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Ft. Hood Jihadi: Are there more 'unexplained' terror connections than al Awlaki?

That's what ABC News is reporting:

A senior government official tells ABC News that investigators have found that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan had "more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI "than just radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki. The official declined to name the individuals but Congressional sources said their names and countries of origin were likely to emerge soon.

Noor Almaleki: An update.

Her friends speak out.

From ABC15.com:

<---  Noor Faleh Almaleki

Friends of a 20-year-old woman run over and killed in what attorneys are calling an "honor killing" are speaking out for the first time about the warning signs they saw.  "She was a good person, and moral," said Sharlee Caudle, a friend of Noor's.  "Most parents would be glad to have a child like that."

Her friends paint the picture of an aspiring model and actress, working and going to school.

Nicole Furugia worked with Noor at Applebee's, and kept in touch with her until her death.  "She was strong, beautiful, really caring," said Furugia.  "She was always willing to help people."  But her employment there was short lived.

"She came in all frantic one day and asked me to cover her shift because her father found out where she worked," said Furugia.  "She had to quit her job, and she had to move."

Furugia said she went with Noor to look into getting a restraining order against her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki.  "She was very determined on getting it," said Furugia.  "She was scared."

Other friends said Noor's father had taken her to Iraq under the pretense they were visiting relatives, and married her off.  They say Noor's family left her to fend for herself and come up with the money to find her way back to America, where she moved in with the fiance she loved.

Dear old Dad's court date has been postponed and he remains on suicide watch.

A court hearing for an Iraqi immigrant accused of killing his daughter because she had become too Westernized has been delayed a second time because he is on suicide watch in jail.

The video arraignment of Faleh Hassan Almaleki was rescheduled for Nov. 16. It was originally scheduled for Thursday but that was moved to Monday because of his status.

Court officials say the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office didn't transport Almaleki both days because he's on suicide watch.

Local Muslim leaders are going out of their way to whitewash Noor's death as a simple case of 'DOMESTIC VIOLENCE' - yes, that's what they are calling it. Oh, and ISLAM has nothing to do with it, got that?

The Muslim community throughout the Valley has since gathered to address the issue and figure out plans to stop domestic violence and avoid a similar tragedy in the future. "I believe such a crime has nothing to do with the teaching of Islam, the tolerant teaching of Islam, or of any religion," said Ahmad Shqeirat, Imam of the Islamic Community Center of Tempe.

Shqeirat said he and dozens of other Muslim leaders around the Valley met over the weekend to discuss outreach and education programs to raise awareness of domestic violence and raising children in the West. "We try to talk to our children, to educate them to go directly to marriage, but it doesn't mean if one of these kids made a mistake, the reaction should be such a barbaric crime," said Shqeirat.   (nod-nod.  wink-wink)

Please note:  Imam Ahmad Shqeirat is one of the FLYING IMAMS... and then there's this:

Islam vs. Islamism exposes the facade for example of Imam Ahmad Shqeirat the Islamic Community Center in Tempe Arizona, who claims to be a "moderate," participating in interfaith activities and so on. But on camera, Shqeirat invokes his desire for a global Islamic state, which he claims "is not a threat to anybody.... Establishing Islamic law was a positive experience." Translation, Islamic imperialism is a "positive experience" for non-Muslims forced to comply with fiercely discriminatory medieval religious laws.

In 2004, Shqeriat vociferously opposed efforts by Tempe Muslim doctor Zuhdi Jasser to organize a 2004 Muslim rally opposing terrorism. A practicing Muslim, Jasser believes, "The mixture of politics and religion is toxic to our faith." To Shqeriat, however, Jasser is the "extremist." Indeed, his mosque newsletter ran a cartoon that depicted Jasser as a rabid, cannibalistic dog, eating Muslims.

Radicals normally pose as moderates, according to many middle class Western Muslims interviewed. The audacious radicals also often (successfully) label these moderate Muslims "extremists."

This makes me wonder about the Imam's true nature as well:

"..during a Friday sermon in April 2004, he displayed an image, which CAIR had distributed, of an American soldier in Iraq with two young Iraqi boys. In the photo, the soldier held a sign saying, "Lcpl Boudreaux killed my dad, then he knocked up my sister."[15] Shqeirat neither made any attempt to verify the image's authenticity nor to determine, if real, whether it was representative. Nor, when he was asked, could he explain how such a display related to Islamic theology or spirituality. The goal of using faith identity to divide society highlights the incompatibility of Islamism with traditions of American culture and society.

