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« Reply #880 on: December 15, 2009, 09:29:09 PM »

The Fort Hood massacre & “Toronto 18” connection



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« Reply #881 on: December 15, 2009, 09:35:31 PM »

Not being able to stop a terrorist before he strikes, remove Muslims who are engaging in threatening behavior on a plane, take action against a terrorist plot for fear that the terrorists will be allowed to walk free

Murder by Lawfare - How Liberal Lawsuits are Taking American Lives
 By Daniel Greenfield  Tuesday, December 15, 2009


The thirteen US soldiers murdered at Fort Hood were killed by the bullets fired by Malik Nidal Hassan, but there were those who helped Nassan fire his bullets, who did everything but hold his gun and pull the trigger for him. The initial FBI review has found that the Justice Department guidelines for opening a criminal investigation were too high, in turn investigators have said that it now requires a very high standard of evidence in order to convict a terrorist plotter.

    Pursuing charges before all the evidence is in hand can backfire – suspects have sued authorities before, claiming they were falsely imprisoned victims of witch hunts… Five Muslim immigrants were convicted last year of conspiring to kill U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey, but they were acquitted of attempted murder after prosecutors acknowledged they were probably months away from acting.
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    In January 2006, agents watched as a young man suspected of links to terrorists walked out of an Atlanta Home Depot with materials that could be used to make a bomb.

    They knew Syed Haris Ahmed had researched bombmaking techniques online and shaved his head, as some jihadis have done before an attack.

    However, they decided to wait to arrest him and keep building a stronger case – and risk a potential terror attack.

Not being able to stop a terrorist before he strikes. Not being able to remove Muslims who are engaging in threatening behavior on a plane. Not able to take action against a terrorist plot for fear that the terrorists will be allowed to walk free. That is what the domestic version of the War on Terror looks like today.

Those are the wages of Lawfare, the legal campaign on behalf of terrorists waged by well known liberal legal  advocacy groups such as the ACLU, and the much wider base of liberal organizations and newspapers who lobbied on behalf of captured terrorists and republished every single one of their claims of torture… to the extent that the Al Queda manual made it a default for captured terrorists to cry abuse once on trial.

Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard and driver, who was captured together with Al Queda operatives, became a cause celebre for liberals and liberal groups from Amnesty International to People for the American Way to the American Jewish Committee to George Clooney who was interested in making a movie about him and starring as his lawyer. They turned Salim Hamdan into a martyr and breathlessly repeated every single one of his statements. And they won. They won with Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld. And they won again at trial. Hamdan was freed a few months after sentencing to return to Yemen.

The liberal establishment had fought its hardest for Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard… and they won. America lost. That wasn’t the only time they won. From day one every terrorist in Gitmo, every terrorist plotter seized on American soil plotting to murder Americans had the liberal establishment in their corner and fighting on their behalf. From trial lawyers queuing up to defend them to the editorial pages of every liberal newspaper in America clamoring that they had been victimized, that the charges against them were worthless and that America had besmirched itself by not bowing to the wishes of the aforementioned trial lawyers. And they won.

From Abu Ghraib to Gitmo, from Hamdan to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, they won. They successfully smeared US soldiers and interrogators and CIA agents as monsters, torturers and kidnappers. They successfully portrayed Al Queda terrorists as sensitive victims and martyrs of a latter day Gulag. The same press that wouldn’t report on any of Castro’s atrocities a few miles south of Guantanamo Bay if you put a gun to their heads, put on their novelist hats and transformed butchers into loving fathers, and dedicated fanatics into misunderstood patriots. And they won.

From the first when the United States decided to try captured terrorists before military tribunals, passed the Patriot Act and asked  public employees to send in tips if they suspected someone of terrorist activity, American liberals rose up with a storm of indignation as if Washington D.C. had been reborn as the capital of Nazi Germany. And they kept it up for eight years, fighting their hardest to see that America lost and the terrorists won. And they got their wish. Any policy taken to stop terrorism, instantly earned their contempt. Any surrender to terrorism, instantly earned their support.

