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		<title>Fort Hood Jihad Victims Won&#8217;t Be Getting Purple Hearts As Long as Obama is in Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We're at war. And that's something leftists have desperately tried to cover up.]]></description>
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<p>Senate Democrats have apparently decided to stop fighting a<a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fort-hood-victims-set-to-receive-purple-hearts-combat-status/article/2556950?utm_campaign=Fox%20News&amp;utm_source=foxnews.com&amp;utm_medium=feed"> measure that would allow the American servicemembers</a> wounded <a href="http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/capitol-hill/2014/12/03/purple-heart-expansion/19834457/">and killed by</a> Fort Hood Muslim Jihadist Nidal Hassan.</p>
<blockquote><p>Congress is set to make victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shootings eligible for Purple Hearts and combat injury benefits after the Obama administration has denied them the status for the past five years.</p>
<p>House Republicans, working with the Democratic-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee, added a provision to the defense authorization bill that would give battlefield recognition for the victims of the deadliest attack on a domestic military installation in U.S. history. It passed on a voice vote with strong bipartisan support.</p>
<p>The measure, which is expected to pass Congress next week, also would end a five-year effort by Texas GOP Reps. John Carter, Michael Conaway and Roger Williams to give the victims the status, the Military Times first reported. Texas GOP Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn introduced the bill in the Senate.</p>
<p>The victims have long asked the Pentagon to label the attack terrorism so they would be eligible for the Purple Hearts and added combat-related benefits. But Defense Secretaries Robert Gates, Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel have stuck to the original assessment that the attack by Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan was an act of workplace violence.</p></blockquote>
<p>And Ashton Carter will go on sticking to it. Obama won&#8217;t veto over this, though he has made threats in the past, but there&#8217;s no way that he is going to allow Hassan to be viewed as an enemy terrorist. Neither will the Pentagon bureaucracy which has gone to great lengths to prevent even Hassan&#8217;s stated motive from becoming a factor.</p>
<p>The idea of it is so dangerous to the Jihad Denial establishment because it recognizes that &#8220;domestic terrorist attacks&#8221; are not domestic or civilian, but the work of a foreign enemy. We&#8217;re at war. And that&#8217;s something liberals have desperately tried to cover up.</p>
<p>The unfortunate truth is that even if Romney had won in 2012, there would be a great deal of resistance to this from within.</p>
<blockquote><p>The latest authorization draft stipulates that Purple Heart medals will be awarded to &#8220;members of the armed forces killed or wounded in domestic attacks inspired by foreign terrorist organizations.&#8221;</p>
<p>The new measure would make Purple Hearts available to those injured or killed by attackers who had been “in communication with the foreign terrorist organization before the attack” and whose actions were “inspired or motivated by the foreign terrorist organization.”</p>
<p>Pentagon officials for years have said the shooting victims are not eligible for the Purple Heart and certain combat-injury compensation. Families of the victims have said they&#8217;ve faced thousands of dollars in uncovered medical expenses that would have been covered if the same injuries occurred in Iraq or Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The new Purple Heart regulations would change that, allowing defense officials to review the cases and award both the medal and the benefits to the Fort Hood victims as well as victims of similar domestic attacks.</p></blockquote>
<p>You can guess how that will work out. This was never an issue of the letter of the law. The letter of the law doesn&#8217;t exist under Obama except when it comes to blocking something he doesn&#8217;t want anyway on a technicality. Removing the technicality removes the excuse, it doesn&#8217;t get it done.</p>
<p>The problems though go beyond Obama. The military has been infected with a culture that says that covering up Islamic terrorism is the only way to defeat it and that therefore granting Purple Hearts and treating Fort Hood as an enemy attack would actually be a victory for Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s utterly perverse thinking that is frighteningly commonplace in the military and law enforcement.</p>
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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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				<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>It’s Time to Kick ISIS Members Out of America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s useless to bomb ISIS fighters in Iraq, if we let them into America.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isis-flag-AFP.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240309" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isis-flag-AFP-450x337.jpg" alt="isis-flag-AFP" width="298" height="223" /></a>Every week brings new reports of Muslims in America flocking to join ISIS. Those who aren’t killed in battle will eventually return to New York, to Los Angeles and to Minneapolis–Saint Paul.</p>
<p>And they will stop being Iraq’s problem and become our problem.</p>
<p>ISIS is more than just another terrorist group. It is now an Islamic State. Its followers and allied militias pledge to obey the Caliph of ISIS and reject all allegiances to other states and entities. Western ISIS recruits burn their passports to show that they are no longer citizens of those countries.</p>
<p>Like most Salafists, ISIS members see our system of law and government as idolatry and heresy. Fort Hood Jihadist Nidal Hasan, who recently applied to join ISIS, had earlier written that he would “renounce any oaths of allegiances that require me to support/defend any man made constitution (like the Constitution of the United States) over the commandments mandated in Islam.”</p>
<p>“I therefore formally renounce my oath of office as well as any other implicit or explicit oaths I have made in the past … This includes my oath of U.S. citizenship,” <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/nidal-hasan-on-anwar-al-awlaki-we-are-muslims-trying-to-establish-the-religion-of-allah-as-supreme-on-the-land/">Hasan declared</a>.</p>
