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Is There a 9/11 Link to Ft. Hood?
As the investigation continues into the Fort Hood shooting last week, it’s been discovered that Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a Virginia mosque at the same time as two of the September 11 hijackers. Britain's Sunday Telegraph reports that the only suspect in the killing of 13 U.S. soldiers in Texas attended the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque, where the imam Anwar al-Awlaki presided. A former Homeland Security official has called al-Awlaki an "al Qaeda supporter, and former spiritual leader to three of the September 11 hijackers ... who targets U.S. Muslims with radical online lectures encouraging terrorist attacks from his new home in Yemen."
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This is an important piece of evidence suggesting the major had personal links to radical Islamic extremists with anti-American views. This report is consistent with the many reports from his colleagues that the major himself often expressed anti-American views, and had written of his admiration for Islamic suicide bombers.
No one knows if there's a 9/11 link, but Plantkin is hoping, desperately, that there is.
No one knows if there's a 9/11 link, but the investigation has determined that Hasan attended the same mosque and some of the 9/11 mass murderers, where the spiritual leader was linked to Al Qaida.
evillekid is trying, desperately, to cover up that fact.
Senator Joe Lieberman said today that if news reports were true that Mr. Hasan had turned to Islamic extremism, "the murder of these 13 people was a terrorist act and, in fact, it was the most-destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11."
"We don't know enough to say now, but there are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act," Mr. Lieberman added.
Well, Plant and Lieberman
John Muhammad who is to be executed in the State of VA this week, was charged with terrorism in the shooting of fourteen people in 2002-3. Nah, nah, nah.
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Yada Yada Yada --- Another shameful "Red Herring" ?????
Why not ask those "surviving terrorists" on the 9/11 "planes" ?????? .
http://www.st911.org/
Yeah ---- why doesn't MSM ask them ???????????????????
http://www.drjudywood.com/
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Dar al-Hijrah is one of the largest mosques in the US. About 3,000 people attend the Friday prayer services every week. If you're a practicing Muslim in the DC/NoVa area, chances are pretty high at some point you'll go to Dar al-Hijrah. It's possible Hasan came into contact with the hijackers there, but this is hardly something to read too much into right now.
It raises the question of why the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in the DC area employed a radical anti-American spiritual leader with links to Al Qaida.
Now I wonder if the DC sniper....John Muhammad....also attended this mosque?
Yes, it is ironic that John Muhammad, a convert to Islam and served in the Gulf War, but again it proves nothing. Defending Islam is not Anti-American. You need to relax as you are the freak.
PS Don't forget to watch the execution of John Muhammad on television, coming soon. I know it is your kind of justice, along with Iran, China, Saudia Arabia etc. Did not know you have so much in common with countries that one usually associates with human abuse and torture, did you?
Oh PUHHHLEAAASE!
The shootings at the Holocaust Museum didn't resurrect enough fear and hatred, time to go back to attacking Muslims and the Islamic faith? Gimme a break.
It's all a ruse, people. After this dies down they'll be grabbing at straws - what's next? Girl Scouts are terrorists too, there's a braingrabbing chemical in the cookies. They're after you. Everybody's after you. Your neighbors. Your family. Especially your religion and place of worship no matter what/ where it is.
People need to question where all of this is coming from.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iLRkNGtBvA
Relax.
Just because a small fringe element of radical Moslems has virulent anti-American views is no reason for you to become afraid of girl scouts, your neighbors, cookies etc. Relax.
What is the point you are trying to make?
@Plantagenet: Goddess711 was using satire.
She's referring to the chocolate in GS cookies. She's mocking the sensationalist tendency towards paranoid conspiracy theories.
Sheesh.
Awww...c'mon. This guy "acted alone" and was a Muslim who happened to become so stressed that he went postal. He's guilty of killing 14 innocent people (I'm counting the unborn child of one of the victims.), but let's not take this to some overworked and overwrought conspiracy drama of histronic proportions. Try him, convict him, and sentence him for the 14 crimes he committed...period.
If this person had been a Christian, would there be such convoluted thinking going on? I think not - and really - it's just racial profiling all over again.