And today they’re still at it again, suing civilian companies who transported captured terrorists and inciting Muslims to act out on flights and sue airlines if any action is taken against them. And their aggressive lawfare unsurprisingly comes at a high cost in American lives. The 13 dead at Fort Hood were murdered as much by the liberal lawfare of the ACLU and the New York Times, as by Nidal Malik Hassan, the Jihadist Major whose career of abusing soldiers and preaching terrorism, they helped spawn.

And the full and complete toll of those killed is only coming, as FBI agents are handcuffed when it comes to investigating Muslim terrorists, forced to hold back and then hold back some more before bringing the case to Federal court, knowing that liberal trial lawyers and Clinton and Carter appointed judges are just champing at the bit to put another terrorist back on the streets.

Sometimes the FBI can stop a terrorist in that golden moment when he has all he needs to carry out his attack and is ready to go—and just before he kills. And if they can’t, then blood splashes and bodies pile up, courtesy of the liberal lawfare being waged against America by terrorism’s Madison Avenue accomplices.

And once law enforcement has folded in the face of terror, targeting private companies ensures that the path of the next wave of terrorists will be clear. Suing airlines helped insure that airline companies would turn the other cheek no matter what Muslim passengers do, as the better choice than having to pay out on discrimination lawsuits accompanied by the negative publicity that comes with being charged with Islamophobia. From the airline’s perspective, if the Muslims turn out to actually be terrorists, their insurance and government bailouts will cover it, and no one will be hurt but the passengers. If they don’t turn out to be terrorists, then again no one will be traumatized but the passengers.

Again liberal lawfare wins and Americans lose, both their liberty and their lives, as the implacable logic of political correctness demands universal measures that deny freedom in general, without being selective enough to actually stop Islamic terrorists. And this fits the agenda of turning the War on Terror against ordinary Americans, while immunizing Muslims as much as possible, thereby turning ordinary Americans against the War on Terror, and handing the terrorists yet another victory.

By planting a stick in the wheels of American national defense at every turn, it becomes an increasingly impossible task to protect America against terrorism, whether by toughening the Rules of Engagement on the battlefield, leaving US troops naked in the field, or by insuring that fear of lawsuits and tough standards will turn the arrest of a terrorist into a race against time, no matter how much advance warning there may be.

If the liberal organizations responsible for this do not actually want terrorists to win, then they have done a perfect facsimile of every course of action that would have been taken anyway by those who actually want the terrorists to win. The distinction then is only one of motivation, between deliberate treason and ideological blindness so thick that its practical consequences are indistinguishable from treason.

When prominent terrorist lawyer Lynn Stewart passed along covert messages to Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, ringleader of the original World Trade Center bombers, from his terrorist followers in Egypt regarding their Egyptian campaign; did she cross a line? If she did, most of the usual suspect organizations who appealed for clemency on her behalf did not seem to think so. And in truth the only difference between what Lynn Stewart did and what her colleagues do day in and day out, is that she broke the letter of the law by helping a terrorist kingpin, while her colleagues help terrorists day in and day out without breaking the letter of the law.

The letter of the law is where liberal lawfare lives, the thick legal line that blindfolds law enforcement and binds the hands of those who would stop the terrorists… for the benefit of the terrorists themselves. The thirteen dead at Ft. Hood are only the latest casualties of liberal lawfare, and they will not be the last.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17967
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« Reply #882 on: December 15, 2009, 09:44:20 PM »

King, TCC calls for additional charge for Hasan

AUSTIN — In light of reports that Pvt. Francheska Velez was pregnant when she was shot and killed by Major Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood Military Base, State Representative Phil King (R-Weatherford) has joined with 30 of his conservative colleagues in the Texas Legislature in calling for the United States Army to charge Hasan for taking the life of an unborn child, in addition to the existing thirteen charges of premeditated murder.

“We were all shocked and appalled at the senseless tragedy that Major Hasan unleashed at Fort Hood,” said King, a member of the Texas Conservative Coalition. “For justice to be fully won, the death of an innocent, unborn child must be reflected in the legal charges against Major Hasan.”

