Major
Hasan Of Fort Hood - A Patsy In A Drill Gone Live?
By Webster G. Tarpley
Nov. 15, 2009
http://www.rense.com/general88/trp.htm
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas - GETTY Photo
In the wake of the massacre at Fort Hood Texas , two principal theories have
emerged to explain the conduct of the accused shooter, identified by the U.S.
Army as Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist of Jordanian-Palestinian
ancestry. One of these theories is embraced by left liberals and other supporters
and acolytes of the Obama regime, and argues that Major Hasan is a sincere and
devout Muslim who was the victim of a tragic contradiction between his religious
faith and the logic of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, both the heritage of the
odious Bush-Cheney regime. According to this version, Hasan must be viewed as
a troubled and tormented individual who "snapped," breaking down psychologically
under the stress of his awful predicament. Here is how Obama summed up this
approach: "Even within the extraordinary military that we have -- and I
think everybody understands how outstanding the young men and women in uniform
are under the most severe stress -- there are going to be instances in which
an individual cracks." (New York Times, 10 Nov and ember 2009) Calling
Major Hasan a terrorist amounts, in this view, to racism and vindictive prejudice.
The other theory is the one advocated by assorted neocons, reactionaries, Islamophobes
and others generally hostile to Obama. This account maintains that Major Hasan
was a homegrown, self-starting Islamic terrorist, trumpeting his devotion to
jihad and suicide bombing, seeking to make contact with "Al Qaeda,"
and generally filled with hate for America , for freedom, and for his fellow
soldiers. In this view, it is only the pervasive political correctness and multicultural
obsession of the subversive-riddled and soft on terrorism Obama regime that
prevented Major Hasan from being neutralized before he could act, and which
prevents Obama and his Democratic allies from telling the truth after the fact.
These views are both superficial, naïve, and inadequate.[1] They amount
to two prongs of an articulated campaign of media hysteria and mass manipulation
designed on the one hand to prod the dithering Wall Street puppet Obama
who is having second thoughts about his own political survival -- into an early
decision in favor of massive escalation of the war in Afghanistan for the purpose
of hastening the breakup of Pakistan, and thus threatening China. On the other
hand, the delirium of Islamophobic hatred being ginned up against Major Hasan
by the usual cast of reactionary radio ogres (Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Levin)
seeks to accentuate and strengthen the racist and xenophobic elements in the
militant anti-Obama opposition, in particular among the Tea Party movement.
The decision to put the infamous Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his confreres on
trail in New York City, plus the recent government seizure of numerous US mosques
and other buildings on the grounds that they are Iranian assets, also contribute
to a growing mood of anti-Moslem hysteria. This atmosphere is accentuated by
the reckless and irresponsible actions of some Moslem groups which happen to
be foundation-funded, and must thus be considered as part of the apparatus of
US domestic social control.
The media narrative which is now being consolidated a week after the shootings
is full of contradictions, embarrassed silences, and absurdities. A third and
distinct approach to this case is therefore required, one which regards Major
Hasan as a manipulated patsy in the context of a relatively sophisticated operation
mounted by forces within the US intelligence community, using methods and assets
which by now ought to have become familiar. Major Hasan can be seen as a mixture
of Lee Harvey Oswald, legendary 9/11 "suicide pilot" Mohammed Atta,
and Cho Seung-Hui (the alleged April 2007 Virginia Tech shooter). He also has
elements of reputed Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, and of John Hinckley
Jr., who was involved in an attempt to kill President Reagan both of whom
survived the operations in which they were implicated. He thus represents a
new cocktail of patsy ingredients. Until now, Islamic terrorists had come in
collectivist groups, and not alone. Major Hasan by contrast is a troubled loner
in the tradition of Oswald, at the same time that he embodies the religious
fanaticism of Atta, along with some of his peccadilloes. Major Hasan is that
novelty, a troubled Islamic fundamentalist loner, even though this is something
of a contradiction in terms. Like Cho, Major Hasan emerges from the psychiatric
clinic, in his case as a practicing psychiatrist, but as a shrink with egregious
symptoms of his own. Like all patsies, Major Hasan combines the flamboyant and
bombastic proclamation of his personal creed with a seeming immunity from bureaucratic
countermeasures which would normally be automatic in shutting him down. Hasan
is revealed as a fanatic, a misfit, and a quasi-psychotic or psychotic mental
case in his own right who could not subsist without protectors in high
places of the US intelligence community.
In my 2005 book 9/11 Synthetic Terrorism, I argued that 9/11 and other recent
terrorist attacks represented provocations cynically orchestrated by privately
controlled rogue networks operating within the US intelligence agencies for
purposes of mass political manipulation. Starting from an overview of terrorist
actions from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 through 9/11, I developed a method of
analysis of state-sponsored false flag terrorism which distinguished the roles
of fanatical, duped, or psychotic patsies like Oswald, of subversive moles ensconced
as officials within government agencies, and of technicians or professional
killers who actually create the observed effects, all commanded and coordinated
from outside of government, and all operating within the atmosphere of mass
brainwashing provided by the Wall Street media. I also highlighted the role
of drills and exercises which are hijacked and turned into real-world terror
attacks. In order to understand the Fort Hood massacre, it is indispensable
to apply this method here as well.
TROOPS THOUGHT IT WAS A DRILL DID MAJOR HASAN THINK SO TOO?
In investigations like this, it is generally a great mistake to fixate on the
scapegoat dished up by the mass media. The more we focus on the Oswald of the
day, the less we understand of what actually happened. Let us turn away from
the TV pundits, and listen instead to the eyewitness testimony of the troops
who were present at the shootings. Many of them are on record agreeing that
the events of November 5 were initially interpreted by those on the scene as
an exercise, as a drill. Emphasis will be added to bring out this central fact.