Ft. Hood Jihad: Hasan's Mosque leaders attend memorial service...

While they are gone, the FBI pays them a little visit.

From ABC News:

Leaders from the mosque where alleged shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped are on their way today to Fort Hood to attend the memorial service in a move some hope will help ease suspicion and anger between Muslims and the military base, still reeling from last week's tragedy.

Army Chaplain Ira Houck, center right, greets members of the Islamic Community Center mosque.   --->

"We are partners in the healing process," Maj. John Zavage, an Arabic-speaking specialist in Middle Eastern affairs who came to transport four members of the mosque of the Islamic Community of Greater Kileen onto the post, told ABC News' Bob Woodruff.

But as Zavage spoke, FBI agents arrived at the mosque, and some examined the contents of garbage cans.

More on the search:

<---  Hmmm.

FBI agents appeared to be carrying out a search warrant today at the Killeen, Texas mosque attended by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Islamic Community Center of Greater Killeen.

Local police were called to cordon off the area and told ABC News they were acting on instructions from the FBI.

Moments later, four agents, wearing blue gloves, began to search through a trash bin outside the mosque. An ABC News reporter saw agents empty the trash bin on the ground, sort through various odds and ends, removed their gloves, and then put everything back into the receptacle. They did not enter the mosque itself.

The agents gave mosque president, Dr. Mansoor Farooqi, a document on a clipboard which he signed.

"The FBI cannot comment," said Eric Vasys, a spokesperson at the FBI San Antonio office.

Aafia Siddiqui aka 'The Grey Lady of al Qaeda" is back in court

I'm sure you remember Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani (MIT trained) neuroscientist and al Qaeda moll currently held in NYC on attempted murder charges.

<---  Aafia and some of her buds.

After being on the lam for a number of years, Aafia was picked up in Afghanistan casing a police station.  In her purse she had plans for making a bomb and blueprints  - among other items.  She was taken into custody and then grabbed a US soldier's gun during an interrogation session and shot him.

Her Grey Lady moniker was given to her by the Pakistani moonbats who have taken up her cause celebre.  And she is quite the Pakistani celebrity.  During Hillary Clinton's recent trip to Pakistan Prime Minister, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, broached the subject of Aafia's release back to Pakistan.  He was apparently rebuffed. 

Since her arrest she has played every trick in the book to try and get her case thrown out.  (I particularly liked the time she sat in the courtroom with a blanket over her head.  That was a nice touch.)

The latest:  The Grey Lady was deemed mentally fit to stand trial in an earlier court action, but is now objecting to the lawyers retained by the Pakistani government and wants to represent herself.  I guess she hasn't heard that old adage:  She who represents herself, has a client for a fool.

Her other beef is the cavity searches she is subject to before each court appearance.  She should have thought of that before taking up with al Qaeda.

The lawyer situation:

Setting aside Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui’s objections over her legal defence team at a pre-trial session, a US judge has ruled that she would have to be represented by lawyers already appointed by the US District Court.

Dr Aafia is scheduled to stand trial on January 19 – on charges of the attempted murder of US interrogators in Afghanistan last year – after Judge Richard Berman declared her mentally fit to stand trial.  She argued before Judge Berman on Tuesday that she did not need the three lawyers retained by the Pakistan government to defend her, saying she wanted to make peace and knew how to do it.

About the cavity searches:  It looks like special treatment will be granted.

He also said Ms. Siddiqui expressed her outrage at the humiliating strip search she has to undergo before coming to the court. Reacting to her protest, the judge said he had ordered the prison authorities to find a way so that she does not have to go through the tough procedure.

While the judge said it was necessary for her to be in the court, she could participate through video-conference if the body search requirement could not be relaxed.

Her family is not happy.

Stay tuned.

Ft. Hood Jihadi: Lawyer will play 'mental responsibility' card

How about the Muslim Responsibility card?

