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Hasan tried to Contact Al Qaeda

This story keeps getting worse. Every day more evidence pours in of Hasan's radicalism, and how nothing was done about it.

Hot Air U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.

It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.

One senior lawmaker said the CIA had, so far, refused to brief the intelligence committees on what, if any, knowledge they had about Hasan’s efforts.

US Intelligence Agencies have a lot of explaining to do. They didn't drop the ball, they saw it and refused to acknowledge it even existed.

Atlas has some interesting info on Hasan's business card, and the fact that the White House had to be pressured into lowering the flag to half mast. Outrageous.

When Muslims Commit Violence

While the reports of Hasan's radicalism keep pouring in, the media just can't bury it's head deep enough to find anything. So what does it mean when Hasan says that non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats?

Nothing. 

A consensus seems to have formed here at The Atlantic that the Ft. Hood massacre means not very much at all. Megan McArdle writes that "there is absolutely no political lesson to be learned from this." James Fallows says: "The shootings never mean anything. Forty years later, what did the Charles Whitman massacre 'mean'? A decade later, do we 'know' anything about Columbine?"  And the Atlantic Wire has already investigated the motivation for the shooting, and released its preliminary findings. Of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Wire states: "A 39-year-old Army psychiatrist, he appears to have not been motivated by his Muslim religion, his Palestinian heritage (he is American by nationality), or any related political causes."

It seems, though, that when an American military officer who is a practicing Muslim allegedly shoots forty of his fellow soldiers who are about to deploy to the two wars the United States is currently fighting in Muslim countries, some broader meaning might, over time, be discerned, especially if the officer did, in fact, yell "Allahu Akbar" while murdering his fellow soldiers, as some soldiers say he did. This is the second time this year American soldiers on American soil have been gunned down by a Muslim who was reportedly unhappy with America's wars in the Middle East (the first took place in Arkansas, to modest levels of notice). And, of course, this would not be the first instance of an American Muslim soldier killing fellow soldiers over his disagreements with American foreign policy; in 2003, Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar killed two officers and wounded fourteen others when he rolled a grenade into a tent in a homicidal protest against American policy.

Read on.

Socialized Medicine passes the House

The US Congress, with it's 21% approval rating, has decided against the will of the people. Voting 220-215 to pass socialized medicine.

Sick.

Meet Ft Hood Hero Sgt Kimberly Munley

Thanks to Atlas.

From Munley's twitter page.

• Name Kim Munley
• Location Killeen, TX
• Bio I live a good life....a hard one, but I go to sleep peacefully @ night knowing that I may have made a difference in someone's life.

 

NY Daily- The hero cop who ended the bloody rampage at Fort Hood by pumping four bullets into the crazed gunman even though she was wounded is known for her toughness, friends say.

Before relocating to Texas, civilian police Sgt. Kimberly Munley spent about five years as a cop in North Carolina where she forged a reputation as a no-nonsense officer.

"I'd like to say I'm surprised, but I'm really not," said close friend Drew Peterson, 27.

"She was born and bred to be a police officer. If you were ever to be in a fight, she'd be the first person to stand up next to you and back you up. She's a tough cookie."

Munley's toughness and grace under pressure were on display Thursday when she and her partner responded within three minutes of reported gunfire, said Army Lt. Gen. Bob Cone.

Munley, who had been trained in active-response tactics, rushed into the building and confronted the shooter as he was turning a corner, Cone said.

"It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer," Cone said.

Munley was only a few feet from Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan when she opened fire.

Wounded in the exchange of bullets, the 34-year-old Munley was reported in stable condition at a local hospital.

(...)

Munley's brother Daniel Barbour told ABC News that his sister had been shot three times in the hand and the leg.
One of the bullets pierced an artery, requiring her to undergo surgery Friday.

The diminutive Munley - she stands 5-foot-4 and weighs about 120 pounds - served as a cop in Wrightsville Beach,
N.C., before she moved to Texas to enlist in the military, friends said.

She is married with two daughters and is no longer in the armed forces.

"She's the happiest, sweetest, most fun-loving girl you'd ever want to be friends with - and never want to cross," Peterson said.

The hero cop spent Thursday night phoning fellow officers to let them know she was fine and to find out about casualties in the attack - the deadliest ever on a military base in the U.S., Cone said.

Cone said Munley's aggressive response training taught her that "if you act aggressively to take out a shooter you will have less fatalities."

"She walked up and engaged him," he said. He praised her as "one of our most impressive young police officers."

There's little doubt about that.

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Turns out Dr Phil was totally wrong.

Hasan was part of Obama's Transition Team

Un... Friggin'...Believable!

JW-The gunman who killed 12 people today at Ft. Hood appears, based on current media reports, to be Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan who was listed as a participant in a Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force last year.

The task force was not officially affiliated with the White House. It was a project of the Homeland Security Policy Institute, an independent thinktank housed at George Washington University, aimed at drafting policy recommendations for the incoming Obama administration.

According to the task force's May 2009 report [pdf], a "Nidal Hasan" from the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine was a task force event participant. Other participants included Senate and House staffers, Department of Homeland Security officials, Defense Department officials, and reporters for Politico, the Washington Post, and the London Times....

Ft Hood: A Horrific Outburst of Violent Jihad

OK, that's not exactly what the President said, the word jihad will probably be avoided by the WH and the press entirely. What we will get is the usual vicimization of the cold blooded killer. The media wil search and search for a motive. Was he picked on for being Muslim? Did he have a troubled personal life? Was he against the war? Was it mental illness?

Although those questions should be asked, they shouldn't surplant the apparent case for jihad. If it's true that Hasan, a "devout Muslim", wrote this on his blog acompanied with a link to an article supporting suicide bombing, then the motive is clear. The ruthless murder of 12 was a premeditated act of Islamic terror, and it should be reported as such.

Atlas- Hasan was reportedly happy about the Muslim solider who shot and killed a soldier and wounded another at a Little Rock Military recruiting station. Hasan said Muslims should rise up against the aggressors. Maybe we should have more of these.....strapping bombs on and going into Times Square".

ksl reports that Hasan shouted "Allah Akbar" as he opened fire. A rally cry for Islamic terrorists.

In the meantime, let's pray for the families of Ft Hood.

This and That

Newt's apologizing for supporting Scozzafava. Big deal, I still don't trust him after cozing up with Pelosi on global warming. He's going to have to reprove himself to conservatives if he wants to make a serious run at 2012.

The good news is we won in Virginia and New Jersey. The tide is turning. Average Joes are figuring out that Obama is far left and the polls are showing it. 

The Dems are going to paint themselves into a Socialized medicine corner. Denying that the elections mean anything and ramrodding heath care through regardless. If it passes, Obama is going to look like he opposses the will of the people. If it doesn't pass, Obama looks like a failure who goes against the will of the people. Either way could lead to a big win in 2010.

Meanwhile, a couple of new ones for the List: Musical Ringtones, and Gay couples on cabs.

But since hardline al Shabaab insurgents seized the southern Somali port of Kismayu, the 25-year-old's life has changed.

"Al Shabaab wants our ringtones to be only a Muslim cleric reading the Hadith or Koranic verse," she told Reuters.

Check out Atlas' post on the Goldstone Report.

 

Planned Parenthood Leader Resigns After Watching Ultrasound

An ultrasound of an abortion that is.

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