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Judge rejects Ft. Hood Jihadist's new defense strategy that he was defending Taliban

The Islamic circus down in Texas takes a turn in the Fort Hood jihad case. Four years and counting.

Robert Spencer writes, "Hasan wants to put America's misadventure in Afghanistan on trial, and Osborn has blocked that, saying that 'the legitimacy of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan is "a non-justiciable political question not before the court."' All right. But barring him from doing this will also obscure the fact, still disputed by the U.S. government, that he is an Islamic jihadist, and that Islamic jihadists consider that their allegiance to Islam overrides any national loyalties. The idea that a Major in the American Army would murder Americans in defense of Islamic jihadists in Afghanistan would have been illuminating in many ways amid a universal mainstream media and government determination to ignore, deny, and downplay the reality of Islamic jihad. But this whole trial has been a comedy of errors and politically correct absurdities already -- why stop now?"

Judge rejects accused Ft. Hood shooter's new defense strategy LA Times, July 14, 2013

In this courtroom sketch, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, right, sits beside his former defense attorneys Maj. Joseph Marcee, left, and Lt. Col. Kris Poppe, whom the judge, Col. Tara Osborn, has tried to maintain as his advisors. Osborn has rejected Hasan's new defense strategy, that he shot Ft. Hood troops to protect Taliban leaders in Afghanistan. (Brigitte Woosley / Associated Press / June 11, 2013)

HOUSTON -- A military judge on Friday rejected a new defense strategy by accused Ft, Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, said during an afternoon hearing at the Army base that she would not allow Hasan to argue that he shot Ft. Hood soldiers to protect Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, as he had proposed.

Hasan, 42, an American-born Muslim, is charged with premeditated murder and attempted murder in connection with the deaths of 13 people and wounding of 32 others in the attack on Nov. 5, 2009. If convicted, he faces a possible death sentence.

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, proposed his new defense after successfully petitioning the judge to allow him to defend himself, saying he attacked soldiers preparing to deploy to Afghanistan in 2009 because they posed a threat to Taliban leaders. His previous efforts to plead guilty were rejected on the grounds that military law does not allow such pleas in capital cases.

Fort Hood jihadi blasts Obama: It wasn't "workplace violence," "I was defending Taliban" in attack

This would be comical if it weren't so monstrous. Jihadis yelling at Obama, "it's jihad, stupid!" Imagine, this is the President of the United States eleven years after 911, with his head planted firmly in his favorite place. Quite deliberately, I assure you.

The victims of the Fort Hood jihadi deserve benefits and combat honors. Obama is a disgrace and a traitor.

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Fort Hood shooter blasts Obama admin story
'I was defending Taliban' in attack Washington called 'workplace violence'

For years, the Obama administration has maintained that the victims of the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, for which Islamist Maj. Hidal Hasan is charged, simply were in the crosshairs of a situation of “workplace violence.”

The victims – 13 people were killed and nearly another three dozen were injured when, according to witnesses, Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar” and started firing at people – have been denied benefits and combat honors because the government insisted there was no link to terror.

Now, however, the defendant himself is taking that off the table.

As part of his defense, he has demanded to represent himself in his still-unscheduled trial, and this week asked for a delay of several months so that he could prepare his defense which will be built on the idea he did the shootings “in defense of others.”

When asked by the judge, Col. Tara Osborn, to identify those he was “protecting,” Hasan said, “The leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban” and its leader, Mullah Omar.

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist at Fort Hood, is accused of walking into the Soldier Readiness Center on the base Nov. 5, 2009, and opening fire on his fellow soldiers.

The attack didn’t stop until Hasan himself was shot and paralyzed.

A survivor reported Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or “Allah is greatest,” a phrase commonly uttered by jihadists prior to carrying out an attack. The Fort Hood attack was the worst shooting on an American military base.

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Hasan had been on federal officials’ radar screen for at least six months prior to the shooting over postings he made on the Internet. He likened a suicide bomber who kills women and children to a soldier who throws himself on a grenade to give his life in a “noble cause.”

Intelligence officials also intercepted at least 18 emails between Hasan and the radical American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. Hasan told al-Awlaki in one of the emails, “I can’t wait to join you” in paradise. He also asked al-Awlaki whether it was appropriate to kill innocents in a suicide attack, when jihad was acceptable and how to transfer funds without attracting government notice.

In spite of this, Attorney General Eric Holder declined to press terrorism charges against Hasan. Instead the government has labeled the shooting as a case of “workplace violence.” During a memorial service for the victims, President Obama never once used the word terrorism.

The designation has prevented survivors and the victim’s families from receiving Purple Hearts and being able to obtain combat-related special compensation.

Obama on Anwar Awlaki vs. Obama on his student, Fort Hood Jihadi Nidal Hasan

As previously posted here, Jihad beheading victim Lee Rigby will receive the same tribute as soldiers who die in action, but Fort Hood jihad victims are victims of a "criminal act of single individual," not international terrorism.

Why would Obama authorize a drone hit on Awlaki (who never killed anyone), but not give the victims of his Islamic preachings the same military designation?

It took just hours for England's Prime Minister to say a gruesome knife and cleaver attack on a serviceman in London was likely an act of terrorism. In the U.S., more than three years since a much deadlier domestic assault on American troops -- the 2009 Fort Hood massacre that claimed 13 lives, including that of a pregnant soldier -- a top Army attorney maintains that incident was likely a "criminal act of a single individual."

"...[T]he available evidence in this case does not, at this time, support a finding that the shooting at Fort Hood was an act of international terrorism," Lt. Gen. Dana Chipman said this week in a letter to Rep. Thomas Rooney (R-Fla.) on behalf of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.

From MEMRI: Anwar Al-Awlaki On Maj. Nidal Hasan And The Fort Hood Attack

Al-Awlaki Article States Hasan Is His Student, Expresses Support For His Deeds – And Is Transformed By Online Jihadi Follower Into Jihadi Music Video

Four days after the Fort Hood attack, Al-Awlaki stated in an article he posted on his now-defunct website Anwar-alawlaki.com that Hasan was a "hero" and "a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people. This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside and just pretend that it doesn't exist. Any decent Muslim cannot live, understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims, and yet serve as a U.S. soldier."

Justifying Hasan's attack, Al-Awlaki continued: "The U.S. is leading the war against terrorism, which in reality is a war against Islam. Its army is directly invading two Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges. Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done? In fact, the only way a Muslim could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the U.S. army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of men like Nidal. The heroic act of brother Nidal also shows the dilemma of the Muslim American community..." Al-Awlaki concluded his posting by offering prayers for Hasan, "May Allah grant our brother Nidal patience, perseverance, and steadfastness, and we ask Allah to accept from him his great heroic act. Ameen."[1]

Anwar Al-Awlaki's article praising Nidal Hasan has been set to music and distributed via various jihadi websites and YouTube. One such video, titled "Sheikh Anwar Al-Awlaki Exposes the Truth," posted on YouTube on February 4, 2010, was produced by YouTube user and London-based Islamist "dcfnfb," shows Al-Awlaki's words scrolling across the screen: "Nidal Hasan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people... The fact that fighting against the U.S. army is an Islamic duty today cannot be disputed. No scholar with a grain of Islamic knowledge can defy the clear cut proofs that Muslims today the right – rather the duty – to fight against American tyranny. Nidal has killed soldiers who were about to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in order to kill Muslims... May Allah grant our brother Nidal patience, perseverance, and steadfastness, and we ask Allah to accept from his great heroic act. Amen."[2]

Al-Awlaki Tells Al-Jazeera About His Personal Relationship With Hasan

The month after the attack, in Sana'a, Yemen, Al-Awlaki told jihadi forum member Abdelela Haidar Shayie, in an interview posted December 23, 2009 on Al-Jazeera, that he had first been contacted by Hasan a year earlier. Almost as soon as the interview was posted, it was picked up by numerous jihadi forums, where members added their praise for both Al-Awlaki and Hasan. On the Al-Falluja forum, to which Abdelela Haidar Shayie belongs, members praised the latter and also asked Allah to heal Hasan and grant him patience.