From ABC News:

In an interview today on "Good Morning America," Galligan said Hasan was still heavily sedated, but understood why his lawyer was there.  "We met for about a half an hour," Galligan said. "He's still hospitalized and I'm not a doctor but I'd consider his condition still guarded." Galligan, who was accompanied in his hospital visit by Major Christopher Martin, refused to comment on Hasan's state of mind or any possible motive for the shooting, saying it would be "premature and improper."

He said, however, "Anytime someone is charged with an offense of this nature, and I'm not talking about his case specifically, any defense counsel would want to ensure there is not a mental responsibility issue present."

Hasan, Galligan said, "was sufficiently coherent to understand that he had two capable defense counsel there... He knew who I was, even though, again he was heavily sedated, sedated to the point, I think, he was starting to doze off." 

(Do you think his hospital bed has been moved to face Mecca yet?)

Other things in the article that will make you go argh!

Prosecutors have also said they have yet to be able to determine a motive for the lethal rampage, although family and acquaintances say Hasan was increasingly religious and had turned against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And speaking of argh.  Here's more blah-blah-blah from our President:

"We are going to complete this investigation and we are going to take whatever steps are necessary to make sure that something like this doesn't happen again," Obama said.  "I think the questions that we're asking now and we don't have yet complete answers to is, is this an individual who's acting in this way or is it some larger set of actors? You know, what are the motivations? Those are all questions that I think we have to ask ourselves," the president said.

(Gee, what does standing on a table and shouting Allah Ackbar before opening fire mean to you, Barack Hussein Obama?)

Ft. Hood Jihadi: Advocated releasing Muslim soldiers from duty as Conscientious Objectors. In 2007.

Houston, we have a problem.

From WaPo: Fort Hood suspect Hasan warned of threats within the ranks. Urged release of Muslim troops in 2007 lecture at Walter Reed

The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood warned a roomful of senior Army physicians a year and a half ago that to avoid "adverse events," the military should allow Muslim soldiers to be released as conscientious objectors instead of fighting in wars against other Muslims.

There's much more at the link.  The investigations into Major Hasan must continue.  This is shocking.

"It was really strange," said one staff member who attended the presentation and requested anonymity because of the investigation of Hasan. "The senior doctors looked really upset" at the end. These medical presentations occurred each Wednesday afternoon, and other students had lectured on new medications and treatment of specific mental illnesses.

Italy: Feminist calls Mohammed a pedophile and a polygamist. Fatwa in 5...4...3...

Hoo boy.  This sounds like a real Islam-o-Jerry Springer TV moment.  Complete with the producers quickly distancing themselves from the remarks - to avoid being sentenced to a flogging or something...

From AKI:

Italian feminist and former far right-wing MP Daniela Santanche (ed. note:  seen left) has sparked a controversy after calling the Prophet Mohammed a "a polygamist and paedophile" during a TV debate. Santanche appeared on a television programme aired on the commercial channel, Canale 5 with the president of Milan's Islamic centre, Ali Abu Schwaima, on Sunday.

"Mohammed was a polygamist and a paedophile because he had nine wives, one of whom was only nine years old, that is a historical fact," said Santanche.

A former MP for the post-fascist National Alliance party, Santanche now leads the far-right La Destra party.  Her remark incensed Schwaima and Muslims in the audience, who had been invited to take part in a debate on the contentious issue of placing crucifixes in Italian classrooms after last week's ban by the European Court of Human Rights.

"Why don't we talk about serious things, not about your disgusting comments," he shouted at Santanche.  Santanche continued to shout back: "For us, Mohammed was a paedophile."

"You're just showing the ignorance of people like you who have no other arguments to use," bellowed Schwaima, jabbing his finger at her.  He claimed the crucifix should not be removed from classrooms in Italy.  "For us, Christ was one of the five main prophets and we respect him, like the crucifix."   (Ed. Note:  In this case, the crucifix is what will be used for the camel to get his nose under the tent.)

But Santanche was not appeased by Schwaima's remark.  "We will never listen to Mohammed, who was a polygamist and a paedophile," screeched Santanche.

Studio ushers were seen physically restraining an irate, bearded member of the audience from lunging at her.

UK: Hardcore Islamist gets top anti terror post...

Like I said, whose side are these people on?

