outsidethebeltway.com - 12 days ago
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In hindsight, it appears that Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the mass murderer who killed 14 (one of the soldiers killed, Francheska Velez, was six weeks pregnant ) and wounded another 30 at Fort Hood, had long made it known that he sympathized with the enemy. Bloomberg’s Justin Blum :
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abcnews.go.com - 11 days ago
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abcnews.go.com —
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that
Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact
with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. It is not known ...
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Fort Hood Shooter Tried to Contact al Qaeda Terrorists, ...
mcclatchydc.com - 13 days ago
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mcclatchydc.com —
By Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy
A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON President Barack Obama
is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after ...
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Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan
abcnews.go.com - 14 days ago
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abcnews.go.com —
Fort Hood shooting suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan,
wanted out of the Army after being constantly harassed
by others in the military and was called a "camel jockey," his family said. As Hasan was about to be deployed to Iraq , he was suffering from ...
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Nidal Malik Hasan Wanted Out of Army, Family Said
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Why Was Major Nadil Malik Hasan Still In The United States Military ?
Below The Beltway —
... The question, of course is what the military knew and when it knew it, and, as James Joyner, notes, it’s entirely possible that it didn’t “know” much of anything: ...
What to do About Hasan’s Religion?
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
... noted (via James Joyner): there have been, sadly, cases of non-Muslim soldiers also engaging in this type of tragic behavior. Ackerman points to case earlier this year of ...
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commonsensewonder.blogspot.com 11 days ago — Fort Hood's 9/11 By RALPH PETERS On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam. What cowards we are. Political correctness ...
Army chief fears backlash for Muslim U.S. soldiers
reuters.com 12 days ago — Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army's top general expressed concern on Sunday that last week's mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, blamed on a Muslim Army officer, could fuel a backlash in the military against Muslim troops. General ...
A Beard Too Far -- By: Elaine Donnelly
article.nationalreview.com 9 days ago — S ome ironies are more than cruel. On the day that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan approached Fort Hood armed with two handguns, he may have passed a newsstand selling copies of the November 9 edition of Army Times . On the front page was a photograph of a ...
Army Exceed Recruiting Goal for Fiscal Year 2008
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Common Sense Says Major Hasan Was a Terrorist
realclearpolitics.com 9 days ago — Ed Koch, RCP The U.S. Army and President Barack Obama are understandably seeking desperately to prevent U.S. public opinion from reaching any conclusion with respect to the motive of Major Nidal Malik Hasan who killed 12 soldiers and one civilian, and ...
An Officer's Outrage Over Fort Hood
realclearpolitics.com 8 days ago — Major Shawn Keller, RealClearPolitics As an officer in the United States Army, I'm angry for so many reasons over what happened at Ft Hood. I'm angry that twelve of my fellow soldiers and a contractor were murdered. I'm angry that over ...
Wherein Lies the Fort Hood Intel Failure? Connecting Nidal Hasan’s Dots
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 9 days ago — Mark Ambinder and I had a productive disagreement on Twitter today about what the appropriate focus of the investigation into Nidal Hasan should be. My overall point is that, at least given what we know now, our focus ought not to be on the ...
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