From ABC News we get the following testimony: Solider Keara Bono 'told "Good
Morning America" today that she initially thought the scene of Hasan standing
up, praising Allah and starting to fire was a drill. She didn't believe it was
real even when she felt her own blood, she said. "Then I looked to my left
and right and I saw people that were bleeding," she said. That's when Bono
realized that Hasan's rampage wasn't a drill.' (ABC News GMA)[2]
In the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel of 9 November 2009 we find: "Pfc. Amber
Bahr of Random Lake [ Wisconsin ] heard someone yelling and ducked at the sound
of gunfire, but she said she thought supervisors at Fort Hood were holding a
drill last Thursday. She didn't know she was under live fire until she heard
people screaming."[3] This story was based on an interview given to NBC's
Today show.
CBS News reported: "Two days after narrowly escaping death at Fort Hood
and just hours after his release from the hospital, Corporal Nathan Hewitt still
can't believe what happened was real. The survivor spoke to CBS News Correspondent
Don Teague about those fateful minutes. Even after being shot, Hewitt didn't
believe what was happening. He thought the gunfire was a training exercise and
that he'd been hit by a rubber bullet. He says other victims thought the same
thing."[4]
ABC newsman Bob Woodruff found further corroboration of this general impression
when he was allowed to interview shooting victims who were recovering in the
hospital: "For many of the 43 people wounded when an Army psychiatrist
allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, the scene was unreal -- it
seemed like something out of a movie. Maybe it was a drill. .Capt. Dorrie Carskadon,
a combat stress specialist from Wisconsin , who was at Fort Hood training for
a deployment to Afghanistan , said she initially thought the shooting was a
drill."[5] Notice that this testimony comes from a field grade officer,
a captain.
The Austin television station KXAN provides the following evidence: 'Spc. Scott
Hamrick and First Sergeant James McLeod made it out of the Soldier Readiness
Processing Center alive after some maneuvering to get away from the suspect,
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. "My initial thought is that it was a drill,"
said Hamrick. "Because you know you're always getting drilled for situations."
However, what Hamrick thought was a drill turned out to be something closer
to war at home.'[6]
The Miami Herald furnished this account: 'For Skip Blancett, the senior pastor
at the First United Methodist Church of Killeen, news of the shooting left him
anguishing for hours because his daughter, Hollye Davis, was at a building next
door to where the gunman started firing. She and others were in lockdown for
hours. Without a cellphone, she couldn't call home. "They had no idea what
was going on; everyone thought it was a drill at first,'' Blancett said.'[7]
The idea that the shooting was part of a drill or exercise was so widespread
that it had to be expressly countered in the first emergency announcement posted
on the Fort Hood web site, which read: "Effective immediately. Fort Hood
is closed. Organizations/units are instructed to execute a 100 per cent accountability
of all personnel. This is not a drill. It is an emergency situation."[8]
Based on this testimony, it seems clear that unannounced, surprise terror drills
are standard operating procedure at Fort Hood and probably other military bases
as well. They are frequent enough to be the first thing many soldiers, including
at least one officer, thought was happening. Drills are designed to be as realistic
as possible. But the acme of realism is reality real killing, which can
occur through small but decisive changes in the unfolding of the drill. We may
therefore be dealing here with a drill which has been taken live or flipped
live, as so often happens in terror incidents.[9]
This array of evidence allows us to pose the following question: If so many
of the Army personnel on the scene thought at first that the incident was a
drill, did Major Hasan also think he was attending a drill? Did he imagine that
he was going to be an actor playing the assigned role of a member of the terrorist
red team in a realistic exercise? In other words, was this inept, troubled and
quasi-psychotic individual somehow under the impression that he was attending
an officially sanctioned exercise of some routine type, until real bullets began
to be fired by other more qualified shooters, thus taking the drill live? This
might also help us to account for the extraordinary intensity of firing at the
scene well over 100 rounds. For this working hypothesis to stand up, we
would have to show that there were other gunmen firing gunmen who knew
that the drill was turning into a real massacre. The additional shooters would
according to the classification referred to above represent the technicians
in this action the trained killers who have the ability to do the things
that the patsy is accused of doing. Interestingly enough, extra gunmen are exactly
what we find.
ONE SHOOTER, OR THREE?
How many shooters were there? Early reports indicated that there were at least
one, and perhaps two, in addition to Major Hasan. Dow Jones newswires reported
at about 5 PM Eastern Time: "A second gunman is in custody after a shooting
at the Army's Fort Hood in Texas in which at least seven people were killed
and 12 wounded, reports KCEN-TV of Waco. The report comes about two hours after
a first suspect was captured, shortly after gunfire broke out."[10] According
to the Dow Jones report cited, shooting had occurred in two separate locations
on the Fort Hood base: "The incident reportedly began at Fort Hood 's theater
and then moved to the Soldier Readiness Processing Center , Killeen City Public
Information Officer Hillary Shine told Fox News." According to an AP wire,
these facts were also announced by an official Army spokesman at the base: "The
spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Banks, says two shooters were apparently
involved. There is no word yet on who they were, nor on identities of the dead.
Banks says the second incident took place at a theater on the sprawling base."
[11] Many of the embarrassing reports about multiple shooters have been purged
after the fact from websites, but a few have survived, as in the case of this
Wisconsin radio station, where we read that the triple assassin theory had been
embraced by the commander of the base: "Newsradio 620 WTMJ: Lt. General
Bob Cone at Fort Hood confirms 12 dead, 31 hurt in shooting. Soldier gunman
killed. 2 others in custody."[12] During the later afternoon, cable television
talked of three shooters, and in the London Daily Mirror account we find: "Twelve
people were killed and 31 wounded when three gunmen in uniform opened fire at
the US Army's largest armoured base in Texas yesterday. One gunman was shot
by civilian police and the two others held at Fort Hood ."[13]
GEN. CONE BRINGS MAJOR HASAN BACK FROM THE DEAD AFTER 8 HOURS
It was only in the late evening that the official lone assassin version of these
events was assembled in another press conference by General Cone held about
eight hours after the shooting had started: " KILLEEN , Texas (KXAN/AP/MSNBC)
- Twelve died and another 31 were hurt in a mass shooting on Fort Hood that
stunned the nation on Thursday. Accused gunman Major Malik Nidal Hasan is alive
and in stable condition, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said at a Thursday evening news conference
just outside the storied military post - the largest in the United States .
