Tragic Fort Hood Massacre by Radical Muslim Hasan Could Have Been Prevented, Per Senate Investigation (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on February 4, 2011
Memorial for those who died in 2009 Fort Hood massacre - a Senate report reveals that shootings and murders by radical Muslim Major Nidal Hasan could have been prevented
The horrific Fort Hood massacres by Muslim radical Major Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, that happened 15 months ago could have been prevented, as revealed by a new Senate report released yesterday.
As pointed out previously here, here, and here, the warning signs of his radicalism and potential violence were obvious and documented. Hasan was well known for obsessively pushing Islam on his patients and had been disciplined for it. He carried business cards designating him as an SOA soldier of Allah. He presented a troubling PowerPoint presentation at a 2007 medical briefing with known jihadist phraseology that proclaimed his love of Islam and what Allah expects of Muslims against infidels. He had documented ties to al Qaeda terrorists.
Despite repeated requests following the shootings, the White House stalled on releasing information on Hasan. Five months after the Fort Hood massacre, Senators Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) had to issue congressional subpoenas of the Obama administration, accusing the White House of stonewalling their requests for information about Hasan and the shootings.
Hasan’s murderous rampage in the name of Allah killed 13 people and wounded 32 others at the Killeen, Texas military base. Many of the soldiers who were shot but survived the massacre are still haunted by the horrors of that day.
Yes, this horrific massacre could have been avoided. But what the Senate report neglected to cite is that equal, perhaps even more blame needs to be placed on the left-wing extremists in our government, media, and liberal community who would have crucified the military and FBI, calling them “racists” and “Islamophobes” had they dare act against a zealot Muslim prior to him committing any acts of violence, despite the dangerous warning signs of his Islamic extremism. Without a doubt, they would have been maligned and accused of “profiling” and insensitivity to Muslims.
Political correctness and blind, naive sensitivity, as well as the DoD’s lack of follow through and hindsight, allowed this bloody atrocity to happen.
From ABC News, “Painful Conclusion”: Senators Say FBI & DOD Could Have Prevented Ft. Hood Shooting:
A new Senate report on the 2009 Fort Hood shooting blames the FBI and Department of Defense for failing to recognize or act on alleged shooter Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s extremist views.
The report, released today by Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman Joe Lieberman and ranking Republican Susan Collins, says the FBI and DOD could have prevented the shooting if they had identified Hasan’s radical Islamist views and disciplined or discharged him before the attack occurred.
“Our report’s painful conclusion is that the Fort Hood massacre could have and should have been prevented,” Lieberman said at a press conference today.
“The fact is that both the FBI and the Army were aware of Major Hasan,” Collins said. “This is not a case where a lone wolf was unknown to the FBI, unknown to the military officials, until he struck – and that is the tragedy of this case.”
The November 2009 shooting killed 13 people and wounded 32 others.
“Although neither DOD nor the FBI had specific information concerning the time, place, or nature of the attack, they collectively had sufficient information to have detected Hasan’s radicalization to violent Islamist extremism but failed both to understand and to act on it,” the senators said in the report. “Our investigation found specific and systemic failures in the government’s handling of the Hasan case and raises additional concerns about what may be broader systemic issues.”
“DOD possessed compelling evidence that Hasan embraced views so extreme that it should have disciplined him or discharged him from the military, but DOD failed to take action against him,” the report said.
Associated Press: Senate Ft. Hood Report Critical of FBI, Pentagon
Gateway Pundit revealed this troubling information about the Obama administration:
During the investigation senators threatened to take the Obama White House to court over their refusal to release information on the November 2009 Fort Hood shootings. Now we know why…
The report also refuted claims made by the Obama Administration.
NPR reported:
Appearing alongside Lieberman, ranking committee member Susan Collins (R-Maine), said the investigation dispels the Obama administration’s early argument that legal restrictions had prevented the FBI from thoroughly investigating Hasan before the shootings. She also said no such restrictions barred agencies from sharing information about Hasan.
From FOX News, Senate Committee Criticizes Several Agencies in Wake of Fort Hood Shooting:
Both the Army and the FBI were roundly criticized for failing to act on the information they had about alleged Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan, and senators in a Homeland Security Hearing concluded Thursday there was clear evidence that he was radicalized.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee that spent 14 months on the report, said Hasan was open about his extremist views, but instead of disciplining Hasan, the Army rewarded him.
