Fort Hood massacre: One year later
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Fort Hood massacre at the hands of jihadist soldier Nidal Hasan.
Thirteen men and women, plus the unborn child of Pvt Francheska Velez, died in the bloody rampage.
1. Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, Havre de Grace, Md.
2. Maj. Libardo Caraveo, 52, Woodbridge, Va.
3. Cpt. John P. Gaffaney, 54, San Diego, Calif.
4. Cpt. Russell Seager, 41, Racine, Wis.
5. Staff Sgt. Justin Decrow, 32, Plymouth, Ind.
6. Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, Kiel, Wis.
7. Spc. Jason Hunt, 22, Tillman, Okla.
8. Spc. Frederick Greene, 29, Mountain City, Tenn.
9. PFC Aaron Nemelka, 19, West Jordan, Utah
10. PFC Michael Pearson, 22, Bolingbrook, Ill.
11. PFC Kham Xiong, 23, St. Paul, Minn.
12. Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, Chicago, Ill.
13. Michael G. Cahill, Cameron, Texas [civilian]
Never forget.
Military officials have planned a weekend of remembrance as Hasan’s Article 32 hearing grinds on. The process has been adjourned until November 15:
A weekend of remembrance is planned in Fort Hood, TX to commemorate the first anniversary of one of the worst mass shootings on a U.S. military base in American history.
“It is an important mark in the history of Fort Hood and Central Texas that we should pause and reflect,” said Fort Hood Senior Commander Maj. Gen. William Grimsley. “And [it] is an opportunity to connect spiritually and bring the community back together.”
Grimsley said there was a tremendous outpouring of support and love from throughout the U.S. immediately following the Nov. 5, 2009 attack.
On that day, authorities say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sprayed bullets inside a crowded medical processing center at Fort Hood, killing 13 people and wounding a dozen others. The Army psychiatrist was shot four times then taken into custody by police after the shooting rampage.
According to news sources, the 40-year-old American-born Muslim began having second thoughts about a military career several years before the shooting after other soldiers harassed him for being a Muslim.
Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. He could face the death penalty if prosecutors show his alleged actions were premeditated and deliberate.
The Army is still going through pre-trial investigation in what is called an Article 32 hearing. The military proceedings are used to gather evidence from both prosecution and defense witnesses.
The prosecution concluded its questioning in the hearing on Oct. 21. The Article 32 is adjourned until Nov. 15, when defense lawyers will have the opportunity to present evidence and witness testimony.
Have we learned?
GOP Rep. John Carter of Texas raises lingering concerns in a statement today marking the anniversary:
Fort Hood Shootings Still Far from Resolved
(FORT HOOD, TEXAS) – America should pause to remember those killed and wounded one year ago in the terror attack on Fort Hood, and recognize that sacrifice with a renewed commitment to assist and honor the casualties and their families, and to prevent similar future attacks, according to Congressman John Carter, who represents the Fort Hood area in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Carter, who is also Co-Chairman of the House Army Caucus and Secretary of the House Republican Conference, says the ongoing trial of Major Nidal Hasan for the Fort Hood shootings one year ago is just one of many issues still not resolved. The victims have still not received the treatment and status they deserve, the military has not acknowledged the nature and causes of the attack, and there is numerous security improvements still needed to prevent future attacks.
Carter says radical Islamic terrorism has still not been acknowledged as the cause of the Fort Hood shootings which left 14 Americans dead, and the Department of Defense must not allow political correctness to continue to skew its policies on force protection.
“It has been a year since the terror attack on Fort Hood, and DOD still refuses to even use the words ‘radical Islam’ in their report on the attack or recommendations on how to prevent future attacks,” says Carter. “That does not instill confidence in Congress that DOD is taking the necessary steps to protect our troops.”
Carter, a former Texas judge, has introduced legislation authorizing the same status for Fort Hood victims as that awarded casualties of the 9-11 attack on the Pentagon, and granting whistleblower protections to military and civilian personnel who report potential threats from radical Islamic sympathizers.
“The families of the 13 adults and one unborn child who died, along with the wounded, deserve the same treatment as we provided the Pentagon casualties,” says Carter. “Congress must not rest until these families receive what they deserve.”
Carter also introduced legislation providing “active shooter” training for all military and civilian law enforcement protecting military installations. Fort Hood officers credit the training with their success in stopping the Fort Hood shooter in an open gunfight.
