Posted on 11/13/2009 6:27:17 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
Security Forces Pursuing Mastermind of Texas Attack
Yemen Post Staff
Yemeni security forces are currently pursuing cleric, Anwar Al-Aulaqi, who allegedly had links to N(i)dal Hassan who carried out the deadly attack in the port of Fort Hood army base, opposition media reported.
Reports have revealed that there were links between the two men where Hassan was frequently visited a mosque in the state of Virginia, in which imam Al-Aulaqi was leading prayers.
It is reported that the Yemeni authorities had arrested Al-Aulaqi in 2006, on suspicion of holding up religious militants to kidnapping foreigners, but he was released due lack of evidence of any direct link to Al-Qaeda.
It is also reported that Al-Aulaqi who uses its website to urge Muslims in the world to kill American soldiers in Iraq, had disappeared some eight months ago in Yemen.
The Yemeni security authorities say they believe Al-Aulaqi is hiding now a mountainous area in Yemen, which is believed to be one of the safe havens for Islamist militants.
According to investigations conducted by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Al-Aulaqi had sent Hassan 20 e-mail via the Internet in a few months last year.
A few days ago the Washington Post reported that investigators were looking into possible links between Al-Aulaqi, who was working as Imam of a mosque in Virginia, and officials in Al-Qaeda, including two of the perpetrators of the attacks of 11 September.
Hassan, who was a psychiatrist in the army, had opened fire from two handguns on the soldiers in a hospital in Fort Hood army base, before police were able to prevent him from shooting.
Yemen Post Staff
It is a Yemen based news organization with ears to the ground and carries legitimate local news. I would assess as reliable.
Whoops! Yes I did mean Hasan. "Haman" is the name of the villian in the book of Esther who is hung from his own gallows in the end.
That is why he urged, almost cried today for the US CONGRESS TO STOP THEIR INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF MAJOR HASAN AND US INTELLIGENCE FAILURES DUE TO HIS ADMINISTRATION'S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
Full disclosure please Mr. POTUS!!!
BTTT
So if the CIA and all US assets are out in full force treating this like an attack and trying to catch the responsible parties. Maybe it’s better not to yell out to the world that it was a terrorist attack. Why show our hands? Why not find out as much info as possible and make it seem like nothing will be done, then drop the hammer in a covert way. The purpose of a terrorist attack is publicity. Screaming terrorism to the world is what they want.
As long as will benefit obama for them to do so.
Three years?
Your suggestion sounds like what I suspect was the thinking the night of the TWA 800 disaster.
That would be before a disaster, this already happened. No reason to give them the publicity they want if it doesn’t look like it will help in any way. Everyone knows what this is, why make a giant deal about it being terrorism and give the terrorists a huge publicity victory. It’s almost always poor strategy to give your opponent what they want.
People should have been screaming before this happened there were way too many warning signs, that is the retarded part of this whole thing.
Or, just as likely, some in the FBI, CIA, or the Pentagon.
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