A U.S. soldier opened fire Thursday at Fort Hood, Texas, killing at least 11 people and wounding 31 others, military officials said. The gunman was shot to death, and two others were in custody.
Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone, commanding general of the Army’s III Corps, who confirmed the shootings, said the gunman used two handguns. NBC News’ Pete Williams reported that a U.S. official identified the gunman as Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan, who was 39 or 40.
Took them a while to ID the gunman, too. NBC doesn't spell it out, so it's up to me to point out the obvious: Maj. Hasan is a Muslim.
So, a Muslim opens fire at soldiers in one of the busiest Army bases, two other officers are in custody (no names, no explanation as to why), and yet a "senior Obama administration official told NBC News that the shootings could have been a criminal matter rather than a terrorism-related attack and that there was no intelligence to suggest a plot against Fort Hood." (details as of 1800 hrs Eastern time, all emphasis added)
Sure, it could be something else, theoretically, but this just screams jihad. And if there is no "plot," how come two people are in custody? Lone nuts are usually, well, alone.
Now, I understand why the government would try and claim this wasn't terrorism. It's one thing to have a bunch of "roofers" from the "former Yugoslavia" plot an attack on Ft. Dix. But an Army Major going postal in Ft. Hood? How embarrassing.
How about the Trolley Square massacre in Salt Lake City, on Valentine's Day 2007? The investigators refused to even consider jihad as the possible motive, and the case was closed with "motive unknown." The shooter was buried in Bosnia at the expense of Salt Lake City residents who donated money to show they were sufficiently "multicultural" and "tolerant."
How many people remember the June 2009 attack on the recruiting office in Little Rock, Ark. by a certain Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad? It was hardly mentioned, amid the uproar about the shooting of an abortion doctor in Kansas. And when it did get mentioned, it was spun by the New York Times as no big deal ("bomb threats and vandalism against recruiting offices are not uncommon").
If we ignore it, it doesn't happen, right?
Right?
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There is also an older incident of this mold albeit not on US soil. A March 2003 grenade lobbing attack by one Sgt. Hasan K. Akbar that killed two and wounded 13 on an army base in Kuwait.
You make a good point. Maybe Jihad helped serve as a motivation in any number of these attacks or maybe it did not. But you sure do not get the feeling anybody is trying to find out, but just the opposite. You get the feeling the powers that be would rather not know and would rather that no one else knew either.
That is indication enough that a possible confirmation is making them uneasy in relation to something. I guess there are too many narratives out there it would not fit.
So,do you people now understand why Turkey is determined to fill your countries with Muslims? To facilitate the recreation of an Ottoman empire, not just (1) from the Balkans to Egypt through the Middle East, and (2) from the Balkans to China through Ukraine and Central Asia - using the Turkic peoples in those lands, but including also those Europe countries with a sizeable Muslims community?
When will you people wake up?
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