"This guy is a psychiatrist who was treating our soldiers at Walter Reed???"
24 posted on Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:23:28 PM by Republican Wildcat
Sounds like a story from The Onion, doesn't it?
Posted on 11/05/2009 6:47:11 PM PST by markomalley
The military psychiatrist accused of gunning down 12 people in Texas lived most of his life in the D.C. area where he was considered a caring Muslim by friends -- but he had recently made disturbing statements about suicide attacks.
U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, earned a degree from Virginia Tech, completed a residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and attended prayer services nearly every day in Silver Spring for several years.
He was described as a caring person by a local Muslim leader, but those who got to know him after he was transferred to Fort Hood in July recalled hearing disturbing statements that foreshadowed Monday's violence.
Six months ago Hasan came to the attention of the FBI because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings.
After lauding a Muslim U.S. Army soldier who killed comrades in Kuwait in 2003, Hasan wrote in an online posting, "If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers ... that would be considered a strategic victory."
Ishtiaq Chughtai, the president of the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, said Hasan attended prayers daily, often in his uniform, and showed no signs that he was conflicted about being deployed.
"It's very sad for our people, the American people," Chughtai said. "This is a tragedy that's going to stay in the back of our minds for a long time."
Hasan attended the Muslim center for about six years and seemed like a good person, Chughtai said. He gave people rides home and sometimes the money from his pocket.
But things appeared to go wrong for Hasan near the end of his time at Walter Reed. He received a poor evaluation while there.
At Fort Hood, Hasan exhibited a troubled state of mind. Retired Col. Terry Lee, who worked with Hasan at the psych ward at Fort Hood, told Fox News that about six months ago he heard Hasan say, "Maybe the Muslims should rise up and fight against the aggressor," in Iraq and Afghanistan -- referring to the U.S. Army.
Hasan earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1997 from Virginia Tech, where he was a member of the ROTC.
He attended grad school in Bethesda at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine.
In 2007, he completed a residency in psychiatry at Walter Reed and just wrapped up a fellowship in disaster and preventive psychiatry, also at Walter Reed.
According to records, Hasan is a U.S. citizen and was registered to vote in 2001 and 2004 in Virginia, with an address in Vinton. He had also lived in Montgomery County, Arlington and Roanoke, Va.
In April 2008, Hasan was a participant in George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute task force that aimed at providing advice on security to the new administration.
The group met until January of this year and forwarded recommendations on to President Obama.
The Virginia-born soldier is single with no children.
Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson said Hasan's family was originally from Jordan. He was scheduled to be deployed and he was upset about that, she said.
“According to records, Hasan is a U.S. citizen and was registered to vote in 2001 and 2004 in Virginia, with an address in Vinton. He had also lived in Montgomery County, Arlington and Roanoke, Va.”
Hmmm wonder who he voted for and why the journalist didn’t include it?
Scratch that. I don’t wonder at all. I know exactly why.
Yep..I know. This is all beyond bizarre at this point. My guess is that this guy was a big Obamabot. He probably had his own mybarackobama page. The FBI was looking into this guy..yet he was transferred to Fort Hood. Who sent him there? Why? Why wasn’t he booted out of the military with views like this? Who was the lawyer he hired to pursue the ‘harrassment’ charges we keep hearing about in the media(this is a biggie)? What were his views on Gitmo? Has this guy been used by the media or the democrats in the past to besmirch our military or Gitmo? I smell a cover-up.
meant to ping you to 15 as well.
This guy is a psychiatrist who was treating our soldiers at Walter Reed???
Secret ballot. There is no "According to records ... [x] voted for [y]." Not yet, anyway.
Heard Hasan was a VIRGINIA TECH grad (Chou II) who was ALREADY on ARMY/FBI radar screen as a KNOWN problem. Just great????
Mason Dixon
Dear God ..
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Found a site I don’t understand ... it’’s titled ‘Malik Nadal Hasan’ Sounds.’ Thet’re audio links to various news items (most spoken by Noam Chomsky) about Iraq. You click on the item to engage the audio.
http://www.entertonement.com/clips/search?keywords=Malik+Nadal+Hasan
Any clue if it’s connected in any way ? The only place
the name appears is at the top of the page.
Are those islamic symbols between the stars of the colored link icon ?
Thanks. Looks like he is on page 29. His title seems kinda strange. ‘Uniformed University School Of Medicine’. ???
I don’t believe these reports of harrassment for one minute. If they were harrassing him it was because they knew he was a bad seed.
Thank you for the ping Starwise.
I dunno what to make of it either. It might be a web bot directing traffic to the site due to the popular search name right now.
“After lauding a Muslim U.S. Army soldier who killed comrades in Kuwait in 2003, Hasan wrote in an online posting, “If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers ... that would be considered a strategic victory.”
This is really just beyond outrageous. The FBI knew this guy was a problem..yet no one does anything about it..and the plan was to send him overseas...maybe some US soldiers lives were saved because of this disaster...This dude was a traitor.
Some heads better roll over this.
There is more to this story. This guy telegraphed his actions and was then promoted and sent to Ft Hood.
Intelligence potential?
Very obviously he means that the "tragedy" is not the horrific mass murder of 12 people, but the public relations damage.
In April 2008, Hasan was a participant in George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute task force that aimed at providing advice on security to the new administration.
Figgers.
“There is more to this story.’
Dittos! I smell a rat..big time. Why would the guy be put on a panel to advise President Obama, when it was well known that he was against both wars and had conflicted views with the mission? Perhaps that WAS the reason he was put on the panel. His views mirrored the new administration’s views.
This tragedy, gunman’s connection to Virginia Tech: site of one the worst on campus shootings in this nations history, what gives? Also I feel that this Major was recruited into a Manchurian Type of Mind Control Program, where he was being instructed to snap at moment, which he tragically did. Like the gunman at Virginia Tech, where exactly did they receive their training to be expert marksman, hmmmm. The guilty players in this tragedy will most certainly whitewash their tracks.
Party affiliation is known...donations are known...that forms a pretty likely guess for their voting habits.
Of course, that requires an actual investigation by an investigative journalist.
Some were executed in the 1800's for treason against various states. During the Mexican War, about 50 hapless Irishmen soldiers were executed by some kind of foggy stretch of the word "treason".
The Rosenbergs, Julius and Ethel, were considered by most to be WW2-era traitors, but they were actually executed under the Espionage Act.
This Muslim bozo may just get away with a life sentence because of a perceived "mental condition". Plenty of ACLU lawyers will volunteer to defend him pro bono.
However, being that he will probably be tried under military law, he may, just possibly MAY, get a last roast pork and sauerkraut dinner, a Camel cigarette and a blindfold before he shuffles off to meet the virgins.
In the meantime, Obamacare will slip through the congress unnoticed.
I think I'm well past my bedtime!
Leni
If six months ago Hasan was brought to the attention of the FBI because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings, why was he promoted at that time? I read somewhere that he was promoted in May.
Some of these things do not make sense. Also, all of his education paid for. Hmmm. Just like Obamas. What better way to weaken our military than to have them distrust each other. More chaos. I hope today was isolated and coincidental and not part of a bigger plot. I am wearing tinfoil hat right now because I am extremely distrustful of people in the whitehouse.
"This guy is a psychiatrist who was treating our soldiers at Walter Reed???"
24 posted on Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:23:28 PM by Republican Wildcat
Sounds like a story from The Onion, doesn't it?
No wonder Obama sent back the Churchill bust!!
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