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While no one yet knows what ignited Major Nidal Malik Hasan's murderous rage on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 5, at Fort Hood, the kindling was hiding in plain sight. The Army had ordered Hasan, wrestling with the conflicting demands of being a soldier, a psychiatrist and a Muslim, to the post with the highest toll of Army suicides. Fort Hood is one of the Army's most stressed posts because of its units' revolving-door deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. Finally, the Army made clear that Hasan couldn't escape his own pending deployment to Afghanistan, where he'd have...
...Sergeant Kimberly Munley, 34, a civilian Department of Defense police officer at the base, is credited with stopping the firing rampage of Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan at the Soldier Readiness Center within a few minutes after he launched his attack. The center is a quick five-minute drive from Munley's home, past the new strip centers and the high school football field along wide Cross Creek Boulevard, but a world away from the horrors inflicted in one of the worst incidents of soldier-on-soldier violence in U.S. Army history. (Read "Stresses at Fort Hood Were Likely Intense...
...major reason for the fog of uncertainty--and a mystique of invulnerability--that shrouds Abu Nidal is the unique structure of his terrorist group. He has continued to build upon a modus operandi that he began to develop years ago in the Sudan, where he attracted young, impassioned but inexperienced Palestinians to be the foot soldiers in his terrorist war. These days, youngsters such as Abdel Aziz Merzoughi and Ben Ahmed Chaoval, who survived the Vienna attack, are generally guided from behind the scenes by trained professional planners who handle strategy and logistics. No matter how many of the young...
...large bounty on terrorists? Perhaps $1 million on the head of Abu Nidal? This approach would give every mercenary something to shoot for. Terrorist leaders would have to look long and hard at their followers and would constantly need to watch their backs, possibly making the terrorists less effective. James Amato Los Altos, Calif...
...want to reply to accusations of terrorism by merely charging that the other side commits similar acts? Why do you permit [the suspected terrorist] Abu Nidal to operate from Syria? Why don't you do something about the camps in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley from which some of the terrorist operations are launched...