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Some saw warning signs ahead of US Army shooting
Associated Press
Published: 08.11.09, 10:08
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1. Amazing....
Oakland CA   (11.08.09)
how american news show that the people who knew him and who he lived next to said that he always seemed normal but israeli news tries there hardest to make him seem like a terrorist. He was nothing more than a sick criminal with issues just like all the other crazy shooters
2. To #1 - its an AP Article!
Neil   (11.08.09)
Just because you don't want to admit Hasan's violence had a strong ideological component, don't blame the Israeli press for twisting the story when they are simply posting an Associated Press article! SO obtuse.
3. To Amazing-Just a REGULAR moslem suicide killer, not
mic ,   Judah   (11.08.09)
a terrorist. Just had issues.Yo ho ho, dipstick. This is the usual normal killers call. "Allu Akbar"-god is a mouse! Amazing from Oakland better start learning arabic!! ROTFLMAO! -------------------------------------------- "Both military and civilian investigators have yet to talk with Hasan, who reportedly jumped up on a desk and shouted "Allahu akbar!", Arabic for "God is great!"
4. #1 Look who wrote the article!
Logic ,   Israel   (11.08.09)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
5. To #1..it's written by Associated Press
Smith ,   NY,US   (11.08.09)
Also, what are you watching or perhaps what are you smoking? CNN and others showed a video tape of him dress in traditional Muslim garb hours before the shooting. They talked to his neighbor who said he had wrote Islamic writings near his door. And They even talked to other officers who said he justified killings in personal conversations. Even British newspapers had reported that this guy worshiped at the same place as the 9/11 killers. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6521758/Fort-Hood-shooting-Texas-army-killer-linked-to-September-11-terrorists.html
6. #1 - There's nothing crazy about dying for your beliefs
(11.08.09)
Is he crazy because his beliefs are different from yours? But you're right, Americans do have enough crazy folks that shoot people out of boredom. This one was different though, you have to admit.
7. Army Should Have Intervened Earlier
Christy ,   Boston, US   (11.08.09)
The US Army should have intervened earlier with this troubled man. Someone this conflicted about the US' war on terror should never have been allowed to counsel troubled soldiers returning from combat, and should have been kept far away from any battlefield. I don't think the US Army was the place for this man. He should have been let go.
8. unattached terrorism
nossen tzvi ,   J-M   (11.08.09)
An individual act of terrorism is almost impossible to prevent. It is strongly influenced by terrorist groups . The lone madman is usually as unknown to terrorist cells as he is to the police or army. there should be,however, a strong deterrent to ( heavy fines and jail time) to those who advocate hate and violence. Let us hope that these people will become fewer as time passes. We can now understand the feelings of the Americans when there were Jews found spying for communist Russia!
9. "It is all because of the 'occupation'" is going to be the
Yair Halevi ,   T'veria, Israel   (11.08.09)
statement that we shall begin hearing in a short time. The Jew, I am expecting, will be blamed for this one too.
10. # 1
Birdi ,   Israel   (11.08.09)
The Associated Press is NOT the Israeli press..
11. Has anyone considered the possibility of a mind control
Rivkah   (11.08.09)
implanted device that triggered the killings? Chinese students from China who went to college in America filed a lawsuit years ago because a radio device was implanted in a dental crown that gave them instructions only they could hear. It was not auditory hallucinations but an implanted device the dentist put into the patient after being told to do so by the government, the students contended. Texe Marrs wrote about that and how bombarding a person with certain radiowave frequencies that connect to the implanted device can cause rage or laughter or sorrow or a heart attack or even death, depending on the radiowavelength transmitted. It is possible Hasan was normal but was implanted to be transformed into a killer to jolt the public into giving up weapons. Project Lucid might be the book about that if I remember correctly. There is fear that President Obama is a Manchurian Candidate who can be triggered to do something his handlers want done if a certain word phrase is used. There was fear John McCain was a Manchurian Candidate (re movie) and the communists could trigger an abnormal action from his years as a POW. Hasan is off the respirator now and should be scanned for devices that could have been used to receive radiowave transmissions that could have triggered the rage.
