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		<title>Five Years Since the Fort Hood Massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 04:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half a decade of denial from the Obama administration. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/o-NIDAL-HASAN-facebook.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243529" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/o-NIDAL-HASAN-facebook-450x314.jpg" alt="Nidal Hasan" width="350" height="244" /></a>On November 5, 2009, at Ford Hood, Texas, U.S. soldiers were getting their final medical checkups before deploying to Afghanistan. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist began gunning down the soldiers. His victims, all unarmed, included </span>Francheska Velez, a 21-year-old private from Chicago who pleaded for the life of her unborn child. The Muslim major killed two other women that day along with 10 men, more than twice as many victims as the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Hasan also wounded 33 others, including Sergeant Alonzo Lunsford, who played dead then fled the building. Major Hasan chased down Lunsford, an African-American, and shot him seven times, including one bullet in the back. <span style="color: #000000;">Firing a high-capacity handgun fitted with laser sights, </span>Major Hasan shot Sergeant Shawn Manning in the chest and pumped four rounds into <span style="color: #000000;">Sgt. Patrick Zeigler. Hasan would have killed and wounded more if civilian police officer Kim Munley had not wounded the assailant, who </span>yelled “<i>Allahu akbar</i>,” as he killed. That familiar cry was hardly the only indicator of Hasan’s motives.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Hasan had been emailing terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki about the prospect of killing infidel American soldiers, and the “Soldier of Allah,” as he called himself, did everything but take out an ad on the Super Bowl to announce his jihadist intentions. The U.S. security establishment was well aware of the communications but did nothing to stop Hasan, who claimed to be acting on behalf of the Taliban. Anwar al-Awlaki was orgasmic with joy that Hasan had done his duty.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">President Barack Obama’s first response to Hasan’s mass murder was brief, low key, and failed to ascribe any responsibility to Islamic terrorism. “We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing,” the president said. Such breathtaking denial soon <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/is-the-election-delaying-nidal-hasans-trial/"><span style="color: #6f0a00;">became official policy.</span></a> The Obama administration’s Department of Defense issued <i>Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood</i>, which contains not a single reference to jihad or jihadists. Its only mention of “Islamic” is an endnote reference to “Countering Violent Islamic Extremism,” a 2007 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">The United States Army and federal government did not call Hasan’s attack terrorism or even gun violence. Major Hasan killed African Americans, hispanics and non-Muslims, but the government did not call the attack a hate crime. Rather, the government proclaimed the murder spree a case of “workplace violence,” an absurdity for the ages with consequences for the Hasan’s victims. The refused to classify Hasan’s attack as terrorism rendered victims ineligible for medals and other benefits related to combat.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Hasan remained in the Army, retained his rank of major, and the Army continued to pay his full salary. The Army also took care of the paralyzing injuries Hasan sustained, but Alonzo Lunsford told reporters the army refused to cover an operation to remove a bullet still in his body, and docked his pay when he was undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. “We don’t get passes the way Major Hasan got passes,” Lunsford <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/us/as-trial-begins-in-fort-hood-spree-experts-see-landmark-case.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0"><span style="color: #6f0a00;">told the New York Times</span></a>. “Each one of us has gotten a raw deal somewhere down the line.” <span style="color: #000000;">In April, the White House <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/white-house-denies-09-fort-hood-victim-meeting/story?id=23288867"><span style="color: #0433ff;">declined Alonzo Lunsford’s request</span></a> to meet with the president and explain how the government mistreated victims of the 2009 attack.</span></p>
<p>In August of 2013, a panel of 13 military officers <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2404766/Fort-Hood-shooter-Major-Nidal-Hasan-sentenced-death-2009-shooting-rampage.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">handed down a death sentence</span></a> for Major Hasan, but the sentence may never be carried out. The U.S. military has not executed an active-duty soldier since 1961, a span of more than half a century. The appeal process is lengthy and the final call goes to the President of the United States. The current incumbent is Barack Obama and Major Hasan showcases the opportunities for “Soldiers of Allah” under the Obama administration.</p>
<p>They can join the U.S. Army and still get promoted. They can correspond freely with the most bloodthirsty foreign terrorists, and those conducting the surveillance will do nothing to stop them from killing 13 American soldiers on a U.S. Army base. The Army, government, and president will provide cover by calling this workplace violence instead of terrorism. So the Soldier of Allah escapes with his own life and in prison continues to inspire other jihadists.</p>
<p>The month before Major Hasan’s trial, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/tsarnaev-hasan-and-deadly-political-correctness/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Rudy Giuliani said, “you can’t fight an enemy you don’t acknowledge.”</span></a> The next president, who will also be Commander in Chief, will have an opportunity to acknowledge the enemy, recognize Major Hasan’s massacre as terrorism, and execute the terrorist on day one. As one of his victims said, he doesn’t deserve to live.</p>
<p><em>Lloyd Billingsley is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Exceptional-Depravity-Double-Murder-California-ebook/dp/B00OGW1WZK"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Exceptional Depravity</span></a>, a new crime book, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Party-Stalinist-Adventures-American-ebook/dp/B00MWCP900"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hollywood Party: Stalinist Adventures in the American Movie Industry</span></a>. He has written for City Journal California, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and many other publications.</em></p>
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		<title>Fort Hood Survivor on Shooting: &#8220;Concealed Weapons Would Have Stopped It&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ “Nearly a week later, I can still taste his blood in my mouth." ]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>“My name is First Lieutenant Patrick Cook of the 49th Transportation Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas, and this past Wednesday I found myself trapped in an enclosed room with fourteen of my fellow Soldiers, one of whom was barricading the door against a madman with a .45 pistol when he was fatally shot.”</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/08/read-the-powerful-letter-a-fort-hood-solider-penned-asking-for-his-god-given-right-to-arm-himself-on-base/">This is the letter that every gun</a> free zone supporter should be sat down and made to read.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Through what I can only describe as a miracle, he somehow found enough strength to continue pushing against that door until the shooter gave up and went elsewhere, at which time he collapsed,” Cook wrote. “Nearly a week later, I can still taste his blood in my mouth from when I and my comrades breathed into his lungs for 20 long minutes while we waited for a response from the authorities. This Soldier’s name was Sergeant First Class Daniel Ferguson, and his sacrifice loaned me the rest of my life to tell this story.”</p>
<p>“But I write to you today not to memorialize this brave Soldier, nor to tell a war story about how we made the best of a losing situation, but to express the part of that story that some in high positions of power clearly do not want told: I knew this was going to happen,” he wrote. “I had been saying for five years that Fort Hood was a tinderbox of another massacre waiting to happen. It had to happen, because our betters failed to learn the obvious lesson of five years ago. Worse yet, I know it will happen again. More will die, more will be wounded, more families will be torn apart, needlessly. It happened again, and will happen again, because Fort Hood is a gun free zone.”</p>
<p>“When the first shots rang out, my hand reached to my belt for something that wasn’t there. Something that could have put a stop to the bloodshed, could have made it merely an ‘ugly incident’ instead of the horrific massacre that I will surely remember as the darkest twenty minutes of my life,” the letter continued. “Stripped of my God-given Right to arm myself, the only defensive posture I had left was to lie prostrate on the ground, and wait to die. As the shooter kicked at the door, I remember telling myself, ‘oh well, this is it.’ It is beneath human dignity to experience the utter helplessness I felt that day. I cannot abide the thought that anyone should ever feel that again.”</p>
<p>“At the point blank range at which this shooting occurred, anyone with an M9 and some basic instruction could have ended the mayhem as quickly as it began,” he wrote. “An MP by trade and a CHL holder, I am convinced that concealed weapons would have stopped it, but openly carried side-arms, like the ones carried in a law enforcement capacity, could have prevented it entirely. Instead, many more died because of the fatally misguided restrictions on the carrying of arms, which obviously the madman did not respect.”</p>
<p>“I shall conclude by restating my warning. This will happen again, and again until we learn the lesson that suppressing the bearing of arms doesn’t prevent horrific crimes, it invites them.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Black Shooting Survivor on MSNBC: &#8220;More Guns&#8221; Needed in Fort Hood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2014 15:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lunsford had been unarmed and was shot once in the head]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ronan Farrow&#8217;s question already makes as much as anything on MSNBC. Is there any possible situation in which you are being shot at by an armed gunman in which having less guns would help?</p>
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<p>Ret Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford is one of the more recognizable Fort Hood survivors and clearly the wrong person to ask. Lunsford respectfully takes apart the Gun Free Zone status of bases pointing out that military personnel are trained and have taken an oath and should be armed, especially since disarming them certainly does not stop shootings.</p>
<p>If MSNBC had done its research, looking beyond skin color, they probably never would have invited him.</p>
<p>Lunsford had been unarmed and was shot once in the head and six times in his body. He played dead and then tried to escape, but was shot again in the back. The bullet is apparently still there.</p>
<p>You can see why he would favor having a gun.</p>
<p>Lunsford <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/fort-hood-massacre-survivor-blasts-atty-general-holder-for-terrorism-denial/">has also spoken out against Holder&#8217;s failure </a>to charge Muslim terrorist Nidal Hasan as a terrorist.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Not only am I disappointed [in Holder], I’m embarrassed. Mr. Holder needs to understand the repercussions of his actions,” Lunsford said, adding that perhaps the attorney general should visit troops overseas in Afghanistan or Iraq to better understand how and why service men and women do what they do.</p>
<p>Lunsford also expressed outrage at the fact that some victims are financially struggling, but because of the categorization of the shooting as a “workplace shooting,” he and those other victims are not entitled to combat-related benefits they would have received had they been injured overseas. To make matters worse, Hasan has continued to receive paychecks over the past four years.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Shooting at Fort Hood, 3 Dead, 14 Injured</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 22:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shooter, Ivan Lopez, is dead.]]></description>
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<p>The information isn&#8217;t definitive yet. All that we know for sure is that there is an active shooter.</p>
<p>The video below is from a live stream news report.</p>
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<p>A few days ago we had reports of a search <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/01/military-hunts-one-time-recruit-planning-ft-hood-style-jihad/">for a Fort Hood type attack</a>. That was probably unrelated, but there was an actual shooting now at Fort Hood. The base is in lockdown and injuries have been reported.</p>