From The Jewish Chronicle:

A “hardcore” Islamist has been given a key Home Office job to tackle terrorism and divert fellow Muslims from the path of violence.

The appointment of Asim Hafeez as head of intervention at the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism has caused serious concern among more moderate Muslim advisers across Whitehall. It is seen as a sign of a shift in the government’s policy on radical Islam away from engagement with more moderate groups. There is a sharp divide of opinion within government about whether ministers should engage with Muslims at risk of radicalisation or concentrate on forging links with moderates.

Mr Hafeez was described by one fellow adviser as “hardcore Salafi”. Salafism is a strictly puritanical branch of Islam, often associated with Saudi Arabia. It does not promote violence, but does urge the creation of an Islamic state.

The new Home Office adviser is reported to have raised eyebrows at his new department during the Muslim festival of Ramadan, when he lectured guests at a reception about the benefits of fasting. Before his appointment at the Home Office, Mr Hafeez worked as an adviser to the Welsh Assembly, government where he had a reputation for his strict views on Islam. He also regularly lectured on Islamic issues at Welsh universities.

The Home Office appointment coincides with a change of regime at the Department of Communities and Local Government, where John Denham has replaced Hazel Blears as Secretary of State.

Sources at the department have told the JC that Mr Denham’s deputy, Shahid Malik, has announced his belief that ministers have been “talking to the wrong people”.

The Home Office last night confirmed that Mr Hafeez had been given the job, but said that all appointments followed government procedures.

Take a gander at Azim in action: Marriage in Islam.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews: "It's not a crime to call al Qaeda, is it?"

They just don't get it, do they?

From Newsbusters:

"See - we have a problem," Matthews said. "How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al Qaeda. Is that the point at which you say, ‘This guy is dangerous?' That's not a crime to call up al Qaeda, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?"

Taking a stroll down Sudden Jihad memory lane...

Thanks to FReeper 7thson and his lovely wife for reminding me about Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad

From WaPo:  Fort Hood attack is 3rd this year by ANTIWAR RADICALS targeting military on U.S. soil. 

(And please note their headline reads 'antiwar radical attack' not radical 'MUSLIM' attack, even though all targeted attacks have been perpetrated by Muslims.)

Federal prosecutors in September charged two North Carolina men (MUSLIM converts) for allegedly conspiring to kill personnel at the U.S. Marine Corps base at Quantico, seeking to attack U.S. forces at home if they could not overseas. In June, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, an American Muslim convert, allegedly shot and killed one soldier and wounded another at a military recruiting center at Little Rock, Ark., in what he said was retaliation for U.S. counterterrorism policies worldwide. (MUSLIM convert)

Also this year, the last of five men was sentenced in April to 33 years in prison for planning to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J., a plot inspired by foreign terrorist groups.(Fort Dix 6 - also, MUSLIM.)

The Islamic Jihad and the Obama administration...

Whose side are these people on?  No, I mean really.

First,  we had Obama's totally lame and pathetic remarks about Ft. Hood.  I'm sure you've read all about them by now.  Then we had General Casey with his boneheaded remarks on the Sunday Talk show circuit.  Not to be outdone, Homeland Security Sec Janet Napolitano (aka 'Pat" - haha, Miss J.) has been off in the U.A.E. for no freaking apparent reason assuring the Muslims that she was 'working to prevent an anti Islamic backlash'.  I won't even begin to get into the nonsense psychobabble being spewed by US MSM outlets in their attempt to whitewash the whole attack.  It's really too depressing.

Now we get the word that Attorney General Holder will be the keynote speaker at a function that includes those shit disturbers CAIR.

Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to give a keynote speech next week to a Michigan group which includes the local branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations even though the FBI has formally severed contacts with the controversial Muslim civil rights organization.

On Nov. 19, Holder is scheduled to speak in Detroit to the first annual awards banquet of Advocates and Leaders for Police and Community Trust, a coalition of several dozen law enforcement and community groups.  An online registration form includes the Council on American Islamic Relations-Michigan on a list of “official & participating organizations.”

A spokeswoman for ALPACT confirmed that CAIR is a member of the coalition.

“CAIR has been involved for a while,” said Chandra McMillion, community development facilitator for ALPACT. “CAIR is listed as an official member.”