Along with the interview, Al-Jazeera reported, "Before carrying out the operation, Major Nidal was in touch with Al-Awlaki, and asked him about the religious legitimacy of the [planned] operation and about his role as a Muslim in the American army." The article also quoted Hasan in his communication with Al-Awlaki: "You are the only Muslim Imam who lived in America and who understands Allah's words and knows well how to address people with a Western mentality.'..."

The following are excerpts from the Aljazeera.net interview with Al-'Awlaki:[3]

Question: "What is your connection with Nidal Hasan, and when did it begin?"

Answer: "Nidal Hasan prayed at my mosque when I was imam at the Dar Al-Hijra mosque."

Q: "When was your first meeting?"

A: "About nine years ago, when I was imam of the Dar Al-Hijra mosque in the capital Washington, a mosque which is one of the biggest Islamic centers in America."

Q: "[There are] reports that there was more than that."

A: "Brother Nidal used to contact me via email last year, until the middle of this year."

Q: "When did the correspondence with Nidal begin?"

A: "I got the first message from Nidal on December 17, 2008."

Q: "Who initiated the correspondence, you or him?"

A: "He initiated the correspondence with me."

Q: "What did the correspondence contain?"

A: "He was asking about killing American soldiers and officers. [He asked] whether this is a religiously legitimate act or not."

Q: "So he asked you that question about a year before the operation was carried out?"

A: "Yes. And I wondered how the American security agencies, who claim to be able to read car license plate numbers from space, everywhere in the world, I wondered how [they did not reveal this]."

Read the rest here.

Former Counterterrorism Head: FBI Never Called Ft. Hood 'Workplace Violence'

It was Obama and his Muslim Brotherhood officials in his administration who called it workplace violence. What is so ghastly is that the Obama administration was more concerned with the welfare mass murdering jihadist than with the US soldiers who were killed.

U.S. Army soldiers bow their heads in prayer for their fallen comrades during the III Corps and Fort Hood Memorial Ceremony (Nov. '09)

The Obama administration's refusal to give the vicitms Purple Hearts speaks more to Obama's narcissism and self-obsession. It would mean Obama was the first President to issue Purple Hearts for acts of bravery on American soil since .....  Pearl Harbor. There is no way such a stain could be effaced from his record.

That tells you everything. And the way our Military brass has rolled over on all this is devastating. 

Former Counterterrorism Head: FBI Never Called Ft. Hood 'Workplace Violence' Breitbart, May 20, 2013 (thanks to Van)

Michael Steinbach, former head of the FBI’s counterterrorism division and now special agent in charge of Miami, told over 30 congressional staffers in March of 2012 that, contrary to the White House's classification, the bureau does not refer to the Fort Hood shooting as "workplace violence." As head of the FBI counterterrorism division, Steinbach oversaw the investigation into the mass murder at Texas Army base.

Steinbach made this claim during an unclassified counterterrorism briefing on Capitol Hill. 

“Do you guys teach your agents that Fort Hood was workplace violence?” one staffer asked.

“I’m not gonna go there for you,” Steinbach responded.

“I think that’s along the lines of what we’re trying to discern here,” the staffer answered back.

“I appreciate it. I was just at a hearing yesterday and the very same question came up to our executive assistant director to the head (inaudible). No, that’s not the description of it. In that case, we took a very, very hard look at ourselves as well,” Steinbach explained.

"I’ll leave that to whoever said that to explain their words," Steinbach concluded. "I have not heard it used at the FBI.”

The Department of Defense classified the Fort Hood shooting as “workplace violence.” Such a classification has denied the victims of the attack purple hearts and medical care Americans wounded overseas in combat zones would receive. 

According to ABC News, a Pentagon position paper issued on March 29 says that issuing purple hearts to the victims would “irrevocably alter the fundamental character of this time-honored decoration” and “undermine the prosecution of Major Nidal Hasan [the alleged Fort Hood shooter] by materially and directly compromising Major Hasan’s ability to receive a fair trial.”

The Army’s chief of staff at the time of the Fort hood attack, Gen. George Casey, said in November of 2012: “As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”

Dhimmi Defense Department says giving Purple Heart to Fort Hood Jihad victims would hurt Hasan trial

"This wasn't 'workplace violence.' It was a terrorist act. He was performing his jihad." -- Fort Hood survivor.

  

The Department of Defense is refusing to give Purple Hearts to the victims of the Fort Hood jihad and is blocking support of such a move by any means necessary, because it might hurt the long overdue prosecution of the vile Nidal Hasan. Despite extensive evidence that Hasan was in communication with al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki prior to the attack, the military has denied the victims a Purple Heart and is treating the incident as "workplace violence" instead of "combat related" or terrorism.

This is Obama's Pentagon -- killer over victim. Jihadi murderer over infidel victim. Obama's DoD is refusing the proper recognition of the victims of the Fort Hood jihad because such a provision will be viewed as setting the stage for a formal declaration that Major Hasan is a terrorist. That religious savage is a terrorist. Hasan was wearing the garb of the shaheed the morning of his jihad. Hasan was giving out qurans the morning of his jihad. His business card said "soldier of allah." He was ululating allahu akbar as he slaughtered our soldiers in cold blood.

Awlaki is dead, but Hasan is still on the army payroll. Please, people, write your congressmen today.

Defense Department says giving Purple Heart to Fort Hood survivors would hurt Hasan trial FOX News, March 30 2013

Legislation that would award the injured from the 2009 Fort Hood shooting the Purple Heart would adversely affect the trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan by labeling the attack terrorism, according to a Defense Department document obtained by Fox News.

The document comes following calls from survivors and their families for the military honor, because they say Fort Hood was turned into a battlefield when Hasan opened fire during the November 2009 attack. Fox News is told that the DOD “position paper” is being circulated specifically in response to the proposed legislation.

The document reads in part:

Members of Congress Demand Obama Administration Classify Ft. Hood Attack as an 'Act of Terrorism'

Finally. This is monstrous. This story is close to four years old. Why did this take so long? And why did ABC wait until after election to run this terrible miscarriage of justice? 

How far will the jihad sympathizer in the White House push this?

Members of Congress Demand Obama Administration Classify Ft. Hood Attack as an 'Act of Terrorism' ABC News

In the wake of an ABC News story detailing claims by victims of the Fort Hood shooting that they have been neglected by the military and 'betrayed' by President Obama, the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee has sent a letter to his fellow members of Congress demanding that the Obama administration classify the attack as a terrorist act and provide full benefits to the victims and their families.

"It is time for the administration to recognize the Fort Hood shooting for what it is—an act of terrorism," wrote Rep. Michael McCaul, R.-Texas, in a letter cosigned by Rep. Frank Wolf, R.-Virginia. "To date, the Department of Defense and the Army classify this attack [as] 'workplace violence,' despite mountains of evidence [that] clearly proves the Ft. Hood shooting was an act of terror."

The letter recommends that members of Congress view the ABC News report, "which highlights the broken promises made to the victims of that attack by the Obama Administration. The video contains never-seen-before footage of the terrorist attack and moving interviews with several of the survivors."

"As this news piece makes clear," wrote McCaul and Wolf, "the result of this inexcusable [workplace violence] classification … is that victims and their families have not received the same recognition or medical and financial benefits as those wounded or killed in war."