<p>By his own admission, Nidal Hasan is no longer a United States citizen. He should be promptly denaturalized. So should every ISIS member and anyone who supports the Islamic State.</p>
<p>The oath of citizenship that Hasan was retroactively rejecting states, “I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.”</p>
<p>ISIS members have pledged their allegiance to a foreign prince and a foreign state. Denaturalizing them should be a mere formality.</p>
<p>Anwar Al-Awlaki, Hasan’s mentor, whose American citizenship became such an issue for the left when he was killed in a drone strike, was clear in his lectures that he was at war with America, that “Muslims in the West should see their stay there as temporary” before leaving to build an Islamic State in the Middle East and that Muslims shouldn’t even vote in America because they would be participating in “a disbelieving system, in a disbelieving country.”</p>
<p>Like Hasan, he did not consider himself an American in any way, shape or form.</p>
<p>In the past the United States had denaturalized Nazis and Communists and even specifically targeted foreign agitators linked to the Nazis and Communists, denaturalized them and then deported them.</p>
<p>Recently Obama Inc. found the time to have two former Guatemalan soldiers accused of committing atrocities against a village linked to Communist guerrillas in the so-called Dos Erres massacre back in the 1980s stripped of their citizenship.</p>
<p>Other denaturalization targets under his administration included two Serbians, an Ethiopian Marxist who took part in the 70s Red Terror and a woman involved in the Rwandan genocide.</p>
<p>None of the denaturalized were Muslim terrorists posing a current national security threat. And yet if we are to have a strategy against ISIS, denaturalizing its members will accomplish more than air strikes.</p>
<p>The modern Jihadist threat had at its core a group of fighters who trained and fought in Afghanistan during and after the Soviet invasion. These fighters went on to lead terrorist groups and stage attacks. But the battlefields of the Arab Spring will produce a new wave of threats on an unprecedented scale. Muslims in the West, especially converts to Islam, who have gone to join ISIS will return with training, battlefield experience and a plan. It’s far more urgent to keep them out than to deport war criminals.</p>
<p>A serious ISIS strategy has to address not the flow of fighters from the United States, as Obama has proposed to do, but the flow of fighters coming into the United States. If ISIS members want to travel to fight in Iraq and Syria, they should be allowed to do so.</p>
<p>By joining the Islamic State, they have disavowed their allegiance to the United States. Their citizenship is now only a passport of convenience that they will burn as soon as they make their way into Syria.</p>
<p>It’s far more important to keep them from coming back than to keep them from leaving.</p>
<p>If the United States can denaturalize foreign soldiers for being part of units linked to war crimes, as it has under Obama, it has the obligation to pursue the denaturalization of anyone who chooses to affiliate with an organization such as ISIS which has committed undeniable war crimes. While the legal grounds for denaturalization won’t be the same since some of those being denaturalized did not have terrorist histories and may have even been born in the United States, the policy basis is clear.</p>
<p>Despite the various dubious Supreme Court attempts to strike down the denaturalization power of Congress, there are still clear standards for denaturalization. Joseph Lieberman and Scott Brown introduced the Terrorist Expatriation Act back in 2010 which would have added providing material support to terrorists as a basis for denaturalization leading to hysterical reactions on the left and the right. But such an explicit addition isn’t strictly necessary; particularly in the case of the Islamic State.</p>
<p>Under the <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1481">Immigration and Naturalization Act</a> anyone voluntarily “committing any act of treason”, bearing arms against the United States or plotting to conquer it will lose his citizenship. While establishing this has proven tricky in the past due to the preponderance of evidence standard, ISIS represents a clear case because its fighters travel voluntarily from the United States for that purpose and because the Islamic State’s creed explicitly repudiates citizenship in anything but the new Caliphate.</p>
<p>It is clearly apparent that any American citizen joining ISIS intends to abandon his citizenship. He is not only serving in a foreign army, but he is joining an organization whose very reason for existence is precluded on a rejection of states and manmade documents such as the United States Constitution.</p>
<p>Furthermore if Obama were to admit that the United States is at war with ISIS, its fighters would also be guilty of bearing arms against the United States. However even without this admission, ISIS has made sufficient threats and has now murdered two Americans. There is no serious doubt that we are at war.</p>
<p>Unlike the Taliban, some of whose American members argued that they had not originally been in conflict with the United States, ISIS originated in conflict with the United States and its creed explicitly calls for the perpetuation of conflict not only with the United States, but with the rest of the world.</p>
<p>The Islamic State’s <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2014/06/isis_announces_formation_of_ca.php">founding declaration</a> urged all the Muslims of the world to gather to it, “So rush O Muslims and gather around your Caliphate, so that you may return as you once were for ages, kings of the earth and knights of war&#8230; By Allah, if you disbelieve in democracy, secularism, nationalism, as well as all the other garbage and ideas from the west, and rush to your religion and creed, then by Allah, you will own the earth, and the east and west will submit to you.”</p>
<p>The Muslim fighters rushing to join ISIS hoping to be its “kings of the earth” and “knights of war” and to force the east and west to submit to it are at war with the United States. They have given their allegiance to a foreign power that promises them that they will rule over Americans.</p>
<p>Both attacks on the World Trade Center were carried out by terrorists who should not have been allowed into the United States. It’s time we learned the lessons of those attacks.</p>
