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I'm reading the stories this morning that attempt to give some depth of insight into Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood murderer/psychiatrist. There's this in the Washington Post: In an interview, his aunt, Noel Hasan of Falls Church, said he had endured name-calling and harassment about his ...
Is Fort Hood a Harbinger? Nidal Malik Hasan May Be a Symptom of a Military on the Brink.
blog.newsweek.com —   What if Thursday's atrocious slaughter at Fort Hood only signals that the worst is yet to... come? The murder scene yesterday afternoon at the Killeen, Texas, military base, the largest in the country, was heart-wrenching. Details remained ... (more) Is Fort Hood a Harbinger? Nidal Malik Hasan May Be a ...
Nidal Hasan: Ft. Hood Shooter Participated in Homeland Security Disaster Preparation [Breaking]
Nidal Hasan: Ft. Hood Shooter Participated in Homeland Security Disaster Preparation [Breaking]
gawker.com — The gunman who killed 12 people today at Ft. Hood appears, based on current media reports, to... be Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan who was listed as a participant in a Homeland Security Policy... (more) Nidal Hasan: Ft. Hood Shooter Participated in Homeland ...
Friends hail police Sgt. Kimberly Munley for taking down Fort Hood gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan
nydailynews.com — The hero cop who ended the bloody rampage at Fort Hood by pumping four bullets into the... crazed gunman even though she was wounded is known for her toughness, friends say. Before relocating to Texas, civilian police Sgt. Kimberly Munley spent about ... (more) Friends hail police Sgt. Kimberly Munley for taking down ...
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Video: Footage shows Hasan in November at … Homeland Security event
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... earlier today but Ann Althouse takes it a step further : How was it that the military trained and employed this man in psychiatry and did not perceive his deep problems? I think that part of psychiatric training involves subjecting the would-be psychiatrist to psychological analysis. Why did this man slip through the system? His job was to treat others, in an environment full of experts in the field of psychiatry. Why did he remain an insider if he was the sort of person who could do what he eventually did? These are serious questions, not adequately answered by the idea ...

A time to lead
Wizbang — There were a number of opinion pieces today that walked both sides of the same issue. One cannot avoid the question that yesterday's shooting at Fort Hood raised. Ann Althouse discussed that exact point in a post about the questions seeking answers . Her ending is the strongest part of the piece. The president pledged "to get answers to every single question about this horrible incident." I'm going to remember that pledge. And it is long past time for the President to step up and commit to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Enough with the demonstrations of thoughtful ...

Maybe If We Apologized With Greater Deference
JustOneMinute — ... he called for a “new beginning” with the Muslim world. The shootings at Fort Hood, however, pose a different problem for the president, by shining a spotlight on the tensions Muslims feel inside the United States. Pardon me?  This incident spotlighted the tensions felt by Muslims in the US?  Please - if investigators had discovered that Hasan had recorded a Glenn Beck segment on his TiVo the Times would be fretting about a rising tide of right wing extremism. Some dots just can't be connected .

American Jihadists Praise & Pray for Nidal Malik Hasan
Nice Deb — ... There’s no question now that we need congressional hearings into how the army missed the warning signs on Hasan, especially given the suspicions as to why they might have looked the other way. ...

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