Fort Hood suspect shouted 'Allāhu Akbar' or 'God is great!'The death toll from the shooting rampage at Fort Hood has risen to 13. The "suspect" in the killings, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, (Major Pile) remains hospitalized on a ventilator with gunshot wounds. Witnesses allege that Hasan shouted "God is Great" in Arabic when he opened fire on fellow soldiers. Relatives say the 39-year-old Army psychiatrist fought his scheduled deployment to Iraq later this month.
Mr. Obama says, 'Don't jump to conclusions on Ft. Hood gunman.' Okay, well maybe he'll invite the gunman and the female cop who shot him over to the White House for a beer? Nidal will probably have a near-beer, since he's nearly-dead.
My initial reaction, like so many after hearing the Major's name, was that Nidal was some kind of a sleeper agent laying in wait... much like the hijackers who perpetrated the 9-11 attacks and the London bombings... or 24. Well, it is legit, and it's another lesser known version of Holy Jihad. It's a fitnah which is Arabic for “trial” or “test.”
In the Islamic tradition, trials or temptations that test the unity of the Muslim community. The term may be used to describe insurrection or civil warfare or, more specifically, to define a tribunal over doctrinal issues. But, look, that's just mild speculation and on the fringe of reality. It is the ledge of conspiracy-think. The idea that he was a sleeper agent deep-deep under cover, and using his position to help shell shocked Army veterans is much more romantically diabolical. Make the Army question their resolve when in the weakest members of the ranks - that's Dr. Mindbender kind of thinking. Make the Joes question their mission.
But his mission changed, and now he was going to the front. Oh, oh - time for plan B.
Or he was just bat shiat nuts. Or, shiat, why can't he be Both?
But what's really been on my mind about it, is the lack of discussion about it.
Obama's comment was so short it - it was shorter than a weather report. The media completely disregarded the story and also the idea of the greater storyline.
Also, in my tiny two celled mind, there's a strange correlation between six Muslim men wanting to attack Fort Dix.
The plan to attack the Fort Dix Army Base in New Jersey just two years ago. They wanted to "kill as many soldiers as possible!"
Those Five Muslim immigrants accused of scheming to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix were convicted of conspiracy in a case that tested the FBI's post-Sept. 11 strategy of infiltrating and breaking up terrorist plots in their earliest stages.
Maybe Maj. Pile was - maybe he wasn't. Shouldn't we look into it?
Happy Veterans Day.
UPDATE: Joe Lieberman agrees with me.
Sen. Joe Lieberman called the Fort Hood massacre an act of "Islamist extremism" - even as top Army brass warned Sunday against guessing at a motive, fearing backlash against Muslim soldiers.
"There are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act," Lieberman (I-Conn) told Fox News on Sunday.
"If the reports that we're receiving of various statements he made, acts he took are valid, he had turned to Islamist extremism." Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/11
Thrilled.
Roughly 2.3 million men and women have served in the armed forces in the decade-old wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, told a hearing of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Wednesday that the nation faces a bill of between $600 billion and $1 trillion to care for them as they revert to veteran status.