Counter to initial reports, the 39-year-old psychiatrist - who was thought to
be killed by local police - is hospitalized and not expected to die of multiple
gunshots wounds sustained during the 1:30 p.m. attack. The local police officer
who allegedly shot Hasan and injured him is in the hospital also in stable condition."[14]
In the course of the day, we had thus gone from three shooters to only one.
The separate shooting incident at the Howze theater on the post reported earlier
had also been expunged in the process. Most remarkable of all was the ability
of Major Hasan to come back from the dead after eight hours in which the world
had been assured of his demise. Such resurrection is of course a physical impossibility
for mere mortals. When individuals are alleged to have performed deeds which
are physically impossible in the world as we know it, from Oswald's feats of
shooting to Atta's (and Hani Hjanjour's) feats of flying, we must become suspicious
that intelligence agencies are assisting the probable patsies in hidden ways.
Major Hasan is said to have fired more than 100 rounds using the two pistols
he is alleged to have carried. This seems like a lot of shooting for a single
person surrounded by scores of trained combat veteran soldiers, even if these
latter had not been carrying their usual weapons.
The categorical imperative for every patsy is to get noticed, and to call attention
to himself or herself pointedly and repeatedly, by hook or by crook. They must
stand out so much that they will be remembered by many ordinary people after
the process of their demonization has been launched. In order to fulfill their
function, patsies must leave a trail of clues and evidence which will tie themselves
and the larger target group they supposedly represent to the heinous actions
they will shortly be accused of having committed. Oswald handed out leaflets
sympathetic to Cuba and told a television audience that he was a Marxist. He
went to the USSR, and tried to go to Cuba. Atta cultivated a frightening stare,
and took time to argue ostentatiously about a parking place at an airport in
Maine while he allegedly thought he was on his way to death. Major Hasan seems
to have some of the same strange proclivities. On the day of the shooting, Major
Hasan made sure there was no doubt about his religious loyalties by donning
a trademark "Islamic" white robe and skull cap to go to his local
Seven-Eleven, where he was sure to be filmed by the security cameras there.
This footage was then played on all the networks for the next 48 hours. This
gesture recalls the Koran Atta left in his car at Boston 's Logan airport. When
the FBI located Atta's rented car, they found a copy of the Koran, airline schedules,
terrorist literature and videotapes, and Atta's crudely forged last will and
testament in the luggage all obviously and crudely left behind to make
the necessary point. Atta's will betrayed the amateurish attempt of some half-baked
area specialist to sound Islamic
At Fort Hood , Major Hasan 'told a colleague, Col Terry Lee, that he believed
Muslims should rise up against American "aggressors."' [15] Count
de Borchgrave points out that Major Hasan had made at least one overtly ominous
statement just before the shooting spree: 'As the Virginia-born major told a
female neighbor in his apartment complex, "I'm going to do good work for
God."'[16] The neighbor would not forget that grim pledge anytime soon.
Major Hasan was suspected of having authored internet postings that compared
suicide bombers with soldiers who throw themselves on hand grenades to save
others, although here we must be cautious, since these postings could have been
made by imposters. All accounts agree that witnesses heard a shout of "Allahu
Akbar" just before the firing started. Less clear is whether these words
were spoken by Major Hasan. And if he did say them, was this a line from the
scenario script of a drill?
MAJOR HASAN'S RANT TO MILITARY DOCTORS: "WE LOVE DEATH MORE THAN YOU LOVE
LIFE"
The most elaborate attempts by Major Hasan to assert and establish a thoroughly
Islamic profile for himself came in the form of a lecture at the Uniformed Service
University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda , Maryland . He was supposed to
present a paper on an issue of medical or clinical interest, but instead elected
to make a ranting speech about the oppression of Moslems in the US military
and the dangerous consequences this was sure to have. Here are some relevant
parts of the account published by Dana Priest in the Washington Post: '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. The title of Hasan's
PowerPoint presentation was "The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims
in the U.S. Military." Under a slide titled "Comments," he wrote:
"If Muslim groups can convince Muslims that they are fighting for God against
injustices of the 'infidels'; ie: enemies of Islam, then Muslims can become
a potent adversary ie: suicide bombing, etc." [sic] The last bullet point
on that page reads simply: "We love death more then [sic] you love life!"
Under the "Conclusions" page, Hasan wrote that "Fighting to establish
an Islamic State to please God, even by force, is condoned by the Islam,"
and that "Muslim Soldiers should not serve in any capacity that renders
them at risk to hurting/killing believers unjustly -- will vary!" The final
page, labeled "Recommendation," contained only one suggestion: "Department
of Defense should allow Muslims [sic] Soldiers the option of being released
as 'Conscientious objectors' to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events."'[17]
Objections were made to Major Hasan's tirade: "Students on a 2007-2008
master's programme at a military college revealed that they had complained to
faculty about Major Hasan's alleged anti-American views. They included him giving
a presentation that justified suicide bombing and telling classmates that Islamic
law trumped the US Constitution."[18] But nothing serious happened. According
to National Public Radio's Joseph Shapiro, the worst thing that happened was
that Hasan was given a period of probation early in his postgraduate work because
of his insistence on seeking to convert to Islam some coworkers and the soldiers
he was treating.
The title of this speech, "The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims
in the U.S. Military," sounds very academic and not very Islamic at all.
It seems to imply that Islam and the Koran are just a world view or Weltanschauung
among others. It falls far short of the basic Islamic fundamentalist claim to
represent the authority of absolute revealed truth. We are reminded of Mohamed
Atta's will and instructions for his own funeral, which Islamic experts have
found to be replete with elements and formulations utterly alien to Islam.
The categorical imperative for every mole is to protect the relevant patsies
from investigation or arrest until the terror event has occurred and it is time
to round the patsies up as scapegoats. The part about "We love death more
then [sic] you love life!" is blatant ID format "Al Qaeda" speak,
and in a military setting this speech would normally be more than enough to
trigger a probing investigation into Major Hasan's activities and belief structure.
But no serious consequences ensued, suggesting that Major Hasan was an asset
who was being protected for the sake of some future mission which he was being
groomed and prepared to perform.
