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Benghazi isn’t the first time the Obama administration has struggled with whether to call an attack on a U.S. post a terrorist attack. Nearly three years after the fact, the Defense Department still calls the shootings at Fort Hood,Texas, an act of workplace violence, despite the suspect’s ties to al Qaeda.A coalition of 160 victims and family members of the deadly rampage at Fort Hood in 2009 sees similarities in the Obama administration’s reluctance to label the attack on the U.S.Consulate in Libya as a terrorist act and wants government officials to belatedly deem the assault in Texas as terrorism...

FORT HOOD (October 13, 2010)—Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, based at Fort Bragg, N.C., who survived the deadly Nov. 5, 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, testified Wednesday accused gunman Maj. Nidal Hasan “yelled 'Allāhu Akbar' before he reached under his blouse pulled out his weapons, and started firing.” Lunsford was shot in the head during the rampage at the post’s Soldier Readiness Center that left 13 dead. He identified Hasan as the gunman. The hearing will determine whether the Army psychiatrist stands trial for the deadly Nov. 5, 2009 shooting. Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32...

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has called on every member of the Defense Department to play a personal role in creating a secure environment that will help to prevent more tragedies like the Nov. 5 shooting rampage that left 13 people dead at Fort Hood, Texas. Secretary Gates issued a memo March 2 after reflecting on results of the independent review he directed following the incident to ensure the safety and health of servicemembers, civilian defense employees and their families. "I ask all commanders, supervisors, noncommissioned leaders and other personnel in the department to reinforce the fabric of trust with...

BELTON (February 19, 2010)—Bell County Sheriff Dan Smith confirmed Friday that his office and Fort Hood officials have been talking for several weeks about transferring accused Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan from a San Antonio military hospital to the Bell County Jail. Hasan is charged with 13 counts of murder in the shooting rampage on Nov. 5, 2009 at the post’s Soldier Readiness Center that left 13 dead and 29 injured. He was left paralyzed in an exchange of gunfire with two civilian police officers who are credited with ending the massacre. For 15 years, the Bell County...

The Army’s slogan used to be, “Be all that you can be.” Then “An Army of One” and Now it is “Army Strong.” Yet if a chain is only as strong as its weakest link then the Army is only as strong as its weakest politically correct policy. For instance some of Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s peers complained about his anti-American pro-Islam behavior to their superiors. But because of the politically correct mandates found in the high echelons of all branches of military their superiors choice not to offend Islam. A decision which now we know was at the expense...

Those who hated former President Bush worked untiringly in the hours subsequent to the 9/11 attacks running down the man and his administration. No example of this could be more clearer than the scoffing and ridicule that the president received for his none reaction on September 11, 2001 when the president sat in a scheduled event in a Florida class room reading to children and then suddenly it was whispered in his ear that a second plane commandeered by terrorist had hit the other New York tower. Countless jokes and parodies have been made of the 2 to 7 minutes...