Hasan Attempted To Contact Al Qaeda
Tags: 9/11, Fort Hood, terrorism.
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We reported earlier that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan attended the same mosque at the same time as two 9/11 hijackers, but now we’ve also learned that he “had been attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda.” months ago, and federal officials were aware of it.
It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.
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Investigators want to know if Hasan maintained contact with a radical mosque leader from Virginia, Anwar al Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen and runs a web site that promotes jihad around the world against the U.S.
In a blog posting early Monday titled “Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing,” Awlaki calls Hasan a “hero” and 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.”
According to his site, Awlaki served as an imam in Denver, San Diego and Falls Church, Virginia.
Does this information point to Hasan being just a guy “who snapped” or a guy who thought long and hard about what he planned to do?
The real tragedy here is that this could have been prevented. For liberals who convinced themselves that Bush either knew 9/11 was gonna happen and didn’t do anything about or just ignored the warning signs, I’d love to know how they feel about the fact intelligence officials were well aware of Hasan’s actions months ago and nothing was done about it.
Perhaps we need to be asking what did Obama know and when? Or was it just political correctness that let this happen? There was clearly plenty of warning and actionable intelligence. But nothing happened.
After 9/11, no one knew what lay ahead for this country. We can only guess at how many attacks on U.S. soil were foiled thanks to the efforts of the Bush administration and our intelligence agencies, It appears that symbiotic relationship designed to keep us safe has broken down..
I guess Obama is just too busy.
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39 Responses to “Hasan Attempted To Contact Al Qaeda”
Caucus of Corruption
This is the first domestic deadly terrorist attack on US Soil since 9/11. Obama is doing a heckuva job.
Earbama drives, and people die…
George Bush ensured measures were put in place after 9/11 that would prevent this from happening. It didn’t.
Less than one year into the Obama administration it has happened.
IT’S BUSH’S FAULT!!
Didn’t see that coming!
twopolitics,
Obama must continue those same safety measures that President Bush put into place in order to ensure that nothing of this sort would happen.
It appears Mr. Obama hasn’t been doing his job!
jeremiah06,
That was my point.
This wasn’t a terrorist attack at Ft. Hood.
It was a man-made disaster – according to our Homeland Security Secretary.
These twits in office couldn’t stop a school bully from stealing lunch money if it happened at the same time and same place every single day.
These people are pathetic.
It was a man-made disaster – tiredoflibs
You’re absolutely right. My apologies to everyone involved, especially the Muslims.
“Does this information point to Hasan being just a guy “who snapped” or a guy who thought long and hard about what he planned to do?” – Matt
Though I am regarded as a liberal by some(ie: JSO2) here, when I first heard of the mass shooting and before any mention of a Muslim connection, I took a guess that it was a terror attack by a Muslim. And lo and behold, that what it is. I did not assume the chicken-shit political correct stance whatsoever. Even now, the press refers to Hasan as a ’suspect’ but that is par for the course in any crime no matter how obvious the culprit.
However I do take issue of blaming Obama. It is not Obama that failed, your intelligence/law enforcement still don’t have their act together. To be charitable, maybe they were waiting for bigger fish to net but I would place my money on ’sheer incompetence’ in this particular case.
all
remember when someone shot killer tiller, all the leftards were screaming how this was an act of terror.
Now a muzzi blows a dozen away and wounds 26 more while screaming alla akbar and it is just some guy who “snapped”
PATHETIC!
“PATHETIC!” – Neocon1
Yup, I certainly agree with you on this one.
It would be nice if the current administration had the balls to call this attack what it was — terrorism. However, we can bet that not one of them will.
And Obama and his administration are to blame, since they obviously did not continue the Bush policies that kept things like this from happening post 9/11.
It is not Obama that failed, your intelligence/law enforcement still don’t have their act together.
Uh, excuse me, moron, but for eight years, all we heard was “the buck stops at the President’s desk,” or “It happened on his watch, you know?”
So don’t come here changing the desk at which the buck stops, just because a lib is in the WH.
It happened on Earbama’s watch, while he was out golfing, dancing, and spending the weekend following the shootings at Camp David.
cluster, jeremiah, I believe twopolitics was making this exact point too…
And guys, the Narcissist in Chief, along with the state-run, drive-by media, are playing this down because they can’t blame it on President Bush.
These guys running our country–into the ground–are truly pathetic. And they have the support of every liberal troll puke on this blog.
Mark/Matt, I move that you delete all contrary troll puke comments that offer nothing to the debate here. I’m sick of them turning a blind eye to Earbama’s gross incompetence. It’s time we purged this blog of morons.