<p>ISIS members and supporters like Nidal Hasan are eager to abandon their American citizenship. It’s our own government that is standing in the way.</p>
<p>It’s useless to bomb ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria, if we let them march through our airports.</p>
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		<title>Fort Hood Killer Applies to Join ISIS, Desperately Trying to Remind Obama He&#8217;s a Terrorist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The soldiers wounded by Nidal Hassan still don't have their medals]]></description>
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<p>On some level you almost have to feel sorry for Nidal Hassan. As much as you feel sorry for a murderous terrorist who should have been hung from the nearest tree. He did everything possible before and after the attack to announce that he was a Muslim terrorist.</p>
<p>Nevertheless Obama, the new judge and the media refused to listen to him. Hassan became so desperate that he resorted to sending FOX notes announcing that he killed Americans at Fort Hood in support of the Taliban.</p>
<p>And still nothing.</p>
<p>Now<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/29/fort-hood-shooter-says-want-to-become-citizen-islamic-state-caliphate/"> he&#8217;s trying to join ISIS. I&#8217;m </a>not sure how much use ISIS has for a paraplegic who wouldn&#8217;t survive 5 minutes without millions in taxpayer funding.<a href="http://www.jammiewf.com/2014/terrorist-scumbag-nidal-hasan-wants-to-become-citizen-of-islamic-state/">.. but it&#8217;s worth trying to find out</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The convicted shooter in the Fort Hood massacre has written a letter to the leader of the Islamic State saying he wants to become a “citizen” of the caliphate, in the latest example of the terror group’s reach inside the U.S.</p>
<p>The letter from Nidal Hasan, obtained by Fox News, comes after two Americans reportedly died fighting for ISIS in Syria.</p>
<p>In the undated letter, Hasan — who fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 at Fort Hood in 2009 in what the Defense Department called “workplace violence”– tells ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that he wants to join the caliphate.</p>
<p>“I formally and humbly request to be made a citizen of the Islamic State,”Hasan says in the handwritten document addressed to “Ameer, Mujahid Dr. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.”</p>
<p>“It would be an honor for any believer to be an obedient citizen soldier to a people and its leader who don’t compromise the religion of All-Mighty Allah to get along with the disbelievers.”</p>
<p>The two-page letter includes Hasan’s signature and the abbreviation SoA for Soldier of Allah.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s the same abbreviation he was using on his business cards before the attack. In the predictable denial cycle, only conservative media outlets are covering the story. Must be airborne PTSD.</p>
<p>And the soldiers wounded by Nidal Hassan, a self-declared terrorist, still aren&#8217;t being treated like the casualties of war that they are.</p>
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		<title>Prison to Fort Hood Jihadist: &#8220;You&#8217;re a Grown Man. Act Like it.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Being given instructions to make your bed is nowhere near a threat."]]></description>
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<p>Muslim Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Hasan who carried out the Fort Hood Massacre r<a href="http://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/Nidal-Hasan-Requested-Bible-Clock-Food-Information-While-Preparing-Fort-Hood-Defense-237903941.html">an up quite a tab while in prison</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Galligan believes many of the things the government did in the name of security were an excessive use of taxpayer money, including the nearly $200,000 spent on daily helicopter rides to ferry Hasan from the jail to Fort Hood.</p>
<p>The Army also spent tens of thousands of dollars setting up a private Fort Hood office for Hasan, who insisted on representing himself at trial, where he could prepare his own defense.</p>
<p>Records obtained by NBC 5 Investigates show nearly $5 million dollars in expenses, millions in travel for government lawyers, fees paid to expert witnesses, vehicles and cell phones purchased  and major security renovations at the base.</p></blockquote>
<p>But it wasn&#8217;t good enough. Nidal Hasan&#8217;s handwritten requests <a href="http://www.halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2013/12/fort-hood-jihadi-nidal-hassans-jail.html">reveal a severe case of jailhouse lawyer entitlement</a>.And at one point the Muslim mass murdering doctor lectures prison staff that they are &#8220;practicing punitive medicine.&#8221;</p>
<p>Aside from the widely reported demands to know where his cheese was coming from, (it proved to be Baccio mozzarella&#8230; made with <a href="http://www.baciocheese.com/">&#8220;a kiss of buffalo milk&#8221;</a>) and repeatedly demanded a clock and wanted to keep his cell at exactly 70 degrees.</p>
<p>Hasan repeatedly complained that he wasn&#8217;t notified so that he could turn over every two hours and there were constant issues with his bowel movements, with the crippled Palestinian Muslim terrorist apparently <a href="http://media.nbcbayarea.com/documents/hasan-jail-requests.pdf">refusing to use the toilet and using a trash can</a> instead.</p>
<p>The back and forth exchanges between Nidal Hasan and the prison reveal growing exasperation by the prison staff with the privileged terrorist.</p>
<p>Hasan&#8217;s repeated demands for temperature regulation is turned down after medical staff state that it&#8217;s not a legitimate issue. Hasan&#8217;s request for an Imam is turned down as he is told that the prison is not obligated to provide him with an Imam, only to allow one to see him if he wants to.</p>
<p>In one message, Nidal Hasan demands that &#8220;defecated material&#8221; be removed, only to be told curtly, &#8220;I request that you properly evacuate your bowel&#8230; you know how to do it properly and after 19 days&#8230; do what you are supposed to do Major Hasan.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another response angrily tells the Muslim serial killer, &#8220;This was not an issue for you in the first two weeks of your incarceration when you were conducting your bowel movements as you were instructed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Finally Hasan is told, &#8220;You are not going to use a garbage can in the jail. Do as you were instructed, you&#8217;re a grown man, act like it.&#8221;</p>