The TCC letter cites the Uniform Code of Military Justice, as amended by the 2004 Unborn Victims of Violence Act. Furthermore, in 2003, the Texas Legislature enacted Senate Bill 319, which provides that a person who commits an offense that results in harm to, or the death of a fetus can be prosecuted in generally the same manner as an offense committed against an individual.

The TCC letter, which was signed by 31 members of the Texas Legislature, reads:

“We believe that the murder of Private Velez’s unborn child must be prosecuted ... Indeed, such action would underscore the fundamental point that unborn children must be afforded the same legal protections against offenses that can be committed against individuals, such as homicide.”

King said an additional charge against Hasan would support the value of an unborn life.

“It is imperative that our laws and system of justice value the life of Pvt. Velez’s innocent unborn child just the same as they value the lives of Major Hasan’s 13 other victims.” King said. “We hope the Army will answer our call to make the charges against Major Hasan fully reflect the extent of his horrific crime.”

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« Reply #883 on: December 15, 2009, 09:59:42 PM »


Nathan Hewitt

Fort Hood soldier back home in Indiana
Hewitt was injured in the Fort Hood shooting

Updated: Tuesday, 15 Dec 2009, 10:33 AM EST
Published : Monday, 14 Dec 2009, 11:22 PM EST

    * Tiffanie Dismore

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - A Lafayette soldier who was injured in the Fort Hood shooting last month is back home. 27-year-old Corporal Nathan Hewitt is on leave for the remainder of December.

"It feels a lot better than I thought it would. Get to relax for now. Visit with family and all that good stuff," Hewitt said.

Nathan Hewitt was in a Fort Hood medical facility getting vaccinations before deploying to Afghanistan. A man opened fire. Hewitt didn't have a weapon. He said his first reaction was to do what he has been trained to do.

"I took cover and tried to get whatever people would follow me out, out. Then, the first responders came. From there they carried me to the ambulance. They wouldn't let me walk or move again," explained Hewitt.

Because Hewitt was trying to get people to safety, he didn't realize he had been shot in the leg.

"I got it through and through on my calf and it grazed my thigh," Hewitt said. "The only one I felt was the back of my leg. It just felt like I got hit with something hard. I didn't know what was going on."

Hewitt is still doing physical therapy but said he is walking fine. He said the shock of the Fort Hood shooting has not worn off.

"You don't expect it to happen at home. You expect it to happen overseas, when you are actually wearing all your gear, when you are ready and you can fire back. Do something to him," Hewitt said.

Even in the wake of the tragedy, for Hewitt, duty still calls.

"You still have a job to do. Still going to be trying to go overseas. Make the best of it," Hewitt said.

Hewitt has served in the armed services for nine years and served one tour in Iraq. Because of the Fort Hood shooting, Hewitt said he wants to try and mentor fellow soldiers.
 
http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/fort-hood-solider-back-home-in-indiana

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« Reply #884 on: December 15, 2009, 10:12:31 PM »




Like what you see? Then c'mon, dig deep in those pockets and make a bid. Proceeds from the sale of these two custom-painted Victory Motorcycles will benefit the families and soldiers affected by the recent tragedy at Ft. Hood.
You know, ‘tis the season for giving, and despite their gruff exteriors, motorcyclists are often the biggest-hearted people around. Bikers don’t hesitate to support a cause they believe in, from toy runs for needy kids to fundraisers for cancer patients.


Victory Auction Aids Ft. Hood Victims
Monday, December 14, 2020
Victory Military Bike custom-painted Hammer SCustom Victory Kingpin 8-Ball


American motorcycle manufacturers frequently represent the same intrinsic values as its customers, especially when it comes time to honor those men and women of the Armed Forces who daily put their lives on the line to protect us. That’s why in light of the recent tragedy at Texas’ Fort Hood, Victory Motorcycles is doing the honorable thing by stepping up and donating the proceeds from the sale of two custom-painted motorcycles to benefit families and soldiers impacted by the recent tragedy.

