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The Blaze Investigation: How Obama and the Army Betrayed the Victims of Fort Hood
The Blaze ^ | Wednesday, February 12, 2014 | Sara Carter

Posted on 02/12/2014 7:46:42 AM PST by kristinn

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a multi-part series telling the stories of the Fort Hood victims, revealing the hardships they have faced in the shooting's aftermath and the small victories they have found in survival. Hear from the victims themselves in the season two premiere of TheBlaze TV's For The Record, Wednesday at 8 p.m.

Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!”

Army Maj. Nidal Hasan’s words hung in the air along with the smell of gunpowder from his semi-automatic pistol.

On Nov. 5, 2009, the Fort Hood Army psychiatrist methodically and deliberately took the lives of 13 people, including a pregnant woman. Thirty-two others were wounded. The shooting is considered the worst mass murder on a military base in U.S. history, and more than four years later, the victims have yet to find closure.

For the surviving victims, life will never be the same. Retired Army Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford Jr. worked as a psychiatric specialist at the base and had met Hasan several times. He still has difficulty coming to grips with the horrors he witnessed. He’s haunted by the screams of his coworkers whose paths crossed with Hasan in the waiting room at Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Processing Center.

“Please, I’m pregnant, don’t shoot my baby! My baby,” cried Pvt. Francheska Velez, a 21-year-old from Chicago. Velez had returned home from her deployment in Iraq because of her pregnancy. Lunsford can still hear her pleading for her life.

Velez’s cries didn’t matter to Hasan, who shouted “God is great!” in Arabic before taking her life with his FN 5.7 semi-automatic pistol, which had been mounted with green and red lasers.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: forthood; fthood; nidalhassan

1 posted on 02/12/2014 7:46:42 AM PST by kristinn
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To: kristinn

BTTT

Thanks for posting this!

VERY interesting investigation!!!!


2 posted on 02/12/2014 7:48:04 AM PST by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: kristinn
The question is "why" (and why no accountability to a coup d'etat?)

Army Major Hasan was on the Presidential Transition Team
and served on the Homeland Security Policy Institute’s
presidential transition task force

3 posted on 02/12/2014 7:49:36 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: Diogenesis
Of all the filth we have on this mulatto bastard (but I repeat myself), THIS one directly identifies him as a muslim sympathizer.

What will ALWAYS baffle me is that no lawyer or judge or ANY legal entity has desired to take up arms against a rogue president/administration ... and if they have, it has gone nowhere ... which is an even GREATER bafflement.

4 posted on 02/12/2014 8:05:08 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Diogenesis
PS ... if .. during one minute speeches, Cruz or anyone else, for that matter, declared loudly .. and with anger .. "Mr President, honor the Ft Hood victims with the Purple Heart and lable Hasan a terrorist"

Wait an effective pregnant pause and conclude,

"Failure to do so is aiding and abetting the enemy"

Every day ... every day ... every day ...every day ...every day ...


SOME one would pick up the story and it would get SOME kind of ink/air time.

You just can't get up and say something once and expect it to do anything.

5 posted on 02/12/2014 8:10:16 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: knarf

Now we know why Maj Hassan wasn’t Hung on the spot.


6 posted on 02/12/2014 11:01:41 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

SOMEone had a gun that day ... and didn’t use it ... THAT’S the PC, chickenshit shame.


7 posted on 02/12/2014 12:09:16 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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