Exclusive Video of Fort Hood Shooting Aftermath Watch Video

Ft. Hood Hero: Obama 'Betrayed' Victims Watch Video

In a report that aired on "World News with Diane Sawyer" and "Nightline," former police sergeant Kimberly Munley, who helped stop the Ft. Hood shooting, said that President Obama broke the promise he made to her that the victims would be well taken care of.

"Betrayed is a good word," said Munley, who sat next to First Lady Michelle Obama at the 2010 State of the Union address. "Not to the least little bit have the victims been taken care of … In fact, they've been neglected."

There was no comment from the White House about Munley's allegations.

Thirteen people were killed, including a pregnant soldier, and 32 others shot in the Nov. 5, 2009 rampage by the accused shooter, Major Nidal Hasan, at the Army base in Killeen, Texas. Hasan now awaits a military trial on charges of premeditated murder and attempted murder.

WATCH Exclusive Video of Fort Hood's Aftermath

Despite extensive evidence that Hasan was in communication with al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki prior to the attack, the military has denied the victims a Purple Heart and is treating the incident as "workplace violence" instead of "combat related" or terrorism.

READ a Federal Report on the FBI's Probe of Hasan's Ties to al-Awlaki

Al-Awlaki has since been killed in a U.S. drone attack in Yemen, in what was termed a major victory in the U.S. efforts against al Qaeda.

Fort Hood Hero Says President Obama 'Betrayed' Her, Other Victims of Fort Hood Jihad

It's going on four years and ABC is finally covering this now. The White House has withheld evidence in the investigation of this jihadist attack. And this savage is still receiving his pay, while the heroes that brought down Hasan have long been laid off. "Workplace violence" indeed. Perhaps the failed Obama presidency would be better described as "workplace violence" (Benghazi, Algeria, Egypt ....)

ABC News:

Three years after the White House arranged a hero's welcome at the State of the Union address for the Fort Hood police sergeant and her partner who stopped the deadly shooting there, Kimberly Munley says President Obama broke the promise he made to her that the victims would be well taken care of.

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Munley, since laid off from her job with the base's civilian police force, was shot three times as she and her partner, Sgt. Mark Todd, confronted Hasan, who witnesses said had shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire on soldiers being processed for deployment to Afghanistan.
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Despite extensive evidence that Hasan was in communication with al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki prior to the attack, the military has denied the victims a Purple Heart and is treating the incident as "workplace violence" instead of "combat related" or terrorism.

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New video shows the chaotic scene of the Fort Hood terrorist attack, which the government prefers to describe as 'workplace violence.' Such a politically correct designation means that the heroic victims of this tragedy are denied full recognition and proper medical care, which has caused a growing number to condemn and sue the Obama administration.

Three years after the White House arranged a hero's welcome at the State of the Union address for the Fort Hood police sergeant and her partner who stopped the deadly shooting there, Kimberly Munley says President Obama broke the promise he made to her that the victims would be well taken care of.

"Betrayed is a good word," former Sgt. Munley told ABC News in a tearful interview to be broadcast tonight on "World News with Diane Sawyer" and "Nightline."

"Not to the least little bit have the victims been taken care of," she said. "In fact they've been neglected."

There was no immediate comment from the White House about Munley's allegations.

Thirteen people were killed, including a pregnant soldier, and 32 others shot in the November 2009 rampage by the accused shooter, Major Nidal Hasan, who now awaits a military trial on charges of premeditated murder and attempted murder.

Tonight's broadcast report also includes dramatic new video, obtained by ABC News, taken in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, capturing the chaos and terror of the day.

WATCH Exclusive Video of Fort Hood's Aftermath

Munley, since laid off from her job with the base's civilian police force, was shot three times as she and her partner, Sgt. Mark Todd, confronted Hasan, who witnesses said had shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire on soldiers being processed for deployment to Afghanistan.

As Munley lay wounded, Todd fired the five bullets credited with bringing Hasan down.

Judge removed in Fort Hood Jihad trial "not impartial"

The Judge refused to submit to Islamic law so ..... he's off the case. He wasn't impartial enough. Got that?

"Breaking news: Judge removed in Fort Hood shooting rampage case" Dallas News (thanks to Van)

FORT HOOD -- A military appeals court has thrown out a judge's order to forcibly shave the Fort Hood shooting suspect and removed the judge from the case.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled Monday that Col. Gregory Gross didn't appear impartial while presiding over the case of Maj. Nidal Hasan.

Hasan faces the death penalty if convicted in the 2009 shootings on the Texas Army post that killed 13 people and wounded more than two dozen.

Hasan appealed after Gross ordered that he must be clean-shaven or be forcibly shaved before the court-martial. Hasan says his beard is a requirement of his Muslim faith, but facial hair violates Army rules.

The appeals court says the command, not the judge, is responsible for enforcing grooming standards.

More details to come.

UPDATE: Munley blasts Appeals Court rulings in Hasan case  (thanks to Mike) 

CAROLINA BEACH, NC (WECT/AP) – One victim of the Fort Hood shooting spree is upset over Monday's court decisions in the case of Major Nidal Hasan, the suspect in the massacre.

Kimberly Munley, the former civilian officer who was shot several times trying to stop the shooting, released a statement responding to rulings of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. The court on Monday ousted the judge from the case, ruling Col. Gregory Gross didn't appear impartial while presiding over Maj. Hasan's case. The court also threw out Col. Gross' order that Hasan be forcibly shaved. Hasan says his beard is a requirement of his Muslim faith, but facial hair violates Army rules.

The appeals court says the command, not the judge, is responsible for enforcing grooming standards.

"In response to the most recent decision of the US Court of Appeals in reference to the Hasan trial, I am utterly appalled!" was Munley's response in an email to WECT.  "On Oct 18, 2012, the next lower Appellate Court (The US Army Court of Criminal Appeals) ruled in favor of Judge Gross to have the suspect forcibly shaved and to allow the Judge to continue overseeing the case. Today's decision by the USCA, in my opinion, is a further ploy to delay this trial to avoid the truth from being revealed that Major Hasan's bloody massacre could have been prevented if the Government would have done their job."

Hasan faces the death penalty if convicted in the Nov. 2009 shooting spree on the Army post in Texas. The shooting killed 13 people and wounded more than two dozen others.  Munley was shot four times in the exchange of gunfire with the suspect. Munley has become a spokesperson for a group petitioning for the Department of Defense to consider the incident as "a terrorist attack" instead of "a workplace shooting", so victims and their families can receive proper benefits.

"It further supports the fact that there is an extensive effort to cover up "Political Correctness" that occurred in the facts leading up to this incident and that continues to occur to this day," Munley continued in her statement. "Unfortunately, the accused will continue to receive pay and benefits until he is convicted and I do not believe this conviction will happen within the next year due to this circumstance. It's already been over three years and the victims deserve justice! No other military trial in history has taken this long. Please visit WWW.TRUTHABOUTFORTHOOD.COM to see what you can do to help remedy this issue and to help get the victims the benefits they deserve."

Major Hasan should have faced a firing squad in 2009. Instead, he still receives government checks (while the two cops that took him down have been fired).

Obama's #epicfail: 148 victims, family members in Fort Hood shootings sue Obama administration

Obama's cover-up of jihad will not go unchallenged by patriots and the families of the victims of devout Muslim Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood. They are forced to sue for justice.

"Reloading, firing again, reloading firing again" while screaming allahu akbar ...Fort Hood jihad victim

Watch this video: The Truth about Jihad

Major Hasan was a self-proclaimed soldier of allah. Hasan, the Fort Hood jihadi, is a hero to jihadists the world over -- celebrated and lionized by terror groups and leaders. Major Muslim Hasan distributed Qurans and his card, calling infidels to convert to Islam on the day of his jihad (dawah). He wore the garb of the shaheed on the day of his jihad. He war-cried "allahu akbar" when he opened fire on our troops in cold blood.