The bikes were originally part of a traveling display for Victory’s “Full Throttle Salute” program which provides discounts to current and former members of the military. Victory’s Industrial Design Team built a custom Kingpin 8-Ball with traditional olive drab and time-honored military markings and a Victory Hammer S with a racy paint job and huge stars on its tank in honor of the modern military.

“We certainly appreciate the freedom to ride though this wonderful country, and that freedom comes with a price,” said Victory Vice-President, Mark Blackwell. “We at Victory Motorcycles and Polaris Industries are proud to support those who have made the greatest commitment to this country, and we thank them for their dedicated service. It was a unique experience to build these two American motorcycles that represent the freedom, quality and lifestyle of our country that our Armed Forces protect each day.”

Victory two-tone military bike
This custom-painted Victory military bike is a Hammer S model with aftermarket pipes and a blacked-out engine treatment.
Victory’s parent company, Polaris Industries, began supplying vehicles, parts and training to the U.S. Armed Forces in 2002. By 2005, it had developed Polaris Defense, a program that dedicates its resources to the needs of the military. For example, it makes a military-only Polaris MV 700 with a steel ‘exoskeleton,’ stronger suspension, run-flat tires, an auxiliary fuel tank, military racks, a back-up pull start, keyless ignition, and Blackout drive. Additionally, it is droppable from an air transporter. Talk about your suspension upgrades.

“We know that a pretty significant number of our Victory owners are current or former military personnel,” said Blackwell. “We receive letters and communications from many of them and so we were very proud to recently announce a program to offer our support and say ‘Thank You’ to the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces.”

Further details about Victory’s “Full Throttle Salute” program can be found at www.victorysalute.com.  Opening bids begin at $10,000, while the charity auction will end appropriately on Memorial Day. To see the motorcycles in person, Victory will have a booth at the upcoming New York IMS show on Jan. 22-24, where the bikes will be on display.

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/4/407/6/Motorcycle-Blog-Post/Victory-Auction-Aids-Ft--Hood-Victims.aspx
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« Reply #885 on: December 16, 2009, 12:31:59 PM »

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6773084.html

Attorney: Accused Fort Hood mass killer out of ICU
Associated Press
Dec. 16, 2009, 10:31AM

FORT WORTH — The Army psychiatrist charged in last month's deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood has been moved from ICU to a private room.

Attorney John Galligan said today that his client, Maj. Nidal Hasan, remains under guard at a San Antonio military hospital and is doing rehabilitation.

Galligan says doctors have said Hasan, whose wounds left him paralyzed, needs to be hospitalized a couple more months while he learns to care for himself.

But Galligan says he's filed a motion to have Hasan moved to a hospital closer to his office near Fort Hood, which is about 125 miles northeast of San Antonio.

An official from Brooke Army Medical Center did not immediately return a call Wednesday to The Associated Press.

Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.
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« Reply #886 on: December 16, 2009, 06:03:24 PM »


State Rep. Dan LeMahieu presents the Hometown Hero Award to Pfc. Amber Bahr's father Todd Kopping. Submitted photo

Pfc. Amber Bahr, Random Lake soldier hailed as a hero at the Fort Hood shootings, honored by the Wisconsin State Assembly


Sheboygan Press staff • December 16, 2009

Pfc. Amber Bahr, the Random Lake soldier wounded in the Fort Hood shooting last month, was honored Wednesday by the Wisconsin State Assembly.

The Hometown Hero award was presented by state Rep. Dan LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, to Bahr’s father, Todd Kopping. Bahr, a 19-year-old 2008 graduate of Random Lake High School, remains stationed at Fort Hood.

LeMahieu praised Bahr for “her selfless effort to, even while being injured, help somebody else, helping another soldier who was shot to safety.” He said he spoke to Bahr by telephone shortly before the late morning ceremony, and she planned to watch a video feed of the presentation.

