Posted on 11/05/2009 9:40:14 PM PST by Saije
According to retired Col. Mike Pheneger, who spent 30 years as a military intelligence officer including five years at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, said United States intelligence should be focusing on why suspected Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan did what he did.
It is possible that Hasan was merely unhappy about an imminent deployment to either Iraq or Afghanistan, as some have speculated, Pheneger said.
But Pheneger believes there are enough facts about Hasan's background that merit at least some suspicion about his motivation.
"One of the issues they're trying to figure out is whether the guy was simply individually motivated by his distaste with the Army and his unwillingness to go ahead and deploy or whether there's some more sinister aspect to the whole thing," Pheneger said.
Among the "more sinister aspects" that Pheneger suggested were that Hasan is a "lone wolf" who has sympathy for Islamic militancy and "decided to go act on his own to do some damage" or that he could have "consciously been placed as a plant in the U.S. Army."
Pheneger believes the last suggestion is the least likely but also the most sinister.
Late Thursday, federal law enforcement officials said Hasan had been on their radar for at least six months because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats.
Pheneger said Hasan's computer would be one place intelligence officers would be looking. They would also delve into Hasan's social network and check with intelligence sources to find out if Hasan had ever had contact with organizations around the world, he said.
"I normally take these things with a grain of salt," Pheneger said, "but the other factor that comes in here is this guy handles a gun awfully well for a doctor."
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Below is a really interesting background on the mass murdering Islamofascist from maggief:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2379404/posts?page=1850#1850
OBIT - HASAN , HANAN ISMAIL, (NORA)
Roanoke Times, The (VA) - Thursday, May 31, 2001
HASAN , Hanan Ismail, (Nora), 49, passed away Wednesday, May 30, 2001, surrounded by her loved ones. She was born in Palestine January 15, 1952 and came to the United States as a young girl. She moved to Roanoke in 1986 after her husband, the late Malik Hasan , came here the year before to begin what would be a successful business venture for the entire family. Nora became infamous in Roanoke for her leadership in running the Capitol Restaurant, formerly located on the Market. She was known for her ability to keep sometimes rowdy customers out of trouble and always had a warm meal for someone who otherwise would not have anything to eat that evening. She was also a major figure at the Community Grocery Store and in the establishment of the Mount Olive Grill and Bar. She was preceded in death by her husband three years ago. She is survived by her three sons, Nidal , Anas, and Eyad; her parents; six sisters; two brothers; 29 nieces and nephews; 2 great-nieces; and scores of extended family. She will be greatly missed by all those who knew her. Funeral services and prayers will be held May 31 at Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church at 1 p.m. Interment will follow in National Memorial Park. Please send condolences to the Hasan Family c / o Community Grocery, 124 Elm Avenue, SW, Roanoke, Va. 24016.
“Would we have tolerated known, vocal Nazi sympathizers during WW2? Hell no.”
One of my aunts was married to a German American, who served in WWI on our side.
Later in WWII he turned in two of his Uncles in Law, (they were married to his aunts) for being active Nazis.
The Male Nazis were sent to a high security prison, and the aunts were held in a federal minimum security prison for the duration of the war. After the war, the uncles were deported to Germany. The aunts went back to Germany by themselves a few years later, because they couldn’t get away from the stigmas of their husbands.
A totally different animal as compared to a Muslim psychiatrist. I know there are possible innocent explanations for his desire but the most likely one is the one I suggested.
I wish there were more like you as I am in Texas, too.
Thanks for the info!
I can see the medics wanting to be fully trained as they are on the front lines, but a doctor? I cannot feature the AF doctors I knew taking any opetional gun training and most didn’t even want to do the mandatory firing range — then the AF said only people headed for combat and none of the Medical Center doctors went back.
A AF psychiatrist doing gun training gives me the creeps.
Big deal.
Look how much 'missing life' the CIC has:
MISSING-HIDDEN DOCUMENTS:
Original, vault copy of Certificate of Live Birth in the USA -- Not Released (1 version hidden in Hawaii, Original (?) found in Kenya, multiple counterfeit documents released to vaccinate against the day the real one surfaces)
Certificate of Live Birth -- Released -- Proven Counterfeit ObamaFiles
Obama/Dunham marriage license -- Not released
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license -- Not released
Soetoro adoption records -- Not released
Fransiskus Assisi School School application -- Not Released
Punahou School records -- Not released
Selective Service Registration -- Released -- Proven Counterfeit
Occidental College records -- Not released
Passport used for the 1981 Pakistan trip -- Not released
Columbia College records -- Not released
Columbia thesis -- Not released
Harvard College records -- Not released
Harvard Law Review articles -- None (maybe 1, Not Signed)
Baptism certificate -- None
Medical records -- Not released
Illinois State Senate records -- None (Locked up to prohibit public view)
Illinois State Senate schedule -- Lost (All other Illinois state senators' records are intact)
Law practice client list -- Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles – None
Yeah. But perhaps they were hoping for more out of him, and he had premature jihadulation.
A sufficiently determined and oil riches funded enemy could groom, what? hundreds? thousands, tens of thousands? of plants for places of great and petty power.
Heck, they might even get lucky and have one elected to CIC.
THEORETICALLY it could happen...
Yes, on duty MPs are armed. I see them nearly everyday walking around post with their side-arms (9mm Barettas). When an MP goes off shift, he turns in his weapon to the arms room.
I just read that it was a female civilian police officer who had been directing traffic who took him out while being wounded herself. Would that be a Killeen police officer or what?
I don’t know for sure, but probably a DoD civilian police force member and not a member of the Kileen PD. There isn’t a reason that I can think of for a member of the Kileen PD to be directing traffic on post.
Why would President Hussein be upset about a Mohammedan following the dictates of the Holy Book of Islam? What might have upset him is that Malik Hassan did not die and gain Heaven with his intended martyrdom.
In most cases (especially Japanese Americans) obvious overkill, but we may have swung too far on the other side of the pendulum this time around. Just a non-expert opinion. For goodness sakes can't someone use some common sense? Obviously the guy had some kind of psychotic breakdown due in part to divided loyalties. DUH.
This whole “military all but disarmed when in garrison at home” thing is a child of political correctness. It is an historical anomaly for certain.
Officers and NCOs should be able to carry sidearms.
Honestly, I’m surprised something like this event didn’t happen sooner. The attack on the recruiters earlier this year should have been a wake up call.
I don’t care how long you have been thinking about it, whether it was planned or spontaneous, whether or not you have contacted other terrorists who egged you on, whether you are stressed or upset about your screwed up personal life, or if you have psychological problems.
If you yell “allah akbar” before gunning down innocent, defenseless human beings, you’re a f**king terrorist. Period.
Seen cases like this before myself. Poor bastards had no job decriptionns defined by either themselves or their Ranger MI Supervisors.
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