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Radical Muslim Extremist Gunned Down Fellow Soldiers

November 5, 2009 by Daniel

Today, tradgedy was the scene at Ft. Hood, TX when Major Nidal Malik Hasan openned fire at fellow U.S. Soldiers awaiting deployment. In total, 12 were murdered and 31 others were wounded.

AFP – Muslim officer guns down 11 at Texas military base

A Muslim army officer about to be deployed to Iraq went on a shooting rampage at a sprawling Texas military base, killing 11 people and wounding 31 others before being gunned down.Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist, opened fire with two handguns at a processing center at Fort Hood for troops being deployed on missions to Iraq and Afghanistan.

A second suspected shooter was taken into custody, while two further suspects thought to be involved were later released without charge, military officials said.

“A shooter opened fire and essentially due to the quick response of the police forces was killed,” said Lieutenant General Bob Cone, commander at Fort Hood, the largest US military base in the world.

President Barack Obama, who had been kept informed of the shooting as the drama was tracked in the White House situation room, denounced the attack as a “horrific outburst of violence.”

“My immediate thoughts and prayers are with the wounded. And with the families of the fallen,” Obama said.

The US Senate held a moment of silence late Thursday in somber acknowledgement of the shooting rampage.

Fort Hood, a massive base that is more like a small town housing tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, was locked down after the shooting for several hours as the shocked community searched for a possible motive.

Hasan had been harassed by his military colleagues because of his “Middle Eastern ethnicity,” his cousin said, dismissing speculation that the major was “afraid of deploying to go to war.”

“He was dealing with some harassment from his military colleagues,” Nader Hasan told Fox News.

Houston Chronicle – 12 killed in Fort Hood rampage

CBS News, quoting an anonymous source, reported that Hasan was a licensed psychiatrist in Bethesda, Md. and drug and rehab specialist who got his Virginia psychiatry license in 2005.

Federal law enforcement officials told the AP that Hasan had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats.

The officials say the postings appeared to have been made by Hasan, but are still trying to confirm that he was the author. They say an official investigation was not opened.

One of the Web postings that authorities reviewed is a blog that equates suicide bombers with a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to save the lives of his comrades.

Filed Under: National Tagged With: afghanistan, Fox News, Iran, Obama

Obama Team ‘Controlled’ Media During Election

October 19, 2009 by Daniel

It was no secret that the media was in it for Barack Obama during the election. Now it is being bragged about by Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director, that they “controlled” the media to look “popular.” This comes as Dunn and the White House is attacking Fox News.

What Dunn said:

She explained that the campaign favored live interviews so that Obama’s words could not be edited — “so that what the voters heard we determined, as opposed to some editor in a TV station.” 

She said Campaign Manager David Plouffe put out Web videos so the campaign could avoid talking to reporters and focus the media message. 

“Whether it was a David Plouffe video or an Obama speech, a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it,” she said. “One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters. … We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it.”

Filed Under: National, Politics Tagged With: administration, Axelrod, Dunn, election, Fox News, Obama

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