Carter succeeded in passing a resolution in the House and Senate recognizing the good response of Fort Hood law enforcement and base command in responding to the attack. The rest of the Carter bills await passage as part of the pending National Defense Authorization Act.
Previous Fort Hood massacre blogging.
Flashback November 11, 2009…
Blind diversity = death
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
The violence at Fort Hood, President Obama told mourners on Tuesday, was “incomprehensible.” The “twisted logic that led to the tragedy,” he reiterated, may be “too hard to comprehend.” If the Bush administration suffered a systemic failure of imagination on homeland security, the Obama administration is suffering an willful failure of comprehension.
What exactly is so hard to comprehend? Fort Hood jihadist Nidal Hasan made his means, motives, and inspiration all too clear for those willing to see and hear. In his 2007 slide presentation to fellow Army doctors on “The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the Military,” Hasan spelled it out: “We love death more then (sic) you love life!”
Hasan exposed the deadly tension between his adherence to Islam and service in the U.S. military. Slide 11 stated: “It’s getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims.” Slide 12 cited Koranic sanctions for killing fellow believers. And Hasan made clear he wasn’t alone among Muslim soldiers who “should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk to hurting/killing believers unjustly.”
Slide 13 ominously listed “adverse events” involving Muslim soldiers– including the fatal 2003 fragging attack on American soldiers in Kuwait by Sgt. Hasan Akbar (who was sentenced to death but remains alive while his case is on appeal); the desertion case of Lebanon-born Muslim Marine Wassef Ali Hassoun; and the espionage case of Muslim chaplain James Yee (the charges were dropped, but the case raised lingering security concerns about Muslim chaplains at Gitmo and elsewhere trained by terror-linked, Saudi-subsidized institutes).
Hasan missed a few “adverse events” that have faded from public memory in our reflexive age of “Islam is peace” emotionalism-over-comprehension:
– John Muhammad, the Beltway jihadist put to death Tuesday night, was a member of the Army’s 84th Engineering Company. As I’ve reported previously, Muhammad was suspected of throwing a thermite grenade into a tent housing 16 of his fellow soldiers as they slept before the ground-attack phase of Gulf War I in 1991. Muhammad was admitted to the Army despite being earlier court-martialed for willfully disobeying orders, striking another noncommissioned officer, wrongfully taking property, and being absent without leave while serving in the Louisiana National Guard.
Although Muhammad was led away in handcuffs and transferred to another company pending charges for the grenade attack, an indictment never materialized. Muhammad was honorably discharged from the Army in 1994 before brainwashing young Lee Malvo in black nationalism and jihad – and then carrying out the three-week killing spree together that left 10 dead in 2002 in the name of Allah.
– Muslim American soldier Hasan Abujihaad was convicted last year on espionage and material terrorism support charges after serving aboard the USS Benfold and sharing classified info with al Qaeda financiers, including movements of US ships just six months after al Qaeda operatives had killed 17 Americans aboard the USS Cole in the port of Yemen.
– Jeffrey Leon Battle was a former Army reservist, convicted of conspiring to levy war against the United States and “enlisting in the Reserves to receive military training to use against America.” He had planned to wage war against American soldiers in Afghanistan.
– Egyptian Ali A. Mohamed joined the U.S. Army while a resident alien despite being on a State Department terrorist watch list before securing his visa. An avowed Islamist, he taught classes on Muslim culture to U.S. Special Forces at Fort Bragg, N.C., and obtained classified military documents. He was granted U.S. citizenship over the objections of the CIA. Honorably discharged from the Army in 1989, Mohamed then hooked up with Osama bin Laden as an escort, trainer, bagman and messenger. Mohamed used his U.S. passport to conduct surveillance at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi; he later pled guilty to conspiring with bin Laden and admitted his role in the 1998 African embassy bombings that killed more than 200 people, including a dozen Americans.
Political correctness is a gangrenous infection. My generation has submitted to a toxic diet of multiculturalism, identity politics, anti-Americanism and entitlement. The problem festered under the Bush administration. Despite 9/11, government at all levels refused to screen out jihadi-apologizing influences in our military, at the FBI, in prisons, and even fire departments. [And in the GOP, too.] Despite the bloody consequences of open borders, the Bush Pentagon allowed illegal aliens to enter the military. One of my favorite P.C. idiocy moments from the Bush State Department: Spa days as counter-terrorism! The grievance lobby has plied the Muslim jihadist-as-victim narrative for nearly a decade now.
