• NSA that flagged conversations with Awlaki
• Atlas Shrugged for being among the first to call it an act of terrorism
• Lieberman for being out front in calling it terrorism
• Conservative talk shows

• Dr. Phil for rejecting that a muslim who shoots fellow soldiers after crying allah akbar might be a terrorist
•  

• Take down jihadist websites (Gingrich)
• Encourage speculation about terrorist motives among the public and press rather than supressing all information for an official investigation which limits the imagination, and forces information to come out through anonymous or unidentified officials.
• Allow officials to speak publicly about facts of the case.
• Put Awlaki on the FBI terrorist watch list.
• Put the Fort Hood Shootings on both the FBI and Homeland Security home pages
• Declare Ft Hood to be officially linke to Al Queda on the Arabian peninsula.'
• Alternately don't take them down but track people who put them up, since this makes them easier to find. (NEFA)
• It should be as illegal to advocate or condone terrorism as to commit it
• Anyone that condones the incident or terrorist acts punishable by being placed on a watchlist, subject to judicial review.
• Limit freedom of speech in wartime to bar advocacy of combat or violence against friendly forces
• Declare FBI mistakes in not classifying Hasan as a threat for asking spiritual guidance regarding killing US soldiers and Israeli civilians, or sending money to Muslim charities associate with Awlaki and deciding that they are not terrorist related
• Release the e-mails

• Islam Watch (Islamic anti-Jihad) http://www.islam-watch.org/iw-new/
• AtlasShrugs

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%%January 8, 2009 Friday

• CIA Base Bomber's Wife: I Am 'Proud' Of My Husband

  
  
  SELCAN HACAOGLU | 01/ 7/10 04:22 PM |  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/07/cia-base-bombers-wife-i-a_n_414865.html?show_comment_id=37664757#comment_37664757
  

  Defne Bayrak, the Turkish wife of bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, lauded her husband's Dec. 30 attack to Turkish journalists in Istanbul. "I am proud of him; my husband has carried out a great operation in such a war. May God accept his martyrdom," Bayrak told the Dogan news agency.

  She later told the state-run Anatolia news agency: "My husband did this against the U.S. invasion."
  

  Radical Islamists from around the world praised al-Balawi on Jihad forums and religious Web sites.

  "He had so much hatred for the United States that he could not have been an agent for the CIA," she said. "He might have used Americans and Jordan for his own interest, which he did." They took away my husband and seized his computer because my husband was writing on Jihad forums."

  Al-Balawi was, in fact, a leading Internet Islamic militant writer known as Abu Dujana al-Khurasani, who prayed to God two days after Israel launched its offensive on Gaza to become a martyr by killing many Israelis. 

• Huffington approved: ? Note to homeland security: Please put this woman on the no fly list. Now.
• Al-Balawi came from a nomadic Bedouin clan from Tabuk, in western Saudi Arabia, which has branches in Jordan and the West Bank. He was born in Kuwait in 1977 to a middle-class family of nine other children, including an identical twin. He lived there until Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait,
• posting not approved: does that make you for or against ft hood.
• rejected Any one who makes such a statement should be considered an enemy combatant, and not allowed a visa, security pass, or mail anything to the US. It is remarkable that the US permits individuals who have made public statements to the press condoning this bombing, or Fort Hood to fly on US airlines, or even have access to Fort Hood in the case Duane Reasoner, who refused to "condemn" the shootings of his dinner buddy.
• approved Note to homeland security: Please put this woman on the no fly list. Now.
• approved harmlesstree Our government has been killing and oppressing Muslims, both directly and indirectly: so that would make you for, or against the Fort Hood "attack on military targets" and the underpants bomber?
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  This man has honesty, integrity and valor that we can only dream about. Willing to give his life like that to avenge what we do to his tribe and his people. Such a selfless and honour bound act. People like him cannot be corrupted, they cannot be subjugated and they cannot be ruled. That is is why they will ultimately win and expel us from their lands.
  

• rejected: same stunt as Nidal Hasan? Same valor as Hasan and Awlaki
• rejected: Other than the use of a suicide bomb instead of pistol. how is this case any different that Major Hasan's attack on Fort Hood?
  

• Intel Failure in Ft. Hood Case Preceded Airline Attack

  Friday, January 08, 2010 According to CBS News, the 18 e-mails Hasan exchanged with radical Muslim imam Anwar al-Awlaki leading up to the rampage that were being monitored by a wiretap were never seen by the terrorism task force that was determining whether the Army major posed a threat. Officials had received fragments of information as early as October about an alleged terror recruit they later learned was Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
• http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582540,00.html
  

• Napolitano Shocked By the ‘Determination of Al-Qaeda’ & That They Don’t Need Buddy System to Attack

  By PoliJAM | January 8, 2010

  What was the most shocking thing that Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano learned from the review of the Christmas Day terrorist attack aboard a Detroit bound flight?

  For one, the “determination of al-Qaeda” to attack us. Yes, this imbecile actually said that.

  Our Homeland chief just learned that a cult of Islamic extremists that we have been battling for years have the “determination” to attack us? You got to be kidding me.

  They’re a cult filled with suicide bombers Janet! You can’t get more determined than that.

  The other shocking news that Napolitano as well as John Brennan, the Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, learned from the review was that al-Qaeda would launch individuals against us.

  Attention morons, suicide bombers don’t need to be on the buddy system to go some where and blast a bomb.

  To me, the most shocking things I learned from the review were two-fold. One, that these ‘Keystone Kops’ were able to keep their jobs after their disastrous work performances. And two, that Janet Napolitano can say such stupid things without drooling.

  Heaven help us.

  REPORTER: What was the most shocking, stunning thing that you found out of the review? And, Secretary, to you, as well.

  MR. BRENNAN: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is an extension of al Qaeda core coming out of Pakistan. And, in my view, it is one of the most lethal and one of the most concerning of it. The fact that they had moved forward to try to execute this attack against the homeland I think demonstrated to us — and this is what the review sort of uncovered — that we had a strategic sense of sort of where they were going, but we didn’t know they had progressed to the point of actually launching individuals here. And we have taken that lesson, and so now we’re full on top of it.

  SECRETARY NAPOLITANO: I think, following up on that, not just the determination of al Qaeda and al Qaeda Arabian Peninsula, but the tactic of using an individual to foment an attack, as opposed to a large conspiracy or a multi-person conspiracy such as we saw in 9/11, that is something that affects intelligence. It really emphasizes now the renewed importance on how different intelligence is integrated and analyzed, and threat streams are followed through. And, again, it will impact how we continue to review the need to improve airport security around the world.

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  Al-Awlaki must be arrested ASAP and interrogated. He knows a lot and must be made to talk, and plenty. Comment not approved: Fat chance. Fort Hood isn't on the FBI or HSecurity page, Awlaki isn't on the list of wanted Jihadist terrorists, he's not on any wanted or watch list even though National Security Agency reads and hears everything he says. The Army and Federal Bureacracy of Incompents both have concluded Hasan acted alone (no evidence of a link to an organization like Al Queda) and without outside direction or influence (like from a guy like Awlaki who's "spiritual guidance" is to kill US soldiers sent to kill Muslims and Israeli civilians). With friends like this watching over us, we're doomed unless we take action to remove the man at the top . \

• Huffington rejected: We must ask why  Fort Hood isn't on the FBI or Homeland  Security page, and why Awlaki isn't on the FBI's posted list of wanted Jihadist terrorists. National Security Agency reads and hears everything he says, and Awlaki was targeted in the Yeman raid, but then it goes to the Army of Diversity and Federal Bureacracy of Incompents who both  concluded Hasan acted alone and without outside direction or influence. Yet we all know Hasan was getting spiritual guidance to kill US soldiers directly from the head of Jihad in Al Queda of the Arabian Penisula.  With friends like this watching over us, lead by a man that attended a church of terrorist sympathizers  we are doomed.

• Huffington Rejected: Awlaki/Yemen IS the new Bin Laden/Afghanistan. Talk about not connecting dots, the Obama administration STILL won't call the Fort Hood massacre a related act of terrorism. The only difference is that Awlaki didn't buy the guns or train him, or buy him airline tickets like the "is that a bomb in your pants or are you happy to see me" bomber. If McCain were in charge, that training base would have been cleared with a daisy cutter, Awlaki would be in Gitmo or waiting in the afterlife for Hasan by thanksgiving, and the Detroit plot would never have happened.
• Huffington approved: Awlaki/Yemen IS the new Bin Laden/Afghanistan. The only difference between Hasan/Ft Hood and Flight 253 is that Awlaki didn't have to buy the guns, train him, or buy his airline tickets. Talk about not connecting dots.
• Rejected: What "story"? We know Hasan was given spiritual advice from an Al Queda officer who preaches that US soldiers should be killed before they're sent overseas as a justifiable military action to defend Jihad. We have enough evidence to know Awlaki is tied to nearly every 2009 terrorist incident involving english speaking terrorists, and personally recruited, trained, planned and blessed the Detroit bombing attempt. Why the willful blindness to the obvious when Awlaki himself told the world what Fort Hood was all about? 
• This "story" is based on the words "perhaps with al-Awlaki" by some Yemeni military person. This is the most embarrassing excuse for journalism - and most obvious attempt at propaganda - I've seen in a good while.  And if the two did meet, so what? People seem to be obsessed with connecting everything to this figure. It's only making him more of a celebrity. But I suppose when we extra-judicially assass!nate him, these stories will help in obfuscating the illegality of our crime.
• accepted:"I suppose when we extra-judicially assass!nate him, these stories will help in obfuscating the illegality of our crime" Our crime? You believe that Awlaki is innocent? Or do you simply agree with Awlaki that US soldiers at Fort Hood are not "innocent", and valid military targets in a valid Jihad?
• accepted: Awlaki himself told the world what Fort Hood was all about by pronouncing Mr. Nidal a hero. Hasan got spiritual advice from suspected, now known Al Queda officer who preaches Jihad demands killing US soldiers before they're sent overseas. Awlaki is tied to dozens of terrorist plots from 9/11 to Fort Dix, and now we know he personally recruited, trained, planned and blessed the Detroit bombing attempt. 
• approved: We have a president and attorney general who approved FBI and Army Ft Hood investigations which both concluded the Major Hasan acted alone without outside direction or encouragement. They concluded there was no evidence of ties to terrorist organizations like Al Queda or terrorists like Awlaki who might have justified the shootings. The e-mails were all "innocent" and the FBI confirmed that $20-$30,000 sent to Pakistan did not go to terrorist organiations. Given what we know now about Awlaki, Al Queda, and Yemen, isn't it time to revisit those conclusions?
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  This pernicious movement is the Communism of our day.

• /www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/07/yemen-abdulmutallab-met-w_n_414422.html?&just_reloaded=1
  

• Yeman Says Nigerian May Have Met Radical Cleric Associated Press Jan 7, 2010 12:46 pm ET  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121552736   
• The bomb was obtained after he left Yemen
• met with al-Qaida members in Rafad in mountains 200 miles SE of capital in Shabwa province
  
• Awlak tribe dominates the area, believes he met Awlaki
• The site attacked was the same where the Nigerian met with al-Qaida
• Hundreds of AQ fighters operating in Yemen

• Al-Alimi's comments fueled growing and longtime suspicions over al-Awlaki's role in al-Qaida.

  The 38-year-old cleric, born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, is a popular figure among al-Qaida sympathizers, known for his English-language sermons preaching jihad, or holy war, against the West
• last week, President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said al-Awlaki is "clearly a part of al-Qaida in Arabian Peninsula. He's not just a cleric. He is in fact trying to instigate terrorism."
• Bomber visited in 2004 for year to study Arabic, did have not have any terrorist tendencies, believed recruited by radical groups in Britain
• arrested AQ people who had contact with Abd
• A midlevel al-Qaida leader who was confirmed killed in the Dec. 24 strike, Mohammed Ahmed Saleh Omair, had also met with Abdulmutallab earlier,

Yemeni official: US terror suspect recruited in Britain CNN International Al-Awlaki's name also surfaced in November when US officials revealed he and Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan -- the US Army psychiatrist accused of fatally shooting ... See all stories on this topic

CBS News Fort Hood Intel Lapse Mirrors Detroit Case CBS News By David Martin (CBS) Less than a month after major Nidal Hasan allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon's top intelligence officer sent ... See all stories on this topic

The Guardian Airline bomb plot accused 'joined al-Qaida in London' The Guardian Awlaki gained notoriety last year when it emerged that he exchanged dozens of emails with Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people in a ... See all stories on this topic

Plane-Bomb Suspect May Have Met With Radical Cleric in Yemen Wall Street Journal Nidal Hassan, the alleged Fort Hood shooter, according to a Yemeni official familiar with the situation. Yemeni officials haven't presented any specific ... "He's the most dangerous man in Yemen," according to a Yemeni official familiar with counterterrorism operations. "He's intelligent, sophisticated, Internet-savvy and very charismatic. He can sell anything to anyone, and right now he's selling jihad." The official said Mr. Awlaki had helped recruit al Qaeda foot soldiers among the tribes in Yemen's rural southern provinces. People close to Mr. Awlaki say he isn't a member of al Qaeda, doesn't condone violence against civilians, and has no connection to the alleged attempt. Mr. Awlaki's whereabouts aren't known. He was one of the targets in a lethal Yemeni military attack on Dec. 24, along with three al Qaeda leaders, according to Yemeni officials. British Prime Minster Gordon Brown said over the weekend the Nigerian had first made contact with al Qaeda in Yemen. Mr. Alimi rejected that statement Thursday, and said he thought Mr. Abdulmutallab must have been radicalized during his time in the U.K. See all stories on this topic

TIME Yemen: The Most Fragile Ally TIME ... al-Awlaki, the cyber–pen pal of the accused Fort Hood shooter, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, but no evidence has yet demonstrated that to be the case. ... See all stories on this topic

The Westergaard Attack: It's All the Same Jihad Human Events (blog) Both Hasan and Abdulmutallab were linked to the New Mexico-born, Yemen-based Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who boasted in October 2009 that Yemen would ... See all stories on this topic

Security Adviser Jones: White House's flight 253 report has 'certain shock to it' The Hill (blog) Nidal Malik Hassan prior to the Fort Hood shooting last November. Consequently, the possibility that both attacks are in some way linked remains concerning ... The White House's report on the Flight 253 plot has a "certain shock to it," National Security Adviser James Jones said Wednesday. Initially, President Barack Obama described Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as an "isolated extremist" acting independently. But a survey of available intelligence shortly after the failed attack revealed that Abdulmuttallab was working closely with an al Qaeda affilitate in Yemen. He received both training and explosives there, prior to boarding Flight 253 in Amsterdam. The Nigerian suspect also maintained close ties to Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, U.S. officials admitted last week. Al-Alwaki's name has been on the White House's radar since it became known he exchanged e-mails with Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan prior to the Fort Hood shooting last November. Consequently, the possibility that both attacks are in some way linked remains concerning to the White House, Jones suggested during his interview on Wednesday. See all stories on this topic

Nigerian Met Radical Cleric [01:55] Shanghai Daily Rashad al-Alimi said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab met al-Qaida members in Yemeni's Shabwa province, a place he believed was connected to Anwar al-Awlaki. ... See all stories on this topic

The Making Of A Bomber TheNews Al-Awlaki, according to the report, corresponded by e-mail with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who was charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, ... See all stories on this topic

%%January 6, 2009 Wednesday

• Al-Qaida in Yemen, Not Afghanistan

  Wednesday, 06 Jan 2010 03:26 PM By: Arnaud de Borchgrave
  Several hundred al-Qaida terrorists, mostly Arabs, moved from Afghanistan to Yemen years ago. Yemenis released from Guantanamo, presumably after feigning remorse and contrition, went back to Yemen — to rejoin al-Qaida.
  Second in command of the peninsula's al-Qaida is Said al-Shehri, , according to Saudi intelligence. He was released from Gitmo and flown to Saudi Arabia where he made his way to Yemen An estimated 200 to 300 of al-Qaida's Afghan survivors are known to be in Marif and Jouf, two mountainous eastern Yemeni provinces that compete with Afghanistan's forbidding terrain. There, tribal chiefs eagerly protect them as their stated objective is to get rid of America's "lackeys" in the Persian Gulf, i.e., monarchies, sheikdoms and emirates. An unpatrolled coastline of 1,200 miles on the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea and a mostly desert land border of 1,000 miles with Saudi Arabia and Oman make Yemen the ideal country for al-Qaida's safe havens. Nomadic militants can travel with impunity between Afghanistan and Pakistan and through Yemen down to Somalia, with plenty of willing recruits among the oppressive poverty in all four countries
      http://newsmax.com/deBorchgrave/Borchgrave-Yemen-Terror-Afghanistan/2010/01/06/id/345567 
• http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2010717142_pitts07.html
  January 6, 2010 at 11:29 AM Leonard Pitts Jr. / Syndicated columnist It's time to ask the right questions about airline security
  I submit that [Napolitano]'s initial, defensive, reaction, taken alongside the GOP's reflexive attempt to exploit the incident for political gain, speaks volumes about why Washington cannot seem to fix airline security — or, for that matter, anything else. So polarized has our leadership become that it is incapable of seeing in any dimension beyond the political. When attempted mass murder is seen as an "opportunity" on the one side and a signal to circle the wagons on the other, one can only conclude that for some, partisanship literally matters more than life itself.
  
  

• Kilmeade invents contradiction between Obama and his administration's message on attempted terror attack

  January 06, 2010 1:29 pm ET http://globalwarmingmisinformation.com/print/research/201001060016

  SUMMARY: On Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade falsely claimed that in his January 5 remarks about the attempted attack on a Northwest Airlines flight, President Obama both "contradicted" an earlier statement he made about the suspect in the case and "refuted" claims his "top aides" made while discussing the aftermath of the attempted attack. In fact, the context of his aides' comments show that they are not inconsistent with Obama's; moreover, Obama's first response to the attack discussed "those plotting against us," undermining Kilmeade's suggestion that Obama limited blame for the attempted attack to "an isolated extremist."

