We now know a lot more about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and it isn’t what the media wants to report, nor is it what the Army wants to admit. For fear of crossing the politically correct divide, military officials, suspicious of Maj. Hasan, kept silent. An FBI investigation dropped and no one would dare ask why.
Intelligence agencies intercepted communications last year and this year between Hasan and a radical cleric in Yemen known for his incendiary anti-American teachings, Anwar al-Awlaki.
Anwar al-Awlaki, an Imam, served at two US mosques in 2000 and 2001, visited by three 9/11 hijackers. Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi attended San Diego’s Rabat mosque, where Mr. Awlaki later disclosed meeting Mr. Hazmi several times according to the report of the national Sept. 11th Commission, “claimed not to remember any specifics of what they discussed”.
Both Mr. Hazmi and another hijacker, Hani Hanjour, attended the Falls Church Dar al Hijrah mosque in Virginia after Mr. Awlaki had relocated there in early 2001. The Sept. 11th Commission report stated “suspicion” about the concurrence, but said its investigators were not able to find Mr. Awlaki for questioning. Major Hasan attended the same Falls Church mosque, but it is unknown whether they met.
Moreover, it’s now known that Major Hasan sent money to the Middle East and had email communication with Al Qaeda members. It has also been well documented that Maj. Hasan had told many other service-members he considered himself a Muslim first and an American second, often got into religious debates and was openly against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Army chief of staff, General George Casey said, “This terrible event…would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty." Begging to different with the good general, but there would be no military diverse or otherwise if radicalized individuals systematically infiltrate the armed services on to try and collapse them from within.
Had this been a Michigan militia overthrow-the-government right-winger, there would be no eggshell walking and little call to keep from jumping to conclusions. The justice department would be knocking on his door in his compound ready to reenact Waco.
-- The Editors, Killswitch Politick
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