Comments on: Hasan: Jihadist or Mental Case?

By: wrs10

wrs10 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:53:45 +0000

This is quite informative too:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6526030/Fort-Hood-gunman-had-told-US-military-colleagues-that-infidels-should-have-their-throats-cut.html
08 Nov 2009
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America’s Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats. ……………………

By: JeninCT

JeninCT — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:58:28 +0000

“Once again, We failed to connect the dots.”

With devastating consequences.

By: sinz54

sinz54 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:25:01 +0000

This breaking news just about answers the question:

Officials: U.S. Aware of Hasan Efforts to Contact al Qaeda
Army Major in Fort Hood Massacre Used ‘Electronic Means’ to Connect with Terrorists
By RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS

Nov. 9, 2009 —

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik 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.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) said the CIA had, so far, refused to brief the intelligence committees on what, if any, knowledge they had about Hasan’s efforts.

CIA director Leon Panetta and the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, have been asked by Congress “to preserve” all documents and intelligence files that relate to Hasan, according to the lawmaker.

Hoekstra said he is “absolutely furious” that the house intel committee has been refused an intelligence briefing by the DNI or CIA on Hasan’s attempt to reach out to al Qaeda, as first reported by ABC News.

Once again,
We failed to connect the dots.

By: JeninCT

JeninCT — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:58:54 +0000

Jihadist or Mental case? Are the two mutually exclusive? Maybe he’s a jihadist mental case? Is any murderous jihadist truly sane?

By: mlindroo

mlindroo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:30:44 +0000

> Also stressed, as if it had anything to do with his actions, is he felt harassed
> and mocked because of his religion — something that is difficult to swallow,
> considering he was an army officer, and army officers are not usually picked on by bullies.

I don’t quite understand this argument! If he was “quiet and reserved” and his religion was not popular, isn’t it possible that his PEERS or SUPERIORS mocked him for it? I am not saying they did, but it does not sound impossible to me.

MARCU$

By: JohnMcC

JohnMcC — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:06:58 +0000

For what it’s worth, today’s NYTimes reports “Preliminary Inquiry Finds No Link To Terror Plot”.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/us/08investigate.html?hp

Which of course does not exactly answer the question raised above. We have learned many times the last few decades–since Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the Texas Tower–the seriousness of the pathology of the isolated, angry male. Add a war and his Islamic religion–big trouble.

Apparently the FBI had noticed an internet post exculpating suicide bombers with the same name as Maj Hasan attached. I have not heard that they shared this with his chain of command. Possibly this was another example of what the 9/11 commission called ’stove piping’ of intelligence.

If so, perhaps we’ll learn sooner or later that possessing intelligence is nothing without sharing it.