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AP sources: Authorities had concerns about suspect
Houston Chronicle ^ | 11/5/2009 | Lara Jakes

Posted on 11/05/2009 5:23:59 PM PST by markomalley

Federal law enforcement officials say the suspected Fort Hood, Texas, shooter had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats.

The officials say the postings appeared to have been made by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who was killed during the shooting incident that left least 11 others dead and 31 wounded. The officials say they are still trying to confirm that he was the author. They say an official investigation was not opened.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.

One of the Web postings that authorities reviewed is a blog that equates suicide bombers with a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to save the lives of his comrades.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Military officials say the suspected shooter at Fort Hood was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six years before being transferred to the Texas base in July.

The officials had access to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's military record. They said he received a poor performance evaluation while at Walter Reed.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: Texas
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come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats.

Huh??? And he was still on active duty??

1 posted on 11/05/2009 5:24:00 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Typical CYA drivel.

Brought to you by the people who covered up the Pat Tillman murder.


2 posted on 11/05/2009 5:25:23 PM PST by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: markomalley

Six months. Nice.


3 posted on 11/05/2009 5:25:25 PM PST by awestk (gimmeh.)
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To: markomalley

We are going to lose a lot of good people because of these idiots.


4 posted on 11/05/2009 5:25:31 PM PST by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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To: markomalley

or is it possible, they were watching him to see if he met up with a cell and he found out and moved his plans up to today.


5 posted on 11/05/2009 5:26:14 PM PST by sunmars
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To: markomalley

http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=18503e97f397c039

“They were telling him that one guy was shouting something in Arabic while he was shooting,” Tom Hunt said. “He couldn’t say much more than that.”


6 posted on 11/05/2009 5:26:29 PM PST by roses of sharon (Call the NFL and welcome their new Commissioner, Al Sharpton.)
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To: markomalley

This is on Obama’s head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


7 posted on 11/05/2009 5:26:42 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Mmogamer

I am sitting here beyond sorrow.

This sounds like one of those sleeper cells without the nuke suitcase.

We all need to worry bad today.


8 posted on 11/05/2009 5:27:31 PM PST by alisasny
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To: markomalley

Another failure of the command ranks!!!


9 posted on 11/05/2009 5:27:33 PM PST by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: markomalley
Bury Hasan in a pile of PIG S**T.

No Military Death Benefits or tears for his family either.

10 posted on 11/05/2009 5:27:42 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: markomalley

Why did they make him a major? -— in MAY of this year ??? WTF?? I want a full investigation of the Pentagon on what their policy is with these moslems? It is killing people!!!


11 posted on 11/05/2009 5:27:48 PM PST by londonfog
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To: markomalley

Homeland Security was too busy watching Amish women with Don’t Tread On Me flag bumper stickers on their horse-drawn-buggies to investigate an obvious terrorist like Malik Hasan.


12 posted on 11/05/2009 5:27:49 PM PST by 50mm (AARP is a steaming pile)
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To: sunmars

Well I guess they got their answer.


13 posted on 11/05/2009 5:28:15 PM PST by rabidralph (http://www.thealaskafundtrust.com/ http://www.sarahpac.com)
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To: Glenn

What? Who murdered Pat Tillman, and why?

I thought he was killed by friendly fire in a battle?


14 posted on 11/05/2009 5:28:16 PM PST by roses of sharon (Call the NFL and welcome their new Commissioner, Al Sharpton.)
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To: markomalley

>> Federal law enforcement officials say the suspected Fort Hood, Texas, shooter had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats.

But, they’re such chickenshit, politically correct, job-preserving pension-saving pussies that they DIDN’T do a DAMN thing about it.

And now 13 (or more) of our bravest and best are dead, and another thirty or so face the rest of their lives broken and hurting — through no fault of their own.

I hope these “officials” suffer each and every day of their obsequious lives and die in utter misery and humiliation.