Bahr, who was shot in the back, didn’t initially notice she’d been injured as she tied a tourniquet around a friend’s wound, only discovering her injury while at the hospital with a friend. Her actions drew praise from her commander, who called her an “amazing young lady,” a mention by President Barack Obama during his speech at the Fort Hood memorial service and a face-to-face meeting with the president.

LeMahieu said the Hometown Hero award is typically given to long-time public servants or in recognition of event organizers or volunteers, but he pursued it for Bahr to ensure she would get formal recognition for her actions.

“I think we need to honor the men and women that are protecting our freedoms, whether it be on our own soil or on foreign soils,” LeMahieu said.

Bahr said last week she is expecting to have surgery in the next few weeks to remove bullet fragments and should deploy to Afghanistan by March or April.

The Nov. 5 Fort Hood shooting claimed the lives of 13 people — including staff Sgt. Amy Krueger of Kiel — and wounded dozens more. LeMahieu said he expects the Legislature to also recognize Krueger and other Wisconsin soldiers killed in the attack, but no plans are yet in place.

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« Reply #887 on: December 16, 2009, 06:16:19 PM »

Traumatic stress response team helps Fort Hood victims

Posted 12/16/2009   Updated 12/15/2009

by Linda Frost
59th Medical Wing Public Affairs

12/16/2009 - LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) -- An Air Force medical team trained in helping people recover from traumatic events returned from Fort Hood, Texas, after responding to the Nov. 5 shootings, which left 13 people dead and dozens injured.

The Traumatic Stress Response team, led by Maj. Sheila Beville, a 59th Mental Health Squadron social worker from Wilford Hall Medical Center, deployed to Fort Hood, Nov. 8 through Dec. 2. The six-member team was called in to assist with counseling hundreds of Soldiers, first responders, hospital workers, civilians and family members who were directly affected by the impact of the shooting violence.

The Lackland TSR team helped conduct more than 2,100 traumatic stress response debriefings during the 25-day period. They were the only Air Force behavior health group assigned to assist with the counseling. The group worked side-by-side with Army combat stress teams, family life consultants and Army chaplains.

"People felt comfortable talking to us," Major Beville said. "They were willing to open up and share."

TSR debriefings allow individuals affected by a traumatic incident to express their feelings, such as fear, anger, guilt or blame, all normal reactions to a traumatic event.

"Our job is to help them normalize their emotions and understand what symptoms to expect from a traumatic experience. We provide screening, education, psychological first aid and referral for those who may need further help," Major Beville said.

When requested, the TSR team responds to major traumatic events involving loss of life, natural disasters or any incident resulting in traumatic emotional impact on individuals.

"This was an important mission for our team," she said. "It's very rewarding to know that we have helped others take a small step to move forward with their lives. I really think we made a difference. We heard from so many people how much they appreciated us being there."

The team has responded to four other real-world incidents since January ranging from suicides to unexpected deaths of co-workers.

Other team members include Maj. (Dr.) Jeffrey Lammers, a psychiatrist; Maj. Wendy Cole, a mental health nurse practitioner; Maj. (Dr.) Rena Nicholas, a psychologist; and Staff Sgt. David Brandon and Senior Airman Brian Machi, mental health technicians.

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« Reply #888 on: December 16, 2009, 06:26:25 PM »

Hearing Asks When Extremist Thoughts Evolve into Terrorist Action

By Matthew Harwood
12/15/2009 -

Lawmakers tried in vain today to get a clear answer to a controversial question with constitutional implications during a hearing on violent extremism: What pushes a person with extremist thoughts and beliefs to decide to engage in terrorism?

Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the chair of the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment, said getting the answer right was vital to protecting American democracy. "If we fail to find the right way to protect security and liberty, the next attack could lead to the shredding of our constitution," she said.

The hearing follows revelations last week that five Muslim-American men from Northern Virginia were arrested in Pakistan seeking terrorist training to fight jihad against U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Also last week, Chicago businessman David C. Headley was charged with helping to plot the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, which killed approximately 170 people in November 2008. He was already in custody for plotting to attack a Danish newspaper for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005, which many Muslims worldwide found profane.

