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...probe into whether the FBI mishandled information about Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who is charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 at Fort Hood in Texas, could be Webster's trickiest assignment yet. The Nov. 5 shootings have raised a host of nettlesome issues regarding Hasan and his contacts with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric in Yemen, and why the FBI decided not to raise the alarm about Hasan even though it had tracked his suspect communications. In the aftermath of the shootings, critics have raised questions not only about intelligence-sharing, but also about whether...
...Iraq - we're fighting extremists there so we don't have to fight them here - has taken a beating of late. In September came the arrest of Najibullah Zazi, the Colorado man accused of plotting perhaps the gravest U.S. terrorist attack since 9/11. November saw Major Nidal Malik Hasan gun down 13 people - including 12 of his fellow U.S. soldiers - at Ford Hood, Texas, in the deadliest assault on a military base in U.S. history. The latest blow came Dec. 7, when the U.S. Justice Department filed new charges against David Headley, 49, an American citizen arrested in October...
...found it interesting that your cover photo of Nidal Malik Hasan, who apparently killed in the name of God, labels him a possible terrorist [Nov. 23]. In Verbatim, Scott Roeder, who also killed in the name of God, is called the "accused shooter." What's the difference between them, again? I am less concerned about the thousand or so radical Muslims, who are highly monitored, than I am about the million or so unguarded radical "Christians" whose hatred is fanned daily by the rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter...
...Whether Hasan was deranged or a terrorist is immaterial to the families of the people slaughtered at Fort Hood. The long list of red flags you listed should have alerted anyone with a modicum of common sense. Yet instead of being proactive, everybody chose political correctness. Drastic changes in policies and procedures should be implemented immediately, or soon the expression "military intelligence" will be interpreted as a contradiction in terms...
...Hasan's worldview was obviously irreconcilable with his oath to support and defend the Constitution. Yet he was retained in the Army, despite his wishes to get out, because he owed time. Imagine the irreparable harm he would have inflicted on the fragile minds of soldiers suffering from PTSD if he had not gone on a rampage...