Let’s start with the Canadians…
The CIA knew of his attempts to contact Al Qaeda. Why did they not share this information with the Army.
We do know that Obamateur has been making changes and removing provisions that Bush put into place.
To say we cannot blame Obama is so hypocritical of the left. One, he has changed the attitude toward the war on terrorism and two, it was under his watch (which was more than enough reason to blame Bush by the looters in Congress).
keef
Let’s start with the Canadians… EEEH?
LOL id kind of miss ole willys wonker though, he is the world standard of a nutty lib.
point the finger at the finger that pulled the trigger.
mark me down for blaming the killer.
Although carried out by a deranged individual, I agree that this was a premeditated terrorist attack, complete with AQ links and radical Islamic praise. As with any terrorist attack on U.S. soil, the President should be held accountable as it happened under his watch. I don’t think Obama knew any more of this beforehand than we did, which is exactly the issue. Next is to see the response.
the DC killer’s supposed to be executed today.
how far up the chain should accountability for that “terrorist” act rise?
remember, the buck stops at…
…scooter libby.
“We do know that Obamateur has been making changes and removing provisions that Bush put into place” – tired
What are those changes and provisions?
Because if those actions contributed to the attack, I think we would all like to know.
STANDBY FLASHTRAFFIC…
2008 FBI review: Hasan did not pose threat
By Devlin Barrett – The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Nov 10, 2009 8:45:10 EST
WASHINGTON — Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood army post in Texas, terrorism investigators conducted an “assessment” of him before deciding he did not pose a threat.
After the shooting, the FBI is doing a new assessment — of its own conduct.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/11/ap_fbi_assessment_hood_111009/
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3 guesses as to who was President at the time of this review?
and scooter libby doesn’t count!
Well, since Hasan was a muslim, I guess the Hussein admin didn’t want to go after him because it would be racial profiling.
Hussein is going to do more harm to this country than Jimmah Carter.
obummers main interest in it all is how he can cut defesnse spending and divert that money to his special interest programs to socialize america in accordance with his marxist beliefs…
“Developments over the past days have amply confirmed the thesis offered in “The Left and Terror”. What would a serious response to such an atrocity look like? We’d see swift activity aimed at halting any further such incidents. Not a “witch hunt”, in the term so beloved of mass media, but a careful investigation followed by decisive action where necessary. There are undoubtedly more such individuals currently active in the military, not to mention other branches of government. We can only hope that they’re dealt with before yet another massacre occurs.
Is that the response we’ve gotten? Not as far as I’ve been able to see. What the media (not the best guide in the world, granted) has presented is a world away. Obama has confronted the crisis with yet another serving of Hope and Change rhetoric. We shouldn’t “jump to conclusions”, says O, giving no notion of what those conclusions might be. He goes on to praise the “diversity” of the armed forces, as if the fact that Hasan the Assassin’s victims came from different backgrounds somehow makes things better. It’s evident that as in much else, Obama believes that such phraseology amounts to magic words that force bad things to go away. And you know — there just may be something to that. (The original Hasan the Assassin, by the way, was Hasan ibn al-Sabbah the “Old Man of the Mountain”, founder of the Ismailite sect of Islam, who kept his Muslim enemies at arm’s length through use of a drug-conditioned corps of killers, the Hashishans, from which the term “assassin” is derived. Funny how names often resonate, isn’t it?)”
But why confuse ourselves with facts? The narrative has been set down: the problem involves not killers shooting innocents for pathological reasons, but nonexistent mobs running the streets of America, waving ropes and looking for anyone wearing a dishdash. It’s not Islamists who are responsible; it’s us, America and the people who inhabit it. The great thing about multiculturalism is that it can be cut down, trimmed, reshaped and refurbished and made to fit anything. Here it has been reworked to serve as the cover for the murder of thirteen servicemen and the maiming of thirty-odd others. And we’re supposed to sit back and nod and say, “Obama knows best. If anything’s wrong, Obama will tell us.”