Don't forget that the President calls the Tea Party people extremist teabaggers.  I ask you again, whose side are these people really on?

Oh, and about all that Muslim harrassment the Ft. Hood Jihadi's shocked and disbelieving family claimed he suffered?

Muslim Veterans Group Says No Reports of Harassment of Islamic Soldiers

Abdul-Rashid Abdullah, deputy director of the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council, told FoxNews.com that the nonprofit group has not received a single report recently of a U.S. soldier being harassed "simply because he was Muslim."

"That kind of report is inconsistent with what we've heard," Abdullah said prior to a press conference in Washington to denounce Thursday's shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 dead and 38 wounded. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old Army psychiatrist who was reportedly due to be deployed later this month, is accused in the mass shooting.

Abdullah said his organization, which condemned the "unspeakable" attack, serves "several thousand" Muslim soldiers.

Rocky Mountain Jihadi: British intel led to his arrest.

So not only do we have to go to the UK to find out news about the Ft. Hood Jihadi it looks like we have to go there to get intel on terror plots here in the US.  (Thanks mates!  At least something positive came out of your earlier cock up.) 

From the Daily Mail.

A source told the Sun today that Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command had been monitoring a suspicious email address uncovered in an abortive operation against an alleged British terror cell in April.

Eleven Pakistani suspects were arrested but later released without charge.

The arrests took place earlier than planned after Met anti-terror chief Bob Quick was pictured with a secret document on show while going to brief the PM.  Mr Quick was forced to resign over the mistake.

Officers kept watch on the email address - and when it was suddenly reactivated in September, they struck gold.

Acting on the British tip-off, U.S. authorities began a surveillance operation and allegedly found bomb-making instructions on Zazi's laptop. A phone contained video of New York's Grand Central Station.

A British security source told The Sun: 'This was excellent work and highlights the fact that we produce good information.'

Furious U.S. intelligence bosses had threatened to stop sharing secrets with Britain after the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, was freed in August.  But the source said: 'They were delighted with the intelligence we gave them and believe it helped prevent a catastrophic attack.'

I'm delighted, too.

Ft Hood Jihadi to be tried in Military court?

That's what Catherine Herridge at FNC and the AP are reporting.

Investigative officials say the Fort Hood shooting suspect will apparently face charges in military court.

Developing...

Muslim pedophilia is alive and well in the Show Me State.

Well, this is pretty sick. 

From the Kansas City Star.  (h/t The Last Crusade)

(How very MSM of them - you actually have to read down to paragraph 7 to find out that there's a MOSQUE involved.  The name of the mosque is never mentioned.  Here's a list of mosques located in Jackson County, Mo.  Any ideas which one it is?  Why aren't they facing charges as well?) 

<---  Vincent Mosby - proud Muslim husband.  He got a 14 year old for a ring and a watch from Walmart .

"Vincent Mosby signed a marriage contract and paid a dowry in a religious ceremony in August, police said.

Mosby, 23, of Kansas City didn’t legally wed his 14-year-old bride, however, because Missouri law won’t allow it without a judge’s order. Police said she was pressured into the union because her mother and stepfather thought she was going to be sexually active with a boy her age.

Although the bride’s stepfather arranged the “marriage,” according to court records, other relatives frowned upon the union and told police in late August. The relatives also took the girl to protect her from further sexual abuse, according to court records.

A relative told police that Mosby called and threatened violence if family members didn’t “give me back my wife in 72 hours,” according to court records. Two days later, on Sept. 9, someone fired three shots into the Kansas City home of the girl’s aunt. No one was hit.

Police arrested Mosby on Saturday for his alleged sexual relationship with the teenager. Jackson County prosecutors on Sunday filed one count of statutory rape. A judge set a $100,000 cash-only bond.

Police said the girl’s stepfather and mother became concerned that she was going to become sexually active, so the stepfather allegedly approached Mosby about marrying the girl. The girl was “strongly encouraged” to wed Mosby, police said.

The stepfather, Mosby and the teen had several “sit downs” before the stepfather arranged for a religious ceremony on Aug. 4 at her home, not far from the stepfather’s mosque.