<p>The p<a href="http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Active-Shooter-Situation-Reported-At-Fort-Hood-253635771.html">ost spokesman has confirmed</a> one dead. Reportedly 8 people have been taken to the hospital.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Around 20 rounds were shot outside but then the shooter went in to the medical brigade building, according to a soldier on post at Fort Hood,&#8221; <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/02/fort-hood-shooting/7225399/">USA Today reports</a>. </p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>A man who said he was a witness told News 10 that about 20 shots were fired in a post motor pool in the area of Motor Pool Road and Tank Destroyer Boulevard.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>The gunman, identified as 34-year-old soldier Ivan Lopez, died of a self-inflicted wound, the Justice Department said.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>The FBI and the Muslim Brotherhood</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Mueller's dance with the Islamists.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ijg3D_mo9KB8.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-202627" alt="ijg3D_mo9KB8" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ijg3D_mo9KB8-450x333.jpg" width="270" height="200" /></a></i>A recent report in <em>Mother</em><i> Jones</i> magazine has <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/nidal-hasan-anwar-awlaki-emails-fbi-fort-hood">given the lie to</a> FBI Director Robert Mueller&#8217;s defense of his agency&#8217;s failure to take any action against Nidal Hasan, despite intercepting a series of emails between the mass murderer and terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, beginning as early as 2008. Appearing on CBS News last Thursday, Mueller was <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50153515n">asked</a> if his agency &#8220;dropped the ball.&#8221; &#8220;No, I think, given the context of the discussions and the situation that the agents and the analysts were looking at, they took appropriate steps,&#8221; he responded.</p>
<p>Mueller&#8217;s statements are shocking in light of the mountain of evidence showing FBI dereliction of duty, which is now finally getting the media attention it deserves. On the other hand, Mueller’s remarks make perfect sense given the Obama administration’s long and disturbing track record of allowing Islamists to shape U.S. national security policy, including at the FBI. Mueller himself has been Obama&#8217;s point man in that effort.</p>
<p>Recall that in 2012, the FBI <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/03/28/149564721/fbi-pulls-offensive-counterterrorism-training-materials">eliminated</a> 876 pages and 392 presentations from its counterterrorism training manuals. At the time, FBI spokesman Christopher Allen said that the Bureau found some of the material to be inaccurate, too broad or, in some cases, offensive, because it allegedly characterized Muslims as prone to violence and/or terrorism. Four criteria were used in the purge, including the politically incorrect metrics of “poor taste&#8221; and “stereotyping.” Former Congressman Allen West (R-FL) made a stir at the time for <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/muslim-brotherhood-takes-charge-fbi-counterterrorism-training#">characterizing</a> the purge as &#8220;cultural suicide&#8221; that was influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood and its associated groups.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, West was exactly right. On February 16, 2012 the <i>Washington Post</i> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/fbi-muslims-report-progress-over-training-materials/2012/02/16/gIQA7R7KIR_story.html">revealed</a> that the FBI met with a coalition of Muslim groups eight days earlier to consider a proposal that &#8220;a coalition of Muslim and interfaith groups &#8230; establish a committee of experts to review materials used in FBI anti-terrorism training.&#8221; Those meeting with Mueller included the Muslim Brotherhood front groups the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), despite its listing by the Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terrorism-funding trial, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). MPAC’s president, Salam al-Marayati, had previously written an LA Times <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/19/opinion/la-oe-almarayati-fbi-20111019">column</a> threatening the FBI with non-cooperation from the Muslim community if the FBI didn&#8217;t apologize to Americans Muslims and establish a proper vetting process along with an inter-agency task force to conduct an independent review of the training material.</p>
<p>Despite these revelations, the Obama administration has stonewalled investigation into FBI &#8220;guidelines&#8221; on Islam curricula, forcing the government watchdog group Judicial Watch to sue both the FBI and the DOJ for their failure to honor Freedom of Information Act requests. But remarkably, the FBI has continued to push the envelope. In late 2012, the Bureau <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/01/FBI-Protocol">released</a> a new document online called “Guiding Principles: Touchstone Document on Training.” The document contains a disturbing clause instructing agents that “mere association with organizations that demonstrate both legitimate (advocacy) and illicit (violent extremism) objectives should not automatically result in a determination that the associated individual is acting in furtherance of the organization’s illicit objective(s).” In other words, even those who may be involved with a terrorist group&#8217;s &#8220;charity arm,&#8221; which many groups have as a funding mechanism and as a means of cover, cannot be assumed to be supporting terrorism and must be given the benefit of the doubt.</p>
<p>In June of 2013, investigative journalist Patrick Poole revealed how far the Obama administration has taken its warped philosophy. In “Blind to Terror: The U.S. Government’s Disastrous Muslim Outreach Efforts and the Impact on U.S. Policy,” Poole extensively <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/the-u-s-governments-disastrous-muslim-outreach-efforts-and-the-impact-on-u-s-middle-east-policy-blind-to-terror1/">chronicles</a> the administration&#8217;s effort to take some of the same groups it has called terrorists in federal court and turn them into &#8220;outreach partners.&#8221;  Poole further cites the disturbing number of “leaders of American Islamic organizations that partner with the U.S. government” who later transitioned into officials for Muslim Brotherhood fronts.</p>
<p>Even many people under active federal investigation for terrorist activities were <i>simultaneously</i> meeting with government officials to help formulate U.S. policy (long before the Foot Hood massacre took place). According to Poole, this was part of &#8220;a full scale campaign of political correctness waged inside the [FBI] and throughout the U.S. government &#8230; against any attempt to link jihadi terrorism with anything remotely connected to Islam of any variety.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Nidal Hasan case is one disastrous result of this campaign. In 2009, when the agency first <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=9039742">revealed</a> that Hasan and al-Awlaki had communicated as many as 10 to 20 times, mostly by email, the Bureau claimed those communications were &#8220;benign and contained no threat,&#8221; and that they had insufficient information to commence a full investigation. &#8220;There was no indication that Maj. Hasan was planning an attack anywhere &#8230; or that he was directed to do anything,&#8221; a senior investigative official said at the time. Still, the FBI vigorously suppressed publication of those emails.</p>
<p>However, in July 2012, an unclassified report conducted by a commission chaired by former FBI director William H. Webster was <a href="http://news.intelwire.com/2012/07/the-following-e-mails-between-maj.html">released</a>. It contained the Hasan/al-Awlaki emails, but remained under the media&#8217;s radar until <i>Mother Jones</i> brought it to light. The 173-page <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/final-report-of-the-william-h.-webster-commission">document</a> reveals that Nidal Hasan first &#8220;tripped the wire&#8221; with his contact with al-Awlaki in December 2008. Another email was sent in January. Both were intercepted by FBI&#8217;s Joint Terrorism Task Force in San Diego, because they were tracking al-Awlaki. Yet the report reveals an inter-agency communication that comes to a remarkable conclusion: contact with the American-born terrorist, who was killed in a drone strike in 2011, &#8220;does not necessarily indicate participation in terrorist-related matters.&#8221;</p>
<p>Both bureaucratic inertia and the determination to cast Hasan&#8217;s communication with al-Awlaki as unthreatening caused a two-month delay in Hasan&#8217;s case being assigned to Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), a law enforcement agency that operates inside the Pentagon. The Washington-based official assigned to investigate Hasan shelved his inquiry for the 90 days because &#8220;no written FBI policy set a deadline for completing work on Routine leads&#8221; at that time. When the official did conduct his investigation, he searched a number of databases, and got Hasan&#8217;s personnel file from the Department of Defense. Six Officer Evaluation Reports (OERs) &#8220;contained almost uniformly positive reports of Hasan by his superior officers.&#8221; Yet the report further notes the investigating official &#8220;did not have any files maintained locally by Hasan&#8217;s command.” As a result, he missed learning that Hasan&#8217;s program directors at his fellowship and residency program ranked him in &#8220;the bottom 25 percent,&#8221; that he was placed on &#8220;probation and remediation,&#8221; and that he &#8220;often failed to meet basic job expectations[.]&#8221;</p>
<p>Based on the information he did gather, the investigator concluded that Hasan&#8217;s communications with the terrorist mastermind &#8220;were relevant to his research on Islam and the military.” Investigators declined to interview Hasan because they believed it would compromise their investigation of al-Awlaki and because it “would harm Hasan’s career.” The Webster report further notes that a Washington Field Office Task Force Officer, who was eventually tasked with investigating Hasan, was reluctant to proceed because subject was &#8220;politically sensitive for the WFO.&#8221;</p>
<p>All the while, Hasan continued to email al-Awlaki. on June 16, 2009, Hasan sent his last email to al-Awlaki regarding the perils that would befall any Muslim who failed to listen to Allah. On July 15, 2009, he was transferred to Fort Hood.</p>
<p>On November 5, 2009 he committed his atrocity.</p>
<p>Immediately after the incident, generals <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2009/11/08/general-casey-diversity-shouldnt-be-casualty-of-fort-hood/">rushed</a> to the press to lecture the public about the horrors of letting &#8220;diversity&#8221; become an unnecessary &#8220;casualty&#8221; of the shooting. The military&#8217;s reaction to the carnage was every bit as PC-infused as the missteps that allowed the shooting to occur in the first place. This is no coincidence, but an expression of the culture of fear and insanity carefully nurtured by the Obama administration and its terrorist &#8220;outreach partners.&#8221; Diversity will not be the last casualty of this misguided program.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 04:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The jihadist murderer gets the death sentence -- but will he end up with a cushy life in prison?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AP_nidal_hasan_jef_130806_16x9_992.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-202561" alt="AP_nidal_hasan_jef_130806_16x9_992" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AP_nidal_hasan_jef_130806_16x9_992-444x350.jpg" width="266" height="210" /></a>On Wednesday a panel of 13 military officers <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2404766/Fort-Hood-shooter-Major-Nidal-Hasan-sentenced-death-2009-shooting-rampage.html">handed down a death sentence</a> for Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army psychiatrist who at Fort Hood in November 2009 killed 13 people and wounded 32 others. One of the survivors applauded the verdict and said Hasan doesn’t deserve to live. But in all likelihood the mass murderer will escape the death penalty and live on as a hero to his fellow jihadists.</p>
<p>The U.S. military has not executed an active-duty soldier since 1961, a span of more than half a century. The appeal process is lengthy and the final call goes to the president of the United States. The current incumbent is Barack Obama and the Hasan case served as a showcase for the president’s absurd and dangerous policies, such as decoupling terrorism and Islam. In the president’s view the problem is not imperialist Islam but stereotypes of Islam and “Islamophobia,” anything less than worshipful of the notion that Islam is a “religion of peace.”  Nidal Hasan calls that stereotype into question.</p>
<p>As Andrew McCarthy noted in <i>Spring Fever</i>, Hasan was a “five-alarm jihadist,” and self-described “Soldier of Allah.” That raised legitimate concerns for the safety of U.S. troops, but it was not the only problem with the American-born Muslim. The Walter Reed Army Medical Center evaluated Captain Hasan as supremely incompetent. Even so, Captain Hasan gained promotion to major, the rank he held while making meticulous preparations to kill American soldiers.</p>
<p>Those preparations included emails to Anwar al-Awlaki, which the government possessed. The interception of emails is supposed to prevent terrorism but in the case of Hasan the authorities did nothing. Hasan bought a high-capacity handgun with laser sights and practiced diligently. On November 5, 2009 at Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Processing Center, U.S. troops were preparing for deployment to Afghanistan. Hasan opened fire on them, discharging more than 200 rounds. Private Francheska Velez, 21, was pregnant and as she pleaded for the life of her baby Hasan gunned her down, one of three women he killed that fateful day.</p>
