Joe Biden and the Soldier of Allah

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The 2,500 “non-violent drug offenders” Joe Biden pardoned included Adrian Peeler, convicted of murdering Leroy Brown, eight years old. Peeler shot the child dead before gunning down his mother Karen Clarke as she attempted to call for help. The victims were on the witness list for the trial of Peeler’s brother. The murderer’s commutation drew fire from Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal, but as Bruce Thornton explains, it wasn’t Biden’s worst.

“The most egregious and shameful commutation was letting the notorious, cold-blooded murderer Leonard Peltier live. He’s the radical activist who in 1975 murdered two FBI agents and tried to kill an off-duty policeman. After wounding the two agents, he shot one in the head and the other in the face.” As Peltier and Peeler should know, Biden’s performance in office was quite pleasing to an inmate on death row at Leavenworth.

“We have won!!!” he wrote to his attorney in 2021. “All praises be to All-Mighty Allah!”

Adding,  “I pray to Allah that He helps you implement Shariah Law fully, correctly, and fairly.” That was Nidal Hasan, responding to Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden handed the terrorists billions in military gear and the entire Bagram airfield, while leaving Americans and Afghan allies behind. The Taliban responded by murdering 13 Americans, a crime Hasan had already replicated.

The American-born Muslim enlisted in US Army but openly described himself as a “Soldier of Allah.” In training, Hasan openly supported Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda and the Taliban. Commanding officers knew Hasan was an unprofessional psychiatrist, yet deemed him fit to counsel troops and sent him to Fort Hood. The FBI knew Hasan was communicating with al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al Awlaki but the bureau’s Washington office ruled that Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities.

On November 5, 2009, yelling “Allahu Akbar” as he fired, Hasan shot dead 13 unarmed Americans including three women. Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, pushed an Army sergeant out of the line of fire but took a bullet in the abdomen and died at the scene. Hasan also gunned down Sgt. Amy Sue Krueger and Pfc. Francheska Velez, who was pregnant. “My baby! My baby!” Velez screamed, as Hasan shot her through the abdomen. Her pre-born child was never counted among the murder victims.

The soldier of Allah also gunned down Spc. Frederick Greene, civilian physician assistant Michael Cahill, Maj. Eduardo Caraveo, Staff Sgt. Justin Michael DeCrow, Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, Pfc. Michael S. Pearson, Capt. Gilbert Russell Seager and  Pfc. Kham See Xiong.

The wounded included Army Reserve Captain Dorothy Carskardon, shot as she came to the aid of Velez. Shot twice, Chief Warrant Officer Christopher Royal ran to lock up a building where a graduation was taking place. Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford took seven bullets from Hasan but managed to get other soldiers to safety. Consider the initial response of vice president Joe Biden.

Jill and I join the President and Michelle in expressing our sympathies to the families of the brave soldiers who fell today. We are all praying for those who were wounded and hoping for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts and prayers are also with the entire Fort Hood community as they deal with this senseless tragedy.

The Delaware Democrat named not a single victim and failed to name or condemn mass murderer Hasan, whose victims only “fell.” For Biden, the massacre was only a “senseless tragedy,” not an act of terrorism claiming more victims than the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.

Composite character president Obama called the attack “workplace violence,” not terrorism or even gun violence. The victims included African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians, but Army bosses found no trace of a hate crime or violence against women. The wounded did not get their medals until 2015 and Maj. Hasan, wounded by a civilian police officer, got better medical treatment than his victims. From his arrest in 2009 until 2013, when he was sentenced to death, Hasan kept his rank of major and received $278,000 in salary.

“We don’t get passes the way Major Hasan got passes,” Lunsford told the New York Times. “Each one of us has gotten a raw deal somewhere down the line.” In 2014 Lunsford sought a brief audience with President Obama but “he refused to meet us” and “didn’t come see me in the hospital.” Reports of Biden meeting with victims are hard to find, but the Delaware Democrat wasn’t done with Fort Hood.

In 2023 the Army renamed Fort Hood after the late Gen. Richard Cavazos, the first “Latino” four-star general. A better choice would have been Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, the highest-ranking casualty of the deadly battle fought right on the base. A genuine American hero, Warman was mistreated even in death.

“Lt. Col. Warman did not lose her life to enemy fire,” explains Arlington National Cemetery. “Instead, she was one of 13 people murdered at Fort Hood, allegedly at the hands of fellow U.S. Army Officer Major Nidal Hasan.” (emphasis added) Even in death, Warman got no respect.

Sgt. Amy Krueger joined the Army after 9/11, vowing to take on Osama bin Laden. According to her obituary, “a disgruntled U.S. Army psychiatrist killed 13 people and injured more than 30 others before he was brought down.” Hasan is not named nor identified as the shooter of Sgt. Krueger who “died doing what she loved, proudly serving her country.”

Colombian national Juan Velez emigrated to the USA to join the Army but could not meet the requirements. Daughter Francheska said “Papi, lo voy hacer,” and for Juan, “I felt like her being there was me being there.” Francheska’s father wondered “how could she die at the hands of her own people?” For friend Sasha Ramos, “this is not something a soldier expects — to have someone in our uniform go start shooting at us.”

The obituaries fail to mention that Hasan was a “soldier of Allah,” not the United States of America.  More than 15 years later, Hasan is still cheering on the Taliban and other terrorists.

If confirmed as head of the FBI, Kash Patel should reveal which FBI officials called off the surveillance on Maj. Nidal Hasan. Meanwhile, if anybody thought the sentence he deserves should now be carried out it would be hard to blame them.