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Fort Hood's Deceased

The fatal victims of the Ft. Hood shooting, as released by the Department of Defense on Saturday

• 1. Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, Havre de Grace, MD
• 2. Maj. Libardo Caraveo, 52, Woodbridge, VA
• 3. Cpt. John P. Gaffaney, 54, San Diego, CA
• 4. Cpt. Russell Seager, 41, Racine, WI
• 5. Staff Sgt. Justin Decrow, 32, Plymouth, IN
• 6. Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, Kiel, WI
• 7. Spc. Jason Hunt, 22, Tillman, OK
• 8. Spc. Frederick Greene, 29, Mountain City, TN
• 9. PFC Aaron Nemelka, 19, West Jordan, UT
• 10. PFC Michael Pearson, 22, Bolingbrook, IL
• 11. PFC Kham Xiong, 23, St. Paul, MN
• 12. Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, Chicago, IL
• 13. Michael G. Cahill, Cameron, TX [civilian]

Associated Press list of victims. (WSJ)

More news on the Ford Hood shooting:

Concerning the link between Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan and the mosque of three 9/11 terrorists, as reported in the Telegraph,  Dr Phyllis Chesler says, and I agree: 

If such a connection exists — and one may not — the implications are very serious. Talk about “sleeper” cells? No, we have to talk about carefully, possibly highly placed individuals who have been programmed/guided/inspired to either blow themselves up or to shoot others down. One by one by one.

Various military officers have characterized Hasan as a “valuable asset,” perhaps too valuable to jettison even if he acted strangely and did not want to deploy. I wonder how many other such “valuable assets” the American military, private industry, and the various branches of the American government really have.

Don’t you wonder?

Obama can't be bothered with Islamic terror, by Ralph Peters (New York Post)

Imagine if, instead of Fort Hood, the massacre had gone down at a mosque in Detroit — carried out by a maddened Christian or Jew. Obama would’ve been aboard Air Force One before the pilots had time to file a flight plan and he would’ve been on site before the gun smoke cleared, hugging and boo-hooing and dispensing stirring rhetoric for the evening news.

But go out of his way to rally our butchered troops? Not a chance. It’s not like they’re real human beings with Ivy League degrees. When Obama got word of the attack, he didn’t even lose his fabled cool.

Dr. Phyllis Chesler on Obama warning Americans "not to jump to any conclusions" and to guard against a “backlash” against Muslims in the military and in the country:  

... But whether or not Major Hasan acted alone, had allies, was inspired by religious and political Islamism, was psychiatrically troubled — the fact remains that he committed an act of terrorism. He terrified other soldiers precisely where they were supposed to feel safe. So much of the truth is already so clear that it would be insane, insulting to the intelligence to deny or minimize it.[snip] 

I am a psychologist, a retired Professor of Psychology and a psycho-analytically oriented psychotherapist. But I have also been following current events, even studying them.  ...

... Hasan’s action was a planned execution. It was not the act of a man who suddenly “snapped.”  ...   this lone shooter was someone who was inspired by a radical Islamist ideology which views such murderous acts as religiously heroic, not as “psychiatrically deranged.”

In Gaza or on the West Bank, Major Hasan would be given a hero’s parade. Osama bin Laden’s followers will print posters and banners with his face.

Some may choose to view him as dysfunctional, psychiatrically challenged, socially inappropriate, isolated, inflexible, fanatical — but that does not justify or excuse his jihadic crime. Many religious fanatics are also “mentally ill.” It is the religious ideology that empowers criminal and, in Hasan’s case, treasonous activity. Hasan did not commit jihadic mass murder because he is “mentally ill,” but because he is a jihadist. [snip]

 Perhaps the very Palestinian Major Hasan also feared going to Iraq ...  according to the New York Times, Hasan’s brother, Anas, a lawyer, recently moved to Ramallah where the family has cousins. (Hizb ut Tahrir as well as other terrorist groups are active on the West Bank). [snip]

So: Major Hasan identifies with Palestine. He feels their pain. It speaks to him. He takes it on as his own. He blames America for it. He follows Islam in its most radical incarnation and justifies Islamist suicide terrorists. Indeed, this was one of his problems at the Walter Reed Hospital: He taught precisely this when he should have been teaching subjects like behavioral science or environmental health.

I suggest that America has just tasted the bitter pill that Israel has been forced to swallow daily for nearly a decade.

I further suggest that the American military must end it’s policy of political correctness and weed out those personnel who consistently mistranslate from the Arabic. In addition, social misfits who hold extremist views, especially and specifically Islamist views, should have no place in the American military.

We owe that much to those slaughtered at Ft Hood and on 9/11.

The Los Angeles Times has interviewed more of Hasan's professional and personal acquaintances, and the picture of his opposition to the United States is consistent.(A View From The Right)

BBC: Ft Hood mosque member defends shootings: "they were troops who were going to Afghanistan and Iraq to kill Muslims. I honestly have no pity for them."  (Jawa Report)

NY Post: Take a look at Ft Hood shooter's old mosque

Other News:

Obama is taking "off the record", behind closed doors, meetings with select reporters, Fox News need not apply.  (Sense of Events)

Republican Representative Ahn “Joseph” Cao of Louisiana voted with the Democrats on the health care bill that needed 218 votes and passed with 220.

A cloaking device?  Science gains ground on science fiction.

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Previous posts on Fort Hood and Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan:

Unbelieveable, Fort Hood, 9/11 Terror Connection.

Muslims in the Military.

Missed out on martyrdom, taken down by American woman.

Fort Hood Shooter Muslim - UPDATE: Media Malpractice, Hasan is still alive.

Comments

[R.J. Godlewski]

Come to think of it, the eventual trial of Hasan is going to be something of a harbinger for the trials of Gitmo detainees.

God help us all...

[Debbie]

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RJ: Yes I saw Leiberman on Fox and I think this is a good move on his part.

[R.J. Godlewski]

Sen. Joe Leiberman is calling for an investigation into the Ft. Hood shootings to see if it was Islamic Terrorism.

At least someone in Washington is considering what the rest of us already know.

[Bernard]

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