[reaganaut1]

What does someone need to do to be labeled a terrorist?

Suppose Hasan was a Muslim extremist acting alone -- does that make his 13 victims any less dead? It shows that a single terrorist can do immense damage. In a sane country we'd ask if Muslims ought to be in the military (and then rethink immigration policies). Since we are too enlightened to do that, we should at least take pro-Muslim-extremist statements by soldiers as immediate grounds for discharge. Hasan gave ample warning.

[cynwoody]

What does someone need to do to be labeled a terrorist?

It is beyond question that Hasan is an Islamic terrorist. The only question is whether he is an active AQ agent or merely a fellow traveler.

At the end of the article, they mention the FBI pulled a bag of shredded docs out of the dumpster. I think I read a while back that somebody had a computer program that could scan images of shreddings and put them back together. Somebody was offering to reconstruct cross-cut shredder output for $10K a cubic foot. Strip-cut shreddings are much easier. During the Iranian hostage crisis, the hostage guards passed the time putting the embassy's shredded docs back together.

[Yaelle]

Thank goodness! No terrorism! No Muslim went in and shot up a room full of people for his god. Whew!! What a relief!! Thank you, New York Times!

[TC Rider]

By the NYT standard, Eric Rudoph was deeply misunderstood and a victim of his enviroment.

[Moe Tzadik]

One significant investigative thrust has involved determining whether Major Hasan had contact with extremists who preyed on his increasingly angry and outspoken opposition to American policies in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Hasan's the victim!

With their past track records, expect the military to start construction on the new Fort Hood Mosque tomorrow morning. Exactly one year later, the FBI and CAIR can co-host the Grand Opening and smile broadly when the Muslim-in-Chief makes a 'surprise' visit dedicating the now completed mosque to all muslims in the military.

[Circle_Hook]

Here’s a plot for you...........The koran tells them to kill non believers! Hows that for a plot?

[El Gato]

Except for that “inconvenient “Muslim dressed” visitor he had earlier in the week. Who no one at his apartment building had seen before and who only stayed a few minutes. If he turns out to be tied in, then it becomes, at minimum, a terrorist conspiracy.

[RGSpincich]

acted out under a welter of emotional, ideological and religious pressures,

TFT = Typical Fing Terrorist

[RGSpincich]

What does someone need to do to be labeled a terrorist?

Be wightring, of course.

[Scotswife]

ok - so if you’re a radical jihadist that acts alone you are NOT a terrorist.

If you’re a radical jihadist who does what he’s told - you ARE a terrorist.

Got it.