<p>Predictably, President Obama’s first response to Hasan’s mass murder was brief, low key, and failed to ascribe any responsibility to Islamic terrorism. “We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing,” the president said. Such breathtaking denial soon <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/is-the-election-delaying-nidal-hasans-trial/">became official policy.</a> The Obama administration’s Department of Defense issued <i>Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood</i>, which contains not a single reference to jihad or jihadists.</p>
<p>In a clear reflection of President Obama’s policies, the U.S. Army refused to call Hasan’s killing spree terrorism, even though his victims outnumber those killed in the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. He used a privately purchased handgun but the Army did not call his actions “gun violence.” His victims included blacks, Hispanics and non-Muslims, but the Army did not charge him with any hate crime. Rather, the government proclaimed the mass murder spree a case of “workplace violence,” which <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/no-justice-for-victims-of-nidal-hasans-terrorism/">prevented the survivors from getting the medical treatment they needed</a>. But while awaiting trial, Hasan continued to receive full pay, more than $278,000 since his arrest in 2009.</p>
<p>Hasan handled his own defense and wanted to plead guilty but under military rules was not allowed to do so. He claimed he was acting to protect the Taliban but Col. Tara Osborn, the Army’s replacement for judge Col. Gregory Gross, barred Hasan from making that claim in court. He got the guilty verdict he wanted and the 13 officers deliberated less than two hours before delivering the death sentence. But as civilian lawyer John P. Gilligan <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nidal-hasan-sentenced-to-death-for-fort-hood-shooting-rampage/2013/08/28/aad28de2-0ffa-11e3-bdf6-e4fc677d94a1_story.html">told the <i>Washington Post</i></a>, “In all honesty, he [Hasan] stands a far more likely chance of dying from medical reasons than dying because he’s been sentenced to death.” Even so, the trial was not a waste of time.</p>
<p>It did confirm that you can be an open jihadist in the U.S. Army and still get promoted. You can correspond freely with the most bloodthirsty foreign terrorists, and those conducting the surveillance will do nothing to stop you from killing American soldiers. You can kill 13 of them and the government will call it workplace violence and continue to pay you while denying benefits to your injured victims. You can announce that you are fighting for the Taliban, but the government will not let you say that in court, nor plead guilty. While a member of the U.S. Army, you can kill Americans for Allah, escape with your own life, and continue to campaign for jihad from prison.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/tsarnaev-hasan-and-deadly-political-correctness/">Rudy Giuliani warned</a> in recent testimony, political correctness now trumps sound investigative practice. The Hasan case confirms that justice is another casualty.</p>
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		<title>Fort Hood Trial:  Don’t Say the “T” Word</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Weiss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Purging the language doesn't bring justice to the fallen -- nor eradicate the threat.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/fort_hood_trial.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-201587" alt="fort_hood_trial" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/fort_hood_trial-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>The Fort Hood shootings constituted the largest massacre on a military base in the history of the United States. There is overwhelming evidence that the defendant’s motivations were religious in nature.  But as the trial ensues, the US government continues to bend over backwards to avoid calling the massacre an act of Islamic terrorism, consistent with Islamist demands not to associate Islam with terrorism.</p>
<p>On November 5, 2009, Army Major and psychiatrist Nidal Hasan took his semi-automatic pistol and headed to the Soldier Readiness Processing Center on the military base at Fort Hood.  There, soldiers were being cleared for deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq.  <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/05/national/main5539067.shtml">Hasan fired a spray of bullets killing 13 people and wounding over 30 others.  It was the worst massacre on a military base in US history</a>.</p>
<p>Hasan had purchased a gun that would be efficient in a high-target environment and attended weeks of target practice.</p>
<p>Two days prior to the blood bath, Hasan gave away his furniture, disseminated business cards that read Soldier of Allah, and emailed Al-Awlaki saying he looked forward to joining him in the afterlife.</p>
<p>Dressed in traditional Islamic garb, Hasan appeared at the Fort Hood military base prepared to fulfil his Islamic duty to defend his Muslim brothers.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival to the scene, he bowed his head in prayer, then jumped up and <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/08/20/judge-sanitizes-jihad-motive-by-blocking-evidence-in-nidal-hassan-case-n1668956">screamed “Allahu Akbar”</a> (Allah is the greatest!) before unloading his ammunition at unarmed soldiers.</p>
<p>Reports indicate that army officials were cognizant of Hasan’s increasing radicalization since 2005.  <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/33753461/ns/us_news-tragedy_at_fort_hood/">Hasan had given a seminar which revealed his Islamist ideology, during which he justified suicide bombings. </a> He also expressed increasing ambivalence about serving in the military since the US was “killing Muslims”.</p>
<p>Additionally, an investigation discovered conclusive evidence <a href="https://www.weeklystandard.com/keyword/Anwar-al-Awlaki">that Hasan had significant email communications with Anwar Al-Awlaki,</a> a prominent Al-Qaeda operative who was a target of  Obama’s targeted killing drone program.  Hasan’s emails asked whether it was acceptable to kill innocents during jihad and when suicide bombings were justifiable.  He also regularly visited jihadi websites which condoned suicide bombings.</p>
<p>Hasan was <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-fort-hood-hasan-20130820,0,2266226.story">charged in a Military Court</a> under the Uniform Code of Military Justice with 13 counts of pre-meditated murder and 32 Counts of attempted murder.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-fort-hood-testimony-20130815,0,4208147.story">He appeared before a board of mental health professionals to determine his fitness to stand trial</a>.  At his hearing, Hasan confessed to the murders and claimed he did it to “defend Taliban leadership.”  He showed no remorse.  Never-the-less, the board ruled he was sane.</p>
<p>Hasan is representing himself at trial.  The trial commenced August 6, 2013.  During Hasan’s opening statements, he confessed the murders and blatantly asserted his jihadi motives.  He explained that he had “switched sides” and regards himself as mujahideen.</p>
<p>The prosecution has had almost 90 witnesses and Hasan has engaged in virtually no cross-exam.  Some believe that he is purposely leading a strategy of defenselessness in order to achieve martyrdom.  Though he denies it, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57598332/fort-hood-massacre-trial-is-hasan-seeking-martyrdom/">Hasan’s past statements indicate that he wished he had been killed so he’d become a martyr and that government execution would still qualify him as such. </a></p>
<p>So the question remains, how should Hasan’s mass murder be characterized?</p>
<p>An independent commission conducted an investigation of the Fort Hood shootings. DoD released its report in January 2010.  It found that the Pentagon was unprepared to defend itself against internal threats.  DoD and other government agencies have <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/06/military-growing-terrorist-target-lawmakers-warn/">characterized the massacre as “workplace violence”</a> and omitted any mention of Islamist ideology or terrorist behavior.</p>
<p>The leaders of the investigation stated that their concern was “actions and effects, not necessarily motives”.  And, <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2009/11/08/general-casey-diversity-shouldnt-be-casualty-of-fort-hood/">Army Chief of Staff General George W. Casey proclaimed that “as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.” </a></p>
<p>The FBI determined that because Hasan had no co-conspirators, further investigation was unnecessary.</p>
<p>In his public address and at the eulogy, President Obama also refused to acknowledge the role of Islamic terrorism in the massacre.</p>
<p>Yet motive is what distinguishes one type of homicide from another.  A homicide victim is equally dead regardless of motive.  But our legal system and moral code mandate that intent be taken into account when determining what, if any punishment should be accorded.</p>
<p>The omission of the terrorist motives in the Fort Hood massacre is <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/6/nidal-hasans-fort-hood-trial-starts-workplace-viol/">resulting in the denial of purple hearts for the fallen soldiers,</a> and a denial of medical benefits and financial compensation for the survivors.</p>
<p>Though the UCMJ does not have terrorism in its code as a possible charge, the military court could have waived jurisdiction, allowing Hasan to be prosecuted in Federal Court where a charge of domestic terrorism would have been in order.</p>
<p>Even if Hasan was not criminally charged with terrorism, the government could make a political determination that this was a terrorist act, allowing the victims to be properly compensated.  DoD <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/6/nidal-hasans-fort-hood-trial-starts-workplace-viol/">officials claimed that Hasan could have argued he couldn’t get a fair trial due to accusations of criminal liability.</a></p>
<p>However, Hasan has already admitted criminal guilt.  Therefore, it is more likely that the government’s characterization of the massacre as workplace violence was made in line with its pattern of denial regarding Islamist ideology.</p>
<p>This Administration has rewritten all national security training material to <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/09/25/57-top-u-s-muslim-groups-demanded-government-wide-islamophobia-purge-in-letter-to-white-house/">delete all reference to Islamic terrorism</a> and has launched an aggressive campaign of interfaith dialogue and  <a href="http://www.legal-project.org/4088/us-praises-sharia-censorship">“peer pressure and shaming”</a> to stifle all debate on the issue of Islamism.</p>
<p>The Administration has also formed close alliances with Islamist organizations in a quest to silence all speech critical of Islam, in a manner tantamount to blasphemy codes.</p>
<p>Free speech constitutes a human right and is critical to maintaining the cause of freedom.  It is especially important to allow open debate on the nature of national security threats and their motivational ideology.</p>
<p>Denying the threat of Islamic radicalism has consequences.  Resulting policies hamper America’s ability to defeat those that wish us harm.  Whether the Benghazi attacks, the Fort Hood massacre or other Islamic terrorist attacks, most Americans realize that purging the language does not eradicate threats.</p>
<p>This awareness does not apply to the Administration, however, where the folly continues.</p>
<p><i>This article was commissioned by </i><a href="http://www.legal-project.org/"><i>The Legal Project</i></a><i>, an activity of the Middle East Forum.</i></p>
<p><i>Deborah Weiss, Esq. is a regular contributor to FrontPage Magazine and the Washington Times.  She is a contributing author of &#8220;Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network&#8221; (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011).  A partial listing of her work can be found at </i><a href="http://www.vigilancenow.org/"><i>www.vigilancenow.org.</i></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 04:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hasan022way_wide-88df90283234287e998669b18c7529c9884fc8ac.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-201454 alignleft" alt="hasan022way" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hasan022way_wide-88df90283234287e998669b18c7529c9884fc8ac-412x350.jpg" width="247" height="210" /></a>In a move that reeks of political motivations, Judge Col. Tara Osborn <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/DA89AB9G1">ruled</a> against the admission of evidence that prosecutors say would show Maj. Nidal Hasan&#8217;s jihadist motivations for attacking the Fort Hood military base in 2009. Osborn had been asked to approve several witnesses, along with other key evidence, that would have shown Hasan believed he had a &#8220;jihad duty&#8221; to perpetrate the atrocity that killed 13 and wounded 32 of his fellow soldiers. Lawyers representing family members killed and wounded by Hasan were rightfully <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/fort-hood-judge-bans-evidence-shooters-jihadi-motives/story?id=20002383">outraged</a> by her refusal to allow the evidence.</p>