• President Obama Suspending Gitmo Detainee Transfers to Yemen ABC News (blog) Nidal Hasan, asked him "about killing US soldiers and officers. His question was is it legitimate" under Islamic law. Almost 200 detainees remain at Gitmo, ... See all stories on this topic

  In Yemen's Capital, Fearful Talk of War With Al-Qaeda TIME ... Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical cleric who may have inspired both Abdulmutallab and accused Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was born in New ... See all stories on this topic

  Washington Times Jihad by any other name Washington Times Nidal Malik Hasan - who, in doing his part for the jihad, slaughtered 13 of his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood - was in contact with the same Yemeni-based ... In his weekly radio address, he replaced "global war on terror" with "war on a far-reaching network of violence and hatred." In another attempt to be "anything-but-Bush," Mr. Obama has turned the simple, descriptive acronym "GWOT" into the mangled "WFRNVH." I think even members of al Qaeda are perplexed over the American president's determination to make even simple concepts maddeningly complex. The "WFRNVH" now joins a motley collection of other powder-puff phrases the Obama administration is using to describe the current war, the attacks against us, and those who carry them out: "Extremism." "Attempted." "Isolated." "Incident." "Man-made disaster." "Overseas contingency operation." Not once since becoming president has Mr. Obama linked terror aimed at the United States with Islam. He has refused to do so, despite escalating attacks and plots, including two fatal terror attacks by Muslims against the U.S. military at home The terrorists are all Muslims. And yet, the president refuses to link terrorist acts with Islam. Like his predecessor, he does not want to lend the impression that the United States is at war with the larger Muslim world, What explains the 72-hour gap between the attack and Mr. Obama's first grotesquely weak statement about the "isolated extremist?" What explains the next 24-hour gap until his marginally stronger statement about "systemic failure" being "unacceptable?" What explains the following 96-hour delay until his remarks over the weekend that it was an al Qaeda operation? Mr. Obama has also failed to mention that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan - who, in doing his part for the jihad, slaughtered 13 of his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood - was in contact with the same Yemeni-based terrorist, Anwar al-Awlaki, who coached Mr. Abdulmutallab. All of these attacks, plots and terrorists are of a piece: They are deadly parts of an Islamist jihad to conquer and kill the infidel. See all stories on this topic

  How the British Government Funds Radical Islam http://pryce-jones.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWYwYTU1Y2Q1ZGIyMDgxYWYyOWU1YjAwMTE2YmNiMTA= National Review Online (blog) Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood killer, and we now learn that the Detroit would-be bomber, Umar Abdulmutallab, while a student in London between 2005 and 2008 ...The East London Mosque is one of the largest and most influential of Islamic institutions in Britain. It has a Muslim Centre, a meeting place which acts a bit like a college, offering lectures and sermons at which like-minded people may meet. One who gave lectures there was Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Islamist imam whose fingerprints have turned up in more than one place. He groomed Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood killer, and we now learn that the Detroit would-be bomber, Umar Abdulmutallab, while a student in London between 2005 and 2008 listened to a number of video-link lectures given by al-Awlaki at this mosque's Muslim Centre. By then, al-Awlaki was communicating at long distance from Yemen where he had taken refuge, and become affiliated to al-Qaeda. And when Abdul Mutallab himself went to Yemen where he was trained and equipped as a suicide bomber, he had personal contact with al-Awlaki, evidently his mentor.   in the past two years, according to the Sunday Telegraph, the Muslim Centre has received at least 60,000 pounds from a government initiative known as Preventing Violent Extremism. The intention is to fund moderates to oppose extremists, but the very opposite has happened. Violent extremism has been subsidized. In the last two years, al-Awlaki has addressed at least two gatherings at the Centre via video-link, including one last year called “The End of Time,” advertised with a poster showing the destruction of New York.   Close to a million pounds has been handed out to Islamist organizations that are propagating Muslim supremacy, hatred of non-Muslims, and terrorism. It beggars belief that politicians and civil servants can be idiotic enough to device a crack-brained scheme of the kind. See all stories on this topic

  The Weekly Standard Al Qaeda's Trojan Horse Yahoo! News In September of 2008, just a few months before Awlaki was contacted by Major Nidal Malik Hasan (the Fort Hood Shooter) via email, Cage Prisoners hosted a ... Begg is a famous former Guantanamo detainee who has become a masterful anti-American propagandist. His organization, Cage Prisoners, claims to be a "human rights organization that exists solely to raise awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other detainees held as part of the War on Terror." In reality, Begg's organization exists solely to demonize the U.S. military and smear America's post-9/11 war efforts. In early 2007, Abdulmutallab was the president of the Islamic Society at the University College of London (UCL). The press has uncovered a number of disturbing aspects of Abdulmutallab's tenure as the head of the society. First and foremost, his organization hosted a "War on Terror Week" that was really a "Blame America" fest. The New York Times has aptly described the Islamic Society's "guest speakers" at this and other events as "radical imams, former Guantanamo Bay prisoners and a cast of mostly left-wing, anti-American British politicians and human rights advocates." During one particularly troublesome episode, Qureshi was captured in an online video ranting at a rally hosted by Hizb ut Tahrir, an organization that the BBC has found "promotes racism and anti-Semitic hatred, calls suicide bombers martyrs and urges Muslims to kill Jewish people." Indeed, the video shows Qureshi praising his "brothers and sisters fighting in Chechnya, Iraq, Palestine, Kashmir, [and] Afghanistan." Qureshi tells the crowd: "We know that it is incumbent upon all of us to support the jihad of our brothers and sisters in these countries when they are facing the oppression of the West." Qureshi and the crowd then break into a chant of "Allah Akhbar." This is the Begg associate that Abdulmutallab invited to speak about jihad during his 2007 "War on Terror Week." Abdulmutallab "is the fourth president of a London student Islamic society to face terrorist charges in three years. One is facing a retrial on charges that he was involved in the 2006 liquid bomb plot to blow up airliners. Two others have been convicted of terrorist offences since 2007." Abdulmutallab was likely radicalized long before he consorted with the likes of Begg and Qureshi at the Islamic Society's January 2007 conference. For example, in a web posting dated February 20, 2005, he wrote of his "jihad fantasies." Abdulmutallab elaborated: "I imagine how the great jihad will take place. In 2006, Cage Prisoners organized a public relations campaign to pressure the Yemeni government into releasing Awlaki. Then, when Awlaki was released in 2007, Cage Prisoners told readers that they could submit congratulations to Awlaki through them In September of 2008, just a few months before Awlaki was contacted by Major Nidal Malik Hasan (the Fort Hood Shooter) via email, Cage Prisoners hosted a fundraising event called "Another Ramadan 2008" during which Awlaki delivered a "live lecture" via his cell phone. Cage Prisoners called it a "big draw" for its attendees. Then, in August 2009 (just weeks after Awlaki blessed attacks on non-Muslim soldiers on his web site), Cage Prisoners organized a conference called "Beyond Guantanamo" that was scheduled to feature a video of Awlaki. Local authorities forced Cage Prisoners to withdraw Awlaki's lecture. The group did so, but only under protest. See all stories on this topic

  Death of a Theory -- By: Rich Lowry National Review Online Nidal Malik Hasan, the terrorist of Fort Hood. How coincidental that we are beset by isolated extremists believing the same things and inspired by the same ... Obama called Abdul Mutallab an “isolated extremist” in his initial statement on the incident, and left the same impression about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the terrorist of Fort Hood. How coincidental that we are beset by isolated extremists believing the same things and inspired by the same people — in the cases of Abdul Mutallab and Hasan, the radical Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. Just before Christmas, the Obama administration returned six more Gitmo detainees to Yemen, home to about 90 of the 200 remaining prisoners. Obama counterterrorism adviser John Brennan pledges to keep sending them back, and insists that “several” or “many” of the six latest returnees are in Yemeni custody See all stories on this topic

  The Terrorists' Best Weapon: Intelligence Failures International Analyst Network Another was killed by the Yemeni military. Similar intelligence failures allowed Major Nidal Malik Hasan to commit his November 5 shooting attack on Fort ... The government had suspected that Abdulmutallab had ties to terrorists for at least two years. In early August, the CIA later picked up information about an individual called “The Nigerian” who was suspected of meeting with terrorists in Yemen to plan an attack. Then, in November 19, Abdulmutallab’s father, a former minister in Nigeria’s government, went to the U.S. embassy in Abuja and told the CIA about his son’s extremism and ties to Yemen. The dots were not put together, and to make matters worse, the State Department system to track active visas did not alert the proper officials that Abdulmutallab had a visa to travel to the United States. The next day, when Abdulmutallab’s father’s tip was sent back home, the State Department again did not warn about his visa, enabling him to later travel to the U.S. from Amsterdam on the flight he would try to destroy. The State Department responded by saying the responsibility to revoke Abdulmutallab’s visa fell under the National Counterterrorism Center.   Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which declared responsibility for the attempted bombing, has been strengthened by the release of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. Said Ali al-Shihri was released in 2007 and went to Saudi Arabia’s infamous terrorist “rehabilitation” program, and then became the deputy-leader of Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen, the one that worked with Abdulmutallab. Muhamad Attik al-Harbi is another former prisoner who joined Al-Qaeda’s ranks in Yemen, although he later went back to Saudi Arabia and left the group. Another was killed by the Yemeni military. Similar intelligence failures allowed Major Nidal Malik Hasan to commit his November 5 shooting attack on Fort Hood in November that killed 13 people. When he was supposed to be giving a lecture about psychiatry, he talked about Islam, saying that infidels would go to hell and suffer punishments like having burning oil poured into their throats. His former classmates say that he stated that he was more loyal to Sharia Law than the U.S. and that he spoke in support of suicide bombings. As a psychiatrist, he spoke to superiors about bringing war crimes charges against some of his patients who served in the military. Hasan attended the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, at the same time as two of the 9/11 hijackers when Anwar al-Awlaki was the imam. Al-Awlaki is now known to be an Al-Qaeda recruiter currently residing in Yemen, and he ties these two plots together. He is believed to have given his blessing for the Christmas Day plot, and Hasan exchanged at least 18 emails with him in the six months prior to the attack. After the shooting, al-Awlaki praised Hasan. See all stories on this topic

  Center for Research on Globalization Questions Mount Over Attempt to Bomb Detroit-bound Jetliner Did the government deliberately let this guy fly? Center for Research on Globalization ... Mohammed al-Awlaki, the radical US-born Islamic cleric, now living in Yemen, who had been in communication with Major Nidal Malik Hasan in the months ... The real failure to “connect the dots” is the refusal to draw any conclusions from the inaction of the US intelligence apparatus. Who made the decision not to act? Why did they make this decision? Was the intention that the would-be bomber succeed or fail? Was it a deliberate attempt to undermine the Obama administration? Was it a deliberate attempt to provide a pretext for further US military action in the Middle East? In the world’s major intelligence agencies—the Russian FSB, the British MI-5, the Israeli Mossad, the French SGDN, China’s Second Intelligence Department—these are the questions that are being asked, along with a further question: Is the Obama administration in control of its own national security apparatus? These agencies undoubtedly dismiss the official US account of the abortive Christmas Day bombing for what it is: disinformation generated to delude American public opinion. See all stories on this topic

%%January 5, Tuesday

CNN piece links Awlaki "Next Bin Laden " to Fort Hood and underpants bomber

• Al-Qaeda Terrorist Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki Increasingly Seen as the Next Bin Laden  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BRYGQUwE-M Video

•    http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100007985&docId=l:1103302143&isRss=true  
• BROWN: And is this American man the next Osama bin Laden? A special investigation: the radical cleric born in the USA. Find out his connection to 9/11, the accused Fort Hood shooter, and other terror suspects.
• BROWN: The suspect in the botched Christmas bombing may have been motivated by the radical preaching of an American-born Muslim cleric.Anwar al-Awlaki is known as a rock star of sorts among jihadists. And he could be the next bin Laden.CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson has our special investigation.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): Anwar al-Awlaki.ANWAR AL-AWLAKI, MUSLIM CLERIC: Rain was mercy.ROBERTSON (voice-over): The radical Yemen-based preacher seen here online. His followers in Britain say he's like Osama bin Laden. What's on everyone's mind now is what influence Awlaki may have had on a young Nigerian, either here or in Yemen.

%%January 2, 2009 Sunday

• Michelle Malkin: Bleeding hearts and jihadi revolving doors
  Published: Saturday, January 2, 2010  Jamal Muhammad Ahmad Al Badawi, the convicted mastermind of the U.S.S. Cole bombing that took the  lives of 17 American sailors in October 2000. Despite being sentenced  to the death penalty, escaping twice from jail and being indicted in  the U.S. on terrorism charges, the Yemeni government freed him in 2007  in exchange for a promise that he renounce his old infidel-murdering  ways. More than two dozen of Badawi’s jailbreak buddies, including bin Laden’s former secretary, Nasir al-Wahayshi, reunited to form the  jihadi training team that now claims it supplied Abdulmutallab with his incendiary device.

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The radicalisation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab NEXT Days after the shooting, Mr. Awlaki put up a post titled, "Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing" on his blog that effusively praised Mr. Hassan's actions. ... See all stories on this topic

CBS News Yemeni Troops Sent to al Qaeda Strongholds CBS News Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused gunman in the Nov. 5 mass shooting at the Fort Hood, Texas, Army post in which 13 people were killed. On Friday, the Yemeni ... See all stories on this topic

AP: Muslim cleric who communicated with terror suspect born in LC KVIA The 38-year-old Al-Awlaki is now living in Yemen. The AP says he also had made contact with Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the psychiatrist accused of ... See all stories on this topic

Times Online Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: one boy's journey to jihad Times Online The Fort Hood killings last November, however, prompted a reappraisal after investigators confirmed electronic traffic between Major Nidal Hasan and the ... See all stories on this topic

Yemeni air attacks on al-Qaida fighters risk mobilising hostile tribes The Guardian ... and also a cousin of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Yemeni preacher who lectured some of the 11 September hijackers and was in contact with Nidal Hassan, ... See all stories on this topic

How Young Muslims Get Radicalized Sphere (Al-Awlaki, last seen in Yemen, commended Hasan's actions in an interview after the shooting.) Another element of the radicalization process singled out by ... See all stories on this topic

Flight 253 Attack and Ft Hood Massacre Linked, Say Intelligence Officials DesPardes.com (South Asian, but can't find the alleged CNN report that makes the claim of a link by intelligence officials) Hasan is said to have had communicated with the radical Yemeni based cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki on more than one occasion, reports have emerged. ... The Flight 253 terror attack and Ft Hood massacre are linked, say intelligence officials, CNN reported today. There also appears to be a common thread connecting Anwar Al-Awlaki to both Flight 253 incident and the Fort Hood massacre, some analysts say. Al-Awlaki, the radicalized American cleric who returned to Yemen in 2003, may have been influential in brainwashing both AbdulMutallab and Arab-American Major Nidal Hasan. See all stories on this topic

Telegraph.co.uk Barack Obama is vulnerable on terror - and he knows it Telegraph.co.uk Hassan was a committed Islamist who had corresponded with the fanatical Yemeni imam Anwar al-Awlaki. In June, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, a Muslim convert Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security chief – who prefers the term "man-caused disasters" to "terrorism" - blithely stated that there was "no indication that it is part of anything larger". She then insisted that the "system is working". A source in the White House counsel's office told The American Spectator of memos frantically seeking information that would "show that the Bush Administration had had far worse missteps than we ever could".Republicans smell blood. There is a pattern in the Obama administration of dismissing Islamist terrorist attacks as regrettable random act it had a calculated objective - just as Abdulmutallab was not, as Obama described him, an "isolated extremist". No wonder many Americans want to grab Obama by the lapels and scream: "It's the Jihad, stupid." The incompetence of the US intelligence bureaucracy is not the only thing that makes Underpantsgate so damaging for Obama. More serious is his failure to understand or acknowledge the nature of the enemy - and to view war as mere politics.

%%January 1, 2009

http://www.sphere.com/nation/article/official-umar-farouk-abdulmutallab-had-contact-with-anwar-al-awlaki/19300000

The cleric said Hasan communicated with him via e-mail starting about a year before the shooting rampage -- seeking advice about killing U.S. troops, the cleric said.

The cleric said he lauded the Fort Hood attack because it was aimed at troops, whom he accused of fighting an unjust war against Islam.

"It is a military target inside America and there is no dispute over that," al-Awlaki said. "Also, these military personnel are not ordinary; they were trained and ready to fight and kill oppressed Muslims, and commit crimes in Afghanistan."

Al-Awlaki's relatives deny he has played any role with al Qaeda. CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen said he has seen no evidence to the contrary. "There's no indication that al-Awlaki the cleric is in any way involved in operational matters for al Qaeda, but clearly he has operated as an inciter to jihad in the United States, by his own account," Bergen said.

Obama promises to repair system Winston-Salem Journal ... Anwar al-Awlaki, who investigators have also named as having exchanged e-mail messages with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist charged with ... See all stories on this topic

Clues in plane sight: US intel failed abysmally to connect underwear-bomb-case ... New York Daily News This is the very same al-Awlaki who gave a few attaboys, at the very least, to Fort Hood mass murderer Nidal Hasan. We know men like al-Awlaki are out there ... See all stories on this topic

Examiner.com Al Qaeda learns how US handles terrorist plane bomb attempts Examiner.com He also claimed to have met with radical imam Anwar al Awlaki, who has also been linked to Nidal Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood shooter. ... See all stories on this topic

I shall send hundreds of men to fight alongside our neighbours, vows al-Qaeda ... Times Online ... leadership as well as Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Yemeni preacher who inspired both Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Detroit bomber, and Nidal Malik Hasan, ... See all stories on this topic

Chatter: What we're hearing GlobalPost ... Nigerian Farouk Abdulmutallab made email contact with a radical, American-born Yemeni imam — the same imam, Anwar al-Awlaki, with whom Nidal Malik Hasan ... See all stories on this topic

%%December 31, 2009

NBC News reports that Awlawki did make contact with the Nigerian bomber, and planned the operation

•  Al-Awlaki May Be Al Qaeda RecruiterU.S. officials now, almost to a man, are becoming increasingly more convinced that Anwar Al-Awlaki is more than a radical cleric. The sources we've talked to say he's a coordinator, even a facilitator, or talent recruiter if you will, for al Qaeda and all of its franchises.