They prevail. In June, Muslim domestic terror suspect Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad went on another shooting spree at an Arkansas recruiting station that left one serviceman dead. The Obama Justice Department response: To redouble its efforts to use “criminal and civil rights laws to protect Muslim Americans.”
Next week, Attorney General will speak at a banquet featuring the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an unindicted co-conspirator in the terrorism financing case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.
How did Fort Hood happen, obtuse Washington asks. Simple: Blind diversity equals death.
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President William McKinley shot by Leon Czolgosz September 6, 1901, at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York and died September 14, 1901.
The jury took only half an hour to convict Czolgosz. On September 26, 1901, Czolgosz was sentenced to death.
Czolgosz was executed by means of electrocution on October 29, 1901.
Yes we do wish to defend the rights of the accused; we do not need to be stupid in doing so.
Thank you Michelle. I have heard too many Guy Fawkes Day reminders today instead. Sheesh!
execution should be by steamroller set to .5 mph
14 dead. He should be executed 14 days after being found guilty. Sounds like reasonable justice to me.
The lesson learned is when faced with a terrorist engage the target until all movement ceases. Then fire another 30 round burst into the target. Then wait 30 minutes before approaching the target or until the target assumes the temperature of the surrounding area.
Then if you wish to read the target their rights, knock yourself out.
Islam is incompatible with Western Civilization.
Read the Koran if you don’t believe me….
I’m not in the military (and those who are please let me know if I’m wrong) but it seems to me:
1- Nidal Hassan was a soldier in the US Army.
2 – He swore an oath of allegiance to that institution and this country
3 – Having regularly communicated with an enemy of this country, he broke that oath of his own volition
4 – Without warning, he attacked and killed his fellow soldiers who were unarmed at the time
THEREFORE – should he not have been summarily executed after a very speedy court martial?
thank you for the reminder-
I totally agree w/ #6′s take!
My take==PC is getting our BEST killed.
C-CS
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. - George S. Patton
See how two totally different groups of people can agree on a common approach. Its all good.
Thank you Michelle for this post. Thank you John Carter for mentioning that 14 were killed! I have been wondering if others in the military who are accused of murder have such a long wait to get to trial? Is the fact that this murderer is a rop type kept the military going slow with this? He has got to be found guilty. God be with those killed and the families and to those who lived that day.
L
I hate to say it, but if we can’t speedily carry out the trial and execution of this craven, treasonous bastard Hasan, our nation is in more serious trouble than any of us ever believed.
Why does this have to drag on and on? I feel terrible that our military brass has no more gumption than this.
from the feet up.
Better. It should take about that long for the Army to find a volunteer firing squad.
If I may, this type of PC justice is one more reason this great country is on the verge of being destroyed. It’s obvious this bastard is the perpetrator, try him and punish him soon as possible…let it be a standard practice to hell with all the psych dr.’s an lawyers. Let them argue later about why this POS did what he did.
While they do have to do their best to represent their clients for the best possible outcome on their end, it’s my belief that too many lawyers love all the technicalities of law more than they love common sense and brevity. It’s also worth more to their egos and often their bank accounts to keep a trial going on and on and on.
The unindicted co-conspirator is political correctness, otherwise known as the willful rejection of common sense.
RIP to all those wounded and killed. By failing to reject political correctness, we failed all of you; and the results were tragically fatal.
Sadly, this is not Patton’s America nor Patton’s military.
Now we disagree with the Muslims who love death. Now we want to die to keep them from dying, as per our ROE in Afghanistan.
You know, as stupid as I think the average California voter was this election, I do remember the American Voter in Her Sublime Idiocy elected our current Commander in Chief, so we Californians aren’t really that much more stupid as a group than the rest of America.
MM the sad thing this AM for me??? I have one local radio outlet, and your blog are the only reference to the FORT HOOD MASSACRE happening one year ago today… Truly, truly sad!!!
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It shouldn’t take more than a year for any murder–military or civilian–to result in collected evidence, interviewed witnesses, a prepared case, a completed trial, and a verdict.
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And another year for one appeal and execution if the perp is found guilty. The only extenuating circumstance should be the old mental incompetence standard–”unable to understand the difference between right and wrong due to mental incompetence”.
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It’s time for the good Major Hasan to pay for his crimes. Jihadi terrorist, rope, tree. Some assembly required.