<p>The barred evidence included references to Hasan Akbar, a Muslim soldier who was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7210-2005Apr21.html">sentenced</a> to death after killing two and wounding 14 of his fellow soldiers in a grenade and rifle attack at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait, two days after the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Prosecutors wanted to suggest that Hasan had carried out a &#8220;copycat attack.&#8221; Osborn disagreed. &#8220;The court believes Sgt. Akbar is not on trial in this case,&#8221; Osborn contended, adding that the introduction of such evidence would &#8220;only open the door to a mini-trial&#8221; of Akbar and result in a &#8220;confusion of issues, unfair prejudice, waste of time and undue delay.&#8221;</p>
<p>Osborn also ruled that presentations made by Hasan during his years in medical residency and in fellowship years were <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/08/19/Judge-in-Hasan-case-rules-out-evidence-of-early-extremism/UPI-54251376935585/?spt=hs&amp;or=tn">too far removed</a> from the atrocity to be entered into evidence. &#8220;It is too remote in time and too open to multiple interpretations,&#8221; Osborn said of presentations Hasan made when he was at Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s an absurd ruling. Hasan gave one presentation to his supervisors and about 25 other mental health staff members during his senior year as a psych resident in June 2007. If such a presentation, which took place only a year and a half before the Fort Hood killings, is too remote in time, maybe it&#8217;s because of the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/18/judge-denies-trial-delay-for-fort-hood-suspect/">multiple delays</a> in getting this trial underway, one of which included an argument over whether Hasan could keep his beard. (That argument is why Osborn is presiding over the case. The original judge, Col. Gregory Gross, was removed after a military appeals court <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/print/2012/dec/03/nation/la-na-nn-fort-hood-shooting-beard-20121203">ruled</a> that his &#8220;duel of wills&#8221; with Hasan over the beard made him appear biased).</p>
<p>As for the idea that Hasan&#8217;s presentation is open to multiple interpretations, so what? A trial itself is the <i>essence</i> of multiple interpretations that are eventually winnowed down by a jury in their effort to determine innocence or guilt. (The jury in this death penalty case <a href="http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/jury-selection-set-in-fort-hood-suspects-case_56871796_">consists</a> of 12 officers, all of whom are required to be of Hasan&#8217;s rank or higher).</p>
<p>Furthermore, Hasan&#8217;s <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110903618.html">presentation</a>, &#8220;The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military,&#8221; was a giant red flag. It consisted of 50 slides and information about Islam, suicide bombers, and the <i>potential threats </i>to which the military could be subjected by Muslims conflicted about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hasan contended that in order to avoid &#8220;adverse events,&#8221; the military should consider granting conscientious objector releases to Muslim soldiers rather then making them fight against their fellow Muslims. &#8220;It&#8217;s getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims,&#8221; he said during the presentation.</p>
<p>There were other equally disturbing parts as well. Under one slide, titled &#8220;Comments,&#8221; Hasan wrote, &#8220;If Muslim groups can convince Muslims that they are fighting for God against injustices of the &#8216;infidels&#8217;; ie: enemies of Islam, then Muslims can become a potent adversary ie: suicide bombing, etc.&#8221; [sic] The last bullet point on another page stated, &#8220;We love death more then [sic] you love life!&#8221; The &#8220;Conclusions&#8221; page was equally revealing. Hasan stated that &#8220;Fighting to establish an Islamic State to please God, even by force, is condoned by the Islam&#8221; and that &#8220;Muslim Soldiers should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk to hurting/killing believers unjustly&#8211;will vary!&#8221; [sic]</p>
<p>What makes Osborn&#8217;s refusal to allow what would appear to be a substantial piece of evidence regarding Hasan&#8217;s motives even more bizarre is the reality that <i>Hasan himself</i> <a href="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20130806/NEWS04/130806016/Suspect-Fort-Hood-massacre-am-shooter-?nclick_check=1">explained</a> his motive and admitted his guilt in his opening statement. &#8220;The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter,&#8221; said Hasan. He also voiced his allegiance to America&#8217;s enemies. &#8220;Evidence will show I was on the wrong side of America&#8217;s war and I later switched sides. We in the mujahideen are imperfect beings trying to establish a perfect religion … I apologize for any mistakes I have made in this endeavor.&#8221;</p>
<p>A &#8220;mujahideen&#8221; is <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mujahideen">defined</a> as a Muslim guerrilla engaged in jihad.</p>
<p>That would be the same jihad in which another American-born Muslim named Anwar al-Awlaki was engaged before a U.S. predator drone strike took him out in Yemen in 2011. Al-Awlaki, who had <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/20/al-qaeda-terror-leader-dined-pentagon-months/">lunch</a> at the Pentagon shortly after 9/11 in an effort to engage in Muslim &#8220;outreach,&#8221; became a key member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Yet Osborn <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/justice/nidal-hasan-court-martial-monday/">ruled</a> that emails between Hasan and al-Awlaki were also inadmissible, because they would have to be &#8220;redacted to prevent undue prejudice by association&#8221; and the resultant redactions would make them irrelevant.</p>
<p>In other words, despite the reality that Hasan has declared himself an enemy of the United States, it would be prejudicial to associate him with another enemy of the United States with whom he regularly communicated.</p>
<p>Osborn also ruled that prosecutors could not use Hasan&#8217;s 2006 inquiry into the possibility of filing conscientious objector status. Considering that this would have tied directly into his lecture on the same topic during his presentation at Walter Reed a year later, Osborn demonstrates an equally foolish, but unsurprising consistency.</p>
<p>Osborn did allow the prosecutors to introduce evidence of Hasan&#8217;s Internet searches on jihad and the Taliban, but according to CNN, it was limited to &#8220;days and hours before the attack.&#8221; FBI Special Agent Charles Cox III, a computer forensics examiner, testified that someone had used Hasan&#8217;s computer to pull up an article titled, &#8220;Pakistan Taliban Chief Urges Taliban to Fight Army,&#8221; only two hours before the mass murder took place.</p>
<p>It is no secret why Judge Col. Tara Osborn was determined to severely limit the prosecution&#8217;s attempt to establish motive. Lead prosecutor Col. Steve Henricks’ opening statements made it clear where their side was going. “He didn’t want to deploy and he came to believe he had a jihad duty to murder soldiers,” said Henricks, who further contended Hasan wanted to “kill as many soldiers as he could.”</p>
<p>Those ideas are completely antithetical to the Obama administration&#8217;s determination to remove all references to Islamist jihad from the Fort Hood slaughter. Nothing speaks to this effort more clearly than the reality that the mass murder of American soldiers by a Muslim several witnesses alleged was <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500202_162-5549394.html">shouting</a> &#8220;Allahu Akbar!&#8221; as he gunned them down was officially labeled &#8220;workplace violence.&#8221; Moreover that label, in conjunction with Osborn&#8217;s rulings, would sharply limit damages in the civil suit brought by the victims&#8217; families, compared to what they might receive if the shootings were an act of terror, including Purple Hearts, combat medals and superior health benefits.</p>
<p>Neal Sher, a lawyer who represents many of the victims and their families, was offended by Osborn&#8217;s rulings. &#8220;This is first degree mass murder case and motive is absolutely relevant to prove premeditation,&#8221; he explained.</p>
<p>Sher further noted the bizarre nature of the proceedings, in that the government &#8220;is talking from both sides of its mouth,&#8221; with the military defense maintaining the administration&#8217;s see-no-jihadism position, while the military prosecution insists Islamic jihad explains everything Hasan has done.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for the administration, it would seem almost certain that Hasan, who will get the opportunity to present his case after the prosecution <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Prosecutors-in-Hasan-trial-to-wrap-up-case-4745574.php">rested</a> yesterday, isn&#8217;t about to corroborate their insufferably PC version of his rampage. In addition to his opening statement, two clues indicate precisely the opposite.</p>
<p>First, Hasan <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/08/13/us/hasan-documents.html">released</a> three pages from his Sanity Board Report to the <i>New York Times </i>last week.<i> </i>In it he justified killing his fellow soldiers because they were &#8220;going against the Islamic Empire.&#8221; The report also noted that Hasan would have been honored to die because it meant &#8220;God had chosen him as a martyr.&#8221; And Hasan himself told the military board that &#8220;I&#8217;m paraplegic and could be in jail for the rest of my life. However, if I died by lethal injection I would still be a martyr.&#8221;</p>
<p>Second, and perhaps most telling, Hasan and prosecutors have officially agreed on the definition of jihad:</p>
<blockquote><p>Under Islam, the central doctrine that calls on believers to combat the enemies of their religion. According to the Qur&#8217;an and the Hadith, jihad is a duty that may be fulfilled in four ways: by the heart, the tongue, the hand, or the sword. The first way involves an inner hatred for those evils that cannot be overcome by the other 3 [sic] ways. The ways of the tongue and hand call for verbal defense and right actions. The jihad of the sword involves waging war against enemies of Islam. Believers contend that those who die fighting in All-Mighty Allah&#8217;s cause are guaranteed a place in paradise as well as a special status.</p></blockquote>
<p>Osborn&#8217;s rulings may be have thwarted the prosecution, but it won&#8217;t make any difference. Hasan has his platform, and it seems almost certain that politically correct facade erected by the Obama administration will be completely shattered. Its destruction couldn&#8217;t be more well deserved.</p>
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		<title>When Failure Carries No Cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2013 04:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Obama administration feels free to cover up its crimes. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/0FEF390C-390A-4D56-B548-ACEC7DAED51C_mw1024_n_s.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-200037" alt="0FEF390C-390A-4D56-B548-ACEC7DAED51C_mw1024_n_s" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/0FEF390C-390A-4D56-B548-ACEC7DAED51C_mw1024_n_s-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>Originally </i><a href="http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=322525"><i>published </i></a><i>in the Jerusalem Post. </i></p>
<p>This week, after a three-and-a-half-year delay, US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was finally placed on trial for massacring 13 and wounding 32 at Ft. Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009.</p>
<p>Hasan was a self-identified jihadist. His paper and electronic trail provided mountains of evidence that he committed the massacre to advance the cause of Islamic supremacy. Islamic supremacists like Hasan, and his early mentor al-Qaida operations chief Anwar al-Awlaki, view as enemies all people who oppose totalitarian Islam&#8217;s quest for global domination.</p>
<p>Before, during and following his assault, Hasan made his jihadist motives obvious to the point of caricature in his statements about the US, the US military and the duties of pious Muslims. But rather than believe Hasan, and so do justice to his victims, the Obama administration, with the active collusion of senior US military commanders went to great lengths to cover up Hasan&#8217;s ideological motivations and hence the nature of his crime.</p>
<p>On the day of the attack, Lt.-Gen. Robert Cone, then commander of III Corps at Ft. Hood, said preliminary evidence didn&#8217;t suggest that the shooting was terrorism. Cone said this even though it was immediately known that before he began shooting Hasan called out &#8220;Allahu akhbar.&#8221; He called himself a &#8220;Soldier of Islam&#8221; on his business cards.</p>
<p>In an interview with CNN three days after the attack, US Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey said, &#8220;Our diversity, not only in our army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that&#8217;s worse.&#8221;</p>
<p>The intensity of the Obama administration&#8217;s participation in this cover-up became clear in May 2012. At that time, Congress had placed a clause inside the Defense Appropriations Act requiring the Pentagon to award Purple Hearts to Ft. Hood&#8217;s victims. Rather than accept this eminently reasonable demand, which simply required the administration to acknowledge reality, Obama&#8217;s emissaries announced he would veto the appropriations bill and so leave the Pentagon without a budget unless the clause was removed.</p>
<p>Rather than define Hasan&#8217;s attack as an enemy attack or a terrorist act, the administration has defined it as a case of &#8220;workplace violence.&#8221; Following this determination, those wounded in the attack, as well as the families of the murdered, are denied the support conferred on soldiers killed or wounded by enemy fire.</p>