“This is an individual who is open about the fact that he had radicalized — who says outrageous statements in front of entire class of mil officers — and yet he’s promoted,” Collins said. “It’s just astonishing and very troubling.”
Prior to the shooting on Nov. 5, 2009, the Senate report concludes the FBI’s joint terrorism task force, or JTTF, failed to tell the military that Hasan exchanged at least 18 e-mails with the American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is described by U.S. officials as an operational planner who sanctions these attacks. Awlaki is linked to every major attack or attempted attack on the U.S. over the last 12 months.
Also, the FBI’s JTTF in Washington, D.C., Collins said, spent just four hours deciding whether the contact between Hasan and the cleric was a potential threat to U.S. national security and the senators seemed appalled that no one had been held responsible.
From Jihad Watch, Senate report summarizes missed and ignored warnings about Ft. Hood jihadist:
The report by Senators Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins is a departure from the scrambling by the mainstream media and other politicians to avoid any mention of Islam or jihad. This document at least calls attention to the role of “homegrown Islamic extremism,” unlike a New York Times report that insisted Hasan and his motive “remain an enigma.”
Army officials “valued the diversity of having a Muslim psychiatrist,” but Nidal Malik Hasan could only have broadcast his intentions more clearly if he wore a blinking, green neon sign over his head that said “I’m going to kill you.” He more or less did just that with his now infamous PowerPoint presentation which discussed jihadist doctrine at length and openly declared: “We [Muslims] love death more than you love life.”
For now, the report recommends that the Pentagon “revise its policies and training in order to confront the threat of Islamist extremism directly.” But even short of tackling chapter and verse, any such activity will be met with howls of “profiling” and “Islamophobia,” and resisted by Muslim sympathizers setting policies within the Pentagon.
From Sister Toldjah, Ft. Hood terror attack: Reading between the lines of the Congressional “investigation”:
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has concluded its investigation into the Ft. Hood terror attack and – as is usually the case with government “investigations” – you have to read between the lines to get the real story.
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Jon Ham provides the necessary translation:
And why did the FBI and the Army “fail” in their responsibilities to notify the relevant authorities that a Muslim nutjob was operating in their midsts? Because they would have been crucified on the cross of insensitivity and political incorrectness in an atmosphere encouraged by Congress and almost every other institution in American live over the past 30 years.
The real culprit in not identifying the danger of Hasan is the far left, which has preached multiculturalism and identity politics since the 1980s. Any criticism of one of their privileged minorities, racial or religious, has immediately been branded racism. The FBI and the Army, to their discredit, cowed to this insanity, and the loss of life by the likes of Hasan is the result.
Bingo.
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In other words, as it is with most other Congressional investigations, panels, etc, we get the sanitized version of events without addressing the serious underlying factors that either directly or indirectly led to said events (see: the 9-11 Commission, the various economic meltdown “investigative” committees for more), thereby pretty much making it impossible for us as a country to “move forward” and “learn from our mistakes” and impliment new procedures (or modify old ones) so as to decrease the risk of said events happening again.
From Undercoverage, WikiLeaks and Ft. Hood Reports Show Military Political Correctness Endangers Lives:
We now have two damning reports to show that the U.S. Military has been so pistol-whipped by political-correctness, that it will allow problem personnel to remain in positions until they go berserk and injure or kill people. This has to stop, but it will only get worse if openly-gay military service is allowed. The litigious LGBT movement is standing by with attorneys to sue everyone silly who dares to cross a gay soldier. The “PC paralysis” is just beginning. But look what damage has been so far. This can’t stand.
There has been so much effort expended to appease the radical constituencies of Barack Obama and Democrats, that the the public’s safety has been compromised. More than compromised, people have DIED because the U.S. military is shutting its eyes to “problem” personnel in the ranks, if those “problem” people just happen to be the “favored” class-du-jour, gay or Muslim.
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Now we have the final Senate report on the Nidal Malik Hasan, the Ft. Hood shooter. Years of advance warning on him, too and NOTHING done about it until he killed 14 people.
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