Posted on 02/03/2011 1:16:44 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal authorities ignored warnings that could have prevented a 2009 massacre at an Army base, two U.S. senators said in a report on Thursday that outlined intelligence failures similar to those in the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan -- an Army psychiatrist who had been dubbed by two colleagues as "a ticking time bomb" -- was charged with murder in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas that killed 13 and wounded 32.
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, and Susan Collins, the panel's top Republican, said in the probe that authorities had information indicating that Hasan, a Muslim born in the United States to immigrant parents, was a threat before the November 5, 2009, shootings.
"Although neither DoD (the Department of Defense) nor the FBI had specific information concerning the time, place or nature of the attack, they collectively had sufficient information to have detected Hasan's radicalization to violent Islamist extremism but failed both to understand and to act on it," they wrote.
The Army has received an assessment from experts on Hasan's mental health and is considering whether he should face court martial and potentially the death penalty.
Intelligence agencies learned that Hasan had contacts with an Islamist sympathetic to al Qaeda and relayed the information to law enforcement, but no action was taken, the report noted.
The report identified the Islamist only as "Suspected Terrorist" and several portions of the report were redacted.
U.S. officials have said Hasan had exchanged e-mails with Anwar al-Awlaki, an al Qaeda figure based in Yemen.
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They need volunteers to help send him to Hell. I’m in the area and can supply my own rifle and ammunition. 7.62X51, 7.62x39 or 5.56x41. Although I’d prefer the detail be armed with .22 LR handguns. It’ll do the job, but it will take while, and possibly multiple volleys.
Testimony at the Art. 32 hearing indicated that last words of the pregnant woman were “My Baby! My Baby”, before she herself bled out, she know her unborn baby had been hit. The baby died as well, but most accounts do not count that death, nor do the charges. The same sort of PC that allowed this to happen in the first place.
NAILED IT!
[ They did the same thing with the terrorist attacks of 9-11; they ignored them. ]
Look up Able Danger...
I doubt that, but he might get his sentence commuted to time served. Of course if he does, thousands will not re-enlist or join in the first place. But then again that would be a Good Thing from the Obamites perspective. They were going to cut the number of troops anyway, by something like 27,000, and they could still leave room for their "We won't ask, but you can tell/demonstrate all you want" allies.
I doubt that, but he might get his sentence commuted to time served. Of course if he does, thousands will not re-enlist or join in the first place. But then again that would be a Good Thing from the Obamites perspective. They were going to cut the number of troops anyway, by something like 27,000, and they could still leave room for their "We won't ask, but you can tell/demonstrate all you want" allies.
You hit the ball out of the park on the first pitch.
Now here is a PC minefield.
Diagnose him as mentally disturbed and you are saying that all conservative Muslims are crazy.
Diagnose him as sane and you are saying that conservative Muslims are inherently dangerous mass murders.
NOT MISSED! - IGNORED IN THE NAME OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!
Worth repeating
If a muslim acts like a nutjob you are not allowed to say a word.
Who ever runs with the campaign slogan NO MORE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and no more big government; will get my vote and I don’t care if it’s Sam Hill.
he’s a moslem, what other clue do they need?
Slather him in pig fat and kill him. Send him off to hell in a big way. (Then round up his family that remains moslem and do the same to them)
Whenever it comes down to human lives and avoiding political unpopularity, politicians will always choose the latter.
Add to this Bradley Manning’s little temper tantrum and look what we’ve got.
“...sufficient information to have detected Hasan’s radicalization to violent Islamist extremism...”
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What does one do when one detects such change in a muslim colleage at work and whom should it be reported to without getting sued in todays PC society?
I guess that all one can do is say nothing and wait untill the sh*t hit the fan and then mumble: ‘See I told you so’.
The left is perfectly willing and happy to sacrifice innocent lives on the altar of political correctness.
Newsmax carried several stories on Able Danger.
Newsmax example:
Clinton Lawyers: Mohamed Atta Off-Limits
A year before the 9/11 attacks, Clinton administration lawyers told a group of military intelligence officers that information they had developed on 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta could not be shared with the FBI, saying of Atta himself: “You can’t even touch him - it doesn’t matter what information you have.”
To the left, the army is evil. They are doing everything they can to reduce its effectiveness. They don’t care about the soldiers who were killed.
Missed it?
What Obama didn’t want him doing this?
Give me a break .. Obama did all he could do “not to be rash” and place blame .. remember?
he will be due for a presidential pardon then a medal
Diagnose him as mentally disturbed and you are saying that all conservative Muslims are crazy.
Diagnose him as sane and you are saying that conservative Muslims are inherently dangerous mass murders.
BOTH ARE TRUE!
So did the report mention the fact that Hasan was not reported, or flagged, because of the fear of not being promoted on the accusation of being ‘judgmental’ or discriminatory against a ‘minority’? When an official report comes out stating flat out that those 14 people (13 adults, and one unborn child) died because of political correctness, I’ll pay attention to it.
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