Obama refuses to allow Fort Hood to be labeled terror. Instead, it is "workplace violence," which means that the victims and their families are unable to collect combat pay. Who is more deserving of combat pay? We must right this horrible wrong by a feckless and reckless commander-in-chief.

Fort Hood victims see similarities to Benghazi

Major Nidal Hassan came out as a jihadi on grand rounds. The other doctors who worked with him would whisper among themselves that he was a ticking time bomb, but were reluctant to report him lest they be labeled racistislamophobicantimuslimbigots.

"148 victims, family members in Fort Hood shootings sue government for compensation" By Pete Yost, The Associated Press | 11/5/2012

WASHINGTON - On the third anniversary of the Fort Hood rampage, 148 victims and family members are suing the U.S. Government and seeking compensation over the attack allegedly carried out by an Army psychiatrist who is awaiting trial.

The shooting at the Army base in Texas killed 13 people and wounded more than two dozen others.

The lawsuit alleging negligence by the government says that the Defence Department is avoiding legal and financial responsibility for the killings by referring to the shootings as "workplace violence" rather than as a terrorist attack.

The group also is suing the estate of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical U.S.-born Islamic cleric who the victims say inspired the Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Hasan, to carry out the attack. The two men exchanged emails before the shootings.

Obama's Fort Hood taqiyya: Sanction of jihad as "workplace violence" #savage

"Reloading, firing again, reloading firing again" while screaming allahu akbar ...Fort Hood jihad victim
(CNN news report below)

Watch this video: The Truth about Jihad

Major Hassan was a self-proclaimed soldier of allah. Hasan, the Fort Hood jihadi, is a hero to jihadists the world over -- celebrated and lionized by terror groups and leaders. Major Muslim Hasan distributed Qurans and his card, calling infidels to convert to Islam on the day of his jihad (dawah). He wore the garb of the shaheed on the day of his jihad. He war-cried "allahu akbar" when he opened fire on our troops in cold blood.

Obama refuses to allow Fort Hood to be labeled terror. Instead, it is "workplace violence," which means that the victims and their families are unable to collect combat pay. Who is more deserving of combat pay? We must right this horrible wrong by a feckless and reckless commander-in-chief.

Fort Hood victims see similarities to Benghazi

Maj. Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood Shooter And Lone-Wolf Jihadi, Celebrated And Lionized By Terror Groups And Leaders

Because in Islam, the Fort Hood jihadi is a hero, a warrior.

Maj. Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood Shooter And Lone-Wolf Jihadi, Celebrated And Lionized By Terror Groups And Leaders – Al-Qaeda, AQAP, Taliban, IMU, And More – As Well As Top Online Jihadi Forums, Media Outlets

By: Steven Stalinsky*, MEMRI

Introduction

The trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan, sole suspect in the November 5, 2009 Fort Hood shooting, is set to begin August 20, 2012; he is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.

The following report, which comprises documentation by the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor project, presents jihadi media interviews with Anwar Al-Awlaki, radical Yemeni-American sheikh and leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) who was killed in a drone strike on September 30, 2011, in which he discusses his relationship with Hasan and the Fort Hood shooting; reactions to the shooting from jihadi media outlets; recent remarks by online Al-Qaeda activists about the shooting as a model for future attacks; and reactions of other Al-Qaeda leaders: American Al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn, AQAP leaders, the Taliban, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), and other jihadi groups.

The shooting by Hasan threw Al-Qaeda leaders, its main media outlets, and its followers online into paroxysms of ecstasy; as a U.S. Army serviceman carrying out a lone-wolf attack against other U.S. servicemen, he has been lionized by prominent jihadis of all stripes. Al-Awlaki called him a "hero" and a "man of conscience"; American Al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn characterized him as a "pioneer, a trailblazer, and a role model"; Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and its leaders praised him as a "hero" and an "heroic fighter," and the Taliban called him "courageous." The attack itself was termed "heroic" by Al-Qaeda's American spokesman Adam Gadahn, Al-Awlaki, and others.

Al-Qaeda and jihadi groups worldwide are continuing to point to Hasan as a role model and the Fort Hood attack as a paradigm. Articles about Hasan have been turned into music videos, posted on YouTube and jihadi forums; his face is used for avatars for jihadis' Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and other social media accounts, and in media by the Al-Qaeda media company Al-Sahab and articles about him have been published in Inspire. In short, Maj. Nidal Hasan has become a jihadi legend.

Anwar Al-Awlaki On Maj. Nidal Hasan And The Fort Hood Attack

Al-Awlaki Article States Hasan Is His Student, Expresses Support For His Deeds – And Is Transformed By Online Jihadi Follower Into Jihadi Music Video

Four days after the Fort Hood attack, Al-Awlaki stated in an article he posted on his now-defunct website Anwar-alawlaki.com that Hasan was a "hero" and "a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people. This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside and just pretend that it doesn't exist. Any decent Muslim cannot live, understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims, and yet serve as a U.S. soldier."

Justifying Hasan's attack, Al-Awlaki continued: "The U.S. is leading the war against terrorism, which in reality is a war against Islam. Its army is directly invading two Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges. Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done? In fact, the only way a Muslim could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the U.S. army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of men like Nidal. The heroic act of brother Nidal also shows the dilemma of the Muslim American community..." Al-Awlaki concluded his posting by offering prayers for Hasan, "May Allah grant our brother Nidal patience, perseverance, and steadfastness, and we ask Allah to accept from him his great heroic act. Ameen."[1]

Anwar Al-Awlaki's article praising Nidal Hasan has been set to music and distributed via various jihadi websites and YouTube. One such video, titled "Sheikh Anwar Al-Awlaki Exposes the Truth," posted on YouTube on February 4, 2010, was produced by YouTube user and London-based Islamist "dcfnfb," shows Al-Awlaki's words scrolling across the screen: "Nidal Hasan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people... The fact that fighting against the U.S. army is an Islamic duty today cannot be disputed. No scholar with a grain of Islamic knowledge can defy the clear cut proofs that Muslims today the right – rather the duty – to fight against American tyranny. Nidal has killed soldiers who were about to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in order to kill Muslims... May Allah grant our brother Nidal patience, perseverance, and steadfastness, and we ask Allah to accept from his great heroic act. Amen."[2]

Al-Awlaki Tells Al-Jazeera About His Personal Relationship With Hasan

The month after the attack, in Sana'a, Yemen, Al-Awlaki told jihadi forum member Abdelela Haidar Shayie, in an interview posted December 23, 2009 on Al-Jazeera, that he had first been contacted by Hasan a year earlier. Almost as soon as the interview was posted, it was picked up by numerous jihadi forums, where members added their praise for both Al-Awlaki and Hasan. On the Al-Falluja forum, to which Abdelela Haidar Shayie belongs, members praised the latter and also asked Allah to heal Hasan and grant him patience.

Along with the interview, Al-Jazeera reported, "Before carrying out the operation, Major Nidal was in touch with Al-Awlaki, and asked him about the religious legitimacy of the [planned] operation and about his role as a Muslim in the American army." The article also quoted Hasan in his communication with Al-Awlaki: "You are the only Muslim Imam who lived in America and who understands Allah's words and knows well how to address people with a Western mentality.'..."

The following are excerpts from the Aljazeera.net interview with Al-'Awlaki:[3]

Question: "What is your connection with Nidal Hasan, and when did it begin?"

Answer: "Nidal Hasan prayed at my mosque when I was imam at the Dar Al-Hijra mosque."

Q: "When was your first meeting?"

A: "About nine years ago, when I was imam of the Dar Al-Hijra mosque in the capital Washington, a mosque which is one of the biggest Islamic centers in America."