Two members of the mosque attended, but the bride “was not allowed to be present,” court records said. She waited in her room upstairs. Her stepfather allegedly came upstairs after the ceremony, which consisted of prayers and a contract signing, to announce that she was married.

Police say they have the “marriage contract” with the signatures of Mosby, the girl and the stepfather.

Ft. Hood Jihadi: All lawyered up and no place to go "to get a fair trial"

As predicted here, authorities have not been able to interview the shooter because he was in the process of getting a lawyer "who could protect his rights".  (Just like the rights of all the dead and wounded have been protected from the Muslim Major, I guess.)  Who's footing the bill is what I want to know...

Ret. Col John P. Galligan  --->

The lawyer for the Army psychiatrist accused in a deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood said Monday he asked investigators not to question his client and expressed doubt that the suspect would be able to get a fair trial, given the widespread attention to the case.

Retired Col. John P. Galligan said he was contacted Monday by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's family and was headed to an Army hospital in San Antonio to meet Hasan.  "Until I meet with him, it's best to say we're just going to protect all of his rights," Galligan said.

...

Galligan questioned whether Hasan could get a fair trial in either criminal or military court, given President Barack Obama's planned visit to the base on Tuesday and public comments by the post commander, Lt. Gen. Robert Cone.

"You've got his commander in chief showing up tomorrow," Galligan said. "That same kind of publicity naturally creates an issue as to whether you find a fair and impartial forum, whether that's in the military or even if it were in a federal forum."

Read more about John P. Galligan beneath the fold.

Tahawwur Rana (aka the Mickey Mouse Jihadi) had al Qaeda tapes in his home

Oops!  There goes his lawyer's claim that he was an innocent dupe set up by his jihadi buddy Daood Gilani/David Headley:

From Yahoo News:

Two videos produced by Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network have been found in the home of a Chicago man accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper, federal prosecutors said.

Bin Laden appears on one of the DVDs, describing the lives of four so-called martyrs "on behalf of Islam," and other footage focused on the cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad published in the Copenhagen newspaper, prosecutors said in papers filed late Friday. Those cartoons sparked outrage in much of the Muslim world.

The filings are part of prosecutors' efforts to bolster their case that Chicago grocery store owner and immigration counselor Tahawwur Rana, 48, should not be freed on bond pending resolution of terrorism charges against him and David C. Headley.

Rana's bond hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. His attorney, Patrick Blegen, has said Rana may be merely the innocent dupe of Headley. Blegen said Monday he had started to review the government's filing and the evidence.

An attorney for Headley has declined to comment.

Ft. Hood Jihadi: Communicated with radical cleric and authorities knew it!

From the NY Slimes:

The communications, which were the subject of an inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Army investigators, provide the first indication that Major Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was in direct communication with the cleric, who on Monday praised the major on his Web site, saying he “did the right thing.”.

Depending on the content of the communications, the disclosure of the government’s decision not to take any steps against Major Hasan could provoke criticism of the F.B.I. and Army investigators for missing possible warning signs that might have stopped a mass killing.

But federal officials briefed on the case said they were convinced that their decision to break off the investigation was reasonable based on the information about Major Hasan that was compiled at the time, which they said gave no indication that he was likely to engage in violence.

The officials said the communications did not alter the prevailing theory that Major Hasan acted by himself, lashing out as a result of a combination of factors, among them his outspoken opposition to American policy in Iraq and Afghanistan and his deepening religious fervor as a Muslim.

The officials have their heads up their a$$ if you want my opinion.  Makes you wonder if 'the officials' ever saw Hasan's business card - the one he gave out with Korans the morning of the attack.  Talk about missing a BIG FAT RED FLAG!  (h/t Atlas Shrugs)

<---Note the misspelling of Health.

SoA = Soldiers of Allah
SWT = "Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala," or "Glory to Him, the Exalted." Muslims always include this little ditty (among others) when they mention Allah.

Pfizer abandons plant: Kelo was all for naught.

Isn't it ironic?

The private homes that New London, Conn., took away from Suzette Kelo and her neighbors have been torn down. Their former site is a wasteland of fields of weeds, a monument to the power of eminent domain.

But now Pfizer, the drug company whose neighboring research facility had been the original cause of the homes' seizure, has just announced that it is closing up shop in New London.