15 posted on 11/05/2009 5:28:31 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: markomalley
Political Correctness=Suicide
16 posted on 11/05/2009 5:28:32 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Obama, Hitler, Stalin: Who are 3 people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.)
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To: markomalley

What was his DUmmie handle?


17 posted on 11/05/2009 5:28:55 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: markomalley

Thank God for political correctness.


18 posted on 11/05/2009 5:29:10 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: markomalley

Another failure of the command ranks!!!


19 posted on 11/05/2009 5:29:33 PM PST by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: markomalley

Army veterans,..take a look at this and see if it looks legit...

http://thisainthell.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hassan-orb.jpg


20 posted on 11/05/2009 5:29:37 PM PST by Armedanddangerous (I think youre so full of inconsolable rage you don't care who you hurt)
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To: markomalley
Well, then we simply must have Homeland Security monitoring all Internet sites for dangerous hate speech right away!

I'm sure the NSA has the software handy...

21 posted on 11/05/2009 5:29:51 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: markomalley

So they were aware of this SIX MONTHS AGO..who was President six months ago..well, let’s see..unless I have been hiding under a rock, it wasn’t George W Bush..it was Barack Obama..this guy associated suicide bombers with soldiers who go on grenades to save soldiers..yet this whack job was still on active duty???


22 posted on 11/05/2009 5:30:09 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: markomalley

HEY, I’VE GOT AN IDEA.

LET’S IGNORE DIRTY MOSLEMS IN OUR MIDST, SO THEY CAN SHOOT WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN COLD BLOOD.

(We’re already pretending ONE dirty moslem isn’t posing as president, so what’s another few dirty moslems?)


23 posted on 11/05/2009 5:30:18 PM PST by Islam=Murder (Hitler hated his Jewish side, Omoslem hates his white side.)
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To: markomalley
..seems to me that rules for DISCHARGE have changed, or someone of higher rank DID NOT DO WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THEIR RANK....
24 posted on 11/05/2009 5:30:40 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Glenn

The reporting is so Vince Foster. FBI handling a military investigation on base?


25 posted on 11/05/2009 5:31:08 PM PST by Steamburg ( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: Islam=Murder
HEY, I’VE GOT AN IDEA. LET’S IGNORE DIRTY MOSLEMS IN OUR MIDST, SO THEY CAN SHOOT WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN COLD BLOOD.

Too late.....officials are already doing that.
26 posted on 11/05/2009 5:31:41 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Obama, Hitler, Stalin: Who are 3 people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.)
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To: markomalley

Can’t profile.


27 posted on 11/05/2009 5:32:10 PM PST by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
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To: markomalley

Bury that turd in a burlap sack filled with bacon.


28 posted on 11/05/2009 5:33:34 PM PST by Islam=Murder (Hitler hated his Jewish side, Omoslem hates his white side.)
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To: markomalley

Ah, the religion of peace strikes again. However, as the feds said, they’re not ‘discussing terrorism’.


29 posted on 11/05/2009 5:33:36 PM PST by hershey
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To: Steamburg

Let me say one thing about this tragedy: Texas will NOT sugar-coat this. I believe that is why the news conference is taking so long to materialize. If there is any anti-American sentiment; if they can point to this guy as a radical Muslim, leave it to the boys at Ft. Hood to tell the gd truth.


30 posted on 11/05/2009 5:34:11 PM PST by Galtoid ( .)
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To: 50mm
"Homeland Security was too busy watching Amish women with Don’t Tread On Me flag bumper stickers on their horse-drawn-buggies to investigate an obvious terrorist like Malik Hasan."

Yes but Amish is a bitterly clinging to your bible and guns religion.
While Islam is a religion of peace. /s

31 posted on 11/05/2009 5:34:30 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: hershey

Today, Omoslem finally found a soldier he’s proud to lead.


32 posted on 11/05/2009 5:35:01 PM PST by Islam=Murder (Hitler hated his Jewish side, Omoslem hates his white side.)
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To: markomalley
... shooter had come to their attention at least six months ago ...