  
  The FBI will not say if Anwar al-Awlaki and the suspect in the Detroit case, Abdulmutallab, ever met face-to-face in Yemen, but in the months prior to the attempted bombing … the two men were communicating. Sources say at a minimum, Awlaki was providing spiritual support and now investigators are pressing hard to know if he played a bigger role in perhaps introducing the suspect to terrorists. Meanwhile Awlaki himself is a marked man. Sources say he was in fact one of the targets of a Yemeni-led airstrike carried out just before Christmas. the other question we have for you tonight [is] about this similar attack with the Somalian.
  the Somali suspect was carrying large quantities of chemicals – more than a pound of ammonium nitrate, half a liter of sulfuric acid – and that was too much to hide on his body.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/30/world/worldwatch/entry6039811.shtml
  
• http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35037 Ivana Trump Escorted Off Plane: Napolitano Declares 'The System Worked'by  Ann Coulter 12/30/2009 Since .. Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, every attack on a commercial airliner has been committed by foreign-born Muslim men with the same hair color, eye color and skin color. Half of them have been named Mohammed. You are at war with an enemy without uniforms, without morals, without a country and without a leader -- but the one advantage you have is they all look alike. ... clues ... His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He's Nigerian. He's a Muslim. He boarded a plane in Lagos, Nigeria. He paid nearly $3,000 in cash for his ticket. He had no luggage. Two months ago, his father warned the U.S. that he was a radical Muslim and possibly dangerous. The government refuses to perform the only possibly effective security check -- search Muslims -- so instead it harasses infinitely compliant Americans.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaerythritol_tetranitrate
• Human Events December 30, 2009 On Terrorism it's Time to Know, to Profile, and to Discriminate  By Newt Gingrich After the Christmas Day near disaster in Detroit, it is time for Americans to demand effective anti-terrorist actions. It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information.  The United States should track down the owners of every website that promotes terrorism and systematically root them out. It should be as dangerous to a person promoting terrorism as it is to execute an act of terrorism. The same should apply to the electronic communications of every known radical (and using these communications to track down every unknown radical). The people behind these websites should be barred from getting a U.S. visa if not in the United States

• Obama: Al Queda comes home calling Sri Lanka Guardian (blog) Many regard Awlaki as an ideologue of Al Qaeda in Yemen. The US authorities do not as yet regard the massacre of fellow soldiers by Major Hasan as an act of ...  The communique included original photographs of would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab grinning in front of an Al-Qaida banner. The group acknowledged that the device had failed to properly detonate, but promised that it would "continue on this path until we achieve success." The statement also congratulated Ft. Hood shooter Maj. Malik Nidal Hasan and urged fellow Muslims to follow in his footsteps and kill American soldiers. “ ...There is so far no reason to doubt the authenticity of these claims which show that the attempt to blow up a plane of the North-West Airlines on December 25,2009 as it was approaching to land at Detroit was part of a wider conspiracy of Al Qaeda orchestrated from Yemen and not the isolated act of an individual as sought to be made out by some officials of the Obama Administration. They also show that the massacre of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas by Maj.Malik Nidal Hasan of the US Army on November 6,2009, was an act of Al Qaeda-inspired terrorism and not an act of irrational anger of a Muslim serving in the Army. See all stories on this topic

  CBS News Growing Al Qaeda Threat from Yemen CBS News Among those being sheltered in Yemen is Anwar al Awlaki, the American-born radical preacher who counseled Maj. Nidal Hassan, the US soldier charged with ... See all stories on this topic

  Christian Science Monitor How tough is Obama on terrorism? Christian Science Monitor Yemen is the home of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical cleric who stoked Hasan's anti-US anger through e-mail conversations. He might have been killed in the ... "The Obama administration has ... made a big point of seeking to reinstate the law enforcement mindset throughout the counterterrorism enterprise.” He has told investigators that he was trained by Al Qaeda in Yemen, where he lived for several months this year. Some of the ringleaders of the attack on Flight 253 may have been released from Guantánamo Bay during the Bush years, See all stories on this topic

  Washington Times EDITORIAL: Obama denies crotch bomber conspiracy Washington Times ... between shooter Nidal Malik Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical imam and al Qaeda commander born in New Mexico and believed to be in Yemen. ... See all stories on this topic

  WND.com Investigators suspect closed regime may have provided trigger technology WND.com Before he left the US al-Awlaki had established a relationship with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the US Army officer who is accused of killing more than a dozen ... See all stories on this topic

  Detroit terror attack: British university 'complicit' in radicalisation Telegraph.co.uk Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemen-based preacher who provided spiritual guidance to both Abdulmutallab and the Fort Hood assassin Nidal Malik Hasan, ... See all stories on this topic

  The left embraces 'Avatar' American Thinker (blog) Listing Yemen, however, is even more revealing in that Swanson undoubtedly knows it is the base of Anwar al-Awlaki, the jihadist cleric who influenced Ft. ... See all stories on this topic

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/janet-napolitano-eats-her_b_406117.html Taylor Marsh Janet Napolitano Eats Her Words
  

  Napolitano's quick CYA as predictable as this opening paragraph in the Wall Street Journal. A U.S. government that has barred the phrase "war on terror" has nonetheless acknowledged that a failed Christmas day bomb attack on an airliner was a terrorist attempt. Can we all now drop the pretense that we stopped fighting a war once Dick Cheney and George W. Bush left the White House? Let's see, a young Nigerian male, whose flight originated out of Lagos airport on the continent of Africa, a notoriously iffy security proposition to begin with, reportedly buys a one-way ticket, paying in cash, with his father (chairman of Nigeria's FirstBank, the oldest bank in the country, with offices in London, Paris and Beijing), notifying the U.S. embassy in Nigeria that his son has been radicalized, warning the U.S., with the young man attempting a terrorist attack that was foiled by sheer sweet luck, but "the system worked." The "Department of Homeland Security" is a joke, a waste of money we don't have, a redundant department of massive irrelevance, not to mention a public relations nightmare, as Mr. Tom Ridge, followed by Ms. Napolitano, have both conclusively proved, with duties that could be performed by another agency or better yet, shared.

• (me) She also said AFTER ABC correctly called the bombing an Al Queda operation with the bomb constructed in Yemen that there was no evidence of a wider conspiracy. The Obama adminstration, DOD, and FBI still refuse to classify Fort Hood as terrorism, or recognize that Anwar al Awlaki, who recruited and planned the Detroit bombing is the common thread to both incidents, and Al Queda in Iraq, which anybody could (and many did, my self included ) have theorized within hours of Fort Hood, but our leader in chief told us to refrain from theorizing until after 3 or 4 more Awlaki inspired terrorist incidents. Fire Napolitano? The man who needs to be fired is Obama, and if you think his ratings are low now, wait until everybody realizes he's the Monty Python smuggler officer who refuses to believe the smuggler even after he confesses and brags about it, and takes in the priest. Homeland Security was looking into Manning, the right-wing Rev Right, but not Awlaki, or Hasan's dinner buddy Duane Reasoner who quotes Awlaki and still has base access to Fort Hood. If McCain were in charge, Awlaki would be in Gitmo right now, or waiting for Hasan in the afterlife. Check out my timeline http://tinyurl.com/fthoodshootingstimeline
  
  

• Obama: Flight 253 Plot Is Result Of 'Systemic Failure'

  
  

  PHILIP ELLIOTT and LOLITA C. BALDOR | 12/29/09 11:25 PM |

     http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/29/obama-flight-253-plot-is-_n_406502.html
• intelligence authorities now are looking at conversations between the suspect in the failed attack, a 23-year-old Nigerian, and at least one al-Qaida member. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said the conversations were vague or coded, but the intelligence community believes that, in hindsight, the communications may have been referring to the Detroit attack. One official said a link between the suspect's planning and al-Qaida's goals was becoming more clear... government had intelligence from Yemen before Christmas that leaders of a branch of al-Qaida there were talking about "a Nigerian" being prepared for a terrorist attack.. would not confirm whether those conversations involved Yemen-based radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, but other U.S. government officials said there were initial indications that he was involved.
• [people] at the San'a Institute for the Arabic Language, where Abdulmutallab had enrolled to study Arabic, told The Associated Press that he attended school for only the Mulsim holy month of Ramadan, which began in late August. That has raised questions about what he did during the rest of his stay, which continued into December.

  They also said he was not openly extremist, though he expressed anger over Israel's actions against Palestinians in Gaza.

• http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/29/awlaki-personally-blessed-detroit-attack/
  
  • Awlaki personally blessed Detroit attack
  • By Victor Morton
  • The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by Anwar al-Awlaki, the same Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooting suspect
  • The intelligence official, who is familiar with the FBI's interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, said the bombing suspect has boasted of his jihad training during interrogation by the FBI and has said it included final exhortations by Mr. al-Awlaki.
  • "It was Awlaki who indoctrinated him," the official said. "He was told, 'You are going to be the tip of the spear of the Muslim nation.'"
  • Several British news sources, including Sky News and the Daily Mail, have reported, in vague terms, that authorities suspect unspecified links between Mr. Abdulmutallab and Mr. al-Awlaki. Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, has said an al-Awlaki/Abdulmutallab link "appears" to be the case.
  • Mr. Abdulmutallab cited Maj. Hasan in his interrogations, but only to praise his religion's diversity, as "an example of how Islam accepts even American soldiers."
  • Mr. Abdulmutallab did not show any operational knowledge of the Army major or the Fort Hood attack.
  • being in a room in Yemen receiving Muslim blessings and prayers from Mr. al-Awlaki, along with a number of other men "all covered up in white martyrs' garments," and known only by code names and "abu" honorifics.

• Two Gitmo Releases Behind Terror Plot On Flight 253

  ABC:
  
  

  Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the Northwest bombing in a Monday statement that vowed more attacks on Americans.
  
  American officials agreed to send the two terrorists from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia where they entered into an "art therapy rehabilitation program" and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials.

  
  
  They were released in 2007 to Saudi Arabia.
• is Obama still planning to release Gitmo terror suspects to Saudi Arabia for "art therapy" so that they can come back and plan more attacks against America?
  
  As of May, that was the plan, at least 100 of them.
  
  

  This morning in Riyadh, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he spoke to Saudi Assistant Minister of the Interior Muhammed bin Nayaf about sending the roughly 100 Yemeni detainees currently in the detainee center at Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabia to the Saudi government's rehabilitation program for jihadis.

  
  
  al-Qaeda is having a field day with this and taking credit for the failed attempt to kill a plane full of people.
  
  ABC again:
  
  

  Al Qaeda took credit Monday for the attempted bombing, boasted of its ability to overcome U.S. intelligence and airport security, and promised new attacks.

  
  
   [http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2009/12/two-gitmo-releases-behind-terror-plot.html]
  

• I’m the first of many, warns airline ‘bomber’ Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
  Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian arrested after the failed bomb plot
  Giles Whittell in Washington and Adam Fresco A global search for accomplices in the Detroit airliner plot was under way yesterday after an al-Qaeda group based in Yemen claimed responsibility for the operation and the would-be bomber was reported to have said that more attacks were being planned.

  Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a terrorist cell led by a former personal secretary to Osama bin Laden, issued a statement saying that the failed attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a response to American-backed airstrikes on the group in Yemen this month.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6969645.ece

 

• http://www.thefoxnation.com/detroit-airliner-terror-plot/2009/12/28/obama-calls-terror-suspect-isolated-extremist-al-qaeda-claim "now claiming credit for the failedattack" "an alert and courageous citizenry are far more resilient than an isolated extremist" the bombing suspect told the FBI told there are more like him in Yemen. Karl Rove points out that President Obama called the Flight 253 bomb plotter an "isolated extremist" but Al Qaeda has already claimed credit for the terrorist bombing attempt. According to Rove, Obama is trying to paint terror suspect as a lone wolf, but in fact he's part of larger terror network.
• Up in the Air: Obama's Terrorism Failure http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-heilbrunn/up-in-the-air-obamas-terr_b_405586.html  His presidency will not rise or fall on health care, but on his ability to safeguard America. His lackadaisical response to this abortive terrorist act is cause for alarm. So far, Obama has left Americans up in the air.

• Questions Persist About Averted Terror Attack 12/28
  NPR
  The cleric - the radical cleric in Yemen, Al-Awlaki: What I'm hearing from my sources is that they are starting to lean in the direction that, in fact, ...

  He used this explosive called pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, and this is the exact same explosive that the shoe bomber, Richard Reid, used in 2001. And you'll remember in that case, he had trouble lighting the fuse on the shoe, and that's why that attempt failed. And in this case, officials tell us that Abdulmutallab had 80 grams of PETN in a plastic packet sewn into his underwear, as you said, and the detonator was supposed to be a chemical. He was basically supposed to inject it with a syringe into the PETN. They found the syringe. They're trying to put that together now to try and figure out the chemical makeup of the bomb. But all these things together sort of intimate that there's just no way that a lone wolf like Abdulmutallab could have put this together.

  • He had a bomb concealed in his underwear. It was made of PETN. It blew up, killing the assassin but not Prince Nayef. This guy came from Yemen to do the attack. So in my view, the Detroit attack, and also this Prince Nayef attack, is by the same al-Qaida cell in Yemen, maybe the same bomb maker
  • there was a very interesting report on Al-Jazeera. The Yemeni cleric, the Yemeni-American cleric you mentioned, now says that Major Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, communicated with him in November of 2008 with the following question: Would it be religiously sanctioned for him to kill fellow soldiers? Which is a very direct question, I think Major Hasan, the evidence is now pretty much overwhelming that this was a jihadi terrorist attack, even if, you know, for legal reasons it's considered something else. This was an act of terrorism, inspired - you know, he went postal, but he also had a sort of jihadi, very strong jihadi element to that
  • What I'm hearing from my sources is that they are starting to lean in the direction that, in fact, the radical imam that the suspect contacted was, in fact, Al-Awlaki. And in fact, they're apparently working under the assumption that Al-Awlaki is connected to this in some way.

    ... isn't an al-Qaida recruiter, really is a guy who's on his own, who is trying to paint himself as an operator, an insider in this al-Qaida-in-Yemen program and al-Qaida broadly. ...he really isn't that far inside, and he's not a guy who says go ahead and attack but instead, just sort of tries to whip up the froth a little bit, like for his own self-aggrandizement

  • they were asked whether or not this was an al-Qaida-affiliated attack, and they've been very careful to say that they don't know that that's what this is and that he very quickly admitted to this. And they immediately cast doubt on the fact of whether or not he was actually al-Qaida-related. ... CONAN: They're suspicious, but they've not nailed that down.

    TEMPLE-RASTON: He admitted to it so quickly, it made them suspicious about it.
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  Declassify and Release the Fort Hood Emails
  The Weekly Standard (blog)
  Awlaki, of course, has been tied to Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Numerous published reports have cited Awlaki's emails with Hasan in the months prior to the ...
  See all stories on this topic    Q: “What did Nidal want from you in his messages?”
    A: “Naturally, as I told you, the first message was asking for an edict regarding the [possibility] of a Muslim soldier killing his colleagues who serve with him in the American army. In other messages, Nidal was clarifying his position regarding the killing of Israeli civilians. He was in support of this, and in his messages he mentioned the religious justifications for targeting the Jews with missiles. Then there were some messages in which he asked for a way through which he could transfer some funds to us [and by this] participate in charitable activities.”

Investigators Recover SIM Cards During Searches of Homes Tied to Abdulmutallab FOXNews Awlaki is an American born in New Mexico, now living in Yemen, and is the same imam from whom alleged Fort Hood shooter Malik Nidal Hasan sought spiritual ... See all stories on this topic On Monday, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula reportedly claimed responsibility for the attempt.  Abdulmutallab traveled to Yemen sometime near the end of last year or early this year. He was there for several weeks or months, and investigators believe Abdulmutallab was "vetted for the mission" while in Yemen.  Of the device, one source said it's "very likely that it did" come from Yemen. The suspect also traveled within the last year to England, the Netherlands, and one other unnamed European country, Fox News has learned. He was also in Nigeria and Togo. One source said he "bounced around a bit." Evidence collected shows that Abdulmutallab also was a "big fan" of radical imam Anwar Al-Awlaki, as Web traffic shows Abdulmutallab was a follower of Awlaki's blog and Web site

Nigerian with al Qaeda Ties Attempts Airline Terrorist Attack The New American In November, 13 people were killed by Army psychiatrist and self-described “Soldier of Allah” Nidal Malik Hasan, despite the chilling fact that Hasan's ... See all stories on this topic

The radical worshippers who harm liberal mosque Independent The event went largely unnoticed until this November, when Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a US army medic, went on a gun rampage on a military base in Fort Hood ... See all stories on this topic

Foreign Policy No, Madam Secretary: The System Is Not Working Foreign Policy Malik Nidal Hasan, radical Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki smugly boasted of how Hasan had sought explicit advice on the killing of US soldiers and Jews. ... See all stories on this topic

Airline security needs evaluation San Antonio Express ... including US-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was a spiritual leader for indicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan and others accused of ... See all stories on this topic

MSM Massive Fail - Again Atlantic Online (blog) ... killed the American citizen who was in communication with Nidal Hasan, Anwar al-Awlaki. And God knows what we are doing directly in Yemen these days. ... See all stories on this topic

Obama orders review of US no-fly lists Sin Chew Jit Poh ... is not believed to be Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born imam who has spoken in favor of anti-American violence and who corresponded with Major Nidal Hasan, ... See all stories on this topic

• Lauer pressed: How does a guy who’s on this general terror list, who buys a one-way transtlantic ticket with cash, who checks no luggage, and who’s own father has flagged him to authorities, get on the plane? Napolitano said that “our system did not work in this instance” and no one “is happy or satisfied with that.” She maintained “air travel is safe.”

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• Al-Qaida in Yemen expands operations Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which claimed responsibility for the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit, is led by a Yemeni who was once a close aide to Osama bin Laden.
  

  Experts believe the al-Qaida fighters number in the low hundreds. The group appears to be well funded and has found sanctuaries among a number of Yemeni tribes, particularly in three eastern provinces.

  Yemen, the ancestral home of bin Laden's family, has been an al-Qaida haven partly because of a weak central government and rugged terrain where it is easy

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  ... believed to be Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born imam who has spoken in favour of anti-American violence and who corresponded with Major Nidal Hasan, ...
  See all stories on this topic Lawmakers Focus on Yemen in Wake of Attempted Bombing
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  Nidal Malik Hasan, who allegedly killed 13 people, had exchanged dozens of emails with US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to be residing in ...

• By Sudeep Reddy   ..bombing of a Northwest Airlines .. refocusing lawmakers’ attention on Yemen. The 23-year-old suspect in the botched attack, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab of Nigeria, allegedly told U.S. officials that he received his explosive device in Yemen and learned to use it there. "Yemen is a hot spot. We need to do everything we can to work with that government,” Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday.” U.S. officials have been investigating a Yemen link in the Nov. 5, mass shooting at an U.S. Army post in Fort Hood, Texas. U.S. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who allegedly killed 13 people, had exchanged dozens of emails with U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to be residing in Yemen.
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• Napolitano: No indication of larger terror plot THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says there is no indication that the man who attempted to destroy an airliner in Detroit on Christmas Day is part of a larger terrorist plot.