These events came after the Fort Hood massacre in early November, when Maj. Nidal Hassan, who espoused jihadist beliefs, allegedly went on a shooting rampage at the Texas military base, killing 13.

According to a list compiled by The Washington Post, authorities have detected or disrupted seven notable U.S.-based jihadist terrorism plots since July. The plots have punctured the conventional wisdom among counterterrorism experts that American Muslims are not as susceptible to jihadist radicalization as European Muslims.

The point of the hearing, according to Harman, was "to gain understanding of how people who seem like anyone else—those who are capable of interacting socially with friends and colleagues and in many cases are athletes and scholars—could be recruited or self-recruited to train to be terrorists."

But the experts on the panel couldn't provide any concrete reason or definitive path that determines when a person with extremist thoughts will become a terrorist to promote those beliefs.

University of Illinois at Chicago psychiatry professor Dr. Stevan Weine said that there is no "particular profile of terrorists that clearly distinguishes them from the general population, other than their involvement in violent radicalization." Weine, who is studying violent radicalization in Minneapolis's diaspora Somali community, said researchers believe its more productive to concentrate on "the person in context" to determine whether an individual is susceptible to violent radicalization.

Since late 2007, an estimated 20 Somali young men from Minneapolis have traveled to Somalia to fight for al Shabaab, an Islamist militia with alleged ties to al Qaeda that is fighting the U.N.- and U.S.-backed transitional government for control of the failed state.

Kim Cragin, a terrorism and insurgency researcher at the RAND Corporation, explained to lawmakers that she is often asked what motivates terrorism: ideology, politics, or poverty?

Her answer: "Yes, all three, at least to varying degrees."

Michael W. Macleod-Ball, acting director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington Legislative Office, referenced a report from the United Kingdom that determined there "was no single identifiable pathway to extremism and 'a large number of those involved in terrorism do not practice their faith regularly.'"

He also warned lawmakers that their hearing was entering an area fraught with constitutional landmines.

"Congress must tread carefully when attempting to examine people's thoughts or classify their beliefs as inside or outside the mainstream to avoid infringing on fundamental rights that are essential to the functioning of a healthy democracy," Macleod-Ball said.

He added: "An extremist ideology, in and of itself, must not bring on government censure."

Macleod-Ball referenced the Red Scare of the late 1910s and early 1920s and the FBI's COINTELPRO program of the 1960s and 1970s as evidence that the United States has historically attacked unpopular beliefs under the guise of promoting security, but has succeeded only in violating constitutional rights.

Weine agreed that radical beliefs do not mean an individual will become a terrorist.

"Terrorist researchers argue that our central concern should be on preventing violent radicalization and not radicalization per se," he said. "It's not what people say or think, but whether they commit violent acts that counts."

Harman wasn't satisfied with Macleod-Ball's assertion that protecting the First Amendment promotes security.

"Of course we must protect these freedoms," she said, "but we also must prevent recruiters from cherry-picking kids from our communities and sending them to become jihadists overseas."

Cragin said one way federal, state, and local law enforcement can discover potentially violent radicals is through good relationships with the communities they serve. This occurred last week in the case of the five young men from Northern Virginia.

"I cannot imagine how difficult it was for these community leaders to call U.S. authorities and, regardless of the outcome, we owe them a great deal of respect and gratitude."
http://www.securitymanagement.com/news/hearing-asks-when-extremist-thoughts-evolve-terrorist-action-006548

This report was written from publicly availabe written testimony, here:
  http://homeland.house.gov/Hearings/index.asp?ID=229
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« Reply #889 on: December 16, 2009, 06:51:41 PM »


Justin Johnson, a former football standout
at Charlotte High School, was injured in
the Fort Hood shooting.


Wounded soldier is home for Christmas

By Zac Anderson

Published: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 6:48 p.m.

DEEP CREEK - Roxanne Johnson is planning a big Christmas with family this year and her son Justin will be right in the middle, a holiday blessing like no other after the 21-year-old soldier was wounded during the Fort Hood shooting in November.