<p>In another message, he is told, &#8220;Being given instructions to make your bed or change your linens is nowhere near a threat, it is an order from your doctor. You need to follow orders, Major.&#8221;</p>
<p>I imagine this probably was not the martyrdom afterlife that the self-proclaimed Soldier of Allah was expecting where 72 virgins and young boys would wait on his every wish.</p>
<p>With little to occupy his time, Hasan continues escalating his demands while the prison staff make it obvious that they are sick of dealing with the Muslim mass murderer.</p>
<p>&#8220;Good morning. I would just like reiterate that warming up the cell before taking a temperature of 74 is not a good way to take the avg temperature. I would request a thermometer (or equivalent) to take the avg temp throughout the day, &#8221; Hasan writes.</p>
<p>The prison&#8217;s response. &#8220;This is not taking place, Hasan.&#8221; It sounds even better if you say it in a Schwarzenegger accent.</p>
<p>Hasan also claimed that his &#8220;privileged&#8221; files were being read, even though his defense consisted of claiming allegiance to the Taliban and rejecting the United States Constitution.</p>
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		<title>Fort Hood Ignored Nidal Hassan, Now Warns of Tea Party Terror Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 23:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soldiers were told evangelical Christians and Tea Party members were a threat to the nation]]></description>
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<p>This story would be horrible even if it wasn&#8217;t taking place at Fort Hood. But it is taking place where Nidal Hasan was able to murder 13 soldiers despite repeatedly making it clear that he was all for Islamic terrorism because no one was allowed to hurt a Muslim&#8217;s feelings.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/10/soldiers-at-fort-hood-told-that-christian-and-tea-party-groups-threat-to-nation-any-soldier-donating.html">Fortunately they&#8217;re all over the real threat</a>. The Tea Party.</p>
<blockquote><p>Soldiers attending a pre-deployment briefing at Fort Hood say they were told that evangelical Christians and members of the Tea Party were a threat to the nation and that any soldier donating to those groups would be subjected to punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.</p>
<p>A soldier who attended the Oct. 17th briefing told me the counter-intelligence agent in charge of the meeting spent nearly a half hour discussing how evangelical Christians and groups like the American Family Association were “tearing the country apart.”</p>
<p>While a large portion of the briefing dealt with the threat evangelicals and the Tea Party pose to the nation, barely a word was said about Islamic extremism, the soldier said.</p>
<p>“Our community is still healing from the act of terrorism brought on by Nidal Hasan – who really is a terrorist,” the soldier said. “This is a slap in the face. “The military is supposed to defend freedom and to classify the vast majority of the military that claim to be Christian as terrorists is sick.”</p>
<p>The soldier said they were also told that the pro-life movement is another example of “radicalization.”</p>
<p>“They said that evangelical Christians protesting abortions are the mobilization stage and that leads to the bombing of abortion clinics,” he said, recalling the discussion.</p></blockquote>
<p>This kind of liberal power play leads to conservatives being monitored while Muslims get to plan their next terror attack. The Clinton Administration did this and it led to September 11.</p>
<p>Now it&#8217;s happening all over again.</p>
<p>No one responsible for Benghazi has been fired. But a man who tweeted sarcastic comments about Valerie Jarrett was purged by the White House.</p>
<p>This is where we are. This is what our national security looks like now. And the next terrorist attack and the one after that and the one after that.</p>
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		<title>Nidal Hasan in Military Lecture: &#8220;There&#8217;s a Lot of Virgins. That&#8217;s All I Can Say.&#8221; (VIDEO)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["We always talk about God and country, but here we're talking, we're really talking about God versus country," Hasan said.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately what<a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/08/obamas-workplace-violence.html"> FOX News did with their exclusive video </a>was show about 2 seconds of it <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/30/fort-hood-killer-warned-before-shooting-possible-adverse-events/">and then cut to a bunch of experts</a> discussing it.</p>
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<p>Still it&#8217;s a compelling reminder that there was every reason to think that Nidal Hasan was sympathetic to Islamic terrorism.</p>
<p>We hear Hasan talking about all the virgins in paradise while the audience laughs. But the joke ultimately goes the other way. Seeking those virgins, Nidal Hasan murdered 13 service members and severely wounded a number of others, leading to at least one suicide.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think the Department of Defense should allow Muslim soldiers the option of being released as conscientious objectors to increase the morale of non-Muslim soldiers in the military as well as decrease adverse events,&#8221; Hasan says in the video during a power point presentation.</p>
<p>&#8220;We always talk about God and country, but here we&#8217;re talking, we&#8217;re really talking about God versus country,&#8221; Hasan said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hasan is basically waving red flags in this briefing,&#8221; Fox News Strategic Analyst and retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters told Fox after reviewing the tape.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Fort Hood tragedy did not have to happen. Major Hasan had a significant accomplice when he pulled out his weapons and started shooting down unarmed innocents &#8212; and that accomplice was political correctness in our military.&#8221;</p>
<p>While it&#8217;s unknown what the entire video contains, in the segments released to Fox Hasan is also asked about the number of virgins in paradise, provoking nervous laughter from the audience.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s there. There&#8217;s a lot of virgins. It&#8217;s heaven. You know, It&#8217;s heaven&#8230;that&#8217;s all I can say,&#8221; he replies.</p></blockquote>