<p>At the first day of Hasan&#8217;s trial this week, he admitted that he perpetrated the murderous attack because he is a jihadist who &#8220;switched sides&#8221; in the war. That is, he told the court that he conducted the attack as an act of war against the United States to advance the goals of the global jihad.</p>
<p>Hasan&#8217;s statement made clear, once again, that in its efforts to describe his actions as &#8220;workplace violence,&#8221; the administration is engaging in a cover-up. Its purpose is to deny the American people the truth about the nature of the jihadist threat to their country.</p>
<p>Outside the conservative media, and certain circles of the Republican Party, there has been no public outcry over the government&#8217;s decision to cover up the nature of Hasan&#8217;s actions. The public&#8217;s passivity in the face of the government&#8217;s mendacious, unjust behavior owes to the fact that the mainstream media have not castigated the administration for its decision to hide that Hasan was not a garden variety disgruntled employee but a traitor who acted in the service of declared enemies of the United States. In the absence of a media-induced public outcry, the administration has no reason to change its behavior. It has no impetus to acknowledge the truth and act accordingly.</p>
<p>THE SAME is the case with regards to the September 11, 2012, attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi. Already on the day of the attack, it was apparent that the US mission and the CIA annex had been targeted in a premeditated, preplanned attack. Footage of the attack broadcast in real time showed armed men attacking the consulate with rocket-propelled grenades. It was not an act of savage mob violence. Mobs do not carry RPGs or act in a coordinated manner. That is, already at the time of the attack it was apparent that it was not a spontaneous protest in response to an anti-Islamic video on YouTube.</p>
<p>And yet, from the outset, the administration covered up what happened. And the media colluded. Fox News was the only major network that pursued the story. A US ambassador was raped and murdered on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks. US personnel were under multi-pronged attack for hours. Their desperate pleas for assistance were denied by the administration. And the US media went along with the fiction that the attack was a spontaneous outburst of rage over a YouTube video no one had ever seen.</p>
<p>The media&#8217;s collusion was so great that CNN anchor Candy Crowley threw a US presidential debate when she defended Barack Obama&#8217;s handling of the attack by inserting false information in the middle of the debate that she was moderating.</p>
<p>The Benghazi story keeps getting more and more outrageous. Last week we learned that some two dozen CIA personnel were on the ground during the attack. The administration has reportedly scattered these operatives throughout the US and forced them to adopt new identities. They have reportedly been prohibited from speaking to the media or congressional investigators, and subjected to monthly polygraph tests.</p>
<p>US personnel wounded in the attack have been hidden from investigators since the attack took place.</p>
<p>This behavior is scandalous, and unprecedented. Yet, outside of the &#8220;usual suspects&#8221; in the conservative media and the Republican Party, there is no outrage. The media coverage of this shocking revelation is nearly nonexistent, and where it exists, the reportage is laconic, indifferent.</p>
<p>Here, too, the administration feels comfortable perpetuating its cover-up. As in the case of Ft. Hood, why come clean if there is no price to pay for lying and covering up?</p>
<p>Speaking of the frequent US failures in understanding events in faraway lands, Winston Churchill famously quipped, &#8220;We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.&#8221;</p>
<p>But what if the other possibilities are never exhausted? The media&#8217;s collusion with the Obama administration&#8217;s false portrayal of jihadist attacks on US targets gives foreign leaders concerned about the US&#8217;s lackadaisical attitude toward jihadist threats no reason for confidence. In the absence of public pressure, the Obama administration has no reason to change course when its policies fail.</p>
<p>IN ISRAEL&#8217;S case, the first place where the lesson of this state of affairs needs to be internalized is in regards to Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons program. Since taking office, Obama has repeatedly claimed that he will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. But in practice, his actions have enabled Iran to vastly expand its nuclear weapons program. Due to his malfeasance, today Iran has arrived at the cusp of a nuclear arsenal. More than his words, Obama&#8217;s actions have made clear that he has no intention whatsoever of conducting military strikes against Iran&#8217;s nuclear installations to prevent the regime from developing nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s latest ploy for running the clock down is his embrace of the fiction that Iran&#8217;s new president, Hassan Rouhani, is a moderate interested, (and perforce empowered), to cut a nuclear deal with the US that would see Iran voluntarily and credibly end its uranium enrichment activities.</p>
<p>Speaking of Rouhani this week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu referred to him as &#8220;a wolf in sheep&#8217;s clothing,&#8221; and warned US and European officials not to be taken in by his act. Netanyahu also noted that Iran has expanded its nuclear activities since Rouhani was elected two months ago.</p>
<p>But he might as well save his breath.</p>
<p>Rouhani&#8217;s act &#8211; like that of his supposedly moderate predecessors Mohammad Khatami and Ahkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani &#8211; is so thin that it can only work on people who will be taken in by anyone. And indeed, the Obama administration was taken in by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. For five years Obama insisted on conducting self-evidently futile negotiations with Iran while Ahmadinejad &#8211; the anti-moderate &#8211; was serving as president.</p>
<p>The US and Europe are not taken in by Iran because Iran is good at hiding its true intentions. They are taken in by Iran because they want to be taken in. They want to believe that they don&#8217;t have to attack Iran and overthrow the regime to prevent it from becoming a nuclear power. They want to believe they can appease Iran by pretending it isn&#8217;t a danger, just as they believe they can end the threat of terror by jihadists in the US military and Benghazi by pretending they don&#8217;t exist.</p>
<p>They want to believe these threats can be ignored, or appeased away. And just as Obama and his followers are willing to pretend away Hasan&#8217;s actions to protect &#8220;diversity,&#8221; and to pretend away the September 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi to protect the myth of the Arab Spring, so they are willing to permit Iran to go nuclear to protect the sanctity of appeasement.</p>
<p>The only thing they are willing to put their foot down about is the prospect of an Israeli strike. And they have put their foot down on this issue for the past decade. It isn&#8217;t that the US is deliberately enabling Iran to acquire a nuclear arsenal. It is just that the US elite in government and the media care more about protecting their faith in diversity and appeasement than they do about preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power.</p>
<p>They have convinced themselves that the prospect of appeasing Iran will evaporate if Israel attacks Iran&#8217;s nuclear installations. And so we have seen a parade of senior US defense officials descending on Israel every time it appears that Israel is planning to attack Iran. We have seen a parade of former Israeli military and security chiefs with close ties to the US defense establishment declaring before every available microphone that Israel must not strike Iran and that we can count on Obama to protect us.</p>
<p>But we mustn&#8217;t believe their assurances or succumb to their pressure. Obama will not change course. He doesn&#8217;t have to. So long as he maintains faith with the god of appeasement, the US media will protect him. And so long as they protect him, he will pay no price for his failures. So he will repeat them.</p>
<p>Israel cannot countenance a nuclear Iran. So Israel needs to attack Iran&#8217;s nuclear installations.</p>
<p>No more needs to be said.</p>
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		<title>No Justice for Victims of Terrorist Nidal Hasan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 04:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Fort Hood jihadist has received better treatment than the survivors of his attack.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Nidal-Hasan_2636090k.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-199657" alt="Nidal-Hasan_2636090k" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Nidal-Hasan_2636090k-450x329.jpg" width="315" height="230" /></a>“I hear someone yell ‘Allahu akbar,’” Sergeant Shawn Manning <a href="http://www.armytimes.com/article/20130805/NEWS06/308050041/Photo-gallery-Fort-Hood-survivors-face-gunman-trial" target="_blank">told Army Times</a>. “Usually something bad is going to follow after that, so I look up at him and he started shooting. He probably fired five or six shots before he shot me in the chest.”</p>
<p>Manning, a veteran of two deployments in Iraq, was referring to Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army psychiatrist who gunned down 13 and wounded 32 at Fort Hood, Texas, in November 2009. Nearly four years later the case is finally coming to trial but it is already clear that Major Hasan received more preferential treatment than his victims.</p>
<p>Hasan is still in the Army and retains his rank of major. The <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/nidal-malik-hasan-salary_n_3313519.html" target="_blank">Army is still paying Hasan his full salary</a> and has received more than $278,000 since his arrest in 2009. The Army is also taking care of the paralyzing injuries Hasan sustained in the gun rampage. That was before Hasan shot the unarmed Sergeant Alonzo Lunsford once in the head and six times in the body. Lunsford played dead and then fled the building but Hasan chased him down and shot him in the back. The bullet is still there but Lunsford told reporters that the Army refused to cover an operation to remove it, and docked his pay when he was undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.</p>
<p>“We don’t get passes the way Major Hasan got passes,” Lunsford <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/us/as-trial-begins-in-fort-hood-spree-experts-see-landmark-case.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">told the New York Times</a>. “Each one of us has gotten a raw deal somewhere down the line.” Shawn Manning still carries a bullet in his back and fights for the pay he lost due to the Army’s ruling that Hasan’s attack was not terrorism, therefore the wounds were not related to combat.</p>
<p>Hasan had been emailing terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki about the prospect of killing infidel American soldiers, and Hasan did everything but take out a two-minute ad on the Super Bowl to announce his jihadist intentions. True to form, he yelled “Allahu akbar,” before killing 13 people, more than twice as many victims as the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. On his website, Anwar al-Awlaki was orgasmic with joy that Hasan had done his duty. Even so, the Army refused to call Hasan’s killing spree terrorism, gun violence or a hate crime. Rather, the government proclaimed the mass murder spree a case of “workplace violence.” The trial is taking the same course.</p>
<p>Hasan, handling his own defense, claims he was acting to protect the Taliban, the Islamist forces currently battling U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Col. Tara Osborn, the Army’s replacement for judge Col. Gregory Gross, ruled that Hasan cannot make that claim in court. Col. Osborn also barred prosecutors from using the emails Hasan exchanged with Anwar al-Awlaki. Those also constitute evidence that the government and military knew about Hasan’s terrorist intentions and did nothing to stop him.</p>
<p>Major Nidal Hasan faces 13 charges of premeditated murder and 32 charges of attempted premeditated murder. If convicted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice he would face the death penalty but the chances that he would be executed are virtually zero. The U.S. Army has not executed an active-duty soldier since 1961, and the process is complicated.</p>
<p>Fort Hood’s commanding authority would have to affirm any death sentence for Hasan, and that would launch automatic appeals in two military courts. In the event that they upheld the sentence, Hasan could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Further, any military death sentence must be approved by the President of the United States.</p>
<p>President Barack Obama’s first response to Hasan’s mass murder was brief, low key, and failed to ascribe any responsibility to Islamic terrorism. “We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing,” the president said. Such breathtaking denial soon <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/is-the-election-delaying-nidal-hasans-trial/" target="_blank">became official policy.</a> The Obama administration’s Department of Defense issued Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood, which contains not a single reference to jihad or jihadists. Its only mention of “Islamic” is an endnote reference to “Countering Violent Islamic Extremism,” a 2007 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.</p>