To lure those jobs to New London a decade ago, the local government promised to demolish the older residential neighborhood adjacent to the land Pfizer was buying for next-to-nothing. Suzette Kelo fought the taking to the Supreme Court, and lost. Five justices found this redevelopment met the constitutional hurdle of "public use."

Ft. Hood Jihadi: So what did the Obama administration know and when did they know it?

The Major parades around in his dishdasha and Muslim beanie the morning of the attack.  --->

(Not that I'm jumping to conclusions or anything like that - but...)

Ft Hood Jihadi computer shows links to al Qaeda. 

The money quote:

"The source speaking to this author confirmed that report but went further, stating that this and information similar but not directly related to such communications became a “political issue” between government agencies and officials “at the policy making levels” of the administration."

So it sounds like not only did US intelligence officials know the administration ALSO knew that Hasan had been trying to contact al Qaeda and THEY DID NOTHING - well, they did do something - back in May they promoted him.

I pray that Senator Lieberman's call for an inquiry into the Major's sudden jihadist tendencies meets with better success than Rep Pete Hoekstra has:

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said that he requested the CIA and other intelligence agencies brief the committee on what was known, if anything, about Hasan by the U.S. intelligence community, only to be refused.

In response, Hoekstra issued a document preservation request to four intelligence agencies. The letter, dated November 7th, was sent to directors Dennis Blair (DNI), Robert Mueller (FBI), Lt. Gen Keith Alexander (NSA) and Leon Panetta (CIA).

Hoekstra said he is "absolutely furious" that the house intel committee has been refused an intelligence briefing by the DNI or CIA on Hasan's attempt to reach out to al Qaeda, as first reported by ABC News.

As far as the 'alleged' gunman terrorist goes, he has yet to be interviewed by authorities:

Investigators from the Army's Criminal Investigation Command and the FBI have been waiting to question Hasan as they try to establish a motive for the shooting and determine whether the suspect had any assistance or instigation from anyone else.

Now we know around whose neck the noose of Obamacare lies.

Rather apropos I'd say, wouldn't you?

Ft. Hood Jihadi: Run, don't walk over to ...

Daniel Pipes. I mean it.

"Instances of Muslim-on-unbeliever violence inspire the victim school to dig up new and imaginative excuses. Colorful examples (drawing on my article and weblog entry about denying Islamist terrorism) include:

• 1990: “A prescription drug for … depression” (to explain the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane)
• 1991: “A robbery gone wrong” (the murder of Makin Morcos in Sydney)
• 1994: “Road rage” (the killing of a random Jew on the Brooklyn Bridge)
• 1997: “Many, many enemies in his mind” (the shooting murder atop the Empire State Building)
• 2000: A traffic incident (the attack on a bus of Jewish schoolchildren near Paris)
• 2002: “A work dispute” (the double murder at LAX)
• 2002: A “stormy [family] relationship” (the Beltway snipers)
• 2003: An “attitude problem” (Hasan Karim Akbar’s attack on fellow soldiers, killing two)
• 2003: Mental illness (the mutilation murder of Sebastian Sellam)
• 2004: “Loneliness and depression” (an explosion in Brescia, Italy outside a McDonald’s restaurant)
• 2005: “A disagreement between the suspect and another staff member” (a rampage at a retirement center in Virginia)
• 2006: “An animus toward women” (a murderous rampage at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle in 2006)
• 2006: “His recent, arranged marriage may have made him stressed” (killing with an SUV in northern California in 2006)

Sgt. Hasan Karim Akbar, convicted of the 2003 murder of two fellow soldiers.

Additionally, when an Osama bin Laden-admiring Arab-American crashed his plane into a Tampa high-rise, blame fell on the acne drug Accutane."

No seriously.  Go read it all.

Janet Napolitano: Working to prevent "anti-Muslim backlash"

Update:  Monday, November 9, 2009.  I woke up this morning with this thought:  What the he&& is the director of Homeland Security doing speaking to groups in the UAE in the first place????  Whose Homeland is she trying to keep secure?  Theirs?

BTW - There is still no mention of the Ft Hood massacre at the DHS website 4 days after the event.  Shameful.

We are so doomed with this crowd of dhimmis.

<---  'Big Sis' in action.