<p>Like the previous documents, Nidal Hasan wanted the video released because he wants people to understand that contrary to what Obama and his political generals say, he is a Muslim terrorist whose motivation was Islamic.</p>
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		<title>The Battle Over the Fort Hood Jihadist&#8217;s Beard Begins Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 15:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to army regulations, prisoners who resist grooming may be tied to a restraint chair and then shaved. ]]></description>
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<p>Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood Jihadist, just wants the world to know that he&#8217;s a Muslim terrorist. The authorities don&#8217;t want anyone to know that, but they are bending over backward to accommodate his Islamic demands.</p>
<p>Hasan wanted to grow out his beard. The judge wouldn&#8217;t let him. So<a href="Judge, Col. Gregory Gross"> the mean old Judge, Col. Gregory Gross</a> was replaced with the nice and terrorist-friendly Judge Tara Osborn who was happy to let the terrorist keep his beard.</p>
<blockquote><p>Hasan, who is Muslim, said that he had grown the beard for religious reasons and that it was protected under freedom of religious expression.</p>
<p>Military prosecutors disagreed, as did the judge, Col. Gregory Gross, who ruled that the beard violated the military dress code. Gross held Hasan in contempt of court for refusing to shave, ordered him removed from the courtroom, and ultimately ordered that his beard be forcibly shaved.</p>
<p>The man accused in the Ft. Hood shootings may get to keep his beard &#8212; at least for now.</p>
<p>A military judge&#8217;s &#8220;duel of wills&#8221; with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan over whether Hasan would have to shave made the judge appear biased, requiring his removal from the case, a military appeals court ruled Monday.</p></blockquote>
<p>But now<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/08/fort-hood-jihad-mass-murderer-may-be-forced-to-shave.html"> the beard rears its ugly head again</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Nidal Hasan, the former army major who killed 13 soldiers at a Texas military base, will likely be forced to shave as he awaits his death sentence.</p>
<p>Military prison officials at Fort Leavenworth released a statement saying: “All inmates are considered soldiers and are treated as such. All inmates at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks must abide by Army Regulation 670-1 (grooming standards which prohibit beards) unless there is an exception to policy granted.”</p>
<p>For more than a year, Hasan had been seeking an exemption from the rule, wanting to keep his beard for religious reasons. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces allowed him to keep his facial hair during trial proceedings.</p>
<p>According to army regulations, prisoners who resist grooming may be tied to a restraint chair and then shaved. The use of force is permitted if it is videotaped and explained by a “detailed written report”&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>And no doubt he&#8217;ll get another friendly exemption to avoid offending Muslims. Because that&#8217;s our counter-terrorism strategy now.</p>
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		<title>The FBI and the Muslim Brotherhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 04:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Nidal Hasan Sentenced to Death for Fort Hood Massacre</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The jury deliberated for a little more than two hours.]]></description>
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<p>That headline looks good, the reality less so. The death penalty in the United States means automatic appeals and infinite appeals. Even if Hasan at some point doesn&#8217;t decide that he wants to live at any cost and start helping his lawyers out,<a href="http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/national/southwest/2013/08/soldier_sentenced_to_death_for_fort_hood_shooting"> the long case won&#8217;t be over any time soon</a>.</p>
<p>To their credit, the jurors did their job quickly</p>
<blockquote><p>The jury deliberated for a little more than two hours.</p></blockquote>
<p>The system however will drag it out</p>
<blockquote><p>Hasan could become the first American soldier executed in more than half a century. But because the military justice system requires a lengthy appeals process, years or even decades could pass before he is put to death.</p>
<p>The lead prosecutor assured jurors that Hasan would &#8220;never be a martyr&#8221; despite his attempt to tie the attack to religion.</p>
<p>&#8220;He is a criminal. He is a cold-blooded murderer,&#8221; Col. Mike Mulligan said Wednesday in his final plea for a rare military death sentence. &#8220;This is not his gift to God. This is his debt to society. This is the cost of his murderous rampage.&#8221;</p>
<p>When Hasan began shooting, the troops were standing in long lines to receive immunizations and doctors&#8217; clearance. Thirteen people were killed and more than were 30 wounded. All but one of the dead were soldiers, including a pregnant private who curled on the floor and pleaded for her baby&#8217;s life.</p></blockquote>
<p>So decades. Possibly. Hasan is already 43. He could still very well die in prison. Certainly if he really doesn&#8217;t want to live, it&#8217;s entirely possible that with his level of disability, he might.</p>
<p>Hasan Akbar, another Hasan, and another Muslim terrorist in the military, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154969,00.html">was sentenced to death in 2005</a>. Here&#8217;s how that  case has been going.</p>
<blockquote><p>On November 20, 2006, Lieutenant General John Vines, commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, affirmed the death sentence against Akbar. Under an automatic appeal because of the sentence, the case was forwarded to the Army Court of Criminal Appeals, which upheld the sentence on July 13, 2012. Afterwards, the case was automatically appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, with a final right of appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Once Akbar&#8217;s appeals are exhausted and if his sentence stands, the President of the United States in his role as Commander in Chief would order the execution to take place, which is currently done by lethal injection. Akbar continues to be confined at the United States Disciplinary Barracks awaiting disposition of his sentence.</p></blockquote>