<p>Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York during the 9/11 attacks, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/tsarnaev-hasan-and-deadly-political-correctness/" target="_blank">recently testified</a> that “the elevation of political correctness over sound investigative judgment certainly explains the failure to identify Maj. Hasan as a terrorist.” The Obama administration’s description of Hasan’s act as “workplace violence,” Giuliani testified, wasn’t just preposterous but dangerous. The Fort Hood survivors know that is true.</p>
<p>Major Nidal Hasan took 13 lives but will likely retain his own. That may inspire other Islamic terrorists to embed themselves in the Army, which further places U.S. troops in peril. Based on the way Hasan’s case has unfolded, troops victimized by such terrorism can expect little help from the U.S. military and its commander in chief. So the troops might heed the counsel of Sgt. Shawn Manning. Whenever they hear somebody yell “Allahu akbar,” something bad is going to follow. To avoid death or injury, their best option could be to deal with it right then, by any means necessary.</p>
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		<title>Fort Hood Jihadist Claims He Acted in &#8220;Defense of Islamic Leadership&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Obama Inc. argument was that this was workplace violence and treating it as an act of terror would undermine Hasan's defense. But now Hasan's defense is that it was terrorism.]]></description>
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<p>That&#8217;s Nidal Hasan&#8217;s actual defense strategy. And it makes the Workplace Violence claim put out there by Obama Inc. as credible as the airborne PTSD claims.</p>
<p>Hasan isn&#8217;t just claiming defense of Islam. <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/04/3432649/fort-hood-suspect-islamic-leadership.html">He&#8217;s claiming defense of Islamic leadership,</a> namely Al Qaeda leaders. It&#8217;s hard to turn that into anything but acting as part of an Islamic terrorist group, formally or informally.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting says he&#8217;ll show evidence at his trial that he opened fire because Islamic leadership was in imminent danger.</p>
<p>Maj. Nidal Hasan told the judge Tuesday that he needs a three-month delay to prepare to represent himself at trial. He faces the death penalty or life without parole if convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.</p>
<p>The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, said she had some questions about Hasan&#8217;s defense before she would rule on his delay request.</p>
<p>A &#8220;defense of others&#8221; strategy requires defendants to prove they killed a person or people to protect others from immediate danger. Many of the soldiers killed on the Texas Army post were preparing to deploy.</p></blockquote>
<p>The families of soldiers murdered and wounded by Hasan have been arguing that they should have been awarded medals. The Obama Inc. argument has been that this was workplace violence and that treating it as an act of terror would undermine Hasan&#8217;s defense.</p>
<p>But now Hasan&#8217;s defense is that it was indeed an act of terror. There goes Obama Inc&#8217;s last excuse.</p>
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		<title>Will Obama Really Bring Boston Terrorists to Justice?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The case of the Fort Hood jihadist casts doubt on the president’s claim.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/gty_boston_marathon_heroes_10_jef_ssm_130416_wmain.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-186279" alt="gty_boston_marathon_heroes_10_jef_ssm_130416_wmain" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/gty_boston_marathon_heroes_10_jef_ssm_130416_wmain-450x330.jpg" width="270" height="198" /></a>President Obama, responding to the Boston Marathon attack, says, “We will find whoever harmed our citizens, and we will bring them to justice.”  The Boston survivors have good grounds to doubt that claim, but at least the president is describing the attack as an <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/16/obama-addresses-boston-bomb-attack/">“act of terrorism.”</a></span></b></p>
<p>The weapon terrorists deployed in Boston is a pressure cooker, packed with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel. The cooker gives the timed explosion incredible force to kill and maim at random, the hallmark of terrorism. The <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/16/al-qaeda-magazine-pressure-cookers-make-bomb-kitch/">pressure cooker bomb is a favorite of al-Qaida</a>, which described how to make them in an online magazine article titled “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.” Islamic militants also produced a chapter on pressure cooker bombs in <i>The Lone Mujahed Pocketbook</i>.</p>
<p>According to the<a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/16/5346433/ap-glance-pressure-cooker-bombs.html"> Associated Press</a>, in February, a pressure cooker bomb killed five in Afghanistan. Terrorists deployed a pressure cooker in a May 2010 attempted bombing of Times Square. Six Pakistani employees of a Christian aid group fell victim to a pressure cooker bomb, detonated remotely. Similar attacks took place in France, India and Nepal. Solo jihadists are encouraged to target “crowded sports arenas” and “annual social events.” So the Boston Marathon was an ideal target, and the pressure cooker bomb an ideal weapon.</p>
<p>Dennis Pluchinsky, former terrorism analyst for the State Department, <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/17/5347666/security-here-jlkf-jslkdfj-slkd.html">told reporters</a> “there is no way that people who run in marathons or people who go to baseball stadiums can be assured that they will be protected from IEDs 100 percent of the time.”</p>
<p>One report notes that the last attack in the United States linked to al-Qaida was on November 6, 2009, when <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/is-the-election-delaying-nidal-hasans-trial/">Major Nidal Hasan</a>, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, killed 13 and wounded more than 30 others while yelling “Allah is great!” Hasan was high-profile jihadist and claimed more victims than the first attack on the World Trade Center. But the U.S. Department of Defense casts Hasan’s actions not as terrorism but “workplace violence,” as though he was a fired postal worker seeking payback. This is all part of the president’s policy of fighting negative stereotypes of Islamic militants.</p>
<p>President Obama’s first response to Hasan’s mass murder was brief, low key, and failed to include Islamic terrorism as bearing any responsibility for the deaths. “We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing,” the president said. That is now official policy. The Department of Defense issued <i>Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood</i>, which contains not a single reference to jihad or jihadists, and its only mention of “Islamic” is an endnote reference to “Countering Violent Islamic Extremism,” a 2007 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. The word “hate” occurs only once, a truly breathtaking omission. Consider also the issue of justice.</p>
<p>In Hasan’s case the government has the perpetrator in custody, abundant witnesses, and the weapons he used to kill 13 and wound more than 30. One could hardly ask for a more rock-solid case. Yet after nearly four years, Nidal Hasan has yet to reach trial. That casts doubt on president Obama’s claim that the United States will bring the Boston attackers “to justice,” if they are ever found at all. At this writing, police and FBI have no solid leads.</p>
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		<title>Fort Hood Massacre Judge Removed for Forcing Nidal Hasan to Shave his Beard</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a June hearing, lead defense attorney Lt. Col. Kris Poppe said the judge showed a bias against Hasan when he asked defense attorneys to clean up a court restroom after Gross found a medical waste bag, adult diaper and what appeared to be feces on the floor after a previous hearing.]]></description>
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<p>We only have one command and one item in the Bill of Rights these days. Thou shalt not offend the Muslim. Even after the Muslim has carried out a <del>terrorist</del> workplace violence massacre, hurting his feelings is still not an option. So the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces removed Col. Gregory Gross because he did not appear to be impartial enough.</p>
<p>How did Col. Gregory Gross offend the sensibilities of a mass murderer and his supporters? <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2012/12/04/military-appeals-court-removes-judge-from-ft-hood-terror-trial-because-he-ordered-nidal-hasan-to-shave-his-beard/">Read and weep</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>An Army appeals court upheld the shaving requirement in October. But Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces said the command, not the judge, is responsible for enforcing grooming standards.</p>
<p>The court said it was not ruling on whether the judge’s order violated Hasan’s religious rights. Hasan has argued that his beard is a requirement of his Muslim faith, although facial hair violates Army regulations.</p>
<p>“Should the next military judge find it necessary to address (Hasan’s) beard, such issues should be addressed and litigated anew,” judges wrote in the ruling.</p></blockquote>
<p>But of course the message has been sent and the next judge will know to leave Hasan&#8217;s beard alone. Islam 1. US military regs 0.</p>
<p>And there was also this&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>At a June hearing, lead defense attorney Lt. Col. Kris Poppe said the judge showed a bias against Hasan when he asked defense attorneys to clean up a court restroom after Gross found a medical waste bag, adult diaper and what appeared to be feces on the floor after a previous hearing. Hasan, who is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by police the day of the shootings, has to wear adult diapers – but the mess in the restroom that day was mud from a guard’s boots, Poppe said.</p></blockquote>
<p>And the adult diaper probably also came from the guard&#8217;s boots. As Obama would say, The future will not belong to those who slander the Jihadis of Islam.</p>
<p>Judge James E. Baker, head of the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces appears to have strong Democratic affiliations.</p>
<blockquote><p>Judge Baker previously served as Special Assistant to the President and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council (NSC) (1997-2000), where he advised the President, the National Security Advisor and the NSC staff on U.S. and international law. Judge Baker served as a legislative aide and acting Chief of Staff to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1985-1987).</p></blockquote>
<p>Then there&#8217;s Judge Erdmann</p>
<blockquote><p>Judge Charles E. Erdmann joined the Office of High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina and initially worked on establishing the first anti-corruption unit in Bosnia. He then coordinated the international community&#8217;s judicial reform efforts and later was named the Head of the OHR Human Rights and Rule of Law Department. In that position he was responsible for: judicial reform/rule of law; support for human rights institutions, civil society and NGOs; public education; property rights; and domestic war crimes trials.</p></blockquote>
<p>And there&#8217;s your problem in a nutshell. The military judicial system is run by the same people who run the ordinary one.</p>
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		<title>Is the Election Delaying Nidal Hasan&#8217;s Trial?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the legal wrangling slowing the case down may be about more than just the jihadist's beard.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/is-the-election-delaying-nidal-hasans-trial/17369287_bg1/" rel="attachment wp-att-147639"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-147639" title="17369287_BG1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/17369287_BG1.gif" alt="" width="315" height="244" /></a>The legal wrangling continues over Major Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist and jihadist who at Fort Hood in 2009 killed 13 while yelling “<em>Allahu Akbar!</em>” The issue is supposedly Major Hasan’s beard, which he grew to signify his Islamic faith. The judge, Col. Gregory Gross, says the beard is a disruption and wants to forcible shave Hasan. That has touched off appeals but something else may be driving the delays, such as the presidential election.</p>
<p>Hasan’s action scored good reviews in some quarters. “Nidal Hassan is a hero,” <a href="http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-11-09/news/17938669_1_awlaki-nidal-hasan-al-qaeda">said the website of Anwar Al-Awlaki</a>, imam at the Dar al-Hijirah mosque Hasan attended. “He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people. . . Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done?”</p>
<p>President Obama’s first response to Hasan’s mass murder was brief, low key, and failed to include Islamic terrorism as bearing any responsibility for the deaths. “We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing,” the president said. That now amounts to official policy.</p>
<p>After Hasan’s mass murder campaign, the Obama administration’s Department of Defense issued <a href="http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/DOD-ProtectingTheForce-Web_Security_HR_13jan10.pdf"><em>Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood</em>.</a> As Andrew McCarthy noted in <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/andrew-c-mccarthy-publishes-spring-fever-the-illusion-of-islamic-democracy/"><em>Spring Fever</em></a>, Major Hasan was a “five-alarm jihadist” but the DoD report casts his actions as “workplace violence,” as though Hasan was a fired postal worker seeking payback.</p>