Thus, while Hasan's medical superiors were aware of him as a problem case, they
chose to do nothing: a " group of doctors overseeing Nidal Malik Hasan's
medical training discussed concerns about his overly zealous religious views
and strange behavior months before the Army major was accused of opening fire
on soldiers and civilians at Fort Hood , Texas . Doctors and staff overseeing
Hasan's training viewed him at times as belligerent, defensive and argumentative
in his frequent discussions of his Muslim faith, a military official familiar
with several group discussions about Hasan said. As a psychiatrist in training,
Hasan was characterized in meetings as a mediocre student and lazy worker, a
matter of concern among the doctors and staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences military medical
school, the official said." (AP, 11 November 2009 )[19] At the same time,
the training of a psychiatrist involves intensive psychological profiling an
depth analysis by professors as an integral part of the training. As a shrink
among shrinks, Major Hasan's psychology must have been well known to the military
doctors who were his professors. This opens up an avenue for manipulating and
controlling him which has not been present in other terrorism cases. Did one
or more of the Major Hasan's analysts have a sideline as terrorist controllers
and mind benders working for the rogue network?
WALTER REED OFFICIALS ASKED: "WAS HASAN PSYCHOTIC?"
A more explicit and illuminating version of Major Hasan's psychiatric review
comes from National Public Radio. Here we find that he was variously evaluated
as "disconnected, aloof, paranoid, belligerent, and schizoid." This
raised the problem of whether he was actually psychotic and thus suffering from
severe mental illness: 'Starting in the spring of 2008, key officials from Walter
Reed Army Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences held a series of meetings and conversations, in part about Maj. Nidal
Hasan.One of the questions they pondered: Was Hasan psychotic? Both fellow students
and faculty were deeply troubled by Hasan's behavior - which they variously
called disconnected, aloof, paranoid, belligerent, and schizoid. The officials
say he antagonized some students and faculty by espousing what they perceived
to be extremist Islamic views. His supervisors at Walter Reed had even reprimanded
him for telling at least one patient that "Islam can save your soul."
Hasan spent six years as a psychiatrist at Walter Reed, beginning in 2003, and
he had a fellowship at USUHS until shortly before he went to Fort Hood in the
summer of 2009. A committee of officials from both places regularly meets once
a month to discuss pressing topics surrounding the psychiatrists and other mental
health professionals who train and work at the institutions. Participants in
the spring meeting and in subsequent conversations about Hasan reportedly included
John Bradley, chief of psychiatry at Walter Reed; Robert Ursano, chairman of
the Psychiatry Department at USUHS; Charles Engel, assistant chair of the Psychiatry
Department and director of Hasan's psychiatry fellowship; Dr. David Benedek,
another assistant chairman of psychiatry at USUHS; psychiatrist Carroll J. Diebold;
and Scott Moran, director of the psychiatric residency program at Walter Reed,
according to colleagues and other sources who monitor the meetings.'[20] Why
did this august panel not take any practical steps in regard to Major Hasan?
This account blames bureaucratic inertia and political correctness founded on
the fear of seeming to discriminate against Moslems. But these reasons need
to be supplemented with another possibility: that a witting mole (or moles)
was shielding Major Hasan from any sanctions so he could go on to greater things
as a witting or unwitting agent provocateur and patsy.
One comment included in this NPR account was especially ominous: "Another
official reportedly wondered aloud to colleagues whether Hasan might be capable
of committing fratricide, like the Muslim U.S. Army sergeant who, in 2003, killed
two fellow soldiers and injured 14 others by setting off grenades at a base
in Kuwait ." Despite such real and present dangers, nothing was done.
MAJOR HASAN'S MOSQUE LINKED TO THE CIA'S CHECHEN TERRORISTS
In recent years, Major Hasan attended a mosque in Silver Spring Maryland which
hosted fundraising for CIA covert operations against Russia : "Imam Faizul
Khan ministered to Hasan when he worshiped at the Muslim Community Center in
Silver Spring , Md . The Muslim Community Center has held fundraisers for Chechen
jihadists, and promotes on its website a Shariah-based financial product offered
by a Muslim Brotherhood front group under federal investigation."[21] The
essential element here is that the mosque was raising money for Chechen rebellion,
which is notoriously a strategic tool of the United States and the United Kingdom
against Russia . Perhaps such a fundraiser for Chechen terrorism might have
been attended by Ilyas Achmadov, the de facto ambassador of the leading CIA-backed
Chechen organization implicated in terrorism, who lives in Washington , DC at
US taxpayer expense thanks to his sponsorship by Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the
gray eminence of Obama's foreign policy team.
The impression that Major Hasan was in fact a protected patsy is strengthened
by reports that he frequented mosques which have figured in previous intelligence
operations, and that he was in contact with an American-born Muslim cleric now
living in Yemen who currently plays the role of one of the most bombastic agent
provocateurs operating under the umbrella designation of "al Qaeda."
ANWAR AWLAKI, PATSY MINDER FOR HANI HANJOUR OF 9/11 INFAMY
In earlier years, Hasan had worshipped with his mother at the radical Dar al-Hijrah
Islamic Center in Falls Church , Va. During 2001, he worshipped there alongside
some of the 9/11 patsies, specifically those alleged to have been aboard the
aircraft which allegedly struck the Pentagon. The dominant figure of this mosque
was at that time a certain Anwar Awlaki or Awlaqi, who must be regarded as an
intelligence agency operative and patsy-minder, the latter because of his role
in supervising the alleged Pentagon suicide pilot Hani Hanjour and other 9/11
figures who frequented the mosque. Hanjour, whose purported feats of flying
would if true have placed him above the Red Baron in the Valhalla of air aces,
was in fact a pathetic and clumsy nebbish.
Just after the Fort Hood massacre, Awlaki used his website for a bombastic endorsement
of Major Hasan and the Texas slaughter, evidently designed with Pavlovian technique
to goad Islamophobic US reactionaries into a frenzy and give the radio ogres
much grist for their mill. Here is the relevant report from the New York Times:
'Mr. Awlaki, an American citizen born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, wrote
on Monday on his English-language website that Mr. Hasan was "a hero."