12. never recruit pali to your army
ghostq   (11.08.09)
muslims should stay out of the army period, that is what happend when you give them fair chance, he didn't have to be there in USA it's not mandatory, yet he willingly open fire, dumb idiot now the other muslims will be out of the army, and out of some working places in the usa.
13. US Military -asking for trouble.
DT ,   TA Israel   (11.08.09)
It gives the US a straight "zero" for their military selection process- and making him an officer at that and only recently promoted
14. to #1 wrong he didn't want to be send to
ghostq   (11.08.09)
Iraq and adress his superiors about it cause he is from ME, this is the army recruts don't determind where they should serve, that for the commanders to decide.
15. There are some things that happen in America that
Rivkah   (11.08.09)
cause Muslims to flip out. A neighbor in Tucson years ago took two sons to a doctor where they had hepatitis vaccines the same day from the same place. I suspect they were given an overdose since both children became autistic overnight and could no longer speak normally. One could no longer speak at all. The other one could only say a word or two. Attacks like that provoke rage if the parents are aware that it was an attack. The father of the children was an Egyptian Ph.D. at the Cancer Research Center at the University Medical Center and he attacked neighbors every way he could: killing pets and filing lawsuits over minor things. He was enraged. But the reason was not the neighbors, but the harm done to his children. I don't like Muslims and think they should be forced to leave America en masse before they destroy the country. But there are provocations that are abnormal that provoke them to rage. Dhenish Douglas Dharan looks Muslim but is Roman Catholic and is from Indonesia and came to America when his American wife abducted the children and did not return to Indonesia. He was thought to be Muslim even though he was not. Many people get ripped off by mechanics, but Douglas would take a car to a mechanic (Pep Boys) and when he got it back, there was more damage done to the car than when he left it. It was so outrageous and obvious the car was sabotaged. I feel sorry for Muslims in America and think they should leave for their own protection.
16. How &^*%& typical
Z Lando ,   Tekoa, Israel   (11.08.09)
How boring... The guy is in the US army, he hates the US... he justifies suicide terror... AND..... His family tells that he is a gentle, nice, quiet soul who couldn't have done this. YOU ARE ALL DELUDING YOURSELVES!!!!!!
17. Oxymoron-----military intelligence
bruce ,   hula valley Israe   (11.08.09)
18.  a Guided 'Stealth Weapon' Aimed at America
Marcel ,   Florida   (11.08.09)
The Hasan event event will have far-reaching repercussions. I am positive Hasan is being used by those who would create a civil war in our once-great country. The government knew over six months ago that he was hostile about the war with his Muslim brothers overseas. As a psychiatrist he would have been analyzed many times during his training and his flaws would have been noted by his instructors. I am sure he was sent to be deployed as a means of pushing his 'hot' buttons. He was driven into a corner where he had to do something violent. I suspect he probably had one or two handlers who fed his anger and finally drove him over the edge. Remember what Lee Harvey Oswald said before he was shot?... "I'm just a patsy!" Now, resentment and mistrust of Muslims will grow rapidly in the military services and in the civilian communities of America. Muslims will understandably react to defend themselves. This will weaken our military more than a little bit. It will encourage hatred of American Muslims by other Americans. We will soon see civil war of massive proportions here. Ethnic, religious and financial issues will fuel a firestorm. This will divide America and America will fall. When Holly and I visited with the Shungopavi tribe of the Hopi nation we were told about an approaching civil war here... one that would weaken America so much that foreign invasions would follow... We hope you are prepared for what is coming...
19. we deal with thousands
Ilana   (11.08.09)
just like him all over Israel and in the bordering countries. When will the world get it??