Napolitano refused to say whether Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has a connection to al-Qaida, citing the ongoing criminal investigation.

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News reports are that awlaki was suspected killed along with Nasser al-Wahayshi, the Yemeni leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and his Saudi deputy, Saeed al-Shehri. They were believed to be among more than 30 militants killed in the dawn operation in the eastern province of Shabwa according to Yemen official

Yemen airstrikes target imam consulted by Fort Hood suspect http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-yemen_25int.ART0.State.Edition2.4bcbae3.html Dallas Morning News "Nidal Hasan killed 13 people, and he's going to get a trial. My son has killed nobody. He should face trial if he's done something wrong. ...  it launched airstrikes Thursday against extremists including Anwar al-Awlaki  the air assault in Shabwa province targeted a meeting of al-Qaeda leaders who were plotting revenge for recent raids on militants. The Observer reported that al-Awlaki's home was destroyed, while a Yemeni government spokesman said it was merely "a house he has been associated with the first time authorities in the U.S. or Yemen have placed al-Awlaki in such high-level company. They previously described him as someone whose preaching inspired others to commit terrorism Saeed al-Shihri, the region's No. 2 al-Qaeda leader. The U.S. detained him in Pakistan shortly after 9/11, held him at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and released him in 2007 to his native Saudi Arabia.  Yemen confirmed was that of al-Qaeda operative Mohammed Saleh Oumair, Yemeni embassy officials would not answer questions about whether the airstrikes were related to the Texas killings The imam's father, Nasser al-Awlaki, is a presidential appointee to the country's upper body of parliament. ...Yemen's minister of agriculture and head of its largest public university. "If the American government helped in attacking one of [its own] citizens, this is illegal," he told The Post. "Nidal Hasan killed 13 people, and he's going to get a trial. My son has killed nobody. He should face trial if he's done something wrong."   See all stories on this topic

Yemen airstrikes hit suspected Al Qaeda members Los Angeles Times Nidal Malik Hasan. The Army psychiatrist was charged with 13 counts of murder after fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood were gunned down in a rampage just months ... See all stories on this topic

Fox Anchor Patti Ann Browne and John Bolton Take the Word of a 9/11 ... News Hounds (blog) ... Major Nidal Malik Hasan, exchanged e-mails with in the year before the shootings. Al-Awlaki – who is believed to have been killed in a Yemeni air strike ... See all stories on this topic

CBS News Radical Yemeni Cleric Believed Unhurt In Airstrike CBS News Al-Awlaki was born in the United States and moved back to Yemen in 2002. Al-Awlaki reportedly corresponded by e-mail with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who is ... See all stories on this topic

Yemen: 34 al-Qaida Suspects Killed in Air Strike Journal of Turkish Weekly ... killed in the raid, along with other top militants, including Anwar al-Awlaki, the mentor of alleged Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hassan. ... See all stories on this topic

New York Times (blog) Airstrike in Yemen Targets Outspoken Radicals New York Times (blog) On Wednesday Al Jazeera published an interview with Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric who corresponded with Maj. Nidal Hassan before the shooting ... See all stories on this topic

CBS News Yemeni Sheikh: US To Blame For Ft. Hood CBS News (CBS) A radical Yemeni sheikh, who was a confidante of Major Nidal Hasan, denied inciting ... Al-'Awlaki , who was born in the US and now lives in Yemen, ...

9/11 imam: Ft. Hood shooter asked me for advice about killing troops Jerusalem Post Controversial imam Anwar al-Awlaki told the Arab news agency that Maj. Nidal Hasan had sent him e-mails asking about Islam's stance on the murder of US ... See all stories on this topic

Radical cleric says Fort Hood shooter asked about killing fellow ... Dallas Morning News Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort ... up aggressively on the e-mail messages to Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen and ...

NewsHour Airstrike in Yemen Targets Terror Operatives NewsHour The FBI has said Awlaki was contacted by US Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan a year ago. Last month, Hasan allegedly shot and killed 13 comrades at Fort Hood, ... See all stories on this topic

Imam tied to Fort Hood shooter "killed" in Yemen raid Reuters Yemen said 30 militants were killed in the strike in the eastern province of Shabwa. ... Major Nidal Malik Hasan, had contacts with Awlaki late last year, ...

Kerry Weighs Trip to Iran in What Would Be Highest-Level US Visit in 30 Years FOXNews ... the Arabian Peninsula and Anwar Awlaki, the cleric linked to Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan. Despite word of US-sponsored air strikes in Yemen, ... See all stories on this topic

• Five young American Muslims .. tried to connect with Islamist militant groups in Pakistan and were intending to cross the border into Afghanistan and fight U.S. troops there.

  They were reported missing by their families in the Washington D.C. area a week ago after one of them left behind a militaristic farewell video saying Muslims must be defended. [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2010469158_apuspakistanusarrestsprobe.html]
  
• The looming deadline coincides with a growing concern among law enforcement officials that homegrown terrorism is becoming a more dangerous and immediate threat. In addition to last month's shooting at Fort Hood... [http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/11/domestic-surveillance-in-doubt-as-patriot-act-expiration-looms/]
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  .... a shooting spree by an American convert ... at a recruiting center in Arkansas in June, was a case of a lone-wolf extremist. investigations have run across suspected American operatives of al-Qaida and its allies who underwent training overseas, a formative experience that cranks up the potential threat ... "There have been a half-dozen cases of individuals who, instead of traveling abroad to carry out violence, have elected to attempt to do it here
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• Letter Asking Why FBI Ceased Investigation on Fort Hood Terrorist

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  • In a September 24, 2009 FBI release titled “FBI Arrests Jordanian Citizen for Attempting to Bomb Skyscraper in Downtown Dallas,” the FBI stated, “Smadi made clear his intention to serve as a soldier for Usama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and to conduct violent jihad.”
  • In a September 24, 2009 FBI release titled “Illinois Man Arrested in Plot to Bomb Courthouse and Murder Federal Employees,” the FBI stated, “…Finton expressed his desire to receive military training and to travel to Gaza or other overseas locations to become a jihadist fighter.”
  • In a September 24, 2009 FBI release on the North Carolina terrorist cell lead by Daniel Boyd titled “Superseding Indictment in Boyd Matter Charges Defendants with Conspiring to Murder U.S. Military Personnel, Weapons Violations,” the FBI release stated, “According to the indictment, during the period from 1989 through 1992, Daniel Boyd traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan where he received military-style training in terrorist training camps for the purpose of engaging in violent jihad.”
  • In a September 24, 2009 FBI release titled “New York Terror Case- Indictment Announced,” the FBI states that Zazi told FBI investigators that he "attended courses at an al-Qaeda training facility" while in Pakistan.
  • In a September 24, 2009 FBI release titled “Brooklyn Resident Indicted for Conspiracy to Commit Murder Overseas and Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Terrorists,” the FBI states that, “According to the indictment and other documents filed by the government, in early January 2009, Kaziu devised a plan to travel abroad for the purpose of joining a radical foreign fighter group and to take up arms against perceived enemies of Islam.”
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• Lieberman and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, have suggested the terrorism task force failed to share information about Hasan's radical ties with the U.S. Army. Several House Republicans have requested investigations, too, but Democratic committee chairmen have resisted, citing the ongoing criminal investigation of Hasan.

  Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the top Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote in the Washington Times on Thursday that the Obama administration and congressional Democrats have shown "a lack of urgency" to investigate the shootings.

  "How can it be that the House Committee on Homeland Security has launched an investigation and called hearings within a week to look into the couple who crashed a recent White House state dinner, yet a month after Fort Hood there has yet to be a single congressional hearing into the Fort Hood attack?" Hoekstra wrote. Senator: We can't get info on Fort Hood shooter Dec 03, 2009
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• NPR: FBI's washington field office was given the file in February with 2 of the e-mails, but it sat around for 3 months before it was reviewed, and he did not get update of 16 newer e-mails. One e-mail being looked at again asked if the man in the Akbar case was a hero for throwing grendades at fellow soldiers, but was considered consistent with his research.  Details also indicate Hasan paused to spare the woman policeman and people that he knew, concentrating on soldiers. NPR Mix-Up Denied Officials Info About Fort Hood Suspect by Dina Temple-Raston [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121002448 December 1, 2009][mix-up]
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• A felony arrest warrant for radical Islamic cleric Anwar al Awlaki was rescinded in 2002 a day before he was intercepted as a terror suspect at New York's JFK airport, forcing authorities to release him, according to sources familiar with the case. The warrant was cancelled by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Denver, even though Awlaki was on a terror watch list, and even though the office's supervising prosecutor for terror cases -- who has now been appointed by the Obama administration as the U.S. Attorney in Denver -- had been fully briefed on Awlaki's alleged terror ties, according to investigators ...  The decision to cancel Awlaki's arrest warrant outraged members of a Joint Terrorism Task Force in San Diego, which had been monitoring the imam. "This was a missed opportunity to get this guy under wraps so we could look at him under a microscope," said a former agent with the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), who asked not to be named. "He couldn't cause any harm from a prison cell." How Anwar Awlaki Got Away U.S. Attorney's Decision to Cancel Arrest Warrant "Shocked" Terrorism Investigators By JOSEPH RHEE and MARK SCHONE Nov. 30, 2009 [http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/FtHoodInvestigation/anwar-awlaki/story?id=9200720]
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• [e-mailtame] [http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-shooterimam_29pro.ART.State.Edition2.4b91281.html Imam's e-mails to Fort Hood suspect Hasan tame compared to online rhetoric 12:00 AM CST on Sunday, November 29, 2009 By BROOKS EGERTON / The Dallas Morning News] E-mails between a U.S. Army officer and a radical Muslim cleric did not worry anti-terrorism investigators, they said, because nothing in the correspondence presaged violence. But elsewhere on the Internet, the imam was urging people to kill soldiers and others. After accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan started e-mailing in December, the cleric increased the pace of his fundamentalist rhetoric on the Web, a Dallas Morning News investigation found. ... Investigators determined there was no need to probe further because Hasan's questions to al-Awlaki were consistent with his psychiatric research, there was no indication he was planning violence, and he was not "directed to do anything," officials said. But the Muslim cleric didn't need to give specific direction by e-mail. His exhortations about killing – soldiers, innocent women and children, blasphemers, even oneself – were readily available until his online site went dead a few days after the Fort Hood shootings. The News found al-Awlaki's speeches and blogs by combing through Web archives and reviewing online recordings and transcripts.[http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-shooterimam_29pro.ART.State.Edition2.4b91281.html]
  
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• Hasan wire transfers not terror-related. Citing an unnamed federal law enforcement official, The Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday the transfers, made by Hasan to Pakistan in the months before this month's deadly Fort Hood shooting spree, were unrelated to the slayings. The money "went to people not related to terrorism," the source told the newspaper, declining to elaborate.John Galligan, Hasan's attorney, said it was likely the accused killer of 13 soldiers -- a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent -- gave the moneyto Muslim charities.[http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/11/24/Hasan-wire-transfers-not-terror-related/UPI-83801259088100/]
• Benjamin R. Barber admits that political correctness refused to call the act terrorism initially, even though events would prove them wrong, but defends American values embodied by it. I have a Thanksgiving wish: to try to understand why political correctness is a reflection of important American values, even when they exact terrible costs, as they did in the Fort Hood massacre. Critics have jumped on liberals in the Army for being more devoted to civil rights than national security for refusing initially to suspect that Major Hasan's Fort Hood rampage that cost 13 lives might have been an act of terrorism motivated by fundamentalist zealotry. Calling out Major Hasan right away as a likely Muslim terrorist would have been easy, and as things turned out, also on the mark. And yes, political correctness did delay that judgment.
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Dallas Morning News reported:Suspect's Pakistan wire transfers not linked to Fort Hood shootings
November 24, 2009 By BROOKS EGERTON and DAVE MICHAELS / The Dallas Morning News Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's wire transfers to Pakistan occurred in the months leading up to the Fort Hood massacre but were unrelated to it, a federal law enforcement official said Monday. The money "went to people not related to terrorism," he said, declining to elaborate.
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Hasan seems to have been motivated by jihadist ideology. Beyond reports that he shouted " Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire, he reportedly told a colleague at Fort Hood that Muslims should rise up against "aggressors" such as America. Hasan had exchanged numerous e-mails with extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a known al-Qaeda supporter based in Yemen, and a fellow Muslim officer told Britain's Daily Telegraph that Hasan's eyes "lit up" when discussing his respect for Awlaki.[http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/24/daveed-gartenstein-ross-the-danger-signs-of-terror.aspx Daveed Gartenstein-Ross: The danger signs of terror by NP Editor]

• one Middle Eastern country has emerged as a leading flashpoint of Islamic terrorism. Yemen, most recently in the headlines as the home of Anwar al Awlaki [1], the exiled imam who fled to the country after inspiring Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hasan, has become a haven for al-Qaeda even as its internal turmoil has drawn in regional rivals like Iran and Saudi Arabia. Yemen [2] is the poorest and most unstable of all Middle Eastern countries. The United States regards Yemen as a “frontline state” in the War on Terror because of its strategic location near the Saudi oil fields. in Yemen’s Hadhramout province, the ancestral home of the bin Laden family, the government is dealing with resurgent jihadi groups, who had retreated to a safer Yemen after their defeat in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. There are now an estimated 1,000 al-Qaeda fighters in Hadhramout. They have attacked police stations and earlier this month killed three, high-ranking security officers. [Yemen On The Brink – by Stephen Brown Posted By Stephen Brown On November 23, 2009 In FrontPage http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/23/yemen-on-the-brink-%E2%80%93-by-stephen-brown/]
• Given what looks like the security authorities' wretched mishandling of the Hasan case – the guy appears to have done everything but paste an "Osama bin Laden Rocks" bumper sticker on his car – there's every reason for the administration and the FBI to want to put off a legislative reckoning for as long as possible. [Tim Rutten: Senate inquiry into Fort Hood misplaced Dallas News. [Liberberman]  he wants to know whether Hasan's signs of "Islamic extremism" were "missed or ignored." Those of us who have followed this terrible story can answer "yes" – a conclusion we've reached even without the benefit of subpoena power. .. Was he given a pass because his superiors feared accusations of bias against a religious Muslim? We need answers to those questions; we need them now – and answering them won't compromise Hasan's right to a fair trial.
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• Fort Hood shooting: radical Islamic preacher also inspired July 7 bombers The Islamic preacher who gave email advice to Major Nidal Hasan, the gunman in the Fort Hood massacre, also inspired the July 7 bombers and a number of other British terrorists. By Philip Sherwell and Duncan Gardham Lectures by Anwar al-Awlaki were found in the Iqra bookshop in Leeds, where the July 7 bombers held meetings. His lectures were also found among the material seized from a jihadist recruiter, Aabid Hussain Khan, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, who groomed Britain's youngest terrorist, schoolboy Hammaad Munshi, then 15. Al-Awlaki , 38, a US citizen, fled from the country to live in Britain after it was disclosed that three of the September 11 hijackers had worshipped at two different mosques where he preached. He moved to Yemen in 2004, where he was arrested and then went underground, but he has been invited to give video lectures, most recently at East Al-Awlaki's most influential lecture, Constants on the Path to Jihad, is based on a 2005 book by Yousef al-Ayyiri, the founder of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia. Al-Awlaki 's lectures were also found on a CD belonging to Mohammed Atif Siddique, 22, from Glasgow, an aspiring suicide bomber, who was found guilty of possessing bomb-making instructions[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6630555/Fort-Hood-shooting-radical-Islamic-preacher-also-inspired-July-7-bombers.html]
• Malign Neglect Political correctness and institutional stupidity in the case of Nidal Malik Hasan. by Stephen F. Hayes 11/30/2009, Volume 015, Issue 11 dated 11/30/2009 [http://theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/250ieqfn.asp] Attorney General Eric Holder ... Were there miscommunications or was there a lack of communication? "Holder's tone did little to disguise the speciousness of his words. We already know the answer to the three questions Holder posed. There were flags that were missed. There was miscommunication. And there was a lack of communication. The relevant question is not whether there were errors, but why--after eight years of restructuring our national security and intelligence infrastructure to prevent such failures--there were grave errors that cost 13 people their lives. The answer to that question is becoming all too clear: a deadly combination of political correctness and institutional stupidity." ...Yet FBI officials said immediately after the shooting that the bureau was not considering the possibility of Hasan being linked to terrorists. Then, rather than disown their previous comments when the information about Awlaki came to light, the FBI sought to downplay the significance of the communications... Because the content of the communications was explainable by his research and nothing else derogatory was found, the JTTF concluded that Major Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities or terrorist planning. ... Got that? A serving U.S. Army officer and devout Muslim emails an al Qaeda recruiter to ask about jihad and collateral damage from attacks, and the FBI, with knowledge of the content of those emails, assures the press they are "benign."

  Unbelievable. Stephen F. Hayes is a senior writer at THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

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• Connecting the Dots The shooting at Fort Hood was no 'mystery.' It was an act of terrorism waiting to happen.BY Stephen F. Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn

  November 23, 2009, Vol. 15, No. 10 Three hours later, while the base was still in lockdown, an FBI spokesman dismissed suggestions that the attack was terrorism and said that a link between Hasan and terrorist organizations "is not being discussed."
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/225edzea.asp?pg=2 On the night after the attack, CNN's Larry King interviewed the ubiquitous "Dr. Phil" McGraw, who speculated that Hasan's counseling of traumatized soldiers might have in turn traumatized him and caused him to snap. In his November 10 remarks at Fort Hood, President Barack Obama suggested the cause of the shooting was--and may remain--a mystery. "It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy." The FBI agreed: "The investigation to date has not identified a motive, and a number of possibilities remain under consideration." One of them, according to an article in the Financial Times, was "anti-Muslim bias."

  Here is another: Nidal Malik Hasan is a jihadist. That so many refuse to even consider this in the face of the overwhelming evidence might help explain why those whose job it was to keep us safe refused to see it back when it really mattered.