But a little by sitting at his desk in school and drawing a picture of a gun might be lead away in handcuffs.

33 posted on 11/05/2009 5:35:17 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: markomalley
my guess cause the FEDs prolly never contacted the Army
34 posted on 11/05/2009 5:36:31 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: markomalley

I can only hope we have as many, or even half as many, “undercover” pretending to be one of them as they have openly living amongst us with such vile...


35 posted on 11/05/2009 5:37:42 PM PST by KeatsforFirstDog
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To: markomalley

Something tells me we’ll find an Eric Holder memo telling Justice to go slow when it comes to possibly offending muzzies with investigations.


36 posted on 11/05/2009 5:38:19 PM PST by BobL
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To: Galtoid

I sincerely hope that Washington isn’t calling the shots. It will really hurt if this gets the “Washington Expert Treatment”.


37 posted on 11/05/2009 5:38:38 PM PST by Steamburg ( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: markomalley

The mooselimb must have been on some Pentagon PC quota to be promoted.


38 posted on 11/05/2009 5:38:50 PM PST by ArtyFO (I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)
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To: hershey
Nope. No terrorism here. Just another case of Spontaneous Jihad Syndrome, an uncontrollable urge in innocent Muslims to kill Americans caused by prolonged living under the anti-Muslim bigotry of the racist USA.
39 posted on 11/05/2009 5:41:22 PM PST by Hugin (Sarah Palin: accept no substitutes!)
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To: BobL

My exact thought.


40 posted on 11/05/2009 5:41:53 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Obama's Deathcare ---- many will suffer and/or die unnecessarily.)
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To: markomalley
How much longer will we put up with a Fifth Column of people who at any moment may "get religion" and start taking the Koran seriously?
41 posted on 11/05/2009 5:43:30 PM PST by JoeFromSidney
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To: Armedanddangerous

NRP —> No Religion of Peace?


42 posted on 11/05/2009 5:45:21 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: markomalley

The guy just said on Hannity that they reported him up the chain and heard nothing back.


43 posted on 11/05/2009 6:09:57 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: PhiKapMom

Like I said earlier, the guys in Texas aren’t going to steer anyone wrong on this thing. The shooter was a head case, and all Hell will break loose over the fact that the Army was concerned about him six months ago, but didn’t act. They were most likely practicing the art of political correctness.


44 posted on 11/05/2009 7:26:55 PM PST by Galtoid ( .)
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To: markomalley

Bookmark...


45 posted on 11/05/2009 7:31:24 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: Red in Blue PA

Worse, they are actively recruiting Moslems to join military. Hopefully, that practice will stop.


46 posted on 11/05/2009 7:45:39 PM PST by luckystarmom
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To: markomalley

Let’s see now. Bad performance review and he came to the attention of authorities recently but he was promoted earlier this year to major. Makes perfect sense to me. /s


47 posted on 11/05/2009 7:50:56 PM PST by Joan Kerrey (The bigger the government = The smaller the people)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Probably “NidalMHasan - they are still “investigating” to see it was him or some other Nidal M. Hasan.


48 posted on 11/05/2009 8:13:12 PM PST by Gil4 (Sometimes it's not low self-esteem - it's just accurate self-assessment.)
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To: 50mm

Fire Napolitano now!


49 posted on 11/05/2009 8:27:14 PM PST by rfp1234
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To: Armedanddangerous

Yes, it looks legit....(of course, I, as the LAST draftee have been out for 37 years!)

Hed id basic, took the omat Casualty Course and went straightto the USU Medical school.

One thing that looks a bit odd, it shows him beginning his Fort Hood assignment at Darnell Army Hospital in JULY, when other reports indicate he began his assignment there in April.


50 posted on 11/05/2009 8:59:42 PM PST by cookcounty ("O-bama, O-bama, Ya ba Ouna, Ya ba Ma !!")
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