The cleric said, "He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the
contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against
his own people." He added, "The only way a Muslim could Islamically
justify serving as a soldier in the U.S. Army is if his intention is to follow
the footsteps of men like Nidal."'[22] This was a piece of crude manipulation,
and at the same time an engraved invitation to an anti-Moslem pogrom. The report
went on: 'But since leaving the U.S. in 2002 for London , and later Yemen ,
Mr. Awlaki has become a prominent proponent of militant Islam via his Web site,
www.anwar-alawlaki.com. The Toronto Star reported last month that a group of
young Canadians charged with plotting attacks against military and government
targets were inspired, in part, by listening to Mr. Awlaki's sermons online.
In 2000 and 2001, Mr. Awlaki served as an imam at two mosques in the United
States frequented by three future 9/11 hijackers. Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf
al-Hazmi attended the Rabat mosque in San Diego, where Mr. Awlaki later admitted
meeting Hazmi several times but "claimed not to remember any specifics
of what they discussed," according to the report of the national 9/11 commission.
Both Hazmi and another hijacker, Hani Hanjour, later attended the Dar al Hijra
mosque in Falls, Church, Virginia after Mr. Awlaki had moved there in early
2001. The 9/11 commission report expressed "suspicion" about the coincidence,
but said its investigators were unable to find Mr. Awlaki in Yemen to question
him.'[23] We should notice the nice plug given here to Awlaki's web site by
the New York Times; his site traffic is sure to benefit enormously. Major Hasan
had taken care to establish his devotion and fealty to Awlaki during the time
leading up to the massacre. He left no doubt that he was a disciple of Awlaki:
'Hasan's eyes "lit up" when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki's
teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas,
the scene of Thursday's horrific shooting spree.'[24]
Major Hasan, it transpired, had also been exchanging emails with the fiery double
agent he so much lionized; the imam-provocateur had fled abroad after 9/11and
was now operating under "al Qaeda" cover from Yemen . According to
one report: "two government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity
because they were not authorized to discuss the case on the record, said the
Washington-based joint terrorism task force overseen by the FBI was notified
of communications between Hasan and a radical imam overseas, and the information
was turned over to a Defense Criminal Investigative Service employee assigned
to the task force. The communications were gathered by investigators beginning
in December 2008 and continuing into early this year. That Defense investigator
wrote up an assessment of Hasan after reviewing the communications and the Army
major's personnel file, according to these officials. The assessment concluded
Hasan did not merit further investigation - in large part because his communications
with the imam were centered on a research paper about the effects of combat
in Iraq and Afghanistan and the investigator determined that Hasan was in fact
working on such a paper, the officials said. The disclosure Tuesday of the defense
investigator's role indicated that the U.S. military was aware of worrisome
behavior by the massacre suspect long before the attack. Just hours later, a
senior defense official, also demanding anonymity, directly contradicted that
notion. The senior defense official said neither the Army nor any other part
of the Defense Department knew of Hasan's contacts with any Muslim extremists.
Military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies also are defending themselves
against tough questions about what each of them knew about Hasan before he allegedly
opened fire in a crowded room at the huge military base in Texas ." [25]
AWLAKI HELPED ENTRAP FORT DIX SIX, TORONTO DUPES
The decision of the Army to ignore Major Hasan's correspondence with Awlaki
is all the more astounding given Awlaki's status as one of the premier terror
impresarios of the age operating under Islamic fundamentalist cover. More than
a mere ideologue, he is a recruiter and an entrepreneur of terror. His web site
would not survive five minutes of concerted US cyber-attacks, but he is not
disturbed in his role as a pied piper of patsies. In particular, Awlaki and
his work were used to motivate and encourage groups of mentally impaired and
suggestible young dupes who were entrapped into "terrorist plots"
by busy FBI and Canadian RCMP agents during recent years, thus keeping the boogey
man of Islamic terrorism in the public eye. 'In addition to his contacts with
Major Nidal Hasan, the radical American cleric, Anwar al Awlaki, served as an
inspiration for men convicted in terror plots in Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey,
according to government officials and court records reviewed by ABCNews.com.Despite
his ties to other plots, including the one against the Army post at Fort Dix,
some 20 e-mails between Awlaki and Major Hasan were dismissed as "innocent"
by a military investigator working on the FBI's Joint Terror Task Force in Washington,
D.C...."He is not just a proselytizer but someone who is operational, with
deep and longstanding connections to al Qaeda and has been for some time,"
said a former senior American intelligence official who had access to classified
information. Awlaki was characterized in court testimony as an inspiration by
two of six Muslim immigrants convicted on conspiracy and other charges in a
plot to kill U.S. military personnel at Fort Dix.In Toronto, members of the
so-called Toronto 18 watched videos of Awlaki at a makeshift training camp where
they allegedly planned an attack on the Canadian parliament and prime minister.'[26]
YET ANOTHER DELIBERATE FBI SNAFU
Just as in the 9/11 instance, the scandalous failure to connect the dots and
round up the patsies was due to the non-feasance and malfeasance of the FBI,
the criminally negligent agency which, according to 9/11 commission co-chair
Gov. Thomas Kean, "failed and failed and failed," but nevertheless
escaped breakup after 9/11. Starting in 1996, the FBI had been aware that international
terrorists were making a show of learning to fly passenger jets at U.S. flight
schools, but took no action. According to a press report, the failure to inform
Major Hasan's superiors was the direct and specific responsibility of the FBI:
"The Pentagon said it was never notified by US intelligence agencies that
they had intercepted e-mails between of the alleged Fort Hood shooter and an
extremist imam until after last week's bloody assaults, raising new questions
about whether the government could have helped prevent the attack. a person
familiar with the matter said a Pentagon worker on the terrorism task force
overseen by the Federal Bureau of Investigation was told about the intercepted
e-mails several months ago. But members of the terror task forces aren't allowed
to share such information with their agencies, unless they get permission from
the FBI, which leads the task force. In this case, the Pentagon worker, an employee
from the Defense Criminal Investigations Service,, helped make the assessment
that Major Hasan wasn't a threat, and the FBI's 'procedures for sharing the
information were never used,' said the person familiar with the matter."[27]
Those involved in this decision by FBI and the Defense Department need to be
probed as possible terror moles. This is reminiscent of the FBI's Dave Frasca,
who could not assemble and act on the pre-9/11intelligence he had on his desk.