Q: "[There are] reports that there was more than that."

A: "Brother Nidal used to contact me via email last year, until the middle of this year."

Q: "When did the correspondence with Nidal begin?"

A: "I got the first message from Nidal on December 17, 2008."

Q: "Who initiated the correspondence, you or him?"

A: "He initiated the correspondence with me."

Q: "What did the correspondence contain?"

A: "He was asking about killing American soldiers and officers. [He asked] whether this is a religiously legitimate act or not."

Q: "So he asked you that question about a year before the operation was carried out?"

A: "Yes. And I wondered how the American security agencies, who claim to be able to read car license plate numbers from space, everywhere in the world, I wondered how [they did not reveal this]."

Q: "What did Nidal want from you in his messages?"

A: "Naturally, as I told you, the first message was asking for an edict regarding the [possibility] of a Muslim soldier killing his colleagues who serve with him in the American army. In other messages, Nidal was clarifying his position regarding the killing of Israeli civilians. He was in support of this, and in his messages he mentioned the religious justifications for targeting the Jews with missiles. Then there were some messages in which he asked for a way through which he could transfer some funds to us [and by this] participate in charitable activities."

Q: "There are other indications to your connections with Nidal, one of which is that you blessed what he did three days after he did it."

A: "My support to the operation was because the operation that brother Nidal carried out was a courageous one, and I endeavored to explain my position regarding what happened because many Islamic organizations and preachers in the West condemned the operation. So it was necessary for me [to raise] a voice that is [myself] connected to the Muslims in America and the West, while at the same time is independent and explains the truth regarding what Nidal did, especially since the media tried to connect him to me from the very beginning."

Q: "Why did you bless Nidal Hasan's act?"

A: "Because Nidal's target was a military target inside America, and there is no question about this. Then, also, those members of the military [i.e. the victims] were not regular soldiers; rather they were prepared and preparing themselves to go to battle and to kill downtrodden Muslims and to commit crimes in Afghanistan...

"So how can I or any other preacher be silent after he hears that some of those who belong to the shari'a jurisprudence declare that Nidal's action was a crime? While there is an argument about operations in which non-combatants die, what religious argument do these religious people have when the target is absolutely military?"

Q: "How can you support what Nidal did, when he was betraying his American homeland?"

A: "It is more important that he not betray his religion. Serving in the American army in order to kill Muslims is betrayal of Islam, and the America of today is the Pharaoh of the past. It is the enemy of Islam, and a Muslim must not serve in the American army, except if he intends to go in the footsteps of our brother Nidal. Allegiance to Islam means allegiance to Allah, his messengers, and the believers, and not to a piece of soil that they call homeland. The allegiance of the American Muslim [must be] to his Muslim nation, and not to America. Brother Nidal proved that with his blessed operation, and Allah rewarded him the best of rewards."

Q: "Do you have a direct connection to the incident?"

A: "I did not recruit Nidal Hasan to this operation; the one who recruited him was America, with its crimes and injustice, and this is what America refuses to admit. America does not want to admit that what Nidal did, and what thousands of other Muslims do against America, is because of its unjust policies against the Islamic world. Nidal Hasan is a Muslim before he is an American, and he is also from Palestine, and he sees the oppression of the Jewish oppression of his people under American cover and support. True, I may have a role in his intellectual direction, but nothing beyond that, and I am not trying to absolve myself of what he did because I do not support it. No, but because I wish I had had the honor of having a bigger role in what happened than the role I really had."

Q: "You told me before about your correspondence with Nidal, and you gave me an original copy of it. Reading it, I found that he trusts you and respects you, and now you are telling me that [you have] no direct or strong relationship with him?"

A: "I told you about the correspondence, and I explained it, and I even gave you [those original copies], so that you can publish it, because the American administration forbade its publication. Why don't they want this correspondence out? What is the reason? [By banning it from publication] do they want to cover up their security failure, or is it because they do not want to admit that Nidal Hasan is a man of principles, and that he did what he did in the service of Islam? They want [the operation] to be viewed as individual, unexpected behavior, that has no connection to the conduct of the criminal American army."

Q: "Do you believe that Nidal will face the death penalty?"

A: "It is possible, and in any case we pray for him that Allah will direct him to the truth and to what is good."

Q: "What will you feel if he is executed?"

A: "I pray to Allah to receive him in the ranks of the martyrs, since when he did what he did, he was expecting to be a martyr, and if he is executed, good for him."

Another Al-Awlaki Interview On Hasan Posted On Leading Al-Qaeda Forum

On May 23, 2010, online jihadi forums released an interview with Al-Awlaki on Hasan and his support for him and the attack. The following are excerpts:[4]

Interviewer: "You are accused of involvement in 14 cases [of terror] in the U.S., Canada, and Britain. Is there any truth in these allegations, which have been spread by the media, and what are the reasons for this onslaught?"

Anwar Al-Awlaki: "This onslaught is because I am a Muslim who calls to Islam. They are accusing me of incitement. Nidal Hasan, Umar Farouk, and the other cases that you mentioned – the common denominator between them is incitement. Incitement to what? Incitement to jihad, and to the Islam revealed by Allah in the Koran and in the Sunna of His Prophet. That is the accusation." 

Al-Awlaki stated explicitly in the interview, "Nidal Hasan is a student of mine, and I am proud of this. I am proud that there are people like Nidal Hasan among my students. What he did was a heroic act, a wonderful operation. I ask Allah to make him steadfast, to protect him, and to free him. I support what he did, and I call upon anyone who calls himself a Muslim, and serves in the U.S. army, to follow in the footsteps of Nidal Hasan."

He added: "I call upon [all] Muslims to follow in his footsteps, and to wage jihad by speech or by action. Nidal Hasan set a wonderful example, and I ask Allah to make it a beginning, and that many other Muslims will follow in his footsteps. How can we possibly oppose an operation like Nidal Hasan's?! He killed American soldiers on their way to Afghanistan and Iraq. Who could possibly oppose this? There is a consensus about this issue, not only among humans, but even among domesticated animals. If you push a cat into a corner, it makes its fur stand on end, and it bares its teeth and its claws in order to defend itself. Yet we say that a Muslim does not have the right to defend himself? Nidal Hasan is Palestinian in origin. He was defending his nation. We are dealing with an infidel country, America, which is at war with us. The image of ourselves that we want to convey to America is: Oh America, if you attack us, we will attack you, and if you kill us, we will kill you."

The interview ended with Al-Awlaki stating: "They shut down my website following Nidal Hasan's operation. I had posted an article of mine in support of what Nidal Hasan did, and so, they shut down my website. Then I read in the Washington Post that they were monitoring my communications. So I was forced to stop these communications. I left that region, and then the American air strikes took place. But it is not true that I am a fugitive. I move around among my tribesmen and in other parts of Yemen, because the people of Yemen hate the Americans, and support the people of truth and the oppressed. I move around among the Awlaki tribe, and I get support from wide sectors of the people in Yemen, whether in Abida, Daham, Waila, Hashed, Bakil, or Hawlan, whether in Hadhramawt, Abyan, Shabwa, Aden, or Sana'a.

"Nidal Hasan used to be an American Muslim, the way the U.S. wants them to be. Nidal Hasan used to pray, fast, and give zakat, but at the same time, he was a soldier in the U.S. army, whose loyalty lay with America. Then, as a result of America's crimes, he turned into a mujahid for the sake of Allah. From being an American soldier, Nidal Hasan turned into a mujahid who killed the soldiers with whom he served. If America"s crimes continue, we will see a new Nidal Hasan. There are also mujahideen from the West, or from America, in Afghanistan and in Iraq, and this phenomenon will grow, due to the Western and American crimes in the Islamic world. [...] If that small band of mujahideen have managed to defeat America, imagine what would happen if the Islamic nation rose up. America cannot withstand this Islamic nation. It is too weak. America's cunning is weaker than a spider web."