<p><em>Protecting the Force</em> contains not a single reference to jihad or jihadists and its only mention of “Islamic” is an endnote reference to “Countering Violent Islamic Extremism,” a 2007 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. The word “hate” occurs only once. Given the reality of the Fort Hood mass murder, the praise from al-Alwaki, and Hasan’s attempts to contact al Qaeda, the omissions are truly breathtaking.</p>
<p>The absence of anything Islamic is surely deliberate and in line with the president’s mission “to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam,” as he said in a major address in Egypt. Note the president’s choice of verb, and consider some institutional background.</p>
<p>The Clinton administration credentialed two institutions for the training of Islamic chaplains: the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (GSISS), a division of Cordoba University, and the Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council. The GSISS, now credentialed by the Pentagon for the training of imams, is on record saying that “We abide by every law of this country except those laws that are contradictory to Islamic law.” That creates a problem with U.S. laws on free speech to name just one. If the Obama administration has a problem with the GSISS or <em>Protecting the Force</em>, nobody has said a word. One sees a pattern here.</p>
<p>In 2011 Afghan Security Forces supposedly on our side attacked American troops 12 times. In 2012, 31 such attacks have already taken place. In total, <a href="http://newamericafoundation.github.com/security/maps/afghanistan.html">Islamic Afghan Security Forces have killed 116 NATO soldiers and 60 Americans</a>, more than twice as many as any other nation.</p>
<p>President Obama, the most powerful man in the world and commander in chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, has had little to say about such treachery. Indeed, he seems more animated when apologizing for a video and telling the world that “the future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.” Note the imperative mood of the verb.</p>
<p>Someone of that mindset, dedicated to battling stereotypes of Islam, has a stake in suppressing details of Fort Hood during the home stretch of a presidential election. It was the worst mass shooting ever to take place on a U.S. military base and claimed more victims than the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Hasan’s victims included Aaron Nemelka, 19, and Francheska Velez, 22 and pregnant with her first child.</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/major-nidal-hasan%E2%80%99s-beard/">Major Nidal Hasan killed them</a> while yelling “Allah is great!” yet the President of the United States sees no Islamic or jihadist connection and the Pentagon calls it “workplace violence.” Opponents of the president might have a stake in pointing that out, and those who remain bewildered might consider a couple of comparisons.</p>
<p>Suppose that in 1943 a U.S. Army Major named something like Klaus Von Reich gunned down 13 of his fellow American soldiers while yelling “Heil Hitler!” Suppose president Roosevelt denied that Nazism had anything to do with the killings, and the official military report failed to mention any Nazi connection. What might the response have been from, say, the <em>New York Times</em>?</p>
<p>And suppose that American troops in the Battle of the Bulge had to contend not only with advancing Nazi <em>sturmtruppen</em> but deadly fire from their own allies. Might the battle, and the war, have turned out different?</p>
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		<title>US Military on Alert for Christian and Hindu Religious Extremists in its Ranks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Science Board report sought to debunk the notion that Islam is the only religion that fuels extremism. “While a number of cases involved radical Islam, there were examples involving Christianity, and the potential exists for radicalization to occur in the context of other religions as well.”.]]></description>
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<p>The reports are in and it turns out that there&#8217;s no way to spot a violent Muslim extremist, because they don&#8217;t really exist and apart from calling themselves Soldiers of Allah and defending the Taliban, <a href="http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2012/10/military-workplace-violence-science-board-report-100712/">there are no warning signs whatsoever</a> before they commit an act of <del>terrorism</del> workplace violence.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Defense Science Board report urges military officials not to ignore signs of religious radicalism that may be politically sensitive, and sought to debunk the notion that Islam is the only religion that fuels extremism.</p>
<p>“Covering over or ignoring radical religious belief as a potential factor will greatly handicap efforts to discover and divert individuals who are on a trajectory toward engaging in targeted violence,” the report said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, which is why the Defense Science Board insists on handicapping and diverting efforts to stop Muslims on a violent trajectory by pretending that all sorts of religions scream Allah Akbar before going on killing sprees. Next thing you know the Buddhists will be doing it.</p>
<p>The report insists on describing Muslim terrorist attacks as workplace violence. This makes it even harder to respond and head off such attacks because they are not the product of disgruntled employees, but fanatical killers waiting for the moment to strike. It&#8217;s like trying to fight serial killers by pretending that they&#8217;re just burglars who get really confused.</p>
<blockquote><p>“While a number of cases involved radical Islam, there were examples involving Christianity, and the potential exists for radicalization to occur in the context of other religions as well.”.</p></blockquote>
<p>Sure. The potential exists for a lot of things, but efforts are directed at real world problems. This is why the Air Force is not developing training methods for bombing dinosaurs. Dinosaurs do have the potential to come back and begin ravaging Montana, but it&#8217;s not a current problem.</p>
<p>There is currently a shortage of Christians and Buddhists opening fire on American soldiers in the name of Allah. It could happen at any time and it could happen while they&#8217;re riding dinosaurs, but it&#8217;s not an actual serious threat at the moment.</p>
<blockquote><p>The study found “no silver bullet” to address the threat of workplace violence, and said predicting it is extremely difficult. Current scientific methods for predicting workplace violence, such as psychological or physiological testing, are unreliable, the study found.</p></blockquote>
<p>No silver bullet, but perhaps a pork bullet might do the trick.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s one possible method. When a Muslim begins claiming to be a Soldier of Allah, rather than an American Soldier, and sticks that claim on his business cards, that&#8217;s one possible variable that can be fitted into a scientific method for not allowing Jihadists free reign on American bases.</p>
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		<title>Sleepless in Seattle; Clueless in DC and New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Widlanski]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why we can't rely on our policy elites to be "the best and the brightest."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/dc.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-138662" title="dc" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/dc.jpg" alt="" width="377" height="253" /></a>It is hard for the average American to answer tough questions about terrorism or Mideast politics.  It is natural, then, to rely on &#8220;experts&#8221; in government, the press and academia to give responses to the following queries:</p>
<p>* Is Islamic extremism a growing force inside the United States?</p>
<p>* What chances are there to develop more peace and stability from the political upheavals that have been called &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221;?</p>
<p>* How can we work with the Syrian government or against the Syrian government to end the bloodshed in that country?</p>
<p>* Is Iran making atomic bombs? What does that mean? Could we try to stop it?</p>
<p>* Can we employ Islamist Turkey to negotiate with Iran, and are the Turks more useful in fighting terror than Israel?</p>
<p>* Is the Muslim Brotherhood a moderate organization, and does it make sense to help them gain control of Egypt?</p>
<p>* Would solving the Israeli-Palestinian problem help the rest  of the Mideast, and should the US press Israel to find a &#8220;two-state solution&#8221; with the PLO?</p>
<p>These are all good questions, but anyone who tracks the responses and the results over the last two years will see that many of our most highly regarded experts have been calamitously wrong time after time.</p>
<p>President Barack Obama directed his homeland security people and the US military to stop using the terms Islamic extremism and Islamic terrorism, even though there are clear signs such phenomena are real and rising. The New York Police Department alone foiled more than a dozen Islamic terror plots recently, but it was the Associated Press that won a Pulitzer Prize for a series attacking the NYPD for supposedly harassing Muslims.</p>
<p>Like AP and the New York Times, Obama worries more about staining an entire segment of the population—Muslims—than protecting the non-Muslim majority. A 60-page US Senate report shows that the Fort Hood terror attack (where 13 were murdered) could easily have been prevented, had US officials acted on warnings, instead of brushing them aside as politically incorrect.</p>
<p>Islamic terror attacks have risen in the US during Obama&#8217;s term, but the Obama team—particularly Attorney General Eric Holder—has moved to stop prosecutions and investigations of Muslim groups that are believed to help finance the Brotherhood. A set of indictments—the second round of the Holy Land Foundation case—that were pending in Texas was set aside.</p>
<p>Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton feel an &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221; is in the air, bringing democracy to the Mideast. They pulled the rug out from under President Husni Mubarak. Obama-Clinton and many media &#8220;experts&#8221; were sure Mubarak would be succeeded by modern democrats. Instead, the Muslim Brotherhood took over.</p>
<p>Key Obama aides pretend that the Brotherhood is really moderate. Muhammad Morsi, a Brotherhood leader who is Egypt&#8217;s president, says he wants to build a caliphate—an Islamic empire—whose capital is Jerusalem. He just opened Egypt&#8217;s border with Gaza, allowing Hamas and other terror groups to move freely in and out of the Sinai Peninsula bordering Israel.</p>
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		<title>Aurora &amp; Fort Hood: A Tale of Two Massacres</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Thornton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the two tragedies reveal about the leftist mind. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Picture-41.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-138186" title="Picture-4" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Picture-41.gif" alt="" width="375" height="245" /></a>The murder victims of James Holmes, who slaughtered 12 and wounded 50 at the <em>Dark Knight Rises</em> movie premier in Aurora Colorado, were still sprawled in the theater when ABC News chief investigator Brian Ross on-air tried to link the killer to the Tea Party––without even a modicum of vetting the information, as ABC’s apology later admitted. A quick fact-check would have revealed that the Colorado Tea Party James Holmes is a 52-year-old Hispanic, not a 24-year-old white PhD candidate. Indulging another left-wing narrative cliché, CNN’s Piers Morgan tweeted, “America has got to do something about its gun laws. Now is the time.” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg chimed in as well with the “gun-control” meme, seemingly oblivious to the lack of evidence that shows strict gun control laws reduce murder-rates. Over at the Huffington Post, Michael Shank fingered America’s “highest income inequality rates in the rich world,” which correlate “strongly with high rates of social-health problems, from homicide and violent crime to mental illness and drug addiction.” This is a variation of the “poverty-made-’em-do-it” argument that the current recession, which has seen rates of violent crime go down, not up, refutes.</p>
<p>Here we see the enduring banality of the progressive mind, mired in discredited psychological, social, and economic theories like a fly in amber. Yet progressives fancy themselves the product of enlightenment and reason, with knowledge about human nature and behavior superior to those Neanderthal conservatives who “get bitter” and “cling to guns or religion,” as Obama said during the 2008 campaign. Those benighted, racist reactionaries are consumed with repression and fear of the “other,” full of resentment over the declining power of their “white-skin privilege,” and fiercely resistant to the improving changes engineered by their betters to achieve “social justice.” Psychotic as they are, it’s no surprise they endorse policies that compensate for their insecurities and ignorance by seeking to exclude the historical victims of oppression. And to the progressive it’s an obvious truth that a few such souls will occasionally explode into the sort of violence perpetrated in Colorado.</p>