This was a new chapter of the story of FBI sabotage told by Colleen Rowley and
documented at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui in 2006. If the FBI had rounded
up the 9/11 patsies, the operation could not have occurred not because
the patsies were going to fly planes into buildings by themselves, but because
the jailing of patsies before the fact would have made the targeting of the
Moslem world impossible. In this sense, the same FBI rogue networks which made9/11
possible are still in place and still effectively sabotaging effective law enforcement.
MAJOR HASAN'S SECURITY CLEARANCE: SECRET
Major Hasan reportedly has a security clearance which allows him to receive
secret information. All US Army officers are required to have at minimum a secret-level
security clearance, and Major Hasan's clearance might even have been at the
more stringent top secret level. All indications are that Major Hasan's clearance
was never reviewed, despite his ostentatious antics. Major Hasan's aberrant
behavior should at the very least have put him in line for a National Agency
Check or NAC. Newsweek writes that 'extended NACs, which the officials indicated
are more likely for would-be military officers, would include checks of local
and state police records in jurisdictions where the subject lived, as well as
credit-bureau and financial-record checks. In the event that some kind of "derogatory"
information turns up during these checks, one of the officials said, field investigators
are likely to be sent out to conduct interviews, and the procedure could also
include an interview with the security-clearance applicant.'[28] This puts Major
Hasan in a very special category, subject to special rules and surveillance
which are enforced by specific agencies, and not by military physicians of whatever
rank. Perhaps the most direct evidence that Major Hasan was a protected patsy
was the fact that he could make incendiary speeches and correspond with self-proclaimed
"al Qaeda" firebrands without having his security clearance reviewed,
to say nothing of lifted.
As a well informed Stratfor letter to the editor posting points out: "The
contacting of a foreign Islamic militant who openly espouses killing of Americans
is, in and of itself, is a violation of U.S. security regulations with respect
to individuals with security clearances. Hasan's foreign contact should have
been reported through the chain-of- command to his commander. Lt. Gen. Cone,
in consultation with his G-2, Counter-Intelligence Staff Officer, Personnel
Security Officer and the CID, could have immediately suspended Maj. Hasan's
security clearance subject to a local AR 15-6 investigation. Lt. Gen. Cone is
responsible for force protection of assets in his command, not a DoD criminal
investigator. A minimally competent investigation would have uncovered other
comments and actions that would probably have resulted in adverse command action
on Maj. Hasan's security clearance and possibly led to charges being brought
for conduct unbecoming an officer."[29] But the usual rules were suspended
for Majopr Hasan, indicating that he belonged to a special class of persons
patsies who were being groomed for future actions and therefore had to
be kept out of trouble.
LIKE ATTA AND KSM, THE DEVOUT MAJOR HASAN LIKES STRIP CLUBS
Thanks to the investigative work of Daniel Hopsicker, it has been revealed that
key 9/11 figure Mohammed Atta was no devout and puritanical Moslem, but a hedonist.
The legendary Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), touted by the controlled media as
the "9/11 mastermind," was also devoted to alcohol, floozies, and
nightlife. It is striking that Major Hasan, allegedly a rigid and doctrinaire
Moslem, also conforms to this model. Patsies working for or manipulated by the
de facto Islamic fundamentalist directorate of Anglo-American intelligence seem
to share the same decadent western foibles. One of Major Hasan's favorite relaxations
was to attend the local strip club: '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. Jennifer
Jenner, who works at Starz using the stage name Paige, said Hasan bought a lap
dance from her two nights in a row. She said he paid $50 for a dance lasting
three songs in one of the club's private rooms on Oct. 29 and Oct. 30. She recalled
that he arrived at about 6:30 p.m. and stayed until 2 a.m. She said he brought
in a six pack of light beer, took only a few sips from one can and gave the
rest to the strippers. "He preferred the blondes," said Jenner, whose
hair was dyed blond at the time. "He said he was a medic and that he was
being deployed soon, but mostly he wanted to ask us questions."'[30] Needless
to say, alcohol and strippers do not an Islamic fundamentalist make.
As for prominent 9/11 figure Atta, he was in fact not a practicing Moslem at
all, but rather a devotee of alcohol, cocaine, call girls, and pork chops. Like
Major Hasan, Atta preferred blondes, specifically pink strawberry ones. He cohabited
with a 22-year old call girl who may also have been a sex operative for one
of the intelligence agencies. Amanda Keller worked for a "lingerie model
escort service" in Sarasota called Fantasies & Lace. Atta loved to
attend topless bars, where he would order lap dances at the Pink Pony, or else
stuff twenty dollar bills into the g-strings of the dancers at the Olympic Garden
nightclub. He was also a regular at Harry's Bar in Naples. Atta's favorite nightspots
were the Cheetah in Venice, and Margarita Maggie's in Sarasota. FBI investigators
showing around pictures of Atta after 9/11 found that he had been in a bar drinking
Stolichnaya vodka for three hours quite recently; with him was accused suicide
pilot Marwan al Shehhi, who preferred rum. Atta was also a frequent cocaine
user. He would habitually snort rows of cocaine with a dollar bill. Are we therefore
dealing here with two patsies from the same levy, two parallel patsy lives?
FROM ARMY-MCCARTHY TO ARMY-LIEBERMAN
The reactionaries of today yearn for the days of Senator Joe McCarthy (R-Wisconsin),
who launched his campaign of red-baiting and witch-hunting some six decades
ago. At the height of the Cold War, McCarthy launched the hysterical charge
that the US Army had been massively infiltrated by agents of the international
communist conspiracy. This led to the infamous and protracted Army-McCarthy
hearings in the Senate, during which McCarthy's influence reached its demagogic
apex. Today, the neocons are still full of rancor and resentment over their
wholesale ouster from the government through the end of the Bush-Cheney era,
and the ascendancy of the Brzezinski-Nye-Soros faction of liberal imperialists
who control Obama. Immediately after the shootings. Now, Senator Joe Lieberman
has announced that he will use his homeland security subcommittee to investigate
the failure of the intelligence agencies to connect the dots in the Fort Hood
incident. Already, neocon web sites are contending that the US Army of the Obama
era is thoroughly infiltrated by Islamic fundamentalists favorable to terrorism.