  On May 31, 2001, Nidal Malik Hasan attended the funeral service for his mother, Hanan Ismail ("Nora" to those who knew her) at the Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia. According to an obituary in the Roanoke Times, Nora was well-known "for her leadership in running the Capitol Restaurant," where she would "keep sometimes rowdy customers out of trouble and always had a warm meal for someone who otherwise would not have anything to eat that evening." Nora was just 49 years old when she died, and her husband passed away three years earlier. They had moved their family to Roanoke in the mid-1980s to pursue business interests and left behind three sons and a large extended family.

• Awlaki preached at Nora's funeral.
• FBI had a good reason for investigating Awlaki: He played a role in the biggest intelligence failure in American history.

  The FBI first took notice of Awlaki in June 1999 when his contacts with al Qaeda terrorists, including one who had procured a satellite phone for Osama bin Laden, raised red flags. But after a brief investigation, lasting until March 2000, the FBI determined that the facts did not warrant further inquiry.

• two al Qaeda operatives, Khalid al Mihdhar and Nawaf al Hazmi, into his community. They had been identified by U.S. intelligence not just as al Qaeda operatives but as attendees of a key terrorist summit in Kuala Lumpur. (U.S. authorities would later learn that both the USS Cole bombing and the September 11 attacks were discussed at the meeting.) Although the U.S. government knew al Mihdhar and al Hazmi were al Qaeda operatives, the intelligence and law enforcement community lost track of them when they entered the United States.

  They were with Awlaki. And, when he moved from California to Northern Virginia in January 2001, they--as well as a third September 11 hijacker named Hani Hanjour--went with him. By the time a serious search for them got underway it was too late. Al Hazmi, al Mihdhar, and Hanjour all took part in September 11 attacks.

• After they had settled into the Falls Church area, this same follower drove them and two other future 9/11 hijackers to Connecticut and then New Jersey. "From the hotel in Connecticut where they stayed for two nights," the Joint Inquiry found, "a total of 75 calls were made to locate apartment[s], flight schools, and car rental agencies for the hijackers." Thus, Awlaki and a member of his congregation provided crucial assistance to the 9/11 hijackers as they planned their day of terror. There are further links between Awlaki and the attacks.
• , one of Awlaki's "close associates" attempted to post bail for Moussaoui's roommate
• Evolution of Islam to taking the offence: ectured at Walter Reed about the evolution in Islamic thinking on jihad. At first, Hasan said, the Koran was filled with mainly peaceful verses and "Muslims were not permitted to defend themselves/fight." But as the situation on the ground changed, so did the verses. After the Muslim emigration to Medina, "Self defense was allowed" and then "offensive fighting was allowed." As a result, "Later verses abrogated former ie: peaceful verses no longer apply."

  Hasan followed this line of thinking through to its natural conclusion by citing a passage that calls for uncompromising warfare:

   

  Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgement of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.

• In the June 2007 presentation, he echoed the martyr's call to action: "We love death more then [sic] you love life!"

  Hasan further warned about the likelihood of "adverse events" if the Defense Department did not heed his warnings. He said that Muslim soldiers "should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk to hurting/killing believers unjustly." Hasan concluded his presentation by recommending that the Department of Defense allow Muslims to abstain from warfare as "conscientious objectors."

• One official involved in the conversations had reportedly told colleagues that he worried that if Hasan deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, he might leak secret military information to Islamic extremists. Another official reportedly wondered aloud to colleagues whether Hasan might be capable of committing fratricide, like the Muslim U.S. Army sergeant who, in 2003, killed
• John Brennan, a top White House counterterrorism official, would review all the intelligence on Hasan. In his radio address on Saturday, Obama promised that the review would include Hasan's "views and contacts."

• A Senate committee on Thursday opened the first public hearings into the Fort Hood shootings, with several legislators asserting that the incident in which 13 people were killed was a terrorist attack by a homegrown extremist who may have slipped past law enforcement and military authorities. ... Mr. Lieberman’s hearing made only limited headway because the Obama administration has refused his requests for witnesses from the F.B.I. and Defense Department. Mr. Lieberman said he had spoken with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Mr. Gates, who told him they would cooperate with his inquiry, but did not want to compromise the criminal investigation. [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/us/politics/20hood.html?_r=2&hp New York Times November 20, 2009 Lawmakers Call Ft. Hood Shootings ‘Terrorism’ By DAVID JOHNSTON]
•  Frances Fragos Townsend, ... homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush. .. “political correctness,” and fear of intruding on Major Hasan’s free speech rights, may have interfered with the sharing of information .
• KTTH 770 Bose show dined with young Jihadist Duane Reasoner with older disagreeable man at Golden Corral according to hostess

• "al-Qaeda has begun to utilize a potent new weapon in its efforts at spreading radical Islam’s message to Muslims in the West: the English language. English has become, according to a report by the Associated Press (AP), the new lingua franca of the terrorist world. In fact, militant websites written primarily in Standard English now outnumber Arabic websites by a huge margin. From the AP report" Al-Qaeda’s New Weapon by Claude Cartaginese on David Horwitz [http://newsrealblog.com/2009/11/20/al-qaeda%E2%80%99s-new-weapon]

• No coverage on morning Fox Radio 5 min wrapup

• Hasan Wrote of Joining Imam in "Afterlife" Reports Surface of Contents of E-Mails Between Alleged Fort Hood Shooter and Radical Imam [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/20/national/main5722507.shtml]

• "200 Websites Spread Al-Qaida's Message Inceasing Number of Radical Islamic Websites Spread Al Qaida's Message to the West" By DONNA ABU-NASR and LEE KEATH Associated Press Writers RIYADH, Saudi Arabia November 20, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press The number of English-language sites sympathetic to al-Qaida has risen from about 30 seven years ago to more than 200 recently, said Abdulmanam Almushawah, head of a Saudi government program called Assakeena, which works to combat militant Islamic Web sites [http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9133914]
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• UK Jimas Muslim charity drops support of Awlawki
• Content of e-mail show Hasan looked forward to "meeting you in the afterlife",
• Hasan offered to send $20-$30,000 a year to muslim charities which might funnel them to terrorists.
• Yeman journalist says the e-mail practically prove Hasan WAS an al-Queda operative.
• Michael Savage critical of statements from Gates declining to call it terrorism, and admiral who agrees and says that the "US military's strength resided in its diversity."
• Amber Pawlik on islam-watch proclaims "Islam at the Root of Fort Hood Massacre ".
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• http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/11/19/what-did-the-accused-ft-hood-shooter-say-to-a-jihadi-cleric.aspx Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:09 PM

  What Did the Accused Fort Hood Shooter Say to a Jihadi Cleric? Newsweek

  By Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff

• Two U.S. intelligence officials Thursday night confirmed to Declassified key details of a just-breaking ABC News report--that in emails sent to a radical Yemeni cleric, accused shooter Nidal Hasan asked when jihad is appropriate, and said “I can’t wait to join you” in the afterlife.

  One U.S. official, who did not want to be named discussing sensitive information, said the emails could be “a problem,” but cautioned that they still needed to be viewed in context.

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• Major Hasan's E-Mail: 'I Can't Wait to Join You' in Afterlife American Official Says Accused Shooter Asked Radical Cleric When Is Jihad Appropriate?

  By BRIAN ROSS and RHONDA SCHWARTZ United States Army Major Nidal Hasan told a radical cleric considered by authorities to be an al-Qaeda recruiter, "I can't wait to join you" in the afterlife questions, the official with access to the e-mails said, that include when is jihad appropriate, and whether it is permissible if there are innocents killed in a suicide attack. Federal investigators have found that Hasan donated $20,000 to $30,000 a year to overseas Islamic "charities." As an Army major, his yearly salary, including housing and food allowances, was approximately $92,000. A number of Islamic charities have been identified by U.S. authorities as conduits to terror groups. 
• "What I'm getting at," said Lieberman, "Is he may have been looking for spiritual sanctions for what he's accused of ultimately doing."
  
• a Yemeni journalist told ABC News today that the e-mails show Hasan was "almost a member of al-Qaeda."
  Nov. 19, 2009   http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/major-hasans-mail-wait-join-afterlife/story?id=9130339
  
• Don Feder TRIGGER-HAPPY MUSLIMS AND DELUDED INFIDELS IN THE HAPPY LAND OF MAKE-BELIEVE
  GrassTopsUSA 11-19-09 All that was missing was the good doctor wearing a name tag that said: "Hi, I'm Major Nidal Hasan. Where the infidels at?" The commander in chief, the media and the generals are in deep denial about Hasan's motivation.  "It is unclear what might have motivated Major Hasan," The New York Times declared in its initial report. ("Allahu Akhbar" wasn't a dead giveaway?) A follow-up story was headlined "Told of War Horror, Gunman Feared Deployment" - a sort of pre-post-traumatic stress syndrome.
• Warning Signs? Visited Strip Club, Shooting Range: Nidal Hasan News

  by Staff [http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212268185.shtml]
• became a regular at Stan's Outdoor Shooting Range in Florence, Texas, as the day of the shooting neared. He was last at the range two days before the Nov. 5 rampage, reportedly firing off more than 200 rounds. [same]
• Hasan frequently was seen in the company of an older man and an 18-year-old teenage boy at the Golden Coral restaurant. [same]
• Female employees at the strip club Starz told ABC they remembered Hasan, saying he visited the club at least three times. [same]
• "Begg has compiled an extensive and troubling resume since being released from Gitmo. (This is in addition to the disturbing jihadist dossier he compiled prior to ever being detained.) One of Begg’s more troubling associates is Anwar al Awlaki – the al Qaeda cleric who became a confidant for the Fort Hood Shooter." The ACLU, Moazzam Begg, and the Fort Hood Shooter’s Cleric [http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/11/the_aclu_moazzam_begg_and_the_1.asp]
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• Israel captures and occupies West Bank of Jordan/Palestine, remembered by Hasan's mother who was 15 at the time
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• Awlaki was born in New Mexico 1971. His father, Nasser al-Awlaki was studying agricultural economics. [New York Times November 19, 2009 Born in U.S., a Radical Cleric Inspires Terror By SCOTT SHANE http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/us/19awlaki.html?_r=1&bl] 
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• (no date) Police records show he is arrested for soliciting prostitutes In San Diego
• (no date) A third 9/11 hijacker attended his services in California.[http://hahayouredead.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/just-connecting-some-dots/]  
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•  Hasan informed Awlaki that he had become a devout Muslim around the time Aulaqi was preaching at Dar al-Hijrah, in 2001 and 2002 [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/15/AR2009111503160_2.html?sid=ST2009111503315]
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• Al-Awlaki moved from San Diego to Dar al-Hijrah in Virginia as imam. [http://hahayouredead.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/just-connecting-some-dots/]  
• Imam Al-Awlaki of Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia is also the Muslim Chaplain at George Washington University. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University, a M.A. in Education Leadership from San Diego State University and is currently working on a Doctorate degree in Human Resource Development at George Washington University.[http://www.onlineislamicstore.com/audio-speeches-and-discourses-by-imam-anwar-al-awlaki.html]  
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• Three months later the September 11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hamzi and Hani Hanjour began attending his services. People from the mosque help them find a place to stay. [http://hahayouredead.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/just-connecting-some-dots/]  
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• Mr. Awlaki was the imam at the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., in 2001 and 2002. Maj. Hasan occasionally prayed there, and his mother's funeral was held there in May 2001.[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125778227582138829.html]
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• Awlawki interviewed by National Geographic, condemns and says "justice could eradicate it"
• Awlawki later makes statements that the hijackers caught weren't the people who did it.  
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• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5757889915125324006# washingtonpost.com Video of Awlaki "understanding Ramadhan" "I feel that the US rushed into this war" posted
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• In late 2002 on a trip back to the U.S., Mr. Awlaki visited Ali-al Timimi, a Muslim leader who U.S. prosecutors said was recruiting local Muslims to fight against U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Mr. Timimi was convicted in 2005 [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125778227582138829.html]
• Left the U.S. in 2002. First settled in Britain, and later in Yemen, his parents' native country. [same]
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• Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), referred to as the official arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK, organised a series of meetings with Awalki as guest speaker. 
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• In January 2009, the same ELM hosted  another event, entitled ‘The End of Time’, with Awlaki this time as delivering a video message. In spite of the fact that Awlaki’s “presence” at the event was reported in the national press, ELM refused to condemn Awlaki’s ideology or even cancel the meeting.
• As late as 2005 Inayat Bunglawala and Awlaki were both listed as co- supporter of an organisation called ‘Stop Political Terror’ (SPT) which aimed to protect the civil rights of Muslims charged with extremism. One of individuals that SPT campaigned for was Babar Ahmad, who ran Azzam Publications, a pro-jihad website which, according to his indictment was “used to recruit individuals to be mujahideen and to solicit and raise funds and assistance for jihad”. [http://www.spittoon.org/archives/3648]
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• At an event organised by the East London Mosque (ELM) in December 2003, Awlaki addressed Muslims on the subject of terrorism arrests in the UK and urged them to never report on or turn over their fellow Muslims, under any circumstances.
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• Awlawki is held in Yemen for 18 months, questioned about 9/1, he blames the US for his arrest.
• Canadian Muslims who listened to Awlaki’s sermons on a laptop a few months are charged with plotting attacks in Ontario. Plan included "bombings, shootings, storming the Parliament Building and beheading the Canadian prime minister."[New York Times November 19, 2009 Born in U.S., a Radical Cleric Inspires Terror By SCOTT SHANE http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/us/19awlaki.html?_r=1&bl]
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• 2007-2009 Hasan saw only 1/10 to 1/20 the number of patients of most Army psychiatrists "For most of the past two years, Hasan was on a research fellowship at the military's medical school, in Bethesda, Md" [http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nidal_hasan_had_light_patient.html]
• Writings of Awlawki cited by New Jersey men accused of plotting an attack against Fort Dix in 2007, and found on their computers. ["a Radical Cleric Inspires Terror"]
• June: Hasan powerpoint presentation warns of adverse actions if Muslims are sent to fight against other Muslims. [http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/nidal-hasans-powerpoint-whoever-desires.html]
• Mid-2007 – An official at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington writes a memo saying that Hasan has been "counseled for inappropriately discussing religious topics" with his psychiatric patients. Hasan soon presents a class lecture on religious conflicts that Muslim soldiers may experience because of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He says they should have "the option of being released as 'conscientious objectors' to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events." One such example he cites: A Muslim soldier killed two comrades and wounded 14 in Kuwait at the start of the Iraq war. Prosecutors have said the soldier was concerned that troops would kill Muslims. [timelinetwo]
• Fall 2007  Hasan begins a two-year fellowship in disaster and preventive psychiatry at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, just outside Washington. Among other things, the program "is designed to provide military psychiatrists with expertise on preparing for and responding to mass casualty events." [timelinetwo]
  
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• Evan Kohlmann of NEFA counterterrorism agency releases background report warning that Awlawki is dangerous: "His lectures on leaderless jihad were downloaded by, and provided inspiration to, the conspirators in the 2006-07 plot to attack Fort Dix". [http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/02/nefa_report_on_anwar_al-awlaki.php NEFA Report on Anwar al-Awlaki: "Pro Al-Qaida Ideologue with Influence in the West"]
• FBI's washington field office was given the file in February with 2 of the e-mails. It will sit for for 3 months before it was reviewed. [mix-up]
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• Awlawki disappears into hiding, probably into "triangle of evil" as authorities want to question him about al Queda ties
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• The Army promotes Hasan to the rank of major. [timelinetwo]
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• Another attack in the war on the global jihad the "overseas contingency operation". What are we supposed to call it when Muslims attack in America? "Domestic contingency operation? It's war, brother Obama. Shooting down military jets with Stinger missiles.......is war. American-born jailhouse converts to Islam hell bent on blowing up two Bronx synagogues and shooting down a military plane have been arrested following a massive, year-long investigation, sources told the NY Post. NY TIMES: The charges, which include conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the United States and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles, represent some of the most significant allegations of domestic terrorism in some time. They come months into a new presidential administration, and as President Obama grapples with the question of how to handle detainees at the Guantánamo naval base in Cuba.

  [http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/05/20/index.html] 
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• Someone using the name Nidal Hasan posts on another online site a comment that is similar to al-Awlaki's Jan. 22 blog. It compares suicide bombers to a U.S. soldier who throws himself on a grenade to save his comrades and to Japanese kamikaze pilots in World War II. "Their intention is not to die because of some despair," the writer says. "Their act was not one of suicide that is despised by Islam." Scholars' assessment, he adds emphatically, "is that 'IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOUR INTENTION IS THE MAIN ISSUE.' " [timelinetwo] The FBI will investigate this, but not do anything.
  NidalHasan scribbled: There was a grenade thrown amongs a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them. He inentionally took his life (suicide) for a noble cause i.e. saving the lives of his soldier. To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers. If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory. Their intention is not to die because of some despair. The same can be said for the Kamikazees in Japan. They died (via crashing their planes into ships) to kill the enemies for the homeland. You can call them crazy i you want but their act was not ne of suicide that is despised by Islam. So the scholars main point is that "IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOUR INTENTION IS THE MAIN ISSUE" and Allah (SWT) knows best. [http://www.scribd.com/NidalHasan]
  This is caught, and attention is set to authorities, who do not act on it.
  comment: perldog007: I was a patron of the Capitol Grill which was run by Hasan's father and one of his uncles. These were decent people and I am sure he was not raised to hate, his family did not put their women in veils and were very accepting of western culture. Good people. Somebody radicalized him. My money would be on the imam trying to hook him up with a traditional Muslim woman. I even met Nidal once. Of course, it may not be the same Nidal Hasan. But there is more. One of his former colleagues, Col. Terry Lee, recalled Hasan saying statements to the effect of "Muslims have the right to rise up against the U.S. military"; "Muslims have a right to stand up against the aggressors"; and even speaking favorably about people who "strap bombs on themselves and go into Times Square." 11/09/2009
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• Hasan listed on page 34 Thinking Anew—Security Priorities for the Next Administration PROCEEDINGS REPORT OF THE HSPI PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION TASK FORCE April 2008-January 2009
  Appendix C Task Force Event Participants Nidal Hasan Uniformed Services University School of Medicine "To help fuel this process, in April 2008 The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) established the Presidential Transition Task Force, comprised of national and homeland security experts, policymakers and practitioners. Task Force members included representatives from past Administrations, State government, Fortune 500 companies, academia, research institutions and non-governmental organizations with global reach. The goal was to determine the top strategic priorities to advance the nation’s security in the coming decade and to further policy discussions by identifying the benefits and challenges to achieving these goals, as well as the way forward." On October 15, 2008, The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) launched its Presidential Transition Task Force Roundtable Series titled "Thinking Anew: Security Priorities for the Next Administration."
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• Duane Reasoner (user  ooklepookle since 2007) posts Jihadist anti-Israel videos on youtube from islam speaks "you stupid kaffir" [http://www.youtube.com/user/ooklepookle#p/u/12/3gowQIQVQA0] He was Jihadist before Hasan moved on base. That makes 3 known Jihadists at Fort Hood including Hasan and the "tall man".
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• Hasan buys guns shortly after arriving on base
• Pays 6 months rent in advance in cheap apartment away from base

• Summer-Fall 2009 – Hasan, having completed his studies, is transferred to Fort Hood, where he is assigned to work with soldiers who are psychiatric patients. He rents a tiny apartment near the post for about $300 a month, although he earns more than $92,000 a year. During this time, he:

  • Is told he will be deployed to Afghanistan near the end of the year.

