<p>I had an impression that FBI was watching the killer, not the army. And why FBI did not do anything about it if not for him bein muslim? What if he was a jew being in contact with some militants in Israel? I bet you he would have been prosecuted after one incident, not many emails, speaches, projects and so forth. He actually has been reported by others in military to higher authority, so why nobody reacted to this in military? Does “retired US Army officer” have answer to this question? If he was not radical muslim, but any other in contact with other organizations that is not so friendly to us, he will not have his chances to execute any kind of crazy plan, like this musllim terrorist. And why general was more concerned with diversity in army after killings than victims and their families. “Retired US Army officer” comments have no sense without specific answers to these specific questions.</p>
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I dont’ think so - there is <em>crazy</em> and then there is mentally ill crazy.
I haven’t seen any evidence that he was mentally ill.</p>
<p>Generaly Casey was not more concerned with diversity in the Army after the killings than he was for the victims and families. He was concerned that the result of this will be, going forward, less diversity in the Army, that citizens who are muslims will not want to serve because there will be a prejudicial backlash against soldiers who are Muslims just because they are Muslim. Sorry to say but there are many Muslims who are serving their country honorably - unlike the murder. These soldiers who are Muslims are needed and provide a very valuable service to the military.</p>
<p>From the WSJ:
[Death-Penalty</a> Case Would Likely Take Years - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125781747162840173.html]Death-Penalty”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125781747162840173.html)</p>
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<p>All above is true only if activities that are clearly could be labeled as “treason” by any 3rd grader are not only monitored by also acted upon by professionals who are not under influence of apparent “political correctness” and who are not putting our service men and women into unneeded danger. Without knowing that staff like that is taken care by professionals, how army can operate in unity, how one soldier can trust another? Isn’t trust the most important thing in critical and dangerous situations? And how army can continue to enlist new recruits when they cannot trust soldiers next to them?</p>
<p>??? What’s your point?</p>
<p>My point is that Nidal incident is insignt into fact that if somebody is involved in treason and he is a muslim radical, he will not be removed from the army and / or proscuted. So, with the knowledge of such fact, that known radicals (like Nidal) are not getting removed from army, how soldiers could trust another one next to them if they do not know who is OK or who is radical and ready to kill?</p>
<p>The evidence will matter a lot re whether he had planned an attack and whether he had said things over a period of time that showed he was capable of that, etc. Re being insane, there is a risk to therapists who treat trauma that they can experience vicarious trauma and, in theory, it is possible that someone who treats trauma victims can snap the way a person with primary trauma can snap, but I think it’s highly unlikely in this situation.</p>
<p>He had said things and was in contact with terrorists outside of US - these facts were reported, monitored by FBI and very well documented with a lot of witnesses. He had bought his guns and had them on him, he has targetted specific persons to be shut, not just randomly shooting them like insane lunatic. Any 3rd grader will be very clear about state of mind of this terrorist…, but not our media. They are way above obvious, too educated/elite to go down to our unsophisticated simple approach with obvious evidence. They feel sorry for this poor lost soul who had a lot of stress in his life and decided to relief some by shooting few people. Apparently, education fogs some people brains very badly, they do not see obvious any more.</p>
<p>I don’t know, but I suspect that two of the reasons the FBI didn’t pull Nidal in were 1) they were probably following his trail of contacts. His contacts were probably a lot more interesting to the FBI that he himself appeared to be; and 2) as a doctor, the military did not issue him a weapon, so he may have appeared less of an immediate threat.</p>
<p>His contact has been very known to FBI. They could have followed his contact (I am sure that they do) without Nidal. What I suspect is that there are many more like him, so if current stay away political correctness continues, we will get hit again and again and again, more so that terrorists are aware now that nobody gets into trouble contacting / making offensive radical claims etc…they do not need to hide, can go about their business pretty openly, they will not be stopped.</p>
<p>Apparently the first request this guy made after waking up in the hospital was for a lawyer. </p>
<p>Good luck with that insanity defense. This fellow is in trouble. He won’t be successful in “trying” the wisdom of United States foreign and war policy before a court martial.</p>
<p>is this document for real? I am not sure it’s really President Obama’s team or whether it’s something for GWU only…</p>
<p>"Nidal Hassan, the Fort Hood shooter was on Obama’s Homeland Security
Transition Team!</p>
<p>He is on page 29 in 0bama’s report PDF (page 32 including the cover pages). </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.PDF[/url]”>http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.PDF</a></p>
<p>wbow, I thought your post was interesting, so I looked it up. Nidal, along with pages of others, are shown as “participants”, although it’s not clear what a participant is. It is pretty clear, though, that the seminar wasn’t a group sponsored by Obama’s people. </p>
<p>The university has this on their website:</p>
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