Instead we have a multiculturalism and diversity syndrome on steroids.
Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood, matter of fact he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive.
However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim, not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter. A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and serving his Nation and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious belief.
We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did give away his possessions. He stood atop a table in the confined space of the Soldier Readiness Center shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, same chant as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation.
No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks. Our Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous and unconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of “protecting the American people”.
The recent incidents in Dearborn Michigan, Boston Massachusetts, Dallas Texas, and Chicago Illinois should bear witness to the fact that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in America. And don’t have CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be disbanded.
We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the United States, one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach. Are we building churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia? Are “Kaffirs” and “Infidels” allowed travel to Mecca?
So much for peaceful coexistence.
Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons and convert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology….one resulting in four individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plastic explosives. Thank God the explosives were dummy. They are sponsoring textbooks which present Islamic centric revisionist history in our schools.
We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our Constitutional Republic……that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it is sedition and if done by an American treason.
There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in America that has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion. The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional.
When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural suicide. We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceived victim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them, please, go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims. The tragedy at Ft Hood Texas did not have to happen. Consider now the feelings of those there and on every military installation in the world. Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a combat zone.
Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop the denial, and realize a simple point.
The reality of your enemy must become your own.
Steadfast and Loyal, Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)
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“Anwar Awlaqi: Nidal Hassan is a Hero”
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“Deputy leader of al Qaeda in Yemen, Said al-Shahri”
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Al-Qaeda: Our Operatives in Yemen Will Strike GCC Oil Facilities, Hit Hard at ‘Immorality’ in Dubai
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Deputy leader of al Qaeda in Yemen, Said al-Shahri
SANAA, 09 Oct — In a statement published by Islamist internet websites, al-Qaeda network Friday said its operatives in Yemen “constitute an advanced front to strike oil installations in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries,” and condemned what it dubbed “perversion and immorality in Dubai.” Al-Yaqeen press centre quoted an unidentified al-Qaeda militant as saying “we know where the next strike will be but we don’t know the timing or the purposes,” adding “the number of American fighters joining al-Qaeda is growing but for organizational reasons, we don’t reveal their numbers.” “Many university teachers in western countries started contacting us and providing us with important information,” said the unidentified militant, adding “the families of killed American nationals also began contacting us,” and “if the entire population of Texas were to perish, we would not have done our duty to the Muslims. We will continue to fight the Americans and will never let them go,” stressing “the US administration never represented the people and seeks to achieve its own personal interests.” He said al-Qaeda network is “fully aware of the axiom: Fight your enemy with the weapon he fears not the weapon you fear,” adding “what al-Qaeda’s enemies fear most is a biological or chemical strike.” Meanwhile, Interior Minister General Brigadier Mutaher Rashad al-Masri Thursday said security agencies in Yemen are “closely monitoring the movements of al-Qaeda operatives.”
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stepping back in time...
“Terror Arrests in Yemen: From The American to Al-Sakhi to The Australians Who Go Free”
Filed under: Al-Qaeda, Judicial, Somalia, Yemen, prisons — by Jane Novak at 8:10 am on Thursday, December 14, 2006
All around the mulberry bush
SNIPPET: “Short story: Previously under investigation in the US, American Iman Anwar al-Alwaki a/k/a Abu Atiq a/k/a Anwar al-Aulaqi was recently arrested in Yemen. His arrest led investigators to another group connected to September’s thwarted terror bombings in which two of the February al-Qaeda escapees were killed.
The al-Awlaki arrest also led to a later arrest of eight foreigners accused of smuggling guns to Somalia for al-Qaeda including a Dane, a Briton, a German, a Somali, three Australians, and a European of undetermined nationality who may be Austrian. One media report indicates the group was under surveillance by Western intelligence and the arrests disrupted an otherwise productive intelligence operation; other sources dispute this. The Dane is known as Abu Zakaria, whose given name is Kenneth Sorensen. The central figure was reportedly a Somali named al-Ansar. This group of eight included the Australian Ayub brothers, sons of JI leader Abdul Rahim Ayub, who fled Australia after the Bali bombings. Seven of the eight confessed according to the official Yemeni media. However six of eight were subsequently released without charges.
Details: American Anwar Al Awlaki a/k/a Abu Atik was was arrested in Yemen 8/31/06. Born in New Mexico of Yemeni parents, al-Awlaki was the Muslim Chaplin in Residence at George Washington University. He was also reported to be an associate of two of the 9/11 highjackers and a protege of Sheik Zindani.
According to FSM: “MAB (The Muslim Association of Britian) had invited American imam Anwar Al Awlaki to talk in Britain in June 2003. Awlaki was the spiritual adviser of two of the 9/11 attackers, Khalid Almihdar and Nawaf Alhazmi,. Twice busted for soliciting prostitutes in San Diego, Awlaki is still regarded by many Muslim websites as a “pure voice” of Islam. He fled to Yemen, and on August 31 this year, he was arrested in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, suspected of involvement in terror networks.””
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110903618.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110903618.html
“Fort Hood suspect warned of threats within the ranks
Cited stress facing Muslims Hasan spoke at Walter Reed in 2007”
By Dana Priest
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
SNIPPET: “The final three slides indicate that Hasan referred to Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, suicide bombers and Iran.”
SNIPPET: “The last bullet point on that page reads simply: “We love death more then [sic] you love life!”
Under the “Conclusions” page, Hasan wrote that “Fighting to establish an Islamic State to please God, even by force, is condoned by the Islam,” and that “Muslim Soldiers should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk to hurting/killing believers unjustly — will vary!”
The final page, labeled “Recommendation,” contained only one suggestion:
“Department of Defense should allow Muslims [sic] Soldiers the option of being released as ‘Conscientious objectors’ to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events.””
