Posted on 11/07/2009 6:25:39 PM PST by 1066AD
Tuesday 4pm
It may have been the first, small clue that an apparently ordinary week at the world's largest army base was about to become something horrifically different, when neighbours saw Major Nidal Hasan escorting a visitor into his flat.
Other residents at the Casa del Norte apartment complex were surprised to see the mild-mannered army officer accompanied by another man in Islamic dress.
Alice Thompson, 53, who manages the two storey block of simple dwellings with her husband John, told The Sunday Telegraph: "It was very unusual because he had never had anyone round before. His visitor had long black hair and a moustache and a dark complexion. He stayed about five minutes and then left. We'd never seen him before."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Anyone who lives on base can have a personal firearm. If you live in the barracks, enlisted or officers quarters etc your gun is kept in an armory where you check it in and out similar to your military weapon. If you live in housing on base you can keep your personal weapon(s) with you.
As far as driving on or off base and bringing a weapon in it’s hit or miss. If you happen to be the one pulled over for an inspection with a weapon then you better have a good reason.
Note also that the London paper isn’t afraid to use the word “Islamic”, and in the 2nd paragraph to boot.
In all fairness to CNN, I did hear about the mysterious Muslim last night on Anderson Cooper.
OMG I almost forgot, that's what a real journalist does.
This account is probably similar to that Beslan school hostage situation from Sept. 2004.
I am afraid that this is the future of a coordinated attack in American cities, malls, schools, and many churches. I pray that I am wrong, but I am of course prepared in the event that I am caught in the middle.
Well what better reason would you want
Let me post this question?
Why was a pregnant person being deployed to a war zone? One of the dead or injured was pregnant from what I read.
George,
From what I understand she found out she was pregnant while deployed and had just returned home. She was in the center that day to change her status due to her pregnancy.
She was returning from the war zone pregnant.
SZ
I don’t need no stinking link. The facts speak for themselves.
Hasan was known to this administration. His actions and opinions had attracted the attention of those he worked with, who reported him to the FBI, Homeland Security, and to the Pentagon. And did they do anything? No. Major Hasan had worked on the transition team for Obama’s Presedential administration, so he was known to officials if not the President himself. He had received lousy scores duing his last performance review, but was promoted to Major anyway, an action Presidents are involved in.
Hasan planned an act of terrorism. He condemned our right to protect ourselves from our enemies, who are radical Islamists. He calmly targeted unarmed people, executing them BECAUSE they were not Muslim.
This White House frequently intervenes on the part of radical blacks and Muslims: if you haven’t been following that information there is nothing I’m going to do to help you.
WHO controls the DoD, Homeland Security, and the Justice Department? Cabinet Secretaries, answerable to only to POTUS.
Those Department Secretaries do what the President wants; they serve at his discretion.
So the fix is in, the press conference was stalled so the message could be spun and Muslims protected by deflecting the truth - that this was an act of terrorism by an American-born Muslim.
I don’t doubt for a moment that this Administration is controlling the message. And if you believe the lie that Obama is a dedicated Christian because he claims he is, then you have a bigger problem than my telling you to seriously rethink what has happened the last two days.
We truly do get the best print news on our own country out of Britain now.
OK, if Al Qaeda trained a handful of men to come here, infiltrate over months into an army base, and then go nuts one day and shoot up a room, and then they kill 6 innocents, is that a terror attack?
What if ONE man who had never met Osama bin Laden but felt as he did went in and shot up 13 people while crying Allahu Akbar? Is that not a terror attack?
Wow got more info from one UK Paper than all the msm in U.S. combined.
You're right, Diogenesis.
She took a round through the femoral artery, and almost bled to death. There is a nerve bundle next to the femoral artery, high up on the leg. If that is destroyed, she may not walk again without huge pain.
And the bullet, which is an extremely high velocity bullet,like a rifle bullet in velocity ( 1800-1900 fps), may have shattered bones.
I pray she recovers completely, but her wounds are terrible to her legs. One round went through both of her legs.
Oh? Good for AC and CNN!
Good article, thank you for posting it.
I noticed several things: particularly the 5.7 FN rounds being referred to as “cop killer” rounds; in conjunction that the “over 100 rounds” and “five or six magazines” leads me to believe that the non-revolver gun was the FN FiveSeveN handgun and not the P-90/PS-90. {I have a fondness for the PS-90.}
The “cop-killer” round {steel cored} is unavailable to civilians; restricted to military & law-enforcement. (Unless the media is referring to the rifle-powered-round in a handgun definition; I hate that the term is so loosely defined.) I also wonder if this is going to drive that round’s caliber completely off the market due to a push from the gun-control crowd.
Which brings me to the final point. The military is, oddly enough, the leftist’s dream: your food, shelter, and medical-care are provide for by the government; further, your right to bear arms is heavily under the subordination of your command. {Look at the statement about private firearms and keeping them in the armory; a requirement on some bases.} Private firearms can also be verboten, as I recall hearing ad infinitum on my train-up at Ft. Dix as I prepared to go to Iraq.
The real lesson here is the one that, in all likelihood, won’t be adopted: The Army slogan/catch-phrase “Train as you fight.” When in Kuwait or Iraq you never went anywhere w/o your weapon; chow-hall, toilet, medical, finance... the only place you didn’t take it was the shower (for obvious maintenance reasons).
Ping
Lived in a nice duplex myself while my (very modest) house was being built, a few years ago.
There is also a Muslim neighborhood near the Mosque, which is in the city but a sort of separate area with not much around it. It has nice houses and I think some duplexes as well.
But apparently got that way while on "Mid" deployment R&R leave in Chicago.
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