More praise for Hasan from Muslim groups here.

Fort Hood Jihadi trial delayed over objections to forcible shave

...“He does not wish to die without a beard as he believes not having a beard is a sin,” one of Mr. Hasan’s attorneys wrote in his appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces...

... And murdering people isn't.

"Fort Hood trial delayed over objections to forcible shave" Washington Times (thanks to David)

FORT HOOD, Texas — The trial for an Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting was put on hold Wednesday by an appeals court considering his objections to being forcibly shaved.

Nidal Malik Hasan had been scheduled to enter a plea Wednesday to charges in the attack at the Texas Army post, but all court proceedings were put on hold before he could do that.

Mr. Hasan, an American-born Muslim who is an Army major, indicated he wanted to plead guilty for religious reasons, according to a defense motion. But the judge, Col. Gregory Gross, said he would not be able to accept a guilty plea on the 13 charges of premeditated murder. That’s because the charges carry death as the maximum punishment and the government is pursuing the death penalty in Mr. Hasan’s case.

Mr. Hasan, 41, also is charged with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.

The trial, which was scheduled to start Monday, will be on hold until the appeals court rules on Mr. Hasan’s objection to being shaved. Wednesday’s court order putting the proceedings on hold gives the judge a week to respond.

Mr. Hasan has grown the beard in violation of Army regulations, and Col. Gross has not allowed him to stay in the courtroom, saying the beard is a disruption. However, the judge said he wants Mr. Hasan in the room during the court-martial to prevent a possible appeal on the issue if he is convicted. He said Mr. Hasan would be forcibly shaved at some point before the trial if he didn’t shave the beard himself.

Mr. Hasan’s attorneys have said he won’t shave because the beard is an expression of his Muslim faith. Mr. Hasan also has had a premonition that his death is imminent, his attorneys said.

“He does not wish to die without a beard as he believes not having a beard is a sin,” one of Mr. Hasan’s attorneys wrote in his appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.

Col. Gross told defense attorneys at a previous hearing that no military convicts have been executed since 1961. Prosecutors have said Mr. Hasan grew the beard so that trial witnesses would have a hard time identifying him.

Col. Gross previously delayed Mr. Hasan’s trial from March to June and then to August. On Tuesday, he refused defense attorneys’ request to delay the start of the trial again and said it would begin with jury selection as scheduled Monday.

At the start of Tuesday’s hearing, Col. Gross once again found Mr. Hasan in contempt of court and fined him $1,000 for disobeying orders to shave. Mr. Hasan then was taken to a nearby room to watch the proceedings on a closed-circuit television, as he has done since first showing up in court with the beard in June.

Military prosecutors and defense attorneys are barred from discussing the case outside the courtroom. However, some military law experts not involved in the case said that if Mr. Hasan wanted to plead guilty, it was not because he has any regrets or remorse.

“He may say he was justified in killing because of his religious beliefs,” said Jeffrey F. Addicott, director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary’s University School of Law.

The delay is frustrating for many involved in the case, although some victims’ relatives say they have grown accustomed to waiting for the trial to start. The shooting rampage happened almost three years ago.

“I stopped holding my breath a long time ago as far as expecting to get any closure regarding the trial,” said Leila Hunt Willingham, whose brother Jason Dean “J.D.” Hunt was killed in the shooting.

Muslim soldier gets life sentence for second Fort Hood jihad plot

It is stunning that a Muslim planning a second attack on Fort Hood last summer gets a life sentence, but the Fort Hood jihadi, Major Nidal Hasan, who mowed down 13 US soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009, has not been brought to trial and is still receiving taxpayer-funded paychecks. But the cops who took Major Hasan down during his "allahu akbar" massacre have long been fired (laid off).

Instead, jihad hijinks continues. Nidal Hasan is being held in contempt of court for showing up to court for the third time with a full beard. Major Hasan has grown his beard of defiance out of his deeply religious Islamic conviction. The judge is treating this murderous devout Muslim Hasan as if he were a delinquent American soldier:

.... which in a technical sense he is. But Hasan's beard is his assertion that he is not an American at all, but a Muslim and a jihadist, and someone who regards America as an evil enemy that must be fought against as a matter of divine principle (more here)

Hasan makes a mockery of American justice. He should have been executed by a military tribunal shortly after his jihad. Part of the miscarriage of justice is a result of the Obama administration's refusal to turn over key evidence in the case.

"AWOL soldier gets life for Fort Hood plot" AP, Augsut 10, 2012 (thanks to David)

AN AWOL soldier convicted of collecting bomb-making materials for what he told authorities would be a "massive attack" on a Texas restaurant full of Fort Hood troops was sentenced Friday to life in prison.

Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, a Muslim, was planning a religious mission to win "justice" for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a recorded jail conservation with his mother played for jurors at trial.

U.S. District Judge Walter allowed Abdo to represent himself at the sentencing after the 22-year-old told him last month that he and his attorneys weren't communicating effectively.

A federal jury convicted Abdo in May on six charges, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. He was AWOL from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, when arrested with bomb-making materials last summer at a Fort Hood-area motel.

He also was found guilty of attempted murder of U.S. officers or employees and four counts of possessing a weapon in furtherance of a federal crime of violence.

In a recorded police interview, Abdo said he wanted to carry out the attack "because I don't appreciate what my unit did in Afghanistan."

His plan, according to what he told authorities, was to place a bomb in a busy restaurant filled with soldiers, wait outside and shoot anyone who survived - and become a martyr after police killed him.

According to testimony, Abdo told an investigator he didn't plan an attack inside Fort Hood because he didn't believe he would be able to get past security at the gates.

Abdo grew up in the Dallas suburb of Garland and at age 17 decided to follow Islam. He enlisted in the military in 2009, thinking that the service wouldn't conflict with his religious beliefs.

But according to an essay that was part of his conscientious objector status application filed in June 2010, Abdo reconsidered as he explored Islam further.

[...]

His conscientious objector status was put on hold after he was charged with possessing child pornography in May 2011. Two months later, during the Fourth of July weekend, Abdo went AWOL from the Kentucky Army post.

“Final Report of the William H. Webster Commission" dhimmis down on Fort Hood jihad

In other words, the independent panel in the Fort Hood jihad massacre said it's OK to slaughter US soldiers in the cause of Islam just as long as ....... you don't offend Islam.

Major Hassan was a self-proclained soldier of allah. He came out as a jihadi on grand rounds. The other doctors who worked with him would whisper among themselves that he was a ticking time bomb, but were reluctant to report him lest they be labeled racistislamophobicantimuslimbigots.

And this dhimmi panel agreed. Regardless of the facts:

Below, Major Hasan's Islamic power point presentation, made on grand rounds.

The devout and pious Muslim, Major Hasan, mowed down 13 US soldiers at the Fort Hood military base in November 2009, while screaming allahu akbar. Hasan's business card read SoA, Soldier of Allah. Muslim Nidal Hasan gave out his card and qurans the morning of his jihad. More here and here.

This photograph taken on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 in Killeen, Texas, shows a copy of the Quran and a briefcase holding this business card that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan gave to his neighbor a day before going on a shooting spree at the Fort Hood Army Base. (AP)

"Report downplays Islamic role in Fort Hood jihadi attack" Neil Munro, Daily Caller, July 21,2012

No government officials should be penalized for their inaction while they watched an online al-Qaida organizer persuade U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan to murder twelve of his fellow soldiers at Foot Hood in 2009, says the final report of an independent panel.

“Although we are critical of certain actions and omissions, we do not regard any of those actions to be misconduct that would warrant administrative or disciplinary action,” said the third-last paragraph on the 150-page report, titled “Final Report of the William H. Webster Commission.”

