Battles brew over Fort Hood shooting suspect's troubled pas

LA Times ^ | May 22 2010 | Richard A. Serrano

[Brugmansian]

Early next month military attorneys will meet for a preliminary hearing into whether the 40-year-old Muslim who became an Army psychiatrist should be court-martialed and perhaps sentenced to die for the worst terrorist assault in this country since the Sept. 11, 2001, airplane attacks.

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee has taken the unusual step of issuing subpoenas demanding the records as part of its investigation into the Nov. 5 shooting spree. What they want to know, said committee chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), is "why was he not stopped before he took 13 American lives, and how can we prevent such a tragedy from happening again?''

At the same time, Hasan's defense attorney, John P. Galligan, a retired Army colonel from Belton, Texas, said he also has been deprived of the records despite repeated requests. Without the material, he said, it will be very difficult to defend Hasan at the hearing.

[Brugmansian]

Couldn't not turning over records to the defense, like you know, be grounds for an appeal? At least might it drag out, if convicted, the execution of sentence for quite some time? What motivate could there be for not providing the defense with everything?

[historyrepeatz]

BEHEAD the bastard. This was a planned terrorist attack. Of course, Obama wants us to think this was just another “accident” like TWA flight 800, but we know better.

[Kozak]

What they want to know, said committee chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), is "why was he not stopped before he took 13 American lives,

Because thanks in large part to your old comrades in the RAT party PC is the ruling principle in all things.

[sinanju]

As more comes out it wasn’t just Hasan’s correspondence with Awlawki, his bizarre powerpoint presentation or his arguing jihad with his own patients.

The man’s professional performance was subpar in just about every regard. He was on all manner of administrative and scholastic review. Hell, he couldn’t even keep his weight within the proper limits.

[jocon307]

“motivate could there be for not providing the defense with everything?”

Yes, that was a bit disturbing. Obvi (as my kid says) ultimately they are going to have to turn all this stuff over.

I know this sounds mean, but I’m glad the creep is paralyzed. The Army is just so incredibly guilty in this whole situation, it really is a sin. I can only wonder how many more jihadists are “serving” right now.

A very interesting article, good post!

[raybbr]

...Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), is "why was he not stopped before he took 13 American lives, and how can we prevent such a tragedy from happening again?''

It happened because people who think like you Joe have been in charge for too long.

Bah! I can't even say the things I want to say. I hate these people.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“But Andrew C. McCarthy, who led the federal prosecution of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case, said in an interview that it would cause problems if “Congress gets access to your eyewitnesses, has hearings about your evidence, and draws uninformed conclusions.”

So who is the most dangerous enemy of the United States?
The little mooselimb weasel only killed 13, some of the commie bastards in Congress have been responsible for killing thousands.

[brushcop]

Also, the upper echelon needs to be held accountable, their hands are not clean either, they knew what danger this idiot posed. Lives were sacrificed to the god PC, they must pay for their cowardice.

[Carley]

I wonder if he is truly paralyzed. I don’t trust anything coming from this bunch of liars.

And to think they are ‘considering’ the death penalty?

How can there be any doubt?

[Brugmansian]

But they're working on it.

Confronting a Resilient al-Qa'ida: The United States Strategic Response

Daniel Benjamin
Coordinator, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Washington, DC
May 21, 2010

. . .As President Obama succinctly put it, “A campaign against extremism will not succeed with bullets or bombs alone.”

We are working to develop a better understanding of the dynamics of the communities in which violent extremism has taken root. Every at-risk community possesses unique political, economic, and social factors that contribute to the radicalization process. For this reason, we know that one-size-fits-all programs have limited appeal. Instead, programs need to be tailored to fit the characteristics of the audience. “Micro-strategies” need to be customized for specific communities – and even neighborhoods – and they will have a better chance of succeeding and enduring . . .

Non-traditional actors such as NGOs, foundations, public-private partnerships, and private businesses are some of the most capable and credible partners in local communities.

The U.S. government and partner nations are also seeking to develop greater understanding of the linkages between Diaspora communities and ancestral homelands.

Through familial and business networks, events that affect one community have an impact on the other.

With the aid of credible messengers, the United States is trying to make the use of terrorist violence taboo and to trump the radical narrative, and also hope to offer something more hopeful.

President Obama’s effort to create partnerships with Muslim communities on the basis of mutual interest and mutual respect, as he outlined in speeches in Ankara and Cairo, provides an opportunity to promote a more positive story than the negative one promulgated by al-Qa’ida.

Clearly, we have not figured it all out . . .

We need to keep mind the words of the 9/11 Commission Report, which in this respect got it precisely right: “It is crucial”, they wrote “to find ways of routinizing and even bureaucratizing the exercise of the imagination.” This is really the paramount and enduring challenge we face . . .

[FMBass]

“Early next month military attorneys will meet for a preliminary hearing into whether the 40-year-old Muslim who became an Army psychiatrist should be court-martialed and perhaps sentenced to die for the worst terrorist assault in this country since the Sept. 11, 2001, airplane attacks.”

“should be court-martialed”????

“perhaps sentenced to die”???

Perhaps indeed!

[rfreedom4u]

Why doesn’t Hasan just provide the koran as his defense? After all it tells mooslums what to do and he did it.

[Brugmansian]

Yeah. He was just following orders! Its the truth too.

[livius]

Bambi’s going to get him off.

[Tzimisce]

why was he not stopped before he took 13 American lives,

We voted in liberal Democrats.

and how can we prevent such a tragedy from happening again?''

We vote out liberal Democrats.

[Chode]

skin that FPOS alive... then set his wretched azz on fire!!!

[La Enchiladita]

This should have been taken care of already. We’re at the six-month mark. I wonder sometimes if the two police officers, the man and the woman on scene, wake up at night wishing they had taken Hasan out.

I am so afraid of this going the wrong way and being used for political and propaganda purposes, not to mention the inevitable cover-up. We are not going to see a reversal of the PC that led to this horrific massacre of our finest.

[La Enchiladita]

What the hell is that? Satire,I hope....

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"What they want to know, said committee chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), is 'why was he not stopped before he took 13 American lives, and how can we prevent such a tragedy from happening again?''"

Joe, Joe, Joe. After Columbine, Virginia Tech, and now Ft. Hood, hasn't the common thread hit you in the face yet? In all cases, the victims were unarmed sitting ducks.

Just consider Cho's massacre at Virginia Tech. Two blocks away, in the Kroger's or in the movie theater, the assault would have been stopped in seconds by locals who pack. But not on the smugly hallowed grounds of the university, a proud gun-free zone, and now with the bloodstains to prove it.

And Ft. Hood is a freakin' Army base, yet the crazed Islamist Hasan was the only one with a gun. See the problem?

[Uncle Miltie]

Stonewall.

What are they hiding?

What did 0bummer know, and when did he know it?