Lieberman says he wants to know how the Army missed numerous warning signs about
Hasan's radical views. The Army-Lieberman hearings may soon launch an anti-Moslem
witch hunt in the US military, fulfilling much neocon nostalgia. The best approach
would be to empanel a genuinely independent board of inquiry to investigate
the Fort Hood massacre. Care should be taken to avoid the begging of the question
and the blatant conflicts of interest which made the recent Kean-Hamilton 9/11
commission such a mockery. Care should also be taken to keep the inevitable
Lee Hamilton out of any board of inquiry, given his wretched track record of
cover-up and misprision.
FORT HOOD MOSLEM CLERIC TO MAJOR HASAN: "THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU"
The London Daily Telegraph interviewed Osman Danquah, a local Moslem clergyman,
who had contact with Major Hasan. Osman Danquah had come to the conclusion that
Major Hasan had debilitating mental problems, and was not suitable for any leadership
roles even though he was an Army officer of the middle rank. Citing several
sources, this paper writes: 'What does seem clear is that the army missed an
increasing number of red flags that Hasan was a troubled and brooding individual
within its ranks. "I was shocked but not surprised by news of Thursday's
attack," said Dr Val Finnell, a fellow student on a public health course
in 2007-08 who heard Hasan equate the war on terrorism to a war on Islam. Another
student had warned military officials that Hasan was a "ticking time bomb"
after he reportedly gave a presentation defending suicide bombers. Osman Danquah,
the co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, said Hasan never
expressed anger toward the army or indicated any plans for violence. But he
said that, at their second meeting, Hasan seemed almost incoherent. "I
told him, 'There's something wrong with you'. I didn't get the feeling he was
talking for himself, but something just didn't seem right." He was sufficiently
troubled that he recommended the centre reject Hasan's request to become a lay
Muslim leader at Fort Hood .'[31]
The pathos Major Hasan's existence is perhaps most clearly portrayed in his
unsuccessful effort to find a wife of his own faith: 'Relatives said that the
death of Hasan's parents, in 1998 and 2001, turned him more devout. "After
he lost his parents he tried to replace their love by reading a lot of books,
including the Koran," his uncle Rafiq Hamad said. "He didn't have
a girlfriend, he didn't dance, he didn't go to bars." His failed search
for a wife seemed to haunt Hasan. At the Muslim Community Centre in the Washington
suburb of Silver Spring, he signed up for an Islamic matchmaking service, specifying
that he wanted a bride who wore the hijab and prayed five times a day."
Major Hasan returned repeatedly and obsessively to the same theme, according
to a another acquaintance: "Adnan Haider, a retired professor of statistics,
recalled how at their first meeting last year, a casual introduction after Friday
prayers, Hasan immediately asked the academic if he knew "a nice Muslim
girl" he could marry. "It was a strange thing to ask someone you have
met two seconds before. It was clear to me he was under pressure, you could
just see it in his face," said Prof Haider, 74, who used to work at Georgetown
University in Washington . "You could see he was lonely and didn't have
friends.[32]
WAS MAJOR HASAN BRAINWASHED?
Given the accumulated evidence that Major Hasan was possibly psychotic, there
remains the question of whether this psychosis might have been endogenous and
due to natural and spontaneous causes, or whether it had been artificially produced
in him through a program of brainwashing and heavy-duty "Clockwork Orange"
psychological manipulation by others. We cannot exclude the possibility that
Major Hasan went out on November 5 consciously determined to kill, and may also
have discharged his weapons. We thus have two possible scenarios: on the one
hand Major Hasan the duped patsy caught totally by surprise when the shooting
started, and on the other, Major Hasan the psychotic and criminally insane killer
who possessed the will, if not necessarily the ability, for serious shooting.
There may be evidence for both scenarios.. We should also point out that seeing
Major Hasan is a psychotic killer in his own right does not in any way rule
out the presence of additional and more capable shooters. We are reminded here
of the case of Sirhan Sirhan, who appears to have fired at Robert Kennedy, but
who also appears to have received a powerful assist from some other as yet unidentified
more expert shooter who may have actually fired the lethal bullet.
MAJOR HASAN'S VIRGINIA TECH CONNECTION
Where would Major Hasan have been brainwashed? An obvious place to look would
be the precincts of Virginia Tech, the home of Cho Seung-Hui, the alleged mass
killer of 32 students and professors along with himself in April 2007. This
incident involves far too many unanswered questions to be addressed in detail
here. In any case, the fact that Major Hasan graduated from the alma mater of
Cho should be enough by itself to raise some red flags. We should also recall
that several additional homicides have occurred in and around Virginia Tech
during the last year. In January 2009, a Virginia Tech doctoral student beheaded
a fellow student in a campus cafe. In this incident, a female graduate student
who had just arrived from China was killed when another graduate student she
knew attacked her with a knife and decapitated her.[33] Beheadings are rare
on American college campuses even today, so this is an extraordinary event indeed.
In August 2009, two Virginia Tech University students were found murdered at
a Jefferson National Forest campground that is a popular hangout for students.
The bodies of David Lee Metzler, 19, of Lynchburg and Heidi Lynn Childs, 18,
of Forest were found by a passerby.[34]
So what in the world is going on in or near Blacksburg , Virginia ? The report
on the Virginia Tech slayings prepared by a special commission set up by Virginia
Governor Tim Kane covers up the failure of mental health professionals in and
around Virginia Tech to take effective action in regard to Cho, whom they had
nevertheless recognized to be a profoundly disturbed and potentially highly
dangerous personality. This report commits the usual fallacy of petition principi,
begging the question, and assumes from the start that Cho was the sole shooter.[35]
Because of this failure to account for numerous salient features of the Cho
incident, this entire case must continue to be classified as unsolved. We must
therefore conclude this essay merely by citing one of the many clues which the
Virginia investigation chose to ignore, but which might begin to account for
the extraordinary number of homicides observed in the area of Blacksburg Virginia
. As a somewhat obscure website alleges in an unconfirmed report, "Blacksburg,
VA houses a US government ABOVE TOP SECRET underground laboratory (in the side
of a local Blacksburg mountain) that develops in conjunction with DARPA [Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency], weapons such as human robotic mind control
programming."[36] Does such a facility exist, and what does it do? At this
point, any further comment would be pure speculation.
