Nov 12, 2009 12 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: DEVELOPING: Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan will be charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in last week's Fort Hood mass shootings, a military source told Fox News Thursday. Hasan, 39, is suspected of killing 13 of his comrades Nov. 5 when he opened fire at a soldier processing center at the Army base in ...
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Sky News: The family of the Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan is rejecting claims he was linked to Islamist radicals. A close relative spoke to Sky News in the West Bank town of Ramallah on condition of anonymity, afraid of reprisals against his family in America. With Hasan now out of a coma in hospital, his relative ...
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Washington Post: Army psychiatrists at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who supervised Maj. Nidal M. Hasan's work as a psychiatric fellow tried to turn his growing preoccupation with religion and war into something productive by ordering him to attend a university lecture series on Islam, the Middle East and terrorism, according to a Walter Reed staff ...
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Times Online: Images scroll across the computer screen: crowds lining the streets of Wootton Bassett, coffins draped with the Union Jack and the faces of British soldiers killed last week in Helmand. Above them a banner reads “Voice of Jihad†and a ticker tape entitled “Hot News†announces a stream of alleged military successes. This is the website ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday. That stance comes in the midst of forceful ...
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National Review Online: From a press release from NPR: NPR NEWS REPORTS: WALTER REED AND USUHS OFFICIALS DISCUSSED WHETHER NIDAL HASAN WAS “PSYCHOTIC†DURING SERIES OF MEETINGS BEGINNING IN 2008 November 11, 2009; Washington, D.C. – NPR News has learned that key officials from ...
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New York Times: WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are coalescing around a proposal to send 30,000 or more additional American troops to Afghanistan, but President Obama remains unsatisfied with answers he has gotten about how vigorously ...
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Patterico: I couldn’t make up something this stupid if I tried. Glenn Greenwald: Isn’t it fairly clear that the term “terrorism†is being applied to what Hasan did due to his religion rather than the acts themselves? It’s about as clear as your prose, Greenwald. Put another way, as ThinkProgress’ Matt ...
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Fox News: Investigators would have been "crucified" over First Amendment rights if they had launched a full-scale probe into e-mails Fort Hood massacre suspect Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly sent to a radical imam, a government investigator told Fox News. The claim comes as the squabble grows among officials in different branches of law enforcement and ...
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KABUL (AP) -- Military divers have found the body of one of two U.S. soldiers who went missing last week as they tried to recover airdropped supplies that fell into a river in western Afghanistan, NATO said Wednesday. The two paratroopers, from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, disappeared in Badghis province, a ...
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Fox News: The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood had "more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI" than radical imam Anwar al-Awlaki, investigators have found, a senior U.S. official reportedly said Tuesday. The name of the individuals Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was in contact ...
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Times Online: President Obama is to ask members of Nato to provide up to 4,000 more troops to help to break the deadlock in Afghanistan. Mr Obama is poised to confirm a surge of more than 30,000 US combat troops, according to senior military sources. He will also urge the rest of Nato to provide thousands of ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is considering four options for realigning U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, his spokesman said Tuesday, while military officials said the choices involve several ways the president could employ additional U.S. forces next year. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama will discuss the four scenarios with his national security team ...
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PINE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A 42-year-old father of an Army veteran upset by the treatment of U.S. military personnel sneaked a disassembled shotgun into a middle school just after classes began Tuesday, put it together in a bathroom, then held the principal hostage for more than two hours before surrendering without firing a shot, ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Finger-pointing erupted between federal agencies Tuesday over Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan. Government officials said a Defense Department terrorism investigator looked into Hasan's contacts with a radical imam months ago, but a military official denied prior knowledge of the Army psychiatrist's contacts with any Muslim extremists. The two government officials, speaking on ...
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The LA Times: An Army hospital spokesman said today that Nidal Malik Hasan is now conscious and able to talk. The 39-year-old Army major and combat psychiatrist is accused of unleashing a bloody massacre Thursday when he opened fire at a processing center at Ft. Hood Army military base, killing 13 and wounding 29. The question now: Who ...
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