<p>Good luck getting that order from Obama. It&#8217;s misleading to say that Nidal Hasan could be the first soldier executed in some time, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/28/even-with-death-sentence-fort-hood-shooter-would-face-long-wait-for-martyrdom/">because there&#8217;s actually a line</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ronald Gray, a former Army specialist who was sentenced in 1988 after being charged with abducting, raping, sodomizing and murdering an 18-year-old female soldier and a 23-year-old civilian woman, as well as attempting to rape and murder another fellow soldier.</p>
<p>Dwight Loving, a former Army private who, like Hasan, was stationed at Fort Hood when he was sentenced to death in 1989 for the murders of two taxi drivers. He is currently awaiting an appeal despite giving a full confession for the killings on videotape.</p></blockquote>
<p>How would the country that won WW2 handle this?</p>
<blockquote><p>On August 8, 1942,  Herbert Hans Haupt was sent to the electric chair. Haupt, a United States citizen, had joined a German raiding party into the United States. The trial of Haupt and his fellow conspirators lasted a month. It was over two months after their capture. Haupt was put to death seven days after the conclusion of his trial.</p></blockquote>
<p>Too bad that country isn&#8217;t around.</p>
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		<title>Why the Nidal Hasan/Fort Hood Jihad Case Isn&#8217;t Going Anywhere</title>
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<p>Four years ago, Nidal Hasan, a Muslim terrorist serving as an Army shrink, murdered 13 people, after maintaining contact with an Al Qaeda leader.</p>
<p>The political establishment and the military and the media spent four years covering that up. When Nidal Hasan finally came to trial, he told the truth. He was fighting for the Taliban, for the Islamic Empire, against America.</p>
<p>The official media reports are that Hasan offered no defense for his actions. That&#8217;s a complete lie. He offered the above defense. The judge, Tara Osborn, brought in after the previous judge was accused of being unsympathetic toward the Fort Hood Jihadist, refused to allow him to offer that defense.</p>
<p>So Hasan mostly did nothing. He had already given his explanation.</p>
<p>What that means is that four years later, the case isn&#8217;t over. And it will go on dragging out the pain of the Fort Hood families.</p>
<p>According to the gold standard of the justice system in which every killer is entitled to be represented by a slimy lawyer who will completely lie about everything he&#8217;s done, Nidal Hasan did not receive representation.</p>
<p>Representation would have involved some sleazeball inviting in an expert to discuss secondary-PTSD and browbeating the witnesses over whether it really was Hasan who pulled the trigger.</p>
<p>So even though it&#8217;s unlikely that Hasan wants a rerun of the last four years, it&#8217;s coming anyway. The media, the military&#8217;s political generals and Obama Inc. want a proper trial to liberal lawyer standards. And eventually they&#8217;ll get one.</p>
<p>It may take another four years or forty. But they&#8217;ll keep going.</p>
<p>The irony is that in trying to save Nidal Hasan, they&#8217;re really punishing him. Hasan appears ready for the death penalty. Instead they&#8217;ll keep him alive indefinitely so they can have their trial and finally sentence him to life in prison.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Purging the language doesn't bring justice to the fallen -- nor eradicate the threat.]]></description>
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<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>
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		<title>Banished: Proof of Jihad in Hasan Trial</title>
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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>Coverup: Judge Bars Evidence of Nidal Hasan&#8217;s Islamic Terrorist Motivations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judge Osborn said that emails that Hasan exchanged with a top Al Qaeda leader who cultivated "lone wolf" attackers are irrelevant.]]></description>
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<p>Judge Tara Osborn was brought in because the original judge was a little too hard on Nidal Hasan, not letting him grow out his beard. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/justice/nidal-hasan-court-martial-monday/">Tara is supposed to be Hasan&#8217;s</a> best buddy<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"> and she&#8217;s acting like it</a>.</p>
<p>Too bad her efforts at maintaining the terrorist coverup is doomed because Nidal Hasan&#8217;s entire defense strategy is to talk about being an Islamic terrorist.</p>
<blockquote><p> Presentations that may have shown sympathy to Islamic extremism were ruled inadmissible Monday in Maj. Nidal Hasan&#8217;s Fort Hood, Texas, court-martial Monday.</p>
<p>Along with the e-mails and the material related to Akbar, Osborn also declined to allow the use of Hasan&#8217;s academic presentation on suicide bombings, saying &#8220;motive is not an element of the crime.&#8221;</p>
<p>Presiding Judge Col. Tara Osborn ruled the presentations Hasan made while in medical residency and in fellowship years before the shooting were too far removed from the actual incident to be considered.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is too remote in time and too open to multiple interpretations,&#8221; Osborn said of presentations Hasan made while at Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/09/muslim-soldier-nidal-hasan-to-fellow-military-doctors-we-love-death-more-then-sic-you-love-life/">Here&#8217;s the presentation</a>. In it, Hasan argues that America is fighting against Muslims and that Muslim service members should be released from duty. His arguments parallel those he is making now.</p>
<p>Tara Osborn knows this, since she just heard him make those arguments. And tried to keep him from making them. Coverup? What coverup?</p>
<p>Motive is not an element of the crime. Because she doesn&#8217;t want to deal with the motive.</p>
<blockquote><p>Osborn barred any reference Hasan Akbar, a Muslim soldier sentenced to death for attacking fellow soldiers in Kuwait during the 2003 Iraq invasion. Prosecutors wanted to prove Hasan&#8217;s attack was a &#8220;copycat,&#8221; but the judge said introducing such material would &#8220;only open the door to a mini-trial&#8221; of Akbar.</p>
<p>She also said such evidence would result in a &#8220;confusion of issues, unfair prejudice, waste of time and undo delay.&#8221;</p>