We cannot be optimistic that, should he survive, a future trial of Major Hasan
will clear up these questions, any more than criminal trials established the
real facts in the cases of Sirhan Sirhan, Hinckley, McVeigh, or John Allen Muhammad.
What does appear confirmed as of now is the existence of a mutating model of
terrorism alongside the large-scale 9/11 or WMD paradigms of false flag manipulation
seen and propagandized during the last decade. In this sense, Major Hasan represents
the evolution of the figures of Cho, and also of Steven P. Kazmierczak, the
Northern Illinois University shooter of February 2008. As I wrote last year,
"The new model is Virginia Tech gunman Cho, a mentally disturbed or brainwashed
mass killer. Another case was that of Steven P. Kazmierczak, who in mid-February
2008 shot 21 people and killed five of them at Northern Illinois University
in Dekalb. Kazmierczak was described as being intensely concerned with "corrections,
political violence, and peace and social justice."[37]
Will the American public ever learn to see through and reject false flag operations,
as many Spaniards were able to do after the Madrid bombs? Will Americans ever
swear off the dangerous habit of being duped? Will opinion leaders ever master
the rather elementary methods of rogue network, false-flag terrorism? Until
this occurs and the gullibility of the public is reduced, such operations are
likely to continue on scales both small and large, with incalculable consequences
for the future of humanity.
[1] Another concept asserts that the 13 Army personnel were killed during the
suppression of a mutiny occasioned by the overstretch of US forces caused by
Obama's contination of the Iraq war and escalation of the Afghan war. Almost
a week after the massacre, no direct substantiation for this idea has emerged.
[2] http://mobile.abcnews.go.com/wireless/abcnews/section/US/9018559_2
[3] http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/69626847.html
[4] Don Teague, "Hood Eyewitness Remembers the Tragedy: Corporal Nathan
Hewitt Thought Gunfire was a Drill, Until He Realized He was Bleeding,"
at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/07/eveningnews/main5567562.shtml
[5] "Bob Woodruff Hears Soldiers' Tales of Survival, Recovery," http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/president-soldiers-families-flock-ft-hood-memorial/Story?id=9039151&page=1
[6]http://www.kxan.com/dpp/military/army/kxan_military_Hasan_family_contacts_attorney_11092009
[7] http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/1321119.html
[8] http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/reports-of-mass-shooting-at-fort-hood/?src=twt&twt=nytimes
[9] My 9/11 Synthetic Terror provides a detailed discussion of how virtually
every aspect of 9/11 corresponded to an exercise or drill which was then taken
live.
[10] Dow Jones Newswires 11-05-091656ET at
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200911051656dowjonesdjonline000934
[11] www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ihGepAkECGoDagETVBMpPb3w7Y3gD9BPJO100
[12] Newsradio 620 WTMJ, November 5 at 2:01pm CST, at
http://www.facebook.com/620wtmj accessed 13 November 2009.
[13] http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/06/brown-it-s-like-ww1-2-115875-21801278/
[14]http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/military/military_kxan_texas_shooting_on_ft._hood_2009
110514301257453645749> http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/military/military_kxan_texas_shooting
_on_ft._hood_2009110514301257453645749
[15] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6521758/Fort-Hood-shooting
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Texas-army-killer-linked-to-September-11-terrorists.html
[16] http://www.newsmax.com/borchgrave/hasan_martyr/2009/11/09/283713.html
[17] Dana Priest, Washington Post, 10 November 2009 at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110903618.html. See the slide show,
which is posted with this article.
[18] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6521758/Fort-Hood-shooting
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Texas-army-killer-linked-to-September-11-terrorists.html
[19] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_fort_hood_shooting
[20] Daniel Zwerdling, "Walter Reed Officials Asked: Was Hasan Psychotic?"
National Public Radio, November 11, 2009, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120313570
[21] World Net Daily, 10 November 2009 , at http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115465
[22] "U.S. Monitored Fort Hood Suspect Before Shooting," New York
Times, 9 November 2009 at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33807907/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/?ns=us_news-the_new_york_times
[23] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33807907/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/?ns=us_news-the_new_york_times
[24] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6521758/Fort-Hood-shooting
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Texas-army-killer-linked-to-September-11-terrorists.html
[25] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091110/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_fort_hood_shooting
[26] ABC News, "From Yemen, Anwar Awlaki Helped Inspire Fort Dix, Toronto
Plots
Despite Terror Connections, E-mails with Major Hasan Did Not Raise Red Flags"
at http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/anwar-awlakis-terrror-ties/story?id=9055322
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/anwar-awlakis-terrror-ties/Story?id=9055322&page=1
[27] Yochi J. Dreazen and Evan Perez, "Army Wasn't Told of Hasan's Emails,"
Wall Street Journal, 11 November 2009.
[28] Mark Hosenball, "Fort Hood Shooter: How Recently Was His Security
Clearance Updated?" in Newsweek at http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/11/06/ft-hood-shooter-how-recently-was-his-security-clearance-updated.aspx
[29] http://www.stratfor.com/content/hasan_case_1
[30] http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573052,00.html
[31] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6521758/Fort-Hood-shooting
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Texas-army-killer-linked-to-September-11-terrorists.html
[32] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6521758/Fort-Hood-shooting
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Texas-army-killer-linked-to-September-11-terrorists.html
[33] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/01/22/2009-01-22_virginia_tech_graduate_student_attacked_.html
[34] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/27/virginia-tech-students-fo_n_270892.html
[35] http://www.governor.virginia.gov/TempContent/techpanelreport.cfm
[36] http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=6409
[37] Webster G. Tarpley, Obama The Postmodern Coup ( Joshua Tree CA :
Progressive Press, 2008), p. 71.