“Some missteps occurred because there was no stated policy or binding directive in place that would have required different actions … [but] absent formal policy guidance on the assignment and resolution of Routine leads, the delay cannot be said to involve misconduct,” said the paragraph.

The report was overseen by William Webster, who headed the FBI from 1978 to 1987.

The report was distributed July 20 with the announcement that Republican Rep. Frank Wolfe will hold a August 1 committee hearing on the report. The witness will include an FBI official, Mark Giuliano, who is the executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch.

The report says Hasan yelled the Islamic war-cry — “Allahu akbar!” which means “Allah is supreme” — as he shot his fellow Americans in Fort Hood.

On his business card, Hasan described himself as a “soldier of Allah,” who is the Muslim god.

UPDATE: Buck  located the redacted PDF from the FBI site

The evasion of the word "Islam" is staggering.  We actually paid Webster and his commission to write this coverup.  We are so screwed.  Looking at the section on Awlaki, it is interesting to note that the assigned agent to review Hasan's emails to Awlaki were often marked as 'Not of product of interest' or 'irrelevant'.  This reflects a complete ignorance of Islam and inability to put the pieces together.  What's more, the commission doesn't criticize these repeated errors.  The report is so careful to talk about 'radicalization' that you would never know except for the names of the terrorists listed that this is a Muslim centric radicalization.

Why won't sharia-compliant Obama administration release Fort Hood intelligence report?

Major Hasan should have faced a firing squad years ago. Instead, he still awaits trial and receives a paycheck from the federal government (while the police who took him down have long been fired).

Below, Major Hasan's Islamic power point presentation, made on grand rounds.

The devout and pious Muslim who mowed down 13 US soldiers at the Fort Hood military base in November 2009 while screaming allahu akbar (and wearing the garb of a shaheed) is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon. Why this jihadi hasn't faced a firing squad by now speaks volumes about the continuing failures (or sedition) of the Obama adminsitration. Why is Obama shielding this Major Hasan?

Hasan's business card read SoA, Soldier of Allah. Muslim Nidal Hasan gave out his card and qurans the morning of his jihad. More here and here.

Hasan hated America, hated the troops, proselytized his co-workers, planned his jihad and completed his mission. His head was shaved. What else was shaved? If his body was shaved like his head, then the military guys and law enforcement know and have known that this was jihad. Despite this, the Department of Defense did nothing.

The army knew of jihadis in its ranks and did nothing -- "Islamic holy war — was a serious problem and threat to personnel in the U.S."

Obama's jihad: We have been hearing for years that the White House is withholding evidence on the Fort Hood jihadi, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. This was confimed by Hasan's own lawyer which is why his lawyer, John Galligan, stepped down as his lawyer a year ago. ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: Attorney for Fort Hood Jihadi, Major Hasan: "Delays are due to prosecution/White House refusal to disclose evidence. Blame them for the delays."

Release Fort Hood intelligence report The Statesman July 17, 2012, thanks to David

An independent review of the FBI's intelligence actions before the Nov. 5, 2009, shootings at Fort Hood is finished. We join Texas Sen. John Cornyn in calling on the agency to release an unclassified version of the report.
Friday, in a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller, Cornyn pressed for the report's release, calling it a "matter of tremendous public importance."

As the Texas Republican correctly put it in his letter to Mueller, "The American people and specifically the Fort Hood community in Texas have the right to know."

It's clear there were intelligence failures leading up to the Fort Hood shootings, though exactly what those failures were or whether they mean the shootings could have been prevented is unknown...

http://www.statesman.com/opinion/release-fort-hood-intelligence-report-2417359.html

Fort Hood jihad mass-murderer planning to claim he is being persecuted for being Muslim

"... He is an American-born Muslim, and his attorneys have said they will seek an exception to the Army's rule based on his religious beliefs....

...Jeff Addicott, a former senior legal adviser to the Army's Special Forces who isn't involved in the case, said Hasan may be growing the beard with the hope of making a case that he is being persecuted for his faith.

"He's going to play the religious card," said Addicott, director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University School of Law. "And this is his last card to play ... because no one believes he's not going to be found guilty."... (more)

Part of the years-long delays in the prosecution of the Fort Hood jihadi is the White House's withholding of evidence on Major Nidal Malik Hasan. This was confirmed by Hasan's own lawyer.

Major Hasan, also known as Soldier of Allah, according to his business card, mowed down thirteen U.S. soldiers while screaming Allahu akbar on the Fort Hood military base in Texas a year and a half ago, in November 2009. Yet his trial keeps on being postponed. 

And while Obama's sharia-compliant DoD refuses to identity the motive behind the largest attack on a military base on American soil in US history calling it, "workplace violence," Hasan is/was crystal clear about his jihad.

And it continues. The government won't identify the Islamic motive behind the Fort Hood jihad, but Hasan can claim special status because ..... he is a Muslim. Got that?

Hasan should have faced a firing squad back in 2009. This does not belong in US courts. This is an act of war, and he should face a military tribunal.

Fort Hood jihad mass-murderer planning to claim he is being persecuted for being Muslim

Even this jihad mass murderer is demanding special accommodation and claiming victim status. "Judge considers delay in Fort Hood suspect's trial," from The Associated Press, June 19 (thanks to all who sent this in):

FORT HOOD, Texas — A military judge will hear arguments Tuesday on whether to delay the trial of an Army psychiatrist charged in the fatal 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.

The judge postponed Maj. Nidal Hasan's pre-trial hearing earlier this month because the defendant had grown a beard, contrary to Army regulations. The judge, Col. Gregory Gross, has said he will bar Hasan from the courtroom and force him to watch Tuesday's proceedings through closed-circuit television if he is unshaven. Gross has the power to bar defendants from court for such violations.

Hasan has been clean-shaven in all other court appearances since the 2009 attack, which killed 13 people and injured more than 30 others. He is an American-born Muslim, and his attorneys have said they will seek an exception to the Army's rule based on his religious beliefs....

Hasan faces the death penalty if convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. The trial is expected to last at least two months, and a military jury will be brought in from Fort Sill, Okla.

Fort Hood spokesman Chris Haug said Monday that post officials wouldn't know until Tuesday whether Hasan had followed the judge's order about shaving his beard. Fort Hood officials also wouldn't say whether Hasan would be charged if he shows up unshaven, though one possible charge is failure to obey a lawful order or regulation, which carries a maximum two-year jail sentence.

Jeff Addicott, a former senior legal adviser to the Army's Special Forces who isn't involved in the case, said Hasan may be growing the beard with the hope of making a case that he is being persecuted for his faith.

"He's going to play the religious card," said Addicott, director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University School of Law. "And this is his last card to play ... because no one believes he's not going to be found guilty."

Witnesses have said that on the morning of Nov. 5, 2009, a gunman wearing an Army combat uniform opened fire after shouting "Allahu Akbar!" — or "God is great!" in Arabic — in a Fort Hood medical building where deploying and returning soldiers received vaccines and other tests. Several witnesses identified the gunman as Hasan, who was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan the following month....

FINALLY! Lawmakers Blast Administration For Calling Fort Hood Massacre 'Workplace Violence'

What took so long? Atlas has been railing against this sharia-compliant nonsense for years. I blasted the D0D here in December 2009 and at other times as well. Our elected officials are clueless or complicit -- or they have atrophied.

In September 2010, I blasted the DoD for its report on how to respond to "workplace violence." What took so long? Perhaps they should be reading Atlas daily.