<p>The judge said prosecutors also couldn&#8217;t introduce three emails, ruling that the needed redactions would make them irrelevant. The contents of the emails were never disclosed, but the FBI has said Hasan sent numerous emails starting in December 2008 to Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical U.S.-born Islamic cleric killed by a drone strike in Yemen in 2011.</p></blockquote>
<p>So she just struck emails that Hasan exchanged with a top Al Qaeda leader as irrelevant. An Al Qaeda leader who cultivated &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; attackers in the US.</p>
<p>But don&#8217;t worry. <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/nidal-hasan-killed-american-soldiers-because-they-were-going-against-the-islamic-empire/">Nidal Hasan is making the case</a> that<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/fort-hood-terrorist-calls-himself-an-islamic-holy-warrior-in-opening-statement/"> Tara Osborn won&#8217;t let military prosecutors make</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter,” said Hasan, who was shot by officers responding to the attack and is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair.</p>
<p>Hasan voiced his allegiance to the mujahideen – the name given to those waging holy war in Muslim countries. Hasan was scheduled to be deploy to Afghanistan the month of the shooting.</p>
<p>“Evidence will show I was on the wrong side of America’s war and I later switched sides,” Hasan said. “We in the mujahideen are imperfect beings trying to establish a perfect religion.”</p>
<p>“I don’t think what I did was wrong because it was for the greater cause of helping my Muslim brothers,” he told the military panel.</p>
<p>He denied having remorse and justified his actions by saying that the soldiers he killed were “going against the Islamic Empire.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s a strange trial where the prosecution is not being allowed to do its job, while the defendant is doing their job for them. Welcome to PC America. No Islamic terrorism to see here.</p>
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		<title>Nidal Hasan Killed American Soldiers Because They Were Going Against the &#8220;Islamic Empire&#8221;</title>
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<p>It&#8217;s workplace violence, don&#8217;t you know?</p>
<p>1. Nidal Hasan was closely associated with an Al Qaeda leader</p>
<p>2. He claimed to have acted in support of the Taliban</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/08/fort-hood-jihad-mass-murderer-i-dont-think-what-i-did-was-wrong-because-it-was-for-the-greater-cause.html">He wanted to be a martyr</a></p>
<p>4. He describes himself as a Soldier of Allah, while explicitly repudiating his military service and the Constitution as forms of human idolatry.</p>
<p>5. He talks about killing American soldiers because they were going against the Islamic Empire&#8230; a reference to the rising emirates of Al Qaeda</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure what else Nidal Hasan could do to convince the authorities that he is a Muslim terrorist and that the men he killed and wounded were hurt in a terrorist attack and should be awarded and compensated accordingly.</p>
<blockquote><p>One year after he waged a deadly shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army base here in November 2009, Major Nidal Malik Hasan told a panel of military mental health experts that he wished he had been killed during the attack because it would have meant Allah had chosen him for martyrdom.</p>
<p>“I’m paraplegic and could be in jail for the rest of my life,” Major Hasan told the panel. “However, if I died by lethal injection I would still be a martyr.”</p>
<p>“I don’t think what I did was wrong because it was for the greater cause of helping my Muslim brothers,” he told the military panel.</p>
<p>He denied having remorse and justified his actions by saying that the soldiers he killed were “going against the Islamic Empire.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Even liberals should be able to figure out that the imperial side is the evil one.</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>
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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>Obama Inc. Warns Family Members of Wounded Fort Hood Soldiers Not to Talk to Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 15:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The beginning of Nidal Hasan&#8217;s trial and his open admission to being an Islamic terrorist has highlighted the cases of servicemen wounded by Hasan and the refusal to Obama Inc. to concede that they were wounded in a terrorist attack.</p>
<p>T<a href="http://www.redstate.com/dloesch/2013/08/07/wife-of-ft-hood-survivor-dod-is-gagging-us/">heir voices are now being silenced by the same system</a> that has bent over backward to cater to Nidal Hasan, flying him out daily on a chopper and continuing to pay his salary.</p>
<blockquote><p>Autumn Manning, wife of Army Staff Sgt. Shawn Manning who was wounded in the Ft. Hood terror attack, is speaking out on Twitter. Manning claims that the Department of Defense has “slapped victims of violence with gag orders” and is preventing them to discuss denial of benefits and other developments in the wake of the attack.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FtHood&amp;src=hash">#FtHood</a> family members of wounded being told they can&#8217;t talk 2 press. I am not in military &amp; still have my 1st amendment rights TY very much</p>
<p>— Autumn Manning (@WWWife) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWWife/statuses/365158989606031361">August 7, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>DOD slapping victims with gag orders after <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23fthood&amp;src=hash">#fthood</a> testimony. Can&#8217;t talk denial of benefits and separating family of deceased from wounded</p>
<p>— Autumn Manning (@WWWife) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWWife/statuses/364974447943364610">August 7, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Obama Inc. does know how to deal with whistleblowers. Unfortunately it doesn&#8217;t know how to deal with terrorists.</p>
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		<title>Fort Hood Terrorist&#8217;s Attorneys Working Overtime to Keep Him from Confessing to Terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It upends the entire liberal judicial process in which defendants pretend to be innocent and the system pretends Islam is a religion of peace.]]></description>