From AP:

Janet Napolitano says her agency is working with groups across the United States to try to deflect any backlash against American Muslims following Thursday's rampage by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim who reportedly expressed growing dismay over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The shootings left 13 people dead and 29 wounded.

Napolitano was in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday for talks with security officials and a meeting with women university students in Abu Dhabi.

Ft. Hood Jihadi: "Going Muslim"

Tunku Varadarajan over at Forbes' take:

"Going postal" is a piquant American phrase that describes the phenomenon of violent rage in which a worker--archetypically a postal worker--"snaps" and guns down his colleagues.

...

The difference between "going postal," in the conventional sense, and "going Muslim," in the sense that I suggest, is that there would not necessarily be a psychological "snapping" point in the case of the imminently violent Muslim; instead, there could be a calculated discarding of camouflage--the camouflage of integration--in an act of revelatory catharsis. In spite of suggestions by some who know him that he had a history of "harassment" as a Muslim in the army, Maj. Hasan did not "snap" in the "postal" manner. He gave away his possessions on the morning of his day of murder. He even gave away--to a neighbor--a packet of frozen broccoli that he did not wish to see go to waste, even as he mapped in his mind the laying waste of lives at Fort Hood. His was a meticulous, even punctilious "departure."

Don't jump to conclusions, possums.  But do read the rest:

"President Obama was as craven as a community college diversity VP when he said that no one should jump to conclusions. Everyone did, and he lost credibility with people who cannot stand civic piety in the face of the murderous kind."

Ft. Hood Jihadi: Maybe we SHOULD ix-nay the errorist-tay talk?

Or maybe not:

Military justice experts told the Houston Chronicle that Hasan, if he recovers, could face the death penalty in a military court-martial — unless civilian prosecutors conclude that he was part of a terrorist plot that would justify moving his case into federal criminal courts under U.S. anti-terrorism laws.

But veterans of the military justice system say that any case against Hasan could take many months and could be delayed by medical assessments of the Army officer's physical and mental health. And even if a death sentence is handed down, the military justice system's lengthy appeals process has effectively thwarted all executions since 1961.

Indeed, prominent figures – from his base commander, Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, to his commander-in-chief, President Barack Obama – have publicly identified him as the alleged assailant. On Sunday, Army Chief of Staff George Casey said on ABC's This Week program that Army investigators currently believe that Maj. Hasan was the lone gunman..."

More.

Fort Hood Jihadi: A devout Muslim who frequented strip clubs...

Just jumping back into the fray with this one, possums. 

So not only did this traitorous terror scumbag attend the same mosque as the 9/11 terrorists, he also has a fondness for strip clubs.  Must be trying to get a jump on handling all those virgins - it was clear he had no luck with women in this world.

Major Islam-o-wanker.  What do you want to bet he reeked of cheap aftershave?  --->

(I was pasted to my XM FNC Channel listening to events unfold as we traveled down to Santa Fe with our guest - since then I have been sneaking off to check my blackberry for the latest updates on this deplorable terror attack.  But enough about me.  Let's get back to it.)

He preferred blondes, was a good tipper and wanted to ask the girls questions.  Oh, and have a 3 song lap dance.  (I'm sure the moonbats will just say he was conducting "research".)

"I remember his face because it was the first lap dance I gave..."

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan came into the Starz strip club not far from the base at least three times in the past month, the club's general manager, Matthew Jones, told FoxNews.com. Army investigators building their case against Hasan plan to interview Jones soon.

"The last time he was here, I remember checking his military ID at the door, and he paid his $15 cover and stayed for six or seven hours," Jones, 37, said.

Hasan's presence at the club paints a starkly different portrait of the alleged killer from that offered by his imam and family members, who have described him as a devout Muslim, and one who had difficulty finding a wife who would wear a head scarf and would pray five times a day.

Starz is a strip club located just down the road from the main gate entrance to the Fort Hood Base. It does not serve alcohol, but customers bring their own beer and liquor and buy ice buckets and mixers at the club.

Hasan sat at a table in the back corner of the club, to the left of the stage on which strippers dance around a pole, employees said.

Jennifer Jenner, who works at Starz using the stage name Paige, said Hasan bought a lap dance from her two nights in a row.