As the information drips out about the ties Nidal Malik Hasan had (or aspired t0 have) to terrorists at war with the United States and about his own radical statements, we see two competing narrative developing among the blogging and pundit class. Conservatives wonder why more wasn’t [...]
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An Army CID spokesman announced today that murder charges have been filed against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan:
“Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in connection with last week’s shootings at Fort Hood, Chris Grey, a spokesman with the Army’s Criminal [...]
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Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan reportedly told senior Army physicians at Fort Hood Walter Reed that Muslim troops should be released as conscientious objectors:
“As a senior-year psychiatric resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan was supposed to make a presentation on a medical [...]
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Multiple sources report Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will be tried in a military court. In addition, from the same Houston Chronicle link, Hasan has reportedly refused official interviews and requested an attorney. His family has hired John P. Galligan, a Texas lawyer with experience in [...]
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Ed Morrissey at Hot Air links to an ABC News report that “the FBI knew that Major Nidal Hasan had attempted to contact al-Qaeda and its associates months before Hasan went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, killing 13 people.” But it’s not clear whether [...]
AP. The funeral for Nidal Hasan’s mother in 2001 was held at a mosque in Virgina attended by two 9/11 hijackers and was headed by a radical iman.
The mosque has thousands of members and no links between Hasan and terrorists have been uncovered.
So, is this news or irresponsible speculation? [...]
Maybe some of our readers can help me out on this. You see, I’m a little confused about the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Islamist radical who murdered thirteen Americans at Ft. Hood earlier this week.
We read that he feared deployment to Afghanistan because he didn’t want to [...]
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows."
It would be foolishly speculative to assign a particular motive to the mass murder perpetrated yesterday to Army Major Nidal M. Hasan. But that hasn't stopped people from their agendas of spin. Such' [...]
I was in the Midwest yesterday, speaking to a college group about tensions between Muslims and the West, and I argued that Muslims in the U.S. tend to assimilate much more fully than in Europe. A short while later I heard about Nidal Malik Hasan at Ft. Hood. I felt [...]
iOwnTheWorld states This is Allegedly the Shooter
More, many more, to come.
UPDATE:
EDUCATION? Vitals - Doctor Nidal M Hasan, MD profile
UPDATE 2: Could be a different [...]
Regarding the shooting at Fort Hood; let's assume for sake of argument that the following reports are correct:
The main shooter was Major Malik Nadal Hasan (or Nidal Malik Hasan -- I've seen both versions);Hasan was a recent convert to Islam;
Hasan was "violently hostile" to the deployment of American forces in' [...]