  • Repeatedly asks Killeen mosque leader Osman Danquah what to tell Muslim soldiers who don't want to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also asks for support in becoming a lay Muslim leader on the Army post. Danquah says he refused and told Hasan, "There's something wrong with you," according to the AP.

  • Seeks war-crimes prosecutions of some patients based on their psychiatric disclosures, Fort Hood-based Capt. Shannon Meehan recently told The Dallas Morning News.

  • Wires money to Pakistan, for reasons that remain unclear. A federal law enforcement official recently told The News that the transfers were unrelated to terrorism.

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• Anwar al Awlaki Urged Muslims to "Fight Against Government Armies" in July '09

  The NEFA Foundation has obtained a copy of an English-language online blog post from just this past summer by Shaykh Anwar al-Awlaki -- the Yemeni cleric suspected of influencing Ft. Hood shooter Maj. Malik Hasan -- titled, "Fighting Against Government Armies in the Muslim World." In his message, dated July 14, 2009, al-Awlaki openly admonished his supporters, "there can be no Islam with the presence of these armies... These armies are the defenders of apostasy in the Muslim world. They fight against Sharia and kill the Muslims who attempt to bring it back. They are fighting on behalf of America against the mujahideen in Pakistan, Somalia and the Maghrib. If this is the case with these armies how could anyone place the blame on the ones who fight them, accusing them of fighting against Muslims?! What kind of twisted fiqh is this? The blame should be placed on the soldier who is willing to follow orders whether the order is to kill Muslims as in Swat, bomb Masjids as with the Red Masjid, or kill women and children as they do in Somalia... Blessed are those who fight against them and blessed are those shuhada [martyrs] who are killed by them."   Posted by NEFA 11/11/09
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• Hasan walked into the Guns Galore gun shop in Killeen, Texas. Pays over $1,000 for an FN Herstal 5.7 semiautomatic pistol, a gun that "is known as a "cop killer" and has become a weapon of choice for Mexican drug cartels."
• Evan Kohlmann of  NEFA Foundation referring to Awlawki's call for action. "This is the kind of thing that could push somebody over the edge ... The timing looks to me like it's just before Hasan took concrete steps" toward the shooting.  [http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/11/11/did-imam-s-posting-trigger-hasan-s-gun-buy.aspx]
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• CP were the organisers of an event in the Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall in which guests were promised the treat of a live video link-up with Awlaki, who the CP regard as an “Inspirational Imam”. In the weeks before the event, CP were informed by the local council that their event could only go ahead if they cancelled the video address by Awlaki. CP complied with this, although they issued a statement on their site which refused to acknowledge Awlaki’s extremist nature http://www.spittoon.org/archives/3648
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• 5:00 am Hasan called neighbor Willie Bell who did not pick up. [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/interactives/_national/fort_hood_shooting/index.html?SITE=TXDAM&SECTION=HOME slide show]
• Left message "Nice knowing you, old friend. I'm going to mess you"
• 6:30 am 7-eleven cameras capture Hasan in long white garment buying coffee and hash brown Early Thursday, Hasan showed no signs of worry or stress when he stopped at 7-Eleven for his daily breakfast of hash browns, said Jeannie Strickland, the store's manager. “He came in (Thursday) morning just like normal,” she said Military falls silent for victims of Fort Hood shootings 13 die, 28 in stable condition; gunman still hospitalized By SCOTT HUDDLESTON and SIG CHRISTENSON CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE

  Nov. 6, 2009, 2:22PM [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6706442.html]
• "Richard" prays with Hasan at the mosque off base in the morning
• 12:24 PM CST CNN Posts article, later broadcast 10 PM EST CNN reports on the "home grown hate" of the New York based organization Revolution Muslim. WWW.REVOLUTIONMUSLIM.COM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vU9lwJ_5JY] CNN story created before the shooting[http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/05/radicals.mosque/index.html]
• 1:30 pm man jumped up shouting "Allahu Akbar"
• 100 rounds fired
• Shortly after 1:30 PM, woman calls father in Salt Lake City who contacts TV station. She said somebody shouted Allah Ackbar, thought it was a terrorist attack. She does not reveal who she is to avoid "getting into trouble" Officials at Army and FBI will not mention or confirm this important detail, or classify the incident as terrorism or Islamist except as an unlikely possibility.
• 2:10 PM CST Television Covers Fort Hood Shooting November 5, 2009 News of the shooting broke inside the 3 p.m. EST = 2PM CST hour. MSNBC’s David Shuster reported the news at 3:13 p.m. followed by Fox News’ Shepard Smith at 3:16 p.m., CNN’s Rick Sanchez at 3:18 p.m. and HLN’s Chuck Roberts at 3:26 p.m.[http://www.broadcastingcable.com/blog/BC_Beat/25446-Television_Covers_Fort_Hood_Shooting.php]
  
• 3:00 PM CST CNN Wolf Blitzer [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0911/05/sitroom.01.html Mass Shooting at Ford Hood Army Base November 5, 2009 ET 4PM]
• we have no idea what motive -- what the motive was, if there's any rational motive, indeed, at all.
• at least two shooters
• They have -- the one who's wounded, they were trying to determine right away whether that person was actually military or an impersonator. The wounded one had been shot by the military police. The other one at the time I talked to the general was still in the building, but not yet apprehended.
• One of the gunmen reportedly now killed. We don't know if that was the gunman who was cornered earlier or the gunman who was wounded in the return of fire who may have died as a result of that wound.

• Breaking News: Shooting at Fort Hood

  3:20 PM, 11/5/09… Shep Smith of Fox News just reported that there has been a mass shooting at Fort Hood in TX. Shep indicated that seven are dead, and 12 have been wounded. Supposedly, the shooting occurred at the “Soldier Readiness Center” and at least one person is in custody…

  Details to follow.

  UPDATE: FoxNews now reporting there are two shooters, one of whom is in custody.

  UPDATE 2: Possible third shooter…

  UPDATE 3: Fort Hood is now in lock-down, including nine schools on the base, seven elementary and two middle schools.

  UPDATE 4: Number of wounded now at 20.

  UPDATE 5: FoxNews now saying that the men were reportedly dressed in Army fatigues;  military officials couldn’t confirm that they were Army personnel.

  UPDATE 6: Via FreeRepublic: Three shooters , one dead one in custody and one still shooting at this time near the PX.

  UPDATE 7: FoxNews now reporting up to 30 wounded.

  UPDATE 8: Comparisons being made to Ft. Dix plot in 2007.

  UPDATE 9: Via FreeRepublic: KCEN-TV reporting sources at Ft Hood have captured a second suspect and that there is no third suspect.

  UPDATE 10: Via FreeRepublic: 9 confirmed dead according to military source wounded still at 20 via same source.

  UPDATE 11: Via Twitter: NEW GUNFIRE ERUPTS AT FORT HOOD. Possibly repeat of previous info.

  UPDATE 12: Via MKHammer on Twitter: Shooter & 2 suspects apprehended are soldiers; facilities still locked down, erring on side of caution. No shootings since original firing.

  UPDATE 13: The suspected gunman was identified as Major Malik Nadal Hasan. He was killed and two other suspects have been apprehended, Lt. Robert W. Cone said. (ABC News)

  UPDATE 16:Via Fox News, the shooter, Major Malik Nadal Hasan, is not dead. He is in custody and in stable condition.

   [http://grandrants.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/breaking-news-shooting-at-fort-hood/]
  
• Wesley Clark, the former NATO supreme allied commander. It's a big difference, General Clark, if they were authorized to wear uniforms or if they weren't. They were just pretending to be members of the United States military. Isn't that right? CLARK: That's exactly right, Wolf. You know, we had one of our young people in Arkansas gunned down by a terrorist who was apprehended at Little Rock, Arkansas, and he was motivated to kill people in uniform. That would be -- that's terrible. But I have to say as a former soldier, when I -- I'd almost rather it be something like that than something from our own people. And it's just a terrible tragedy, and unprecedented. (does not call this terrorism)
• BLITZER: "If, in fact, these were ideological killers who had some sort of commitment to kill as many U.S. troops as possible as opposed to an American soldier who just may have gone berserk and decided to go ahead and start killing people, if it's an ideological issue here, terrorism, then you have to wonder are there others out there who are planning or plotting to do the same thing. CLARK: Right. There's a lot of questions something like this raises. "
• Cone the important thing is for everyone is not to jump to conclusions.
• Hasan is not named. No mention of Allah Ackbar, or middle eastern name.
• that's where the president of the United States, President Obama, will be making a statement very soon on what -- on what going on. It was a statement that was previously scheduled to speak about Native Americans. But he's going to open up the statement with ... Ft. Hood.
• 3:00 PM CST press conference "CONE: We've had a terrible tragedy here at ft. Hood today. The situation is ongoing, although I think we have positive news that we're very close to a resolution. At approximately 1330 hours today, a shooter entered what we call the soldier readiness facility where soldiers who are preparing to deploy go for last minute medical check- ups and dental treatment, et cetera. A shooter opened fire. Due to the quick response of the police forces, was killed. "
• 3:00 PM Obama speaks after introducing Native Americans with a "shout out". "

  President Barack Obama described it as "a horrific outburst of violence". Speaking at a press conference in Washington, he said: "It is difficult enough when we lose these brave men and women abroad, but it is horrifying that they should come under fire at an army base on US soil." He extended his condolences to the families of the victims, adding: "We will make sure that we get answers to every single question about this horrible incident.""

• 3:26 PM BBC News "It is not clear what motivated the attacker, named as 39-year-old military psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan. But some reports said the US-born Muslim was unhappy about being sent to Iraq or Afghanistan"   An official said authorities initially thought one of the victims was the shooter, causing a delay in identifying Maj Hasan as the suspect  Asked whether the shootings were a terrorist act, Lt Gen Cone said: "I couldn't rule that out but I'm telling you that right now, the evidence does not suggest that." [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8345713.stm]
• Pamela Geller: IT'S THE JIHAD STUPIDMUSLIM KILLER: The suspected gunman was identified as Major Malik Nadal Hasan. UPDATE: The coverage is beyond stupid. [http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/11/seven-shot-dead-at-us-army-base.html] See Criticized by Steven L. Taylor Nov 6  [http://www.poliblogger.com/?p=17240] "She asserts that “IT’S THE JIHAD STUPID” (caps hers) and doesn’t understand why the FBI would be called in, amongst other things. Geller is an extremist who, on the one hand, deserves to be ignored.  On the other hand, however, she is representative a point of view held by sizable number of people and is given a forum for her views in high profile places such as Fox News Channel. "
• 4:27 PM first comments on mcclatchy article [http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/78425.html]
• 4:34 PM [http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/11/seven-shot-dead-at-us-army-base.html#comments]
• 4:57 PM  dented_uk comments "Reports just in that one of the shooters was a US Major with an "Arabic sounding" name." Imagine that.[http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/11/seven-shot-dead-at-us-army-base.html#comments]
• 5:02 PM least 12 people have been killed and perhaps as many as 30 wounded in a shooting at Fort Hood Army Base near Killeen, Texas,  A statement from the Pentagon provided few details, saying only that "more than one shooter" fired into soldiers at the base's Soldiers Readiness Processing Center and the base's Howze Theater. "One shooter has been apprehended," it said. Other accounts suggested that gunfire had been heard at several widely separated locations on the base, including the post exchange and base housing units. No reports of Allah Ackbar or name of shooter released. [http://www.progressivessouthbend.org/2009/11/fort-hood-death-toll-now-at-12-gunmen.html]
• 5:10 PM Fox Shepard Smith interviews Col Terry Lee who says Hasan appeared to be very radicalized, and  said people should strap on bombs and go to Times Square, applauded Little Rock murder of soldier, Muslims have a right to resist US forces video at [http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-06/fort-hood-shooting-the-aftermath/] fox clip and automatic transcript [http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/27275853/fight-against-the-aggressor.htm]
• Colonel Terry Lee, who worked with Hasan in Fort Hood’s psychiatric unit, said that his colleague had begun making “outlandish” comments about the American presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.“He said, precisely, that maybe the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor,” Colonel Lee said, adding that after Barack Obama was elected, Hasan expressed hope that the new President would end both wars. When that did not happen, Colonel Lee said, Hasan, who he described as a loner, “became more agitated about the conflicts”. He got into frequent arguments with soldiers because of his opposition. After the shooting in Little Rock, Colonel Lee added: “He seemed happy about it. He said ... maybe we should get out [of Iraq and Afghanistan]. He said maybe we should have more of these — people should strap bombs on themselves and go into Times Square.” "Fort Hood killer was devout Muslim who suffered inner conflict" [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6907137.ece]
  
• BigCityLib questions Lee's story: "barely had he got to Texas when he started making idle chit-chat praising the jihadist murderer of two soldiers outside a recruitment centre in Little Rock. 'This is what Muslims should do, stand up to the aggressors,' Major Hasan told his superior officer, Colonel Terry Lee. 'People should strap bombs on themselves and go into Times Square.' In less enlightened times, Colonel Lee would have concluded that, being in favour of the murder of his comrades, Major Hasan was objectively on the side of the enemy. But instead he merely cautioned the major …'You need to lock it up, major,' advised the colonel."[http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com/2009/11/steyn-on-hasan-largely-bullshit.html]
  
• 5:15 PM C Max finds the name ".... Major Malik Nadal Hasan. Yep. No connection to Muslim extremism, is there?" ... imagine that. but gee the FBI said no terrorism involved.
• 5:21 PM myx0mop "One would have thought Obama would have gone straight to the topic of these murdered soldiers, but, oh no...left the topic till the last. No signs of emotion, just empty words"
• 5:25 pm The suspected gunman was identified by ABC News as Major Nidal Malik Hasan

  Hasan's cousin, Nader Hasan, issued a statement late Thursday.

  "We are shocked and saddened by the terrible events at Fort Hood today. We send the families of the victims our most heartfelt sympathies," the statement read. "Nidal was an American citizen. He was Born in Arlington, Virginia and raised here in America...Our family loves America. We are proud of our country, and saddened by today's tragedy."

  Cone called the attack "a terrible tragedy, stunning." He said the community was "absolutely devastated." President Obama called the Fort Hood shootings a "horrific outburst of violence." .. motive for the attack... is unclear. While he said he could not rule out the incident as an act of terrorism, evidence does not support that theory. [http://abcnews.go.com/WN/soldiers-killed-fort-hood-shooting/story?id=9007938]

• 5:30 PM C Max "A muslim jihadist attack. This was obvious to me from the moment I heard the news. Even when it was revealed they were soldiers I knew they were likely to be muslim converts. Why does the FBI have to be politically correct and push this BS on the public that this was not a terrorist attack? And they certainly won't acknowledge that this was specifically a muslim terrorist attack. Do they think we are so stupid?"
• 6:00 PM No sooner was the identity of the Fort Hood shooter released -- a man with the Arab name Nadal Malik Hasan -- than the wingnuts sprang into predictable action: Of course he was a jihadi embarking on a murderous terrorism spree!Pam "Atlas Barks" Geller immediately proclaimed it "an obvious act terrorism" and ran big all all caps heads declaring: "IT'S THE JIHAD STUPID." Elsewhere in the right blogosphere, people like the folks at HotAir jumped all over the "news" that Hasan was a convert to Islam.[http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/wingnuts-rush-conclusions-about-fort]
• Hasan was American born and educated, but raised Muslim. He was not a convert.

  -- He had never previously been deployed to Iraq or anywhere overseas, for that matter. So much for the theories he suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

  -- He was regularly abused by his colleagues in the military for being Muslim -- called a "raghead" and other such terms -- and had been seeking to get out of the military because the environment had become so hostile. ... But it certainly appears this is much a matter of Columbine-like backlash to bullying as it is anything ideological. And no, it's not the Jihad, stupid.

• 6:12 PM dented_uk That live chat at FOX Dallas/Fort Worth is full of fools yammering about how "not all Islamists are terrorists" and "most muslims are peaceful".
• 6:15 PM EST U.S. Muslims Condemn Attack at Fort Hood CAIR  [http://www.cair.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?articleID=26126&&name=n&&currPage=1]
• 6:22 PM Blanco The Boston area radio station WTTK is covering the outrage at Obamullah's "shout out" opening to his press conference before he finally got around to mouthing a few platitudes about the "horrific violence" at Ft. Hood. It shows where his priorities are, if nothing else.
• 6:22 pm video interview on Fox with Hasan's cousin who is "totally shocked"  [http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/wingnuts-rush-conclusions-about-fort]
• Readers react that his family must be lying about Hasan:Sage McLaughlin writes:
  The shooter's cousin was on with Shepherd Smith this morning, and when asked whether Hasan had displayed any violent tendencies, his cousin emitted a strangely inappropriate chuckle, so typical of a person who is about to lie through his teeth, and responded that no, of course Hasan had hated going to the firing range and was extremely uncomfortable around weapons. One wonders how his cousin would even know whether he "hated" going to the shooting range, unless his discomfort was very severe indeed, which is impossible to believe under the circumstances. But then we read this morning that Hasan was actually taking additional weapons training by request, and was able to handle himself perfectly well with a handgun. This makes his family's story, that he was not only a peaceful Muslim but a man who hated to be around guns, not merely false but an obvious lie. Which calls into question whether in fact any of them are actually surprised by this[http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/014693.html]
  
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• Horror at Fort Hood Inspires Horribly Predictable Islamophobia posted by John Nichols on 11/05/2009 @ 7:23pm   because the soldier who was quickly identified as the gunman had a name that led to the presumption that he was Muslim, the incident inspired an all-too-predictable explosion of Islamophobia. But Paul Sullivan, executive director of the group Veterans for Common Sense, suggested shortly after the incident that it might well be the latest in a series of stress-related homicides and suicides involving soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan ... that did not stop right-wing web sites from responding to the release of the suspect's name -- and no other details -- with incendiary speculation about a "Jihad at Fort Hood?" and a "Terrorist Incident in Texas." Fox News host Shepard Smith asked Senator Hutchison on air: "The name tells us a lot, does it not, Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, declared that, "Our entire organization extends its heartfelt condolences to the families of those killed as well as to those wounded and their loved ones. We stand in solidarity with law enforcement and the US military to maintain the safety and security of all Americans." senator?" [http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/493148/horror_at_fort_hood_inspires_horribly_predictable_islamophobia]
• 6:52 PM Muslim, Arab Groups Condemn Fort Hood Shooting, Brace For Backlash[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/muslim-arab-groups-condem_n_347777.html]
• 7:04 PM dented_uk This talk on MSNBC/ABC/CBS of the perps not wanting to deploy to justify the murders is making me violently ill. This was a jihad. I am a retired USAF officer and this Major was a psychiatrist. HE WAS NOT INSANE. He, like all other officers, took an oath to the Constitution of the United States. ...  The only thing in my mind that would cause a person to override his oath to the Constitution would be a religious commitment -- A jihad where his attacks on the infidels would buy him a ticket to heaven. THIS WAS A JIHAD...

