Major Hasan was a Home-Grown Terrorist
John on November 21, 2009 at 11:49 am
There’s no doubt about it now. The shooting was pre-planned and he attempted to co-ordinate it with al Qaeda recruiter al-Awlaki. The Washington Post reports:
In the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers and other steps that could translate his thoughts into action, according to two sources briefed on a collection of secret e-mails between the two…
“He [Hasan] clearly became more radicalized toward the end, and was having discussions related to the transfer of money and finances . . .,” said the source, who spoke at length in part because he was concerned the public accounting of the events has been incomplete. “It became very clear toward the end of those e-mails he was interested in taking action.”
Apparently the plan was to funnel money through Islamic “charities.”
To date, investigators have not unearthed evidence that Hasan sent money to charities with strong or suspected ties to Islamist militant groups, but they are continuing to probe his financial dealings as one aspect of a many-pronged case, other sources cautioned.
I certainly hope the names of those al Qaeda funding “charities” will be made public.
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November 21, 2009 @ 2:52 pmHeard on the radio this morning that 18 enmails were exchanged between Hassan and the radical Islamic cleric Al Alwaki. It’s well established that both the FBI and the Army were aware of these emails.
According to the radio program’s report, the FBI & Army maintain that there was nothing substantial to contradict the conclusion they reached that the emails were well within the ‘research’ Hassan was allegedly conducting into post traumatic stress that returning soldiers commonly experience. (how a radical cleric could shed insight into soldier’s battlefield stress isn’t clear to me…?)
That seems at odds with the Washington Post’s reportage. Which begs the question; is the Post’s reportage flawed or is the government covering up?
November 21, 2009 @ 9:56 pmSo when does a Special Ops team go to Yemen to give Imam Al-Alwaki (dog-crap be upon him) a third eye?
Just askin’.
November 22, 2009 @ 2:10 pmI don’t even understand why an American would be dialoguing with a radical Islamic Cleric to understand “post traumatic stress”. It does not make sense to me since the radical cleric in question is for killing people whereas most Americans grow up being told not to kill people.
What is very scary is this guy was born here and yet that religion makes him a murderer of innocent and unarmed fellow Americans.
If there is one of these types just think how many more there are and then you have the immigrants.
My guess is we have a sizable minority within that population that would willingly duplicate this killing.
November 22, 2009 @ 5:29 pmWe’ve got a winner!
The entirety of Arabia proper (not just Yemen) has thousands upon thousands of Al-Alwakis waiting to replace whoever we kill. We can’t kill all of them because that would essentially involve ethnic cleansing. For this very reason, we will also fail in Afghanistan. To be rid of the Taliban is to ethnically cleanse the Pashtuns that support it.
A better idea is to deport them/keep them out. Let them be Islamic in their own Islamic countries. No one needs to die.
Discriminate based on religion.
November 22, 2009 @ 11:30 pmPRCalDude,
November 29, 2009 @ 7:55 amDeport legal Muslim residents? Deport US citizens who are Muslims? Surely you don’t mean this? The Constitution is what holds together the fabric of our society. Our society has been a religious and ethnic mix from our inception, and yet with the wisdom of our founding fathers, this mix has come together to forge the strongest and most free country the world has ever known. Temper your anger with wisdom.
And you go on to support King Shamus’ idea of political assasination for Muslim clerics who speak out against us. What sort of people do this? Our grandfathers fought and died to protect us from Nazi Germany, a country that freely engaged in assasinating political foes. Do you propose that a Fascist govt is what we need to evolve into?
Are Americans the kind of people who use violence so freely? I suspect you have some inner searching to do.