Posted on 11/09/2009 2:20:36 PM PST by traumer
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood military base in Texas, awoke from a coma on Monday as it emerged he had tried to make contact with al-Qaeda before carrying out the massacre.
Hasan, who was shot four times during his attack, has been informed by doctors that he killed 13 people and injured dozens more.
FBI agents and military investigators were last night waiting to interview him.
Intelligence officers are said to have known months ago about Hasan’s attempts to reach the terror network through the internet but decided to monitor him, hoping it would lead them to al-Qaeda operatives. It was thought Hasan might lead them to a “big fish” and there was no indication he was about to carry out an attack of his own, one source said.
Up to 42 people were injured in the attack and 16 of those remain in hospital. Hasan had been in a coma since Thursday after he was shot by two civilian police officers.
He was taken off a ventilator over the weekend at Brooke Army Medical Centre in San Antonio. Maria Gellegos, a hospital spokesman, said: “He is talking. He is conversing with the medical staff.”
Hasan was moved to the hospital for his own safety after initially being treated at Fort Hood. There have been unconfirmed reports that he will be left paralysed by his injuries.
The FBI has meanwhile begun investigating Hasan’s links, first revealed by The Sunday Telegraph, to the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, which was attended by two of the September 11 hijackers.
Hasan attended the mosque at the same time as the hijackers in 2001 when it was led by Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born Yemeni imam.
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So......mistakes were made?
The army brass reacted stupidly
If you could stop all Muslim violence in the world, the world would be 90%+ more peaceable.
Random, crazy doc who shot some people up. No evidence of terrorism here. Move on...thank you.
It's good they didn't claim to be intelligent officers.
What? When did they find THAT out?
Intelligence officers are said to have known months ago about Hasan’s attempts to reach the terror network through the internet but decided to monitor him, hoping it would lead them to al-Qaeda operatives. It was thought Hasan might lead them to a “big fish” and there was no indication he was about to carry out an attack of his own, one source said.
hmmm. so the mystery thickens.
Buys non-regulation handgun. Check
Frequents strip bar just like the 9/11 hijackers did. Check
Gives away his furniture and possessions. Check
Hands out korans. Check
Talks about cutting the heads of people. Check
Yep, no indications at all.
Idiots.
The simple fact is that he is an Muslim terrorist who was treated very well by this nation and repaid all of us by murdering twelve of our fellow Americans who had done absolutely nothing to this garbage.
It's as simple as that. If there's even a tiny speck of justice left he will be tried and dispatched to hell in very short order.
His motive yet remains a mystery....
“Fort Hood massacre: Gunman linked to al-Qaeda as he awakes from coma”
Did he ask about his virgins?
"....aaaha, the stupid, leftist, lowlife scum infidels still can figure it out!!! Praise Allah."
Remember? “hindsight is 20-20”
That's a shame. InsaAllah.
Here, here!
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