• 7:00 PM? On Larry King, former POW Shoshana Johnson, Dr. Phil McGraw call it "ridiculous" and "dangerous" to infer the possibility of Islamic terrorism from Hasan's last name. Kenniff, JAG officer quickly smells a terrorist incident. Dr. Phil McGraw blames it on stress was schedule for deployment. Kenniff: "You know, this looks a lot less like PTSD, and a lot more like the Hassan Akbar case in 2003, where another soldier who has an Islamic last name, throws grenades randomly into tents occupied by his fellow officers, and by his fellow soldiers, for no other reason but to commit acts of terror, and to instill fear on the military installation, and to bring attention to himself." KING: Are you doing, Tom -- by mentioning Islamic last name, are you doing speculating of your own?"  MCGRAW: It certainly could. But you don't take the guy's last name and impugn the Islamic nation. Are you kidding me? JOHNSON: That's ridiculous. MCGRAW: What are you talking about? That is irresponsible. It is ridiculous to say. JOHNSON: It's dangerous. Very dangerous. [http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/shoshanna-johnson-calls-out-jag-tom-kennif] MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 6 November 2009: Gold goes to Tom Kenniff from the Army National Guard Judge Advocates General group, a JAG, an Army lawyer, who, after asserting that Maj. Hasan could never have had post-traumatic stress disorder because he never served on the front lines, and calling the whole thing psychobabble and asserting that the real story here was the man's last name, (and he was right...) he was asked a question by another guesst, a woman: e other guest was Shoshana Johnson, former U.S. Army specialist, and she was not only shot in both ankles, when her group, the 507th Maintenance Brigade, was attacked on March 23, 2003, and she spent 22 days thereafter as a prisoner of war in Iraq.
  [http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=399559&mesg_id=399559]

• 7:13 PM  Isabellathecrusader The comments over at HuffPo are the pathetic. Every single one was an excuse.....PTS,etc,etc
• 7:30 PM Officials: Shooting suspect discussed suicide bombings, other threats online

  Thursday, November 5, 2009, 07:30 PM FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: Federal law enforcement officials say the suspected Fort Hood, Texas, shooter had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats.[http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2009/11/05/officials_shooting_suspect_dis.html]

• 11:00 PM CST News Utah KSL station Dad, I'm OK. Don't worry, I'm OK.' And initially I said, ‘What are you talking about?' She said, ‘Haven't you heard?' And I said, ‘No.' And she said, ‘We've been attacked by terrorists,'" the father explained. "A person behind counter stood up, and he said, ‘Allah Akbar!' And just opened up on everybody," the father told us. No government officials are confirming Allah Ackbar. She called her father soon after the shooting, but no one else is saying that and we cannot confirm that.  He contacted KSL [http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8572568 Fort Hood soldier describes horrific scene to family in Utah November 5th, 2009 @ 10:00pm By John Daley]
• Fort Hood, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, and Islamophobia Orale Allah: Latino Muslim Socialist In the link below, there is a video of an American POW, Shoshanna Johnson, who calls out the bigotry of JAG officer Tom Kennif after he implies that because Hasan has a Muslim name, that is the reason for the crime.
• http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/shoshanna-johnson-calls-out-jag-tom-kennif
• Cousin Says Suspected Fort Hood Gunman Feared Impending War Deployment Thursday, November 05, 2009 Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, wanted to be released from the military before he was set to be deployed overseas, and he even had hired a military lawyer to assist his efforts, according to the cousin, Nader Hasan.[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572405,00.html]
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• Shepard Smith: “Maj. Hasan’s Name Says it All, Senator” By Jillian ... following the Fort Hood shootings, an appearance by Texan senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) seemed to change all that, when Shepard asked: “The name tells us a lot, does it not, senator?“  Hutchinson’s (unsurprising) response? “It does. It does, Shepard.” .. Shepard was the sole FOX correspondent who vehemently defended against the “Obama is a Muslim” claims and against the whackjob “birthers.”[http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/11/shepard-smith-maj-hasans-name-says-it-all-senator.html]
  
• Fox News Tops For Fort Hood Breaking News Coverage Ratings Huffington Post   |  Danny Shea Over the course of the breaking news, from 3PM-12AM, Fox News averaged 3.039 million total viewers, more than CNN (1.576 million), MSNBC (820,000), and HLN (428,000) combined. In the Adults 25-54 demographic over that time period, Fox News averaged 837,000 viewers, more than CNN's 471,000, MSNBC's 248,000, and HLN's 177,000. In primetime, Fox News averaged 3.765 million total viewers to CNN's 2.024 million, MSNBC's 1.101 million, and HLN's 621,000. In the primetime A25-54 demo, Fox Nes averaged [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/06/fox-news-tops-for-fort-ho_n_349091.html]
  
• Army: Fort Hood Gunman in Custody After 12 Killed, 31 Injured in Rampage [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572305,00.html]
  
• Before Thursday's shooting, Hasan reportedly gave away all of his furniture along with copies of the Koran to neighbors, KXXV-TV reported.
• Federal law enforcement officials told the Associated Press that Hasan had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed homicide bombings and other threats
• Officers raid Texas home of suspect in Fort Hood shootings 06 Nov 2009 Officers raided the apartment of the soldier suspected in the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, early Friday, searching for clues as to what caused the military psychiatrist to allegedly gun down soldiers he had taken an oath to help, a police spokeswoman said. The alleged gunman, identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, opened fire at a military processing center at Fort Hood, killing 13 and wounding 30 others, Lt. Gen. Robert Cone said... In the nearby town of Killeen, a SWAT team and FBI agents were searching Hasan's apartment to help determine what caused the shooting, which military experts called the worst mass shooting at an American military base, Carol Smith, a Killeen police spokeswoman, said early Friday.
• Military falls silent for victims of Fort Hood shootings 13 die, 28 in stable condition; gunman still hospitalized By SCOTT HUDDLESTON and SIG CHRISTENSON CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE

  Nov. 6, 2009, 2:22PM Early Thursday, Hasan showed no signs of worry or stress when he stopped at 7-Eleven for his daily breakfast of hash browns, said Jeannie Strickland, the store's manager. “He came in (Thursday) morning just like normal,” she said[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6706442.html]
• the Army released a statement saying the shootings didn't appear to be an act of political terrorism[same]
• Kamran Pasha writes of "Richard" a friend of Hasan who first met Hasan in July 2009 when Hasan arrived at Ft Hood who told him the war on terror was a war on Islam, and muslims should not be in the US military .  He finds that he attened a mosque led by Anwar Al-Awlaki who is controversial and has been accused by the Congressional Joint Inquiry on 9/11 of serving as a “spiritual advisor” to two of the September 11 hijackers. Says Hasan made some anti-Semitic comments about Jews as a nation being “cursed by God” in Islam. Got into an argument when Hasan rationalized suicide bombing in a conversation, then an Islamic scholar who was present told Hasan that Richard was right. "I asked Richard whether he believed that Hasan was motivated by religious radicalism in his murderous actions. Richard, with great sadness, said that he believed this was true". He sat side by side with Hasan for prayer at the mosque hours before the shooting. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kamran-pasha/a-muslim-soldiers-view-fr_b_348973.html Kamran Pasha November 6, 2009 04:30 PM  Muslim Soldier's View from Fort Hood]
• "Sudden Jihadi Syndrome" Strikes: Muslim Army Psychiatrist Kills 13 Soldiers at Texas  [http://www.islam-watch.org/iw-new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=239:sudden-jihadi-syndrome-muslim-army-psychiatrist-kills-13-soldiers-texas&catid=65:khan&Itemid=58]

• The day after the shooting, Reasoner told the BBC he wouldn't condemn Hasan's actions, ABC said. "I'm not going to condemn him for what he did," Reasoner told the British broadcaster. "I don't  know why he did it. I will not, absolutely not, condemn him for what he had done, though." [http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212268185.shtml][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak04G5u8SZY]

• The BBC's Gavin Lee interviews 'Duane' at the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen the day after the killings at Fort Hood. transcript posted on youtube Nov 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npAvM-VWwhc] Marked as favorite by [http://www.youtube.com/user/TheIslamicResistance] jihadist channel.

   

  Duane : I'm not going to condemn him for what he did. I don't know why he did it. I will not, absolutely not, condemn him for what he had done though. If he had done it for selfish reasons I still will not condemn him. He's my brother in the end. I will never condemn him.

   

  Gavin Lee : There might be a lot of people shocked to hear you say that.

   

  Duane: Well, that's the way it is. I don't speak for the community here but me personally I will not condemn him.

   

  Gavin Lee : What are your thoughts towards those that were victims in this?

   

  Duane : They were, in the end, they were troops who were going to Afghanistan and Iraq to kill Muslims. I honestly have no pity for them. It's just like the majority of the people that will hear this, after five or six minutes they'll be shocked, after that they'll forget about them and go on their day.

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• Steven L. Taylor criticizes those that "jump to conclusions" Nov 6  [http://www.poliblogger.com/?p=17240 Politics of the Fort Hood Shooting] One of the disheartening aspects (apart from the obvious tragedy) of events like that which took place at Fort Hood yesterday is that well before we have any evidence or real information, people start trying to make political hay out of the event "She asserts that “IT’S THE JIHAD STUPID” (caps hers) and doesn’t understand why the FBI would be called in, amongst other things. Geller is an extremist who, on the one hand, deserves to be ignored.  On the other hand, however, she is representative a point of view held by sizable number of people and is given a forum for her views in high profile places such as Fox News Channel. " Also critcal of "Muslim Brotherhood and Fort Hood"

• [http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/06/the-muslim-brotherhood-and-ft-hood-by-jamie-glazov/ 

  The Muslim Brotherhood and Fort Hood – by Jamie Glazov Nov 6th, 2009 ]

• Olbermann guest: we've got a guy who clearly had a pretty twisted version of Islam and was getting, you know, increasingly militant.I think people are trying to put this story in a box a little bit. In other words, this is a guy who is inspired by al Qaeda

• but first time for COUNTDOWN's number two story, tonight's worst person in the world. The answer is reading.The bronze to Allen West, Republican who hopes to run for the Florida 22nd next year. He's a retired Army lieutenant colonel. And even though his superiors in the military are still unsure exactly what happened at Fort Hood or why he knows, he knows everything. The quote, "this enemy preys on downtrodden soldiers and teaches them extremism will lift them up. Our soldiers are being brain washed. The horrible tragedy of Ft. Hood is proof the enemy is infiltrating our military."

  Who was brain washed? Major Hasan MD? Or was he downtrodden? Or the men he was treating? Or the people he shot? Colonel West, could you at least give me a good backup story to-or made-up backup story here to back up this made up excuse for your all too-real racism before you start spouting your hate?

• Olbermann spin: Keniff, who spotted an Islamic terrorist plot right away is called an idiot. Hasan is a victim of Islamaphobic harassment. It might be terrorism.  'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' Fort Hood, day two: The mass murderer lives, while every possible rumor also lingers. Today, only this fact, the gun he used, a 5.7 millimeter pistol dubbed a "cop killer," was bought over-the-counter legally at a Texas store. OLBERMANN: "Worsts": The moron who says to Shoshana Johnson, "I spent a year in Iraq, ma'am. Have you ever been to Iraq?" Doesn't that name Shoshana Johnson ring a bell? And according to the "Associated Press," he was the victim of a hate crime by August 16th. Police is charging an Iraq war vet with keying Hasan's car and tearing off a bumper sticker that said "Allah is love." Witnesses report Hasan cried out "God is great" in Arabic during his shooting rampage yesterday.  His former imam telling the "New York Times" he'd been unable to find a wife because he had insisted she should pray five times a day and wear a hijab. He reportedly refused to pose in group photos with female co-workers. Neighbors telling the "Killeen Daily Herald," he had recently begun to dress in, quote, "Arabic clothing." And yesterday, cleaning out his apartment, he handed out copies of the Koran. Acquaintances report that Hasan suffered religion harassment after 9/11, trying to get a discharge, considered the "war on terror" a war on Islam and considered himself a Muslim first, an American second. BENJAMIN: Well, I think that maybe without leaping to conclusions, there are certainly some very disturbing themes here, Keith, which I think are starting to make sense. I mean, we've got a guy who clearly had a pretty twisted version of Islam and was getting, you know, increasingly militant.I think people are trying to put this story in a box a little bit. In other words, this is a guy who is inspired by al Qaeda. You know, this is a guy who was, you know, stressed out by combat. Obviously not the case since he'd never deployed. You know, this is either one of the two.

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• Fort Hood Shooting Stuns Hasan's West Bank Family

  by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

     http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120201546   . Born in Virginia, Nidal Malik Hasan made his first visit to the Palestinian territories a dozen years ago, and had been in touch with relatives in the town of El Bireh on numerous occasions since then.: Mohammed's home in the suburb of El-Bireh is modest, middle class. A picture of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat hangs in one of the bedrooms. Mohammed says that Nidal was interested in Palestinian society but didn't talk about the more contentious issues.
• Nidal's brother lives nearby in El-Bireh. A lawyer, he moved from America and married a Palestinian woman. Yesterday he was refusing to talk to the press.
• He was being treated as a Muslim by the Army, an Arab, not as an American. He felt he was discriminated against. But the thing I'm trying to understand is the motivation - why did he do this? This is totally out of character for Nidal. This is a very calm and quiet person. We are extremely surprised by what he's done. We are bewildered.
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• Ft. Hood probers ponder missed signs By JOHN DOYLE in Fort Hood, Texas, and ANDY SOLT [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/ft_hood_probers_ponder_missed_signs_Ni1oXjARVgdWay1dk6qfFK/1]
• Col Terry Lee: a "vociferous opponent" of the war on terror and recalled how Hasan told classmates that he was "a Muslim first and an American second." [same]
  

• after a oldier was fatally wounded by a Muslim convert at an Army recruiting center in Arkansas."He seemed happy about it," said retired Col. Terry Lee, a former Fort Hood colleague. "He said maybe we should have more of these . . . People should strap bombs on themselves and go into Times Square." [same]

• he jumped on a table and shouted, "Allahu akbar" -- Arabic for "God is great!" -- before opening fire, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the base commander.
• He was a nice boy, not violent, not political. "Hamad appeared to rule out a political motive" U.S. Army gunman's act "impossible" - grandfather (WRONG)[http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL7505069]
• London Telegraph in UK links Hasan to 9/11 terrorists noting he worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001. (RIGHT)  [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6521758/Fort-Hood-shooting-Texas-army-killer-linked-to-September-11-terrorists.html Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists By Philip Sherwell and Alex Spillius Published: 8:17PM GMT 07 Nov 2009]
• Duane Reasoner Jr., an 18-year-old substitute teacher whose parents worked at Fort Hood, said Major Hassan was told he would be sent to Afghanistan on Nov. 28, and he did not like it.

