RIFQA BARY UPDATE!Here’s my take: Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced — I assume anyone who shoots up innocent people is. But the more you read about his [...]
For those of us who have tracked Islamic militancy in Europe, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's actions are not extraordinary. Since Muslim militants first tried to blow a French high-speed train off its rails in 1995, European intelligence and internal-security services have increasingly monitored European Muslim [...]
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan faces a pretrial confinement hearing today at the San Antonio Army post where he lies paralyzed in a heavily guarded intensive-care unit.
Meanwhile, there are growing questions about the FBI's explanation for why it didn't investigate the psychiatrist months ago after' [...]
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Nadal Malik Hasan stood on a desk and shot up a room full of soldiers while shouting, "Allahu Akbar." The FBI knew that he was seeking spiritual advice from an imam who is holing' [...]What Hasan unleashed at the shooting scene was tantamount to a teacher opening fire on the classroom, a' [...]
The American public probably won't have much sympathy for Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan upon learning today through his lawyer that he is paralyzed.
But it raises some interesting issues.
Has anyone who is paralyzed ever been executed in this country' [...]
Just as security officials overlooked Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's links to al Qaeda cleric Anwar Aulaqi, who exhorts American Muslims to kill US soldiers, so did our leaders long turn a blind eye to a "mainstream" Muslim group's ties to this same 9/11-tied imam and [...]
Military prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who was formally charged Thursday with 13 counts of premeditated murder, according to a senior Army officer familiar with the matter.
The last execution of an active-duty serviceman took place [...]
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison tells The Dallas Morning News that the Fort Hood shooter should face 14 murder charges, not just 13. The Army announced that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will face one specification of murder for each casualty.
But as Hutchison points out, one of the soldiers killed in [...]
Is it me or does it seem like the main stream blathering machine is setting up Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a victim? And then we have this little tidbit of wisdom from Chicago Mayor richard Daley:
“Everyday [...]
Fort Hood shooting suspect Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had been in contact with numerous Muslim extremists -- some of whom are under federal investigation -- before last week's rampage, two U.S. officials told The Washington Times on Wednesday.
Maj. Hasan made some of the [...]
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was declared "not a terrorist" before the facts were out - even before officials were sure whether the attacker was alive or dead. Failing to honestly name a terrorist attack despite the evidence is as destructive and dishonest as leaping [...]
When Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan did that in Fort Hood, Tex., last week, many Americans had an understandable and, in some ways, admirable reaction. They didn’t want the horror to become a pretext for anti-Muslim bigotry.
So immediately the coverage took on a [...]
I have grown numb as, seemingly every few hours, new details emerge that in any sane world would have served as glaring red-flags about the fitness and ideological radicalism of Nidal Malik Hasan.
But I must admit, this still managed to surprise me.
An uncle who lives in Ramallah said [...]
by Denise ClarkA MONTH after his arrival in Texas in July, Major Nidal Malik Hasan walked into Guns Galore, a weapons shop near the sprawling Fort Hood military base, and spent $1,000 on a high-powered, Belgian-made semi-automatic pistol that is said by its manufacturer to be “lightweight and [...]
Why did the US military ig nore the clear warning signs that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspected Ft. Hood shooter, had embraced radical Islam -- and thus become a danger to all around him?
It wasn't an oversight, it was policy --' [...]
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