The report that was issued (in this Atlas exclusive):

In Case of Base Shooting, DOD Says Grab Three Ring Binder. It's bad enough that our  service members are not allowed to carry firearms on base. No, instead our precious servicemen and women are instructed to dial 911 while playing dead (p. 18), and to attack the shooter with a three-ring binder or paper cutter (p. 19). Think I am kidding? Read the report -- Download Military

"It is important to remember there is no "standard" for random shooting events and no profile of the shooters"

The Fort Hood shooting was jihad. Proud jihad. Unabashed jihad.That is the standard. Instead of reversing the ridiculous restriction on our military from carrying firearms on our bases, our servicemen and women are advised to make use of three ring binders ............. or any other "makeshift weapon."

 Lawmakers Blast Administration For Calling Fort Hood Massacre 'Workplace Violence' FOX News

Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home.

During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, the Maine Republican referenced a letter from the Defense Department depicting the Fort Hood shootings as workplace violence. She criticized the Obama administration for failing to identify the threat as radical Islam.

Thirteen people were killed and dozens more wounded at Fort Hood in 2009, and the number of alleged plots targeting the military has grown significantly since then. Lawmakers said there have been 33 plots against the U.S. military since Sept. 11, 2001, and 70 percent of those threats have been since mid-2009.  Major Nidal Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, who is being held for the attacks, allegedly was inspired by radical U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in late September. The two men exchanged as many as 20 emails, according to U.S. officials, and Awlaki declared Hasan a hero.

The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, said the military has become a "direct target of violent Islamist extremism" within the United States.

"The stark reality is that the American service member is increasingly in the terrorists' scope and not just overseas in a traditional war setting," Lieberman told Fox News before the start of Wednesday's hearing.

In June, two men allegedly plotted to attack a Seattle, Wash., military installation using guns and grenades. In July, Army Pvt. Naser Abdo was accused of planning a second attack on Fort Hood. And in November, New York police arrested Jose Pimentel, who alleged sought to kill service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Both Pimentel and Abdo also allegedly drew inspiration from al-Awlaki and the online jihadist magazine Inspire, which includes a spread on how to "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom."

Rep. Peter King of New York, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said military service members are "symbols of America's power, symbols of America's might."

"And if they (military personnel) can be killed, then that is a great propaganda victory for al Qaeda," King told Fox News.

King said there is also evidence that extremists have joined the services.
"There is a serious threat within the military from people who have enlisted who are radical jihadists," King said. "The Defense Department is very concerned about them. They feel they're a threat to the military both for what they can do within the military itself and also because of the weapons skills they acquire while they're in the military."

The witnesses testifying before the joint session include Paul N. Stockton, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense; Jim Stuteville, U.S. Army senior adviser for counterintelligence operations and liaison to the FBI; Lt. Col. Reid L. Sawyer, director of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, and Darius Long, whose son, Army Pvt. William Andrew Long, was shot and killed at an Arkansas military recruitment center in 2009.

A second private was also injured in the Arkansas attack. Both victims had just finished basic training and had not been deployed. They were outside the Arkansas recruitment center when the shooter opened fire from a passing truck. The shooter, Carlos Bledsoe, pleaded guilty to the crime earlier this year.

In a letter to the court, Bledsoe said he carried out the attack on behalf of al Qaeda in Yemen -- the group that was behind the last two major plots targeting the U.S. airline industry.

"My faith in government is diminished. It invents euphemisms ... Little Rock is a drive by and Fort Hood is just workplace violence. The truth is denied," Long testified.

King said the web is the driver of the new digital jihad.

"It enables people -- rather than having to travel to Afghanistan to learn about jihad or to be trained, they can do it right over the Internet," he said. "And this is a growing role."

And while Awlaki and his colleague Samir Khan, who was behind the magazine Inspire, were killed in a CIA-led operation in September, King warned against overconfidence that al Qaeda in Yemen was done.

"This is a definite short-term victory for us. There's no doubt they are going to regroup, that there will be others who will be providing Internet data, inspiration to jihadists in this country, instructions on how to make bombs," he said.

While King was heavily criticized, in some quarters, for launching his hearings 10 months ago on homegrown terrorism, the congressman said the joint session shows the threat is legitimate, and recognized as such by other members of Congress.

"To me it's a validation of what I've been trying to do all year," King emphasized. "There's a definite threat from Islamic radicalization in various parts of our society, including within the military, and we can't allow political correctness to keep us from exposing this threat for what it is."

Fort Hood Jihadi Who Killed 13 Still Getting Taxpayer PaychecksOfficers who responded to 2009 Fort Hood jihad, hailed as heroes, fired

The Muslim who massacred our fallen heroes while ululating "allahu akbar" is still getting your taxpayer dollars (jizya). But the hero cops who stopped him have been ............ fired.

There. are. no. words.

Did You Know? Accused Ft. Hood Gunman Is Still Getting Paycheck From the Government The Blaze

Major Nidal Hasan, accused of the 2009 mass shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 dead, has retained his military rank and continues to get paychecks from the government, the base commander said Wednesday.

Lieutenant General Donald Campbell, Jr., the commander of Fort Hood, said Hasan’s confinement and medical expenses are also being paid for by the military, KXXV-TV reported. He receives weekly medical treatment and is occasionally transported to meet with his defense team.

Officers who responded to 2009 Fort Hood shootings, hailed as heroes, losing their jobs The Statesman

FORT HOOD — The two Fort Hood police officers celebrated as heroes for responding first to the 2009 shooting massacre at this Army post were told recently they would lose their jobs as part of broader military budget cuts.

Kimberly Munley and Mark Todd, who is credited with taking down suspected shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan, have both left Fort Hood in advance of the termination of their jobs. Fort Hood officials said other civilian police officers on the post who were hired on a year-to-year basis will likewise not see their employment renewed.

"We all hold Fort Hood in our hearts and never thought we would be facing cutbacks," said Munley, who has taken an unpaid leave of absence.

Fort Hood officials said the civilian police officers will be replaced with military police soldiers, or MPs, in a sign that the wartime posture of the Army's busiest deployment hub is slowing down. Officials said Fort Hood increased hiring of civilian officers in 2003 as military police soldiers were increasingly deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, a trend that is reversing.

"As more MP soldiers are available at Fort Hood, we return to the use of MPs for law enforcement," Christopher Zimmer, deputy director for the Directorate of Emergency Services at Fort Hood, said in a statement. "Though the number of (civilian police officers) working on Fort Hood is reducing, there are more than enough MPs available to perform law enforcement duties, so Fort Hood will continue to be a safe place to live and work."

It was unclear Friday how much Fort Hood's garrison budget had been reduced. Fort Hood officials referred budget questions to the Army's Installation Management Command, which referred questions to Fort Hood.

Todd and Munley were the first law enforcement officers to arrive at a busy medical processing center after a gunman killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others on Nov. 5, 2009. According to testimony in a pretrial evidentiary hearing for Hasan, Todd fired the shots that paralyzed the Army psychiatrist from the chest down and ended the rampage. Munley testified that her gun malfunctioned and that she was shot three times by the gunman.

The two police officers were widely celebrated after the incident, attending a State of the Union address as invited guests of President Barack Obama and being named National Law Enforcement Officers of the Year by the American Police Hall of Fame.

Munley, who had knee replacement surgery after the shooting and continues to recover, said she worried the cutbacks would make Fort Hood more vulnerable to attacks.

"Our already exhausted military police will be filling our shoes while still fighting two wars abroad," Munley said in an email from her native North Carolina. "While they are extensively trained in the mindset of war, fighting crime on the street domestically is a whole different world than the environment they are used to overseas. Personally, I believe the reduction in force of our federal civilian officers is a very bad decision."

Fort Hood officials said that the Police Department will retain a "core" of civilian officers in "key positions" to ensure continuity . And Zimmer said MP officers assigned to the Fort Hood Police Department will meet the same training and safety requirements as their civilian counterparts.