Ft. Hood Shooter’s Unsurprising Request
[guest post by Dana]
Unsurprisingly, Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan wants to join the caliphate. In a letter, he appeals to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi:
“I formally and humbly request to be made a citizen of the Islamic State,”Hasan says in the handwritten document addressed to “Ameer, Mujahid Dr. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.”
“It would be an honor for any believer to be an obedient citizen soldier to a people and its leader who don’t compromise the religion of All-Mighty Allah to get along with the disbelievers.”
As a reminder, Hasan fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 at Fort Hood in 2009 in what the government, in a display of cowardice, disgracefully called “workplace violence”.
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (4dbf62) — 8/29/2014 @ 5:34 pmWhy are we letting him communicate with anyone, specially outside the country?
narciso (ee1f88) — 8/29/2014 @ 5:47 pmHow hard was this to figure out?
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 5:49 pmit’s refreshing to see *someone* has an ISIS strategy
happyfeet (8ce051) — 8/29/2014 @ 5:50 pmThe one thing we can be sure of. This has nothing to do with Islam.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 5:54 pmWhy are we letting him communicate with anyone, specially outside the country?
Because the Army is no longer an institution for the defense of our country but workfare for moral and mental defectives and diverse other talentless and shiftless unemployables?
nk (dbc370) — 8/29/2014 @ 5:56 pmLike the Presidency.
nk (dbc370) — 8/29/2014 @ 6:02 pmHe should be executed and his body parts used to help Jews and Christians with the remains packed in pork and sent back to his family.
mg (31009b) — 8/29/2014 @ 6:02 pmWhoa, pilgrim, you’re riding too fast.
Joining the Army isn’t a get out of jail free card.
A@@holes like me run it.
Maybe you’re better off taking your chances with the prison guard union.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 6:04 pmprison guard union is rape culture
happyfeet (8ce051) — 8/29/2014 @ 6:13 pmThe fish rots from the head down. I’ve read about Napoleon that even as a major of artillery generals did not want him under their command; they wanted to be under his command. Who wants to be under Obama’s command?
nk (dbc370) — 8/29/2014 @ 6:19 pmit’s not an academic question, we have seen how ISIS has wanted Aafia Siddiqui, a MIT trained biologist back, (her husband’s uncle is KSM, he was the ‘Ammar’ character in ZD 30,) so who would they kidnap to have him back
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/former-prisoners-fight-in-syrian-insurgency-a-927158.html
narciso (ee1f88) — 8/29/2014 @ 6:31 pmAt times it seems like we would non nothing if it wasn’t for Judicial watch:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/08/imminent-terror-warning-is-it-time-for-a-strategy-yet.php
I just had a discomforting thought that maybe some of you thought of long ago.
You know how we always think we’re lucky because the terrorist wanna-bes here in the US more often than not can’t get their bombs to go off? (Yes, I know there are exceptions like Boston and Hassan). What if these are the lone wolf amateurs, while the serious folk, like the ones fighting with Isis, have been busy biding their time and preparing for a major coordinated attack?
Double trouble, instead of a major attack being the signal for people to get rid of the guy who said Al Qaeda was on the run and Isis is the JV team, the guy calls a state of emergency and suspends elections…
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 8/29/2014 @ 6:35 pmWell that’s possible, the Inspire edition recently released, does suggest their scope is largerm
narciso (ee1f88) — 8/29/2014 @ 6:43 pmAs long as they don’t kill me. There are 58 million Americans who have it (whatever it is) coming. They voted for this jerk and should get what they voted for.
f1guyus (647d76) — 8/29/2014 @ 6:51 pmForgot that. Thanks for reminding me.
I remember once reading about how the US won WWII because our Germans were better than their Germans. Maybe. Maybe our Italians were better than theirs, too.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSob=c&GSlh=1&GRid=74715857&
Serving in. IN. not on.
Manilla John Basilone says hi, too.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 6:51 pmChristopher Scarver, your species has need of you once again.
gary gulrud (46ca75) — 8/29/2014 @ 6:52 pmMaybe our Irish are better than their Irish. Maybe our Japanese are better than their Japanese.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 7:02 pmThe date and the hour beyond my ken, but I can say there will be no prisoners.
gary gulrud (46ca75) — 8/29/2014 @ 7:05 pmwrap him up in shronk wrap, duct tape some fins to his feet and give him the old “heave-ho” off the back ramp of a trash hauler at 12-15K’ AGL over Irag… you could auction off the crew slots for that mission and make a fortune for a wounded warrior charity.
PS: why hasn’t this bastard been put on trial yet?
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 8/29/2014 @ 7:09 pmI would dearly love to trash Dan Rather. Who recently said unless you were willing to “send”” your son or daughter he didn’t want to hear your opinion about the beating war drums.
