Posts Tagged ‘Fort Hood’

Townhall.com is reporting that Obama has ordered a full review of all the intelligence related to the Nidal Hasan, and is specifically asking the question if that information was properly disseminated and thoroughly checked out.

Obama also ordered the preservation of the intelligence. Members of Congress, particularly Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, have called for a full examination of what agencies knew about Hasan’s contacts with a radical imam and others of concern to the U.S., and what they did with the information.

Hmmm, I can’t help think this a “CYA” response to questions Hoekstra raised about Hasan’s finances. This guy was making close to $90k/year, and he was living in a $300/mo apartment on Ramen Noodles and Beenie Weenies (beef of course). Where was the money going?

The FBI confirmed this week that the U.S. government knew about 10 to 20 e-mails between Hasan and a radical imam beginning in December 2008.

It think it pretty obvious if it was properly disseminated, the answer to the last question above is, No!

FoxNews.com is reporting that a Senate panel investing the increasing threat of domestic terrorism, not from “ring-wing extremists,” but from homegrown jihadists, warned of a Fort Hood type scenario years ago.

More than a year before the massacre at Fort Hood, a Senate panel conducting an extensive investigation into the threat of homegrown terrorism warned that “radicalization” had spread beyond Afghanistan training camps to the United States and that lone wolves fueled by Internet propaganda would present a growing threat.The Senate committee report warned that the Internet was serving as a “virtual terrorist training camp,” and cited that as a contributing factor in the United States becoming more and more susceptible to homegrown extremists.

Though the report said that the lack of a “sympathetic audience” and presence of an integrated Muslim community historically has made homegrown terrorism less likely in the United States, it cited recent homegrown plots — like a foiled plot against Fort Dix, N.J. — as an “early warning” that the trend is reversing.

The “sympathetic audience” is now the political establishment and the mainstream media. More and more information is being released about the events leading up to the Fort Hood shootings, and the some of the media is suggesting the Major Hasan just snapped, still asking if this was preplanned, still trading carefully on the “terror” word.

“Radicalization is no longer confined to training camps in Afghanistan or other locations far from our shores; it is also occurring right here in the United States,” the report stated.

Mike Baker, a former CIA covert operations officer, said Hasan — particularly as a member of the U.S. military — would have made an “attractive candidate” for radicals overseas. If he was influenced by such elements, Baker said, Hasan would be more than just an “unhinged fellow” accused of going on a shooting rampage.

If so, the attack certainly did not follow the Sept. 11 model, where hijackers were recruited from overseas in the Middle East. As the 2008 report detailed, “the violent Islamist threat to the homeland has evolved and expanded.”

Imagine that, the enemy is changing tactics, and somehow we can’t. Jihadists can apparently only be Middle Easterners who hijack planes or blow up things in the war zone; they can’t be American, they can’t act alone, they have to fit the mold, otherwise we’re just stereotyping. Here’s a thought, read the evidence!

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, told Fox News that it appears the “red flags” surrounding Hasan should have prompted an investigation.

“Certainly it’s worrisome if red flags were ignored, if behavior issues were not targeted for further review,” Collins said Tuesday. “This is something we have to have a no-holds-barred investigation of.”

Pamela Gellar, like many others, says “political correctness is going to rout this country,” and she’s right, but that’s not the worst part.  We can’t say the crazed lunatic who shot up Fort Hood yesterday was a jihadist, that’s being stereotypical, that’s profiling, that’s not being tolerant, it’s true, but it’s giving way to hate speech.

According to NPR, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was put on probation while at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD for proselytizing about his Muslim faith with patients and colleagues. Apparently, the authorities knew he was an extremist six months ago, but didn’t act on the information in fear of religious and community repercussions – political correctness.

Director Roland Emmerich of Independence Day and Day After Tomorrow fame, elected to not destroy an Islamic icon is his new movie 2012. “I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie.” We are remember the last fatwa that was issued by Osama bin Laden in 1998 and called for Muslims to execute Americans and their allies. Emmerich went on to say, “We have to all in the Western world think about this. You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is.” We don’t care about the Christians, but we has be careful of the mullahs.

And yet another example of the dangerous political correctness is the UN resolution on hates crimes that the US cosponsored with Egypt. I can only imagine how those highly respected countries on the Human Rights Council will reprimand Iran and Syria when they again call for Israeli elimination or Zionist destruction.

There is no need for Al Quaeda to fund another mass hijacking or risk sneaking in a dirty bomb, political correctness is the new 9-11. When a killer like Major Hasan can historically make extremist remarks glorifying other attackers, empty out his apartment, and execute 13 soldiers at a military installation in Texas while shouting “Allah Akbar,” and the President and FBI say it’s not terrorist related, then the enemy just needs to sit back and watch the absurdity.