20. When will the Americans learn!
David ,   Karmiel, Israel   (11.08.09)
You are fighting two wars overseas in order to prevent Al Qaeda and the Taliban from attacking the US at home. When will you wake up that you have a third war raging in you own back yard\? Yes, not every Muslim is a terrorist or a "militant" as the world media likes to call them. However, every terror attack in the USA, except the Oklahoma bombing and UNA Bbomber, were carried out by Islamic fundamentalist. You are fighting be people bent on killing with your rules of engagement but your enemy has no qualms when it come to killing and maiming and using innocent men woman and children as human shields. If you want to win you war you have to fight on equal terms. If you cannot do this, then get out of Iraq and Afghanistan and let the fight their own battles. How many more American kids must die before you wake up?
21. "fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim" Welcome
Gud   (11.08.09)
to the new reality/neuroses! This is in the U.S. don't forget. (reap what you sow)
22. Hasan is just a typical Islamic person who is "possessed".
Eli   (11.08.09)
23. Stupidity and political correctness
Sam ,   NY   (11.08.09)
In science, Occam's razor is a theory that we follow the most simple explanation as being most likely. The most simple and hence most likely explanation is a combination of gross incompetence plus the political correctness which handicaps the soldiers who wanted to speak but were afraid of consequences. As for Rivkah, she needs professional help. Hopefully, she will get it.
24. ThePrice2Pay...
TheTruthHurts!!   (11.08.09)
This is the price the current and future world of all nations are going to pay. And pay dearly they will… These fanatic Muslim will in due time destroy their own “moderate” Muslim kind as well… It was not by chance that the Iran protestors shouted the name "Obama" during their rallies for help... but on deaf ears it seems… The west has already lost the war and won’t be a matter of time before the Europeans trade their favorite Cultural activity pastime to watching weekly terror attacks on the news… The Great European empires crumble down by the foot of the Jihad warrior…(quite dramatic I must say…) The Americans got it.. but there are still reluctant to believe that in the land of the free and home of the brave the Jihad Warrior could cause more havoc then a Russian attack….simply because it starts from within….. They will take over your institutions…your schools…your white house…your armies……….your lives….. America is the greatest country in the world for a reason…hopefully they will remember that when the times comes to fight back.
25. not the first time!!!!!
sameer ,   jerusalem   (11.08.09)
same thing happens many times in in every day round the world, it happened in hebron by israeli killed 38 prayers, and last week one israeli invaded the aqsa with his gun to kill prayers.
26. How ironic, a Palestinian
Susan ,   Kfar Saba   (11.08.09)
27. #1 Oakland, You Are WRONG!!!
David P. ,   Central Coast, USA   (11.08.09)
it's not just some sick individual, this is Terrorism inspired by religion, stop appeasing and invalidating the facts!
28. barking up the wrong tree
(11.08.09)
and of course the Americans still haven't stopped patting themselves on the back for arresting a Jew.
29. to #25 lol where do you come up with this
ghostq   (11.08.09)
nonsense, week ago there was no gunman who wanted to go inside the mosque just arab rioters who thought they heard something, you really believe the fairy tales they tells you. oh well you probably belive harry potter stories as well.
30. Political correctness and fear of appearing "Islamophobic"
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (11.08.09)
Let's get real. A "devout Muslim" like Hasan can't accept the legitimacy of secular, man-made rules and laws, and his overriding loyalty will always be to Allah and the Muslim "umma". Yet despite the warning signs, no one filed a formal complaint "out of fear of appearing discriminatory". Sadly, even the US Army has gotten "PC". That failure to deal with the problem out of political correctness just got 13 killed, dozens wounded. The fact that he was promoted to Major despite a record of "poor performance" also suggests a policy of affirmative action at work. I fear though that the US Army will learn the wrong lessons from this incident. They're more likely to go the "multi-culti" route, training soldiers to be even more "sensitive" to their Muslim colleagues. That'll just lead to a weaker army and get more people killed.
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