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<p>Nidal Hasan&#8217;s lawyers have a problem. The Fort Hood terrorist keeps confessing to being a terrorist, naming Islamic terrorism as his motive and doing everything possible to disprove the &#8220;Workplace Violence&#8221; tag stuck on him.</p>
<p>So his<a href="http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/216672.php"> lawyers are trying to save him from himself</a>. Or to save the narrative that has been painstakingly built up.</p>
<blockquote><p> The court-martial of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of carrying out the 2009 mass shootings at Fort Hood, was suspended Wednesday after a lawyer accused the defendant of deliberately trying to secure a death sentence&#8230;.</p>
<p>Wednesday morning, one of [Hasan's standby attorneys] Lt. Col. Kris Poppe, offered to step in and represent Hasan.</p>
<p>Poppe told military judge Col. Tara Osborn that it is “clear [Hasan’s] goal is to remove impediments or obstacles to the death penalty and is working toward a death penalty.” &#8230;</p>
<p>“I object. That’s a twist of the facts,” Hasan responded. He repeatedly asked the judge for permission to explain why Poppe’s claim was wrong, but refused to do so in writing.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hasan is actually correct here. Poppe is twisting the facts. Hasan is trying to assert his motive, not trying to die. Death would be a side benefit, assuming he wants to die.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda terrorists routinely assert their Islamic motives. And lawyers and judges routinely try to stop them because it upends the entire liberal judicial process in which defendants pretend to be innocent and the system pretends Islam is a religion of peace.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s more at stake in the Fort Hood case because the military has gone out on a limb to claim that Islam is not the issue in order to make Muslims feel more comfy in the military. Now Nidal Hasan is ruining the PC party by reminding everyone that Islam and the military are incompatible.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s actually the theme of his defense and he couldn&#8217;t have found a sorer spot to strike.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;I Am Muslim First&#8221; Fort Hood Terrorist Claims He Acted to Protect Islamic Law from Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[" The enemies of Allah are lining up; the question for us is, 'Are we lining, or are we afraid because, because they may call us terrorists.'"]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finally more material is coming out about Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood terrorist and it tells the same old story. Hasan was one of those semi-secular Muslims, not really paying much attention to his religion, <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/08/05/we-are-imperfect-muslims-trying-to-establish-the-perfect-religion-of-all-mighty-allah-as-supreme-on-the-land/">and then he turned to Islam </a>and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/interactive/2013/08/05/excerpts-from-sanity-board-evaluation-on-accused-fort-hood-shooter-hasan/">turned to terrorism. And boom</a>.</p>
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<p>The account is straightforward</p>
<p>1. Nidal Hasan became more Islamic</p>
<p>2. He began to hate America</p>
<p>3. He decided that he had to defend Islamic Sharia Law from American democracy. This explains his rant about the Constitution being Shirk.</p>
<p>The interesting question is what put him on that specific path. Did he turn to a mosque for answers&#8230; and get them?</p>
<blockquote><p>Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother&#8217;s funeral was held there in May that year.</p>
<p>The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations.</p>
<p>Hasan&#8217;s eyes &#8220;lit up&#8221; when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki&#8217;s teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday&#8217;s horrific shooting spree.</p></blockquote>
<p>The account pegs his interest in Islam to his mother&#8217;s death. So it would appear that the Dar al-Hijrah mosque turned him into a ticking time bomb.</p>
<p>Aside from Anwar Al-Awlaki,<a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3928/dar-al-hijrah-imam-calls-for-armed-jihad"> here&#8217;s the sort of enlightened non-violent worldview</a> you could get at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque.</p>
<blockquote><p>Sheik Shaker Elsayed, the imam of the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church, Va., advocated armed jihad.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are the first to rush and run to defend our community and defend ourselves. The enemies of Allah are lining up; the question for us is, &#8216;Are we lining, or are we afraid because, because they may call us terrorists.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Being called &#8220;terrorists&#8221; should not matter to Muslims because Muslims are being called terrorists anyway, Elsayed said.</p>
<p>&#8220;You are a terrorist because you are a Muslim,&#8221; Elsayed said. &#8220;Well give them a run for their money. Make it worth it. Make this title worth it, and be good a Muslim.&#8221;</p>
<p>His name also appears in a 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document detailing the group&#8217;s plan to wage a non-violent civilization jihad to destroy &#8220;Western civilization from within.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s not hard to see what made Nidal Hasan turn terrorist. And he wasn&#8217;t alone. Terrorism researcher <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/dar-al-hijrah-dc-s-own-terror-factory/">Patrick Poole calls it a terrorist factory.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>After Dar al-Hijrah attendee Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was arrested in Saudi Arabia and confessed to being part of an al-Qaeda cell that was planning to assassinate President George W. Bush, in an interview with the New York Times Abdul-Malik compared Abu Ali to civil rights icon Rosa Parks.</p>
<p>But Abu Ali was hardly a marginal figure at Dar al-Hijrah. He not only was a youth leader at the mosque and regularly delivered prayers there, he taught Islamic studies at the center and was a camp counselor for their youth summer day camp.</p></blockquote>
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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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