If there's a smoking gun, point to the Ft. Hood brass, who didn't take the warning signs seriously enough to just discharge and bar him from the facility. If soldiers don't want to serve then relieve them of duty.
The concern isn't whether or not he "acted alone." The question is why he murdered 14 of his colleagues in the military.
When the investigation is complete he will be charged. Right now his motive isn't known, but suspicion is falling on his radical anti-American views and in particular on his publically stated belief that the war in Afghanistan is a "war on Islam."
umm because he was crazy and the military was aware of it when he was in medical school and did nothing about it because they wanted to parade a muslim officer and say see he's on our side?
michelle plantkin has a new hobby horse. it isn't hard to see where she's going with this.
He might have been crazy. If so a jury would find him innocent by way of insanity.
Alternatively, he may have believed that the war in Afghanistan is a war on Muslims, as he evidently frequently claimed, and then decided to kill his fellow soldiers to defend Muslims. In that case he would presumably be found guilty of murder and perhaps also of treason.
Not if he did not know he was not on a battlefield.
Liberal democrats keep coming up with new excuses for Hasan. The poor baby was harassed...he was on a battlefield....he was crazy....etc. etc.
Somehow the possibility that Hasan is a murderer doesn't occur to them.
Nobody said he wasn't a murderer, you fool. We just don't have the blood lust you have, and we are way smarter.
If he had been a Christian, Plant would be blaming it on Reverend Wright.
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why do i feel like the removed comments belong to you?
and why do i feel like there's going to be another removed comment pretty soon? For future reference, the sure-to-be-removed-soon comment above is from billwhit1357, is mostly incoherent and violently anti-muslim.
hate monger.
That poor man was driven to do this just for his religious views. you people should be ashamed of yourselves. i mean really how much of that could that guy take ? this would never happen if Mrs pelosi was running the show. i just hope she has the top seat when we move there.
sarcasm fail?
It's obvious that the US military morons can't protect themselves.
It is an enormous waste of US taxpayer $$$TRILLIONS$$$ to support the US military moron welfare system when these morons can't do the simpliest tasks in defending the US.
Nidal Malik Hasan was elevated to the rank of major by the US military morons because, and this is something, the US military morons claim they need all the mental health providers they can find.
So despite Hasan's poor reviews, despite Hasan's idiotic rantings in public, despite Hasan's open opposition to US military morons, the US military morons made him a major.
Nowhere will you find so much incompetence as in the ranks of the US military morons.
how come only gay people like us see this?
So you are saying a poster you don't agree with is gay? You are obsessed with the issue of homosexuality, and you are not the first on on here.
discrimination !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUCH
Yes, cheen, Dems has been flaunting his homophobia today on several threads with multiple posts. He'll flame out one way or the other and be gone soon.
I know cvllekid-
Last week it was asaleon, now this. Did you know there was a living Erik Erikson conservative founder of a certain blog, I know you referenced the dead EE in a very funny post to leon, I laughed til I cried.
No. They have to have a female civilian cop protect them. She did a better job than any MP!!!!!! The US military lacks leadership. There was enough evidence that Hasan was stressed and certainly not up for deployment to Iraq. This unfortunate incident could have been averted had the military had taken the time to listen. Hasan's commanders should be investigated.
military morons? all of them? every last soldier and support personell is a moron?
are you sure about that?
Most of you people just don't get it. When are we going to wake and realize that there is religious warfare going on all around us? It used to be covert, but now it's out in the open. Racial profiling? doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the growing threat.
All innuendo and garbage. This is why some people still make fun of the internet. Of course in the lead-up to Iraq the TV media did the same thing. Bravo, Daily Beast, you're in the trash category.
Duh ! In everybody's mind but libs
why is it we must get this information from the British press? this country has become so politically correct, you can't call a spade a spade for the fear of offending someone. Who cares! It is what it is! Both Hanan and McVeigh are homegrown terrorist, who hate US! lets try to remember that no matter who they represent they want to KILL us!
I don't know but,I bet there is a link between Bush's Secret Society agenda and his dictatorship regime
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