The Shootings at Fort Hood

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• sinz54 // Nov 7, 2009 at 10:32 am

  This was reported by NPR:

  ZWERDLING: Earlier today, I spoke to a psychiatrist who worked very closely with Hasan and knows him very well. And he said, you know, from the beginning -and Hasan was there for four years – the medical staff was very worried about this guy. ….The psychiatrist says that he was very proud and upfront about being Muslim. And psychiatrist hastened to say, and nobody minded that. But he seemed almost belligerent about being Muslim, and he gave a lecture one day that really freaked a lot of doctors out.

  They have grand rounds, right? They, you know, dozens of medical staff come into an auditorium, and somebody stands at the podium at the front and gives a lecture about some academic issue, you know, what drugs to prescribe for what condition. But instead of that, he – Hasan apparently gave a long lecture on the Koran and talked about how if you don’t believe, you are condemned to hell. Your head is cut off. You’re set on fire. Burning oil is burned down your throat.

  And I said to the psychiatrist, but this cold be a very interesting informational session, right? Where he’s educating everybody about the Koran. He said but what disturbed everybody was that Hasan seemed to believe these things. And actually, a Muslim in the audience, a psychiatrist, raised his hand and said, excuse me. But I’m a Muslim and I do not believe these things in the Koran, and then I don’t believe what you say the Koran says. And then Hasan didn’t say, well, I’m just giving you one point of view. He basically just stared the guy down.
  “If you don’t believe, your head is cut off.”

  ANYONE with views like that cannot be a U.S. Army officer at a time when the U.S. is actively engaged in fighting Islamic radicals.

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• SpartacusIsNotDead // Nov 7, 2009 at 8:47 pm

  Sinz wrote: “That doesn’t sound to me like a nutcase who was hearing voices, or someone who had just had a nervous breakdown.”

  I never asserted he was crazy. I simply defended the media’s reluctance to suggest it was jihad, which seemed to disappoint truepatriotlove.

  I have no idea why he did this and that is why I agree with your post at #10.

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• sinz54 // Nov 9, 2009 at 12:02 pm

  SpartacusIsNotDead:

  This may give us a clue why he did this:

  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
  ABC News

  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.

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• SpartacusIsNotDead // Nov 9, 2009 at 3:46 pm

  Sinz wrote: “This may give us a clue why he did this.”

  It does indeed seem to be an act of terrorism.

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