‘Scuse me? I went myself. And I don’t send adults anywhere. It’s a volunteer force. You are 18, you do what you want.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 7:15 pmthere are many such men, we don’t speak often enough about them:
http://www.navy.mil/moh/mpmurphy/bio.html
narciso (ee1f88) — 8/29/2014 @ 7:17 pmI don’t speak often of them because that makes me a wierdo.
This guy, for instance.
http://projects.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=6753
He gave me a job, once.
I am eternally gratefull. I’ve always tried to live up to his example.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 7:27 pmthe decision was made to regard these recent conflicts as illegitimate, and hence, no sufficient recognition has been accorded to them
http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/editorials-for-students/remember-heroes-of-fallujah/
narciso (ee1f88) — 8/29/2014 @ 7:46 pmNot by me.
To cut to the chase, I now live in a world where the Jack Macy’s, Silver Star, Korea, who walked six hundred yards under fire, are not often spoken of(and then he came back and started a company of his own) And yet, look at our preezy.
Something is screwed up.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 8:37 pmMy parish priest captured 11 NORKs at pistol point.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 8:39 pmOf course, not you Steve, but the papers, electronic media, most of academia,
narciso (ee1f88) — 8/29/2014 @ 8:43 pmIf ISIS was spelled IRS-IS, then Obama would have a strategy. But no e-mails.
Gus (70b624) — 8/29/2014 @ 8:47 pmAt your inspiration, I looked up the name of the father of a childhood friend, who taught me to bowl though all of his fingers/thumbs were amputated at the first joint (he used a ball with a spring-loaded handle).
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 8/29/2014 @ 8:51 pmSilver Star, Korea
He’s alive today because we’re better than they are. Today. There may come a time when we become worse than they dream of being.
htom (412a17) — 8/29/2014 @ 8:52 pmi don’t understand what happened to his hands
happyfeet (8ce051) — 8/29/2014 @ 8:53 pmSounds like frostbite, happyfeet
Hoagie (4dfb34) — 8/29/2014 @ 8:57 pm21. “What is the frequency, Kenneth?”
25. I’m seeing chatter on the nets to expect a ‘false flag’ attack on US soil. The goal, of course, to restore confidence in our betters.
Even if true, does anyone really think, in their heart of hearts, the Players wouldn’t totally eff it up?
I get that it’s happened to the Russkies and Chinese and lesser populations, but come on people. You gotta know they’re soiling themselves gaming the closing of the deal. So, so much can and will go wrong.
gary gulrud (46ca75) — 8/29/2014 @ 9:01 pmhttp://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2004-11/lest-we-forget-paul-henry-carr-vma-322
I have a lot to live up to. Also I’d be ashamed to be a quitter.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 9:03 pmIt can be very cold in Korea, and as I understand it, the ring on the firing pin of a grenade (at least in those days) was too small to get a gloved finger in it, so he had to take off his gloves to pull the pins on the grenades.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 8/29/2014 @ 9:05 pmGary!! What we need is a RESET button. Good Effing Grief.
Gus (70b624) — 8/29/2014 @ 9:07 pmdoc, you are a good man.
So was my DI, who hated at the time.
I think I will renew my Rec Cross qualifications.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 9:09 pmI take it back. I never actually hated my DI.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 9:12 pmRed Cross
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 9:15 pmI hope the anti-Christ is paying attention.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 9:16 pmI need the points.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 9:20 pmWhy are we letting him communicate with anyone, specially outside the country?
So as to not hurt his feelings and damage his self-esteem.
Mark (14a4db) — 8/29/2014 @ 10:01 pmoh. literally frozen
got it
happyfeet (8ce051) — 8/29/2014 @ 10:07 pmHad someone tried to literally freeze my DI, I would have had something to say against it.
I ran into him and his wife once at IHOP. I paid his bill. I’m still in his debt.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 11:54 pmI’m thinking my DI would have had something to say about it, too. And it wouldn’t have been pleasant.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 11:56 pmBut then I haven’t had anything to do with Pensacola for a long time.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/29/2014 @ 11:59 pmIn more ways than one.
Plus the mountains. I and a few hundred thousand other Americans can testify there are few places where the walking is easy.
The only reason I qualify for membership in the VFW is the time I spent at Camp Casey. Which I think is unusual for a Navy guy.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/30/2014 @ 9:16 amI’m lying. There are flat places in Korea. Otherwise there’d be no rice paddies. Still, you aren’t going to make it across the peninsula without confronting a few mountain ranges.
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/30/2014 @ 9:21 amwalking across rice paddies isn’t easy either…
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 8/30/2014 @ 11:30 amNo, rice paddies aren’t an easy place to take a hike.
They’re also lousy places to ditch an aircraft. Far be it for me to judge, but why you’d put your gear down is beyond me. So you can flip and drown? No, thanks.
All I meant was it’s easier to have a rice paddy where it’s already flat. Otherwise, you need to flatten it. But it can be done.
http://www.destination360.com/asia/philippines/banaue-rice-terraces
Steve57 (99bd31) — 8/30/2014 @ 11:44 am