<p>The fact that most of these mass-murderers are loners and lunatics with no political agenda at all hasn’t deterred progressives like Brian Ross from jumping to the same conclusions. It was just last year that their zeal to link the shooter of Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords to the Tea Party blew up in their faces. No matter, the “narrative,” as they like to call it, of conservative psychosis is too politically useful, too flattering of progressive pretensions to superior intellect. The irony, of course, is that such reflexive assertions are the sign of a mind woefully lacking in critical capacity and hence vulnerable to politically and personally gratifying fairy tales.</p>
<p>Which brings us to the second massacre, equally revealing of progressive addled thinking. Major Nidal Hasan, the jihadist who in 2009 murdered 13 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood to cries of “Allahu Akbar,” had left a super-highway of evidence about his terrorist inclinations and eagerness to kill for Allah. As the recently released Webster Commission <a href="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/07/19/william.webster.pdf">investigation</a> into the FBI’s handling of that evidence shows, several months before his rampage at Fort Hood, the FBI and anti-terrorism task force agents had perused 18 emails Hasan had sent to Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born jihadist consigliore later killed in Yemen. In these emails, Hasan displayed his eagerness for supporting terrorist outfits like Hamas, and inquired about the theological arguments for killing his fellow soldiers and other innocents. “I would assume,” he wrote in one email, “that a suicide bomber whose aim is to kill enemy soldiers or their helpers but also kill innocents in the process is acceptable.” Other evidence for Hasan’s inclinations was available as well, including a Power-Point presentation at Walter Reed hospital that quoted Mohammad’s famous “great commission” to his disciples: “I was told to fight all men until they say there is no god but Allah”––quoted as well by the Ayatollah Khomeini and Osama bin Laden as justification for their own jihadist murders.</p>
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		<title>The Jihadi Threat Within</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 04:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frank Crimi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FBI investigation speculates that over 100 suspected Islamists are in the U.S. military. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/111110-nidal-hasan-hmed-130p.photoblog600.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-136207" title="111110-nidal-hasan-hmed-130p.photoblog600" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/111110-nidal-hasan-hmed-130p.photoblog600.gif" alt="" width="375" height="258" /></a>The FBI’s <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/06/25/155710570/fbi-checking-100-suspected-extremists-in-military">investigation</a> of over 100 suspected Islamists serving within the US military highlights the growing threat these undercover jihadists pose to American troops, their families and their military communities.</p>
<p>That growing Islamist danger, according to the FBI, comes from an array of active and reserve military personnel as well as individuals who have work or dependent access to military facilities, such as family members and civilian employees.</p>
<p>Moreover, of the 100 investigative cases, the FBI disclosed that a dozen of them are grave enough to be deemed “insider threats,” which it defines as someone planning a terrorist attack on a military base or is in contact with outside individuals who are exhorting them to wage jihad.</p>
<p>The news of the FBI investigations, which has only now become public, was first revealed in a closed session of a House-Senate Committee hearing in December 2011, a hearing that centered on investigating possible threats to military communities inside the United States.</p>
<p>While civilian targets may provide an easier objective for jihadists, military targets provide them an equally palatable choice.</p>
<p>As Republican Representative Peter King, Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/06/military-growing-terrorist-target-lawmakers-warn/">said</a>, military service members are “symbols of America’s power, symbols of America’s might. And if they (military personnel) can be killed, then that is a great propaganda victory for al-Qaeda.”</p>
<p>While some may dismiss the number of potential jihadists being investigated by the FBI as a miniscule percentage of the millions serving in the military, others, like Senator Joseph Lieberman, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/06/25/155710570/fbi-checking-100-suspected-extremists-in-military">note</a>, “the reality is it only took one man, Nidal Hasan, to kill 13 people at Fort Hood and injure a lot more.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, since the shooting spree launched by Major Hasan in November 2009 on soldiers in Fort Hood’s processing center &#8212; an act which many consider the most serious terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11 &#8212; the number of terrorist <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/06/military-growing-terrorist-target-lawmakers-warn/">plots</a> by homegrown Islamists targeting the military has grown significantly.</p>
<p>Those plots include the June 2011 <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-20073774.html">arrest</a> by the FBI of Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif and Walli Mujahidh at a warehouse garage where both men were in the process of picking up machine guns and grenades to use in an attack on a Seattle area military recruiting station.</p>
<p>After his arrest Mujahidh admitted that he was planning on carrying out the assault at the Military Entrance Processing Station &#8212; a facility that employs nearly 1,000 service people &#8212; for the express purpose of killing United States military personnel in order “to prevent them from going to Islamic lands and killing Muslims.”</p>
<p>In July 2011 Private Naser Abdo was arrested and charged with planning to detonate a bomb in a Chinese restaurant popular with Fort Hood soldiers and finish the job by shooting any surviving victims. Abdo, who was AWOL from Fort Campbell in Kentucky at the time of the planned attack, <a href="http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2012/05/24/defense_rests_in_abdo_case_jur.html">confessed</a> to his mother in a recorded jailhouse conversation that his motive to kill the soldiers was simply “religion, mom. There is no other reason.”</p>
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		<title>The Long-Delayed Trial of the Fort Hood Terrorist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will justice ever come for the victims of Nidal Hasan? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MajorNidalHasan.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-133957" title="MajorNidalHasan" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MajorNidalHasan.gif" alt="" width="375" height="250" /></a>It’s around 5,000 miles from El-Bireh, a dirty little administrative center for the Palestinian Authority bureaucracy, to Kileen, Texas. A year after Nidal Hasan opened fire in Fort Hood, killing 13 and wounding 29, a public square in El-Bireh was dedicated to Dalal Mughrabi, a terrorist who took part in the murder of 38 Israelis, including 13 children.</p>
<p>El-Bireh may one day yet dedicate a public square to Nidal Hasan, the most famous of its sons, but for now Hasan sits in Bell County Jail, where the Texas weather is twenty degrees warmer than back in El-Bireh, and the families of his victims sit in their own jails, waiting for Hasan to finally be brought to trial.</p>
<p>The Fort Hood courthouse was being boarded up two years ago for the hearings that have dragged on. Fences were added, windows were covered over and the court was made wheelchair accessible as a courtesy for Nidal Hasan, not for any of his victims, like Staff Sgt. Patrick Zeigler, who in the time that Hasan has sat waiting for a trial, has managed to learn to walk again.</p>
<p>Every year the cost of keeping Hasan locked up runs about half a million dollars, payable by the army to the county. That’s over a million dollars in the last two years. Where does all that money go?</p>
<p>Nidal Hasan’s living quarters are <a href="http://www.cbs19.tv/story/12245646/major-nidal-hasan-waiting-to-be-moved-from-hospital-to-jail?clienttype=printable&amp;redirected=true">not exactly those</a> of the ordinary prisoner. He has a handicap accessible shower in his cell, along with his own bathroom, and a bed with an air mattress.  Those are better conditions than those of veterans in many VA hospitals, who describe everything from blood spills to fecal matter, and who would welcome the kind of facilities that a murderer of American soldiers enjoys.</p>
<p>Hasan’s defense team has relied on one tactic, endless requests for postponements in a delaying game that has gone on for years. After all their delaying tactics, the trial is scheduled for August of this year. Whether it will actually take place then is another matter.</p>
<p>Faced with an unwinnable case, public anger and a difficult client—Hasan’s defenders have stalled for time, hoping that public interest will die down and that their client will become more cooperative at playing the part they need him to play. An insanity defense would be their best shot, but a jihadist like Hasan is not likely to welcome being portrayed as a madman.</p>
<p>The endgame of the defense is to keep Hasan from receiving the death penalty. That’s why a capital mitigation specialist has been digging into Nidal Hasan’s biography looking for a way to unbalance the scales of justice. The mitigation specialist has led to more delays and a <a href="http://www.statesman.com/news/local/judge-delays-fort-hood-shooting-trial-until-june-2144638.html?printArticle=y">quarter million dollar bill</a> to the government for his services on Hasan’s behalf.</p>
<p>Sooner or later Hasan will face some small amount of justice, but it will not be until the defense team has wrung every last billable hour and every dubious claim out of the process, while the families of the dead stand by and wait. If Hasan gets the death penalty, then he will eventually be executed. More likely though he will spend another thirty years in a room with a private shower, with regular visits from a physical therapist, and more comforts than a man in his condition would enjoy out of prison. While the Obama Administration slashes Tricare benefits for veterans, Hasan has nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>Nidal Hasan had told Anwar Al-Awlaki that he couldn’t wait to join him in Islamic paradise, but for now his paradise is taxpayer hell, as the men he tried to kill are forced to help foot the bill for his daily comforts. Meanwhile the years pass.</p>
<p>To the Obama administration’s misfortune, the shooting happened on an army base by a terrorist who was serving as a military psychiatrist, making it impossible to move him into the civilian court system.  But it has done its part by refusing to recognize him as an Islamic terrorist, or a terrorist of any kind. Instead the Fort Hood Massacre was classified as “workplace violence.”</p>
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		<title>Domestic Jihad Victims Deserve Purple Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another casualty of the denial of the reality of jihad.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: Sign the Freedom Center&#8217;s petition, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.net/forthoodspencer/">Purple Hearts for Fort Hood Heroes</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The Purple Heart, a United States military honor awarded for military merit, is specifically to be given, according to U.S. Army regulations, for “wounds received as a result of hostile action,” including fatal wounds. It can be awarded in peacetime “to military personnel wounded by terrorists or while members of a peacekeeping force.” Yet the twelve U.S. military personnel (plus one civilian) murdered by Islamic jihadist Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood in Texas on November 5, 2009 have not been awarded the Purple Heart, and neither has Army Private William Long, who was murdered by Islamic jihadist Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad in Little Rock, Arkansas on June 1, 2009.</p>
<p>The reason for this is obvious: the Obama administration has not recognized either the Fort Hood or the Little Rock jihad attack as an act of terrorism. Thus the military personnel killed at Fort Hood and Private Long were not “wounded by terrorists”; hence no Purple Heart. Thus they become casualties not only of the global and domestic jihad, but of the politically correct refusal of official Washington to call that jihad what it is, and to recognize its full dimensions.</p>
<p>Of the facts of each case there is no question. Obama has ignored the Little Rock shooting, and, in one of the most egregious whitewashings of jihad in a field thick with competition, termed the Fort Hood shooting “workplace violence.” Any objective examination of either, however, leaves no doubt that Nidal Malik Hasan and Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad were Islamic terrorists performing a terrorist action in the name of Islam, and thus their victims were precisely “military personnel wounded by terrorists.”</p>
<p>In April 2011, Muhammad, an American convert to Islam, explained that he had killed Long in a “jihad operation.” He was not a soldier fighting against Americans on a battlefield, or even apparently an al-Qaeda operative acting on behalf of a recognized terror organization. He was a Muslim who was acting in accord with the teachings of his religion as he understood them – that is, as giving him a responsibility before Allah to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers. He was acting in imitation of his prophet, who said: “I have been made victorious through terror.” And in his terror operation, he killed Private Long.</p>
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