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And the FLYOVERMAN Solution–#6–works for me. Too bad the brave lady security type couldn’t have kept shooting. She probably had 10 more shots in her pistol–but she was wounded as she took down the major.
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John Bibb
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He should be executed 14 times; revived 13 times.
Rocketman, to be clear, the male security guard took the shots that brought the pig swine down. There was much hoop-lah over a female security guard taking him down but she did not.
Let us not fall for the propaganda of the leftist feminist agenda to diminsh males and elevate females.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/us/13hood.html
“But the initial story of how she and the accused gunman went down in an exchange of gunfire now appears to be inaccurate.
Another officer, Senior Sgt. Mark Todd, 42, said in an interview Thursday that he fired the shots that brought down the gunman after Sergeant Munley was seriously wounded. A witness confirmed Sergeant Todd’s account.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2009/11/13/shot-hasan-ft-hood-massacre/
“Initially it was claimed that a slightly-built female police officer, Sergeant Kimberly “Mighty Mouse” Munley, opened fire on the suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, and kept shooting even after being hit three times.
But at least one witness now claims that Sergeant Munley, 35, was in fact hit by Major Hasan before she had time to get off a single round, and that it was her partner, Senior Sergeant Mark Todd, who actually felled the man now charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder.”
http://www.kwtx.com/news/misc/Hasan_Hearing_Blog_Wednesday_Oct_20_2010_105383013.html
“The shooter appeared between the buildings … firing upon a soldier tripping in the grass. He (the shooter) turned to my direction, the gun was elevated at my direction, I witnessed a red light that was directly on me…”
“I tried to get better cover behind the vehicle.”
“A female white officer assumed a position and she fired off a couple rounds and at that point … he (the shooter) turned on her and began firing on her.”
“He fired on her … I guess 2 or 3 times. She sat there… he was above her … he was reloading his weapon. sShe sat there, looked up at him hopelessly. It appeared to me she was defenseless … she was very alert, looking up at him … he just stood above her, shot a couple more rounds, turned and started to walk toward my direction again.”
He is asked to describe the shooter: “White male, bald, 5’10″, he appeared to be a little overweight.”
“It was evident to me that he was traveling on my direction. That’s when the black police officer shot at the shooter, the shooter turned (there was gun exchange), the shooter fell to the ground.”
Michelle,
Good idea to remind everyone of this terrorist event. Congressman Carter notes the lack of facing reality at DOD:
“It has been a year since the terror attack on Fort Hood, and DOD still refuses to even use the words ‘radical Islam’ in their report on the attack or recommendations on how to prevent future attacks,” says Carter. “That does not instill confidence in Congress that DOD is taking the necessary steps to protect our troops.”
By way of reminder, the problem is the same for all the Military Chiefs, personified by Gen. Casey’s response to the Fort Hood slayings, saying that it would be far more troublesome if the Army’s Diversity Program were to suffer set-backs! This attitude is pervasive at the highest levels of all Services. A very dangerous attitude by those sworn to defend us, “against all enemies, foreign and domestic!”
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HI HULKA–#23. Thank you for the “straight skinny” story. I don’t know if this was Politically “Correct” stuff–or the “fog of war”. The stories I read did not mention the second Security person.
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John Bibb
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The only thing that makes the wait for his execution tolerable at all is knowing that as a fairly new paraplegic he is having to deal with urinary tract infections, uncontrollable spasticity, and a very high risk of developing bedsores. It is also nice to know he cannot even take a c**p without assistance. And I doubt anyone who is forced to deal with him is rushing to help him. It ain’t much, but it will do in the meantime.
Just don’t say he’s Muslim or you’ll offend Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg.
You have a good point about giving Sergeant Todd credit for finally taking Hasan down, but anyone shot down while engaged in a gunfight with mass murdering terrorist scum is also a hero.
She did not have to charge into that room.
Sigh. Not in a room. She didn’t have to be the one engaging him with gunfire while others were ducking for cover. Same difference.
Her behavior was courageous, though we all wish her aim had been just a tad better that day.
Don’t worry my peeps. The CFR controled State Department has made sure this will only get worse.
G-d speed to America’s fallen. Americans on paper only can go to hell.
BZO, or Die!
As a Texan, I’m just sick that we don’t have access to this guy in our state courts. He’d be on his second appeal by now if the state handled it.
“Muslims don’t want to kill other muslims.” An excuse from a bunch of hypocrites. Muslims have been killing other muslims for ages. Saddam and his boys come to mind.