It will turn out to be the Army’s fault. They simply didn’t “adapt” themselves to Hasan’s needs. They required him to do things. They insisted on sending him to Afghanistan when he didn’t want to go. All those things they never require of Christian, secular, Jewish, or, Vishnu forbid, Hindu soldiers. Much will be made of the fact that somebody once keyed his car. (Always a good excuse for a massacre — just ask all those lefties I shot after somebody keyed my vehicle for displaying the wrong bumper sticker.) When it happens again — as it will — we will hear cries for more “understanding”, for the armed forces to adapt to changing circumstances, for removal of crosses on military bases, for the elimination of Jewish officers in units into which Muslims might be transferred. Obama will give a speech about it. Secretary Napolitano will attend a series of conferences. As for Casey… well, who listens to retired generals anyway?”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/ignoring_infiltration.html
00
sounds like you
That’a a small metaphor for this Administration. The young counter-demonstrator had no idea about the sacrifices of the Greatest Generation, the lethal dangers the country confronted after People Harbor, and the heroism of our Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
He’d no doubt been told from childhood onward how evil White America really is. Yes, those WW Two soldiers represented an imperfect democracy; it just happened to be the best one on earth.
And they knew that because of their own family histories, because American history was still taught in all the schools, and because they were good and decent people who were shocked by the vile and evil regimes that were conquering Europe and Asia, ruthlessly killing millions of innocent civilians as they went. It was a huge resurgence of barbarism, and their very souls cried out against the injustice of it all. They were Americans. It wasn’t necessary to explain things to them.
They got it.
PS 00
go SIT on your “scooter”
my grandfather was wounded at iwo jima.
so address my point –
ohioorrin says: November 10th, 2009 at 10:50 am STANDBY FLASHTRAFFIC…
2008 FBI review: Hasan did not pose threat
By Devlin Barrett – The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Nov 10, 2009 8:45:10 EST
WASHINGTON — Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood army post in Texas, terrorism investigators conducted an “assessment” of him before deciding he did not pose a threat.
After the shooting, the FBI is doing a new assessment — of its own conduct.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/11/ap_fbi_assessment_hood_111009/
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3 guesses as to who was President at the time of this review?
and scooter libby doesn’t count!
Political correctness has always been conjured up, liberal nuisance, but now it’s turned deadly. How long before we stop making excuses for people, and start realizing that profiling does have a lot of merit.
00
We reported earlier that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan attended the same mosque at the same time as two 9/11 hijackers, but now we’ve also learned that he “had been attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda.”
months ago,
and federal officials were aware of it.
God bless “grandpa”
1.clinton
2.zer0
00
including its response to potentially worrisome information gathered about Hasan beginning in December 2008 and continuing into early this year.
“It’s time we purged this blog of morons.
Let’s start with the Canadians…” – KEEF
Come on, if only those who are on the same wavelength as you and the other rabid rightwingers, this would be a boring blog. Keep us here and it will stay interesting, to say the least. We give you something to get your knickers all in a twist.
cguy
So we need YOU RABID LEFT wingers to balance the blog?
And “knickers” are for girlymen,or women. down here we wear shorts, or boxers.
Canuckguy,
I don’t include you in the same catagory as CO and the other left-wingers who leave their droppings here, but I’ve got to ask the obvious question. What is it about the Liberals’ comments here that you find “interesting”?
I was not familiar with the FN 5, and I could not fathom how Major Hasan created so much carnage with a .22 caliber pistol until I read this.
I don’t include you in the same catagory as CO and the other left-wingers who leave their droppings here,
I’d have to agree, to an extent, Spook, but since he’s a Canadian, and a lib, I have no respect for him. His lover, CO, and the moron from Ohio come here to gloat. They’ve offered nothing but crap to this blog for a long time, and should be banished. Noone in their right mind should even respond to these two oxygen thieves…
Disclaimer: By saying that CO and OO should be banished, I meant that they should be banned from commenting on this blog. I was in no way, shape, or form, threatening them, and I do not wish for steve-o-moron to return and accuse me of such. I am a peace-loving person who hates libs, that’s all. I have no time for them or the crap they spew–crap enshrouded in lies.
Now have a nice day…
two oxygen thieves…keef
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Firm evidence of Christian love and understanding.
Firm evidence of Christian love and understanding.
Yup
we love OUR oxygen, and understand you are an oxygen waster.
The worst part of this whole ordeal is he will get a 20 year long trial, and waste $20 million in the process.
We know he done it, he should be given a sentence straight away.
“What is it about the Liberals’ comments here that you find “interesting”?” – Spook
The reaction it gets. Sometimes the reaction is reasoned logic and other times it’s hilarious in a hummer humping way. This Blog would be boring otherwise, most commentors like a good jousting. Even the ones who ‘hate’ liberals. They love to crap on liberals.
And as for myself, I consider myself a mixture of views, I like to think I chose my stances based on logic and sense, not blind ideology. So I like my Medcare system, but I see radical Islam as a grave danger. I saw Bush as a poor president and still reserve judgement on Obama, so far, I must admit, I am not impressed by him and less so by his appointed minions.