  “He said he should quit the Army,” Mr. Reasoner said. “In the Koran, you’re not supposed to have alliances with Jews or Christian or others, and if you are killed in the military fighting against Muslims, you will go to hell.” "Muslims at Fort Voice Outrage and Ask Questions " New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/us/07muslim.html]

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• Law enforcement says computer examination revealed no evidence of any connection to terror groups or conspirators. Evidence was found that Hasan visited Web sites promoting radical Islamic views, but "investigators have not found any e-mail communications with outside facilitators or known terrorists." The FBI is investigating reports Hasan attended the same Virginia mosque as two of the 9/11 hijackers. Investigators are checking if al-Awlaki's teachings influenced Hasan's radicalization. "We need to look at potential inspiration". All potential leads "need to be checked out before we attempt to attach any weight to them." [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/08/national/main5578580.shtml CBS News November 8, 2009 Hasan Computer Reveals No Terror Ties]
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That's not a crime to call up al Qaeda, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?" [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/11/09/matthews-ft-hood-suspect-warning-signal-thats-not-crime-call-al-qaida-it]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33777070/ns/us_news-tragedy_at_fort_hood/

Investigators say Fort Hood suspect acted alone
FBI launches a review of how it handled information gathered on doctor In late 2008, officials said, a separate investigation revealed Hasan's communications with another individual they declined to identify. Separately, another U.S. official said the person Hasan was communicating with was Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical imam overseas who has come under scrutiny for possible links to terror groups. All of the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case on the record. Eventually, a joint terrorism task force learned of about 10 or 20 such communications between the two. Officials would not identify the exact type of communications, but al-Awlaki operates a Web site that invites readers to e-mail him. he messages did not advocate violence or threaten violence, law enforcement authorities could not take the matter further, the officials said. The terrorism task force concluded Hasan was not involved in terrorist planning.the content of those messages was "consistent with the subject matter of his research," part of which involved post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from U.S. combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two U.S. intelligence officials told The Associated Press the Web site was Awlaki's. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence collection. Awlaki did not immediately respond to an attempt to contact him through the Web site. The officials say Awlaki was arrested in 2006 with a small group of suspected al-Qaida militants in the capital San'a. They say he was released more than a year later after signing a pledge he will not break the law or leave the country. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Abdul-Malik held a press conference to denounce the shootings.
"Anyone of any faith would condemn this act of violence on unsuspecting men and women in uniform," he said. On Dec. 23, 2008, Awlaki, on his Web site, encouraged Muslims across the world to kill U.S. troops in Iraq.
In December of last year, Customs officials intercepted a flash drive of Awlaki's lectures that his wife sent from Yemen to an Islamic publishing house in Denver, the intelligence note said. Awlaki told the FBI in 2001 that, before he moved to Virginia in early 2001, he met with 9/11 hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi several times in San Diego


It emerged that Hasan warned Army doctors 18 months ago that to avoid "adverse events," the military should allow Muslim soldiers to be released as conscientious objectors. It's unclear whether anyone reported the briefing to counterintelligence or law-enforcement authorities, The Washington Post reported http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/fbi_blew_off_killer_mail_to_al_qaeda_Bqi6bMwstWFXefjamp9CdJ?offset=16#comments#ixzz0Xnus25Kx

It's not yet clear if Hasan, who occasionally worshipped at a Virginia mosque where Awlaki was once a preacher, and Awlaki ever had direct contact. Late Monday, Nov. 9, the New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence agencies had intercepted some communications (most likely e-mail) between the two over the past year or so but that "federal authorities dropped an inquiry into the matter after deciding that the messages warranted no further action. investigators going through Major Hasan's computer records have found logs of frequent visits to Islamist websites. The imam left the U.S. in 2002 and has not returned since. it's hard to know if Awlaki works for al-Qaeda "or just happened to have the same ideology," but adds that it's clear "he's obviously toeing their ideological line."    ... is associated with Al-Eman University, a religious school once attended by American Taliban member John Walker Lindh. The university's founder, Abdel-Majed Zindani, was designated by the Bush Administration as a supporter of terrorism.[http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1936973,00.html Monday, Nov. 09, 2009 Was Hasan Inspired by a Radical Imam's Sermons? By Bobby Ghosh / Washington]
Nov 9, 12:20 AM Breaking: Extremist Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki Endorses Ft. Hood Massacre: "Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing" By Evan Kohlmann Extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has just issued a new entry on his blog titled, "Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing."   [http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/11/breaking_extremist_cleric_anwa.php]






Followers of Anwar al-Awlaki Giddily Celebrate Ft. Hood Massacre By Evan Kohlmann Upon learning of initial media reports of the Ft. Hood massacre, one frequent visitor posted a comment on al-Awlaki's blog, "Oh Allah, direct your forces against America," Mash’Allah another good news reaching us from Texas: more Kafir US soldiers in the Filthy U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, were smoked by the their own today: " [http://snuffysmithsblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/followers-of-anwar-al-awlaki-giddily.html]
Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the Fort Hood commander, called the rampage, which killed 13 people and wounded 29, "an isolated incident."..are fueling speculation within the government that the attack is in fact an act of terror aimed at the heart of a US military [http://www.alaskadispatch.com/news/the-monitor/2865-fort-hood-suspect-portrait-of-a-terrorist]
New York Daily News reports Awlaki applauds shootings on his blog post, “Nidal Hasan did the right thing” and it was first reported by terror expert Evan Kohlmann of the NEFA [Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan 'is a hero' BY James Gordon Meek November 9th 2009, 12:05 PM http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/11/09/2009-11-09_fort_hood_gunman_nidal_hassan_is_a_hero_iman_who_preached_to_911_hijackers_in_su.html#ixzz0XLBlYJHE]
The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement issued by Anwar al Awlaki, an Al-Qaida an Al-Qaida-linked U.S. citizen, titled "Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing” [http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/02/nefa_report_on_anwar_al-awlaki.php]
"The Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort Hood massacre apparently acted alone and without outside direction, investigative officials said Monday evening" [even as the FBI investigates how information was handled][http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110902566.htmlInvestigators say Fort Hood suspect acted alone By DEVLIN BARRETT The Associated Press Monday, November 9, 2009; 9:31 PM ] Based on all the investigations since the attack, including a review of that 2008 information, the investigators said they have no evidence that Hasan had help or outside orders in the shootings
Information released that Hasan "tried to contact people linked to al Qaeda."   [http://m.rte.ie/news/2009/1109/texas.html  US army gunman linked to al Qaeda] 
Current imam at the Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church says that their mosque is not linked to the 9/11 hijackers [or Fort Hood shootings?][http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010231590_fortmuslim09.html November 9, 2009 Imam: Mosque not linked to hijackers November 9, 2009 ]
Washington Post publishes Hasan's chilling June 2007 Powerpoint presentation in entirety http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/11/09/ST2009110903704.html?sid=ST2009110903704

• New York Post calls the FBI a "blundering agency": "The FBI knew for nearly a year before his murderous Fort Hood rampage that psycho Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had repeatedly contacted al Qaeda -- but the blundering agency last night admitted it dismissed the lead."   I think the very fact that you've got a major in the US Army contacting [a radical imam], or attempting to contact him, would raise some red flags," Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) -- ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee -- told the Los Angeles Times." "the red-faced agency vowed to get to the bottom of things itself. "[http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/fbi_blew_off_killer_mail_to_al_qaeda_Bqi6bMwstWFXefjamp9CdJ "FBI blew off killer e-mail to al Qaeda. Officials admit shrugging off gunman's e-mails to Qaeda"]  Widely cited on conservative blogs
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• Patin explores conspiracy theories surrounding doubts there was a single shooter. He would have to stop to reload and people could have jumped Hasan. SFC Donald Buswell said, "I spent 10 years at Ft Hood. There is no way this 'official' story is legitimate. No way would a room full of combat vets allow this one shooter to get off over 100 rounds! And, it is not normal for the outside security guards to be there. They are at the MP station, and at the main gates."  "The facts as presented by the Army and the media [about] the shooting at Fort Hood just don’t compute. People on the ground have told me cell phone towers were jammed to prevent unauthorized dissemination of information after the shooting."Ft. Hood: Official story full of holes" November 10, 12:44 PM Madison Independent Examiner Gregory Patin[http://www.examiner.com/x-23316-Madison-Independent-Examiner~y2009m11d10-Ft-Hood-Official-story-full-of-holes]
• Muslim Matters: The shootings have to be condemned as Muslims, but it can strengthen negative associations with Muslims. I believe that Muslim community’s handling of the issue leaves much to be desired. Clearly, condemning the killing of unarmed people in a non-combat situation is the right thing to do. However, why do we have to do it as Muslims? Condemning these and similar events can serve to strengthen the association with Islam. If we learn conclusively that Maj. Hasan believed he had religious justifications for his actions, our condemnations as Muslims actually reinforce those making that connection instead of refuting it.  Muslims and non-Muslims alike have to separate the actions of Muslims from the religion of Islam. To preserve the integrity of this discussion, any comments relating to the topics of (1) permissibility of Muslims working for the military or (2) whether this murderous spree should not be condemned (this article is about HOW not if) and, (3) of course, any celebratory comments (an unfortunate reflection upon some in our Ummah) will be deleted. The Tragedy of Nidal Hasan’s Fort HoodShootings: Media Discipline & Muslim Condemnations
• Posted by Iesa Galloway [http://muslimmatters.org/2009/11/10/the-tragedy-of-nidal-hasans-fort-hood-shootings-media-discipline-muslim-condemnations/] Awlaki maintained a website presented in impeccable English until Tuesday(Nov 10), when its contents were deleted.
• The JTTF (joint terrorism task force) concluded that Major Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities or terrorist planning,’ the FBI said.
• The FBI added ‘the investigation to date indicates that the alleged gunman acted alone and was not part of a broader terrorist plot.’
• Obama acknowledges possible religion factor: [http://m.rte.ie/news/2009/1110/texas.html Obama: 'No faith' could justify shootings]
• Awlawki's website is deleted [http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/11/10/fort-hood-shooting-was-nidal-malik-hasan-inspired-by-militant-cleric/ Fort Hood shooting: Was Nidal Malik Hasan inspired by militant cleric? ]
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• U.S. Muslims also have died to defend us

   By LEONARD PITTS JR.  http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1327189.html At this writing, we know next to nothing of why he did it.
  • Maybe he was a stone cold psychopath like Eric Harris who, with Dylan Klebold, shot up Columbine High in 1999.
  • Maybe he was deranged and delusional like Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people and himself at Virginia Tech in 2007.
  • Maybe he was driven by a grudge against the federal government like Timothy McVeigh, who blew up a federal building in 1995.
  • Maybe he was a terrorist.

  Predictably, it is the last possibility that has ignited outrage and condemnation from the usual speak-first, think-later types, employing the usual sweeping half truths and untruths to argue that Muslims are un-American and contribute nothing to this country.

• He also visited Ali al Timimi, a local Muslim leader that U.S. prosecutors say was recruiting local Muslims to fight against U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Mr. Timimi was convicted in 2005. WSJ: Maj. Nidal Hasan Kept Contact With Radical Islamic Cleric 09/11/2009 

  By Keith Johnson and Evan Perez Of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL   [http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/NewsFeedItem.aspx?id=85182086487565]

• Blind Diversity Equals Death  by Michelle Malkin[http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/11/11/blind_diversity_equals_death November 11, 2009 ] Mr. Awlaki left the U.S. in 2002, settling in Britain, and later in Yemen, his parents' native country. He was detained in Yemen from mid-2006 to late 2007, apparently at the request of U.S. authorities If the Bush administration suffered a systemic failure of imagination on homeland security, the Obama administration is suffering a willful failure of comprehension. What exactly is so hard to comprehend? Fort Hood jihadist Maj. Nidal Hasan made his means, motives and inspiration all too clear for those willing to see and hear. In his 2007 slide presentation to fellow Army doctors on "The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the Military," Hasan spelled it out: "We love death more then (sic) you love life!" Ties incident to similar ones:
  • John Muhammad, the Beltway jihadist ,
  • Muslim American soldier Hasan Abujihaad was convicted last year on espionage and material terrorism support charges after serving aboard the USS Benfold ,
  • Jeffrey Leon Battle was a former Army reservist, convicted of conspiring to levy war against the United States and "enlisting in the Reserves to receive military training to use against America."
  • In June, Muslim domestic terror suspect Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad went on another shooting spree at an Arkansas recruiting station that left one serviceman dead
  • Attorney General Eric Holder will speak at a banquet featuring the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an unindicted co-conspirator in the terrorism financing case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.
• First tie to Zindani? It was surprising and shocking news yesterday that Fort Hood murderer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan prowled radical jihadist chatrooms in the year before his attack, and that his avowed and extreme views tripped no serious alarms whatsoever. But what should shock no one is that when he looked for inspiration, he found it here, in Yemen. Awlaki spent two years in prison in Yemen, but was released without charge and now maintains a blog and enjoys an affiliation with Iman University, a Sanaa Islamic school run by accused terrorist Shaykh Abdul Majid al Zindani Osama bin Laden's father, Muhammad bin Laden, grew up in the starkly beautiful Hadramaut region of Yemen, and Osama himself occasionally appeared in videos with Yemeni daggers, to symbolize his continued affinity for the country.[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-10/hasans-yemen-connection/ Hasan's Yemen Connection by Graeme Wood]
• Evan Kohlmann of NEFA Foundation notes connection between July Awlawki statement and gun purchase: "This is the kind of thing that could push somebody over the edge ... The timing looks to me like it's just before Hasan took concrete steps" toward the shooting.  [http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/11/11/did-imam-s-posting-trigger-hasan-s-gun-buy.aspx]
• ABC News reports Alawaki inspired plots at Fort Dix and Toronto [http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/anwar-awlakis-terrror-ties/story?id=9055322From Yemen, Anwar Awlaki Helped Inspire Fort Dix, Toronto Plots Despite Terror Connections, E-mails with Major Hasan Did Not Raise Red Flags By RICHARD ESPOSITO, REHAB EL-BURI and BRIAN ROSS Nov. 11, 2009]
• Retired Col. John P. Galligan, one of Maj. Nidal Hasan's defense lawyers, talks to Melissa Block about defending the suspected Fort Hood shooter. "Can he get a fair trial at Fort Hood? I have my doubts" [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120330006&ft=1&f=1001]
• Alawaki website says "website coming back online.. Assaalmu’alaykum all The website will be back to normal with a few days time. posted November 11th, 2009 at 11:31 am [http://anwar-alawlaki.com/]

• Fort Hood suspect: Portrait of a terrorist? Patrik Jonsson and Tracey D. Samuelson | The Christian Science Monitor The possibility that the Fort Hood shootings are both "an isolated incident," as the base commander here described them, and a terrorist attack is becoming increasingly real as more information emerges about alleged perpetrator Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. ..On Monday, Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the Fort Hood commander, called the rampage, which killed 13 people and wounded 29, "an isolated incident."..are fueling speculation within the government that the attack is in fact an act of terror aimed at the heart of a US military [http://www.alaskadispatch.com/news/the-monitor/2865-fort-hood-suspect-portrait-of-a-terrorist]

• What Happened at Fort Hood: Eyewitness Account of a JAG Officer [http://www.islam-watch.org/iw-new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=246:what-happened-at-fort-hood-eyewitness-account-of-a-jag-officer&catid=89:other-authors&Itemid=58]

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• FBI Press Release http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel09/forthood111109.htm
  
• At this point, there is no information to indicate Major Nidal Malik Hasan had any co-conspirators or was part of a broader terrorist plot. The investigation to date has not identified a motive, and a number of possibilities remain under consideration. Investigators on the JTTF reviewed certain communications between Major Hasan and the subject of that investigation and assessed that the content of those communications was consistent with research being conducted by Major Hasan in his position as a psychiatrist at the Walter Reed Medical Center. Because the content of the communications was explainable by his research and nothing else derogatory was found, the JTTF concluded that Major Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities or terrorist planning. Other communications that the FBI was aware of were similar to the ones reviewed by the JTTF.

  Standard protocols—based on federal law, regulations, and policy, including the Privacy and Freedom of Information Acts—govern information handling in federal task force settings, including JTTFs. JTTF-generated information may only be disseminated outside the structure of the JTTF (including to a member’s home agency) with the approval of the JTTF FBI supervisor. In this case, following the review and analysis conducted by investigators, there was a conclusion made by the investigator and the supervisor that Major Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities or planning. Further dissemination of the information regarding Major Hasan was neither sought nor authorized.

  Our top priority is to ensure that the person responsible for the Fort Hood shooting is held accountable. The ongoing investigation includes forensic examinations of Major Hasan’s computers and any Internet activity in hopes of gaining insight into his motivation. But the investigation to date indicates that the alleged gunman acted alone and was not part of a broader terrorist plot.

• FBI says Hasan wasn't involved in terrorist activities (nothing to see, now, just move along)
  Houston Chronicle ^ | 11/12/2009 | GUILLEROM CONTRERAS
  

  Posted on Thu 12 Nov 2009 01:15:16 PM PST by mojito

  The FBI said today that it appears Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan acted alone in the Fort Hood shootings, and was not involved in terrorist activities when a joint terrorism task force crossed paths with him last year.

  “At this point, there is no information to indicate Major Nidal Malik Hasan had any co-conspirators or was part of a broader terrorist plot,” the FBI said in a statement. “The investigation to date has not identified a motive, and a number of possibilities remain under consideration. We are working with the military to obtain, review and analyze all information relating to Major Hasan in order to allow for a better understanding of the facts and circumstances that led to the Fort Hood shooting. Understandably, there is a large volume of information in various forms, and it will take us some time to complete this work.”

  The FBI also said the investigation includes forensic examinations of Hasan's computers and any of his Internet activity in hopes of gaining insight into his motivation....

  ...agents and analysts reviewed unspecified communications between Hasan and the unidentified subject of the investigation, and determined that the content of those communications was consistent with research being conducted by Maj. Hasan in his position as a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

  “Because the content of the communications was explainable by his research and nothing else derogatory was found, the JTTF concluded that Major Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities or terrorist planning,” the statement said. “Other communications that the FBI was aware of were similar to the ones reviewed by the JTTF.”

  The FBI declined today to provide further information about the target of the investigation, or to specify whether that probe remained ongoing.
• Brian Levin, J.D. and Hussein Ibish, Ph.D.: Fort Hood Tragedy Is Being Exploited To Bolster Discrimination Our law enforcement and national security policies need to deal with all extremist perspectives vigorously and vigilantly, but there's no justification for any "backlash" against Arab or Muslim Americans in general. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-levin-jd/fort-hood-tragedy-is-bein_b_355712.html
  American Family Association's Bryan Fischer said, "We should not allow Muslims to serve in the US military and we have got to raise questions about whether we can afford to allow Muslims to immigrate into the United States at all."
• Azam Nizamuddin: [The right continues to blame Islam when it had nothing to do with 9/11 or al Queda. Right] Why The Right Is Wrong On Ft. Hood In the Ft. Hood aftermath, we shouldn't allow right-wing hooliganism, wherever it stems from, to dictate how we view tragedies ...the restraint and reasonable response of military leaders such as General Casey, President Obama, other political leaders, as well as most mainstream media, is being rejected in the deep caverns of conservative talk radio, radical Christian commentary, and of course unhinged Fox News, as a cover-up, and liberal "political correctness" gone mad. Even mainstream pundits are joining the mobbing of a religion and its faithful. Their main charge: the liberal establishment is failing to recognize and admit that Islam is to blame for what occurred at Ft. Hood last week. I found it strange that this rabid ideology was attacking the civic virtues of multiculturalism, tolerance, patience, and critical higher education in the context of terrorism. Despite the well-established fact that al-Qaida attacked the United States because of its grievances against the U.S. for its intervention in the Middle East and support for Israel, and not due to [Islam] jealousy or hate of freedom, or tolerance, patience, multiculturalism, civil rights, or political correctness, right-wing ideologues speciously pinned the blame on liberalism and Islam.
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/azam-nizamuddin/can-you-tell-me-how-to-ge_b_355900.html
• Daniel Henninger: "Why Fort Hood Really Happened" blames it on the war against the "war on terrorism". "For the next seven years the battle never stopped over the details of the Patriot Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, then Guantanamo, then waterboarding, renditions and secret prisons and all the other issues that for some could be summed up in two words: "Bush-Cheney." .. I think that nonstop policy battle is why Hasan's overseers dropped the ball. The most-heard reason for the possible failure is political correctness.[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529844037896738.html]
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