Justin Johnson arrived home in Charlotte County over the weekend with a bullet still lodged in his chest.

Johnson said Monday that he is happy to be alive and hungry for his mom's cooking.

"It's good to be home," said the former Charlotte High School football standout. "Everybody has been really supportive."

Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan is accused of shooting Johnson three times, twice in the back and once in the foot. The shooting spree on the Army post left 13 people dead and 30 wounded.

Johnson said he can not speak about the incident because of Army regulations, but he remembers the shooting vividly.

Not since his football days has Johnson felt so sore. His back is still bandaged and he has a chest tube, but he is walking and breathing better.

Roxanne Johnson has been changing the dressings on her son's wounds and making his favorite foods: salmon and chicken.

"He's a little slower but that's to be expected," Johnson said. "Overall he's doing very good."

"It means a whole lot to me to have him home for Christmas," Johnson said. "We were so worried and panicky about the whole situation."

Justin Johnson will return to active duty in January.
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« Reply #890 on: December 16, 2009, 07:07:37 PM »


Paul Martin was waiting for his final checkup in a crowded
medical processing center at Fort Hood when he was shot
multiple times


Adel man shot at Fort Hood visits his hometown
Posted: Dec 14, 2009 5:29 PM CST Updated: Dec 14, 2009 5:29 PM CST
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By Jade Bulecza - bio | email

ADEL, GA (WALB) –A soldier from Adel who was seriously wounded in that mass shooting at Ft. Hood last month is back in his hometown now.

Staff Sergeant Paul Martin is visiting family and friends.

We've kept up with his progress and talked to him over the phone a couple of times. But today, WALB News 10's Jade Bulecza met an upbeat Sgt. Martin in person.

If you meet Staff Sergeant Paul Martin, you would never know he was shot four times at Fort Hood. His wife Velda recalls her first visit to the hospital after that terrible mass shooting.

 "When I got there he was laughing having fun like nothing was wrong," said Velda Martin.

Martin stopped by his bank on Monday and got warm wishes from the tellers. He says everyone in this town takes care of him including the hotel he stays at when he visits.

 "One day I came here to eat breakfast and they said we got your tab already," said Martin.

Martin leaves Adel Wednesday. During his week here, he's had a chance to visit with family, friends, and the community. People here consider Paul a hero and he's also known for his friendly personality.

When he leaves Adel, he and Velda will visit their three sons in South Carolina, New Jersey and Virgina. He's not sure exactly where he'll be Christmas Day. He's just thankful to be alive.

He showed us where he was shot.

"I got shot through this arm," said Martin. "The bullet went this arm right here. I got numbness in these three fingers."

He hasn't been able to give tight hugs to his family and friends because he's still very sore.

"I got shot in this arm," said Martin. "I got shot right here and I got shot in the middle part of my back right here."

That bullet was found on the other side of his back and had to be taken out which delayed his visit to over Thanksgiving.

While in the hospital, he had lots of visitors who gave him coins including President Obama, Former President Bush, the Secretary of Defense, and several army generals.


Cherie Cullen
Department of Defense Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates
meets with Army Staff Sgt. Paul Martin. He also has gotten to
know former President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama.


Martin says he loves the military and plans to stay in for two more years. After that, he'll retire.

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« Reply #891 on: December 16, 2009, 07:54:08 PM »

Fort Hood shooting suspect out of intensive care

December 16, 2009 5:56 p.m. EST

(CNN) -- The man accused of killing 13 people and wounding dozens more in a shooting at Fort Hood Army Post last month has been released from intensive care, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan has been moved to a different ward in Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, according to his attorney, John Galligan.

Galligan said the move happened late Tuesday night.

Hasan faces 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder stemming from the November 5 shooting.

Authorities say Hasan, a 39-year-old Army psychiatrist, began shooting at a processing center at the Army post. Civilian police officers rushed to the scene, and Hasan was shot and paralyzed from the waist down.

Galligan said he has been able to speak with his client briefly, and he wanted him moved to a different facility.

"I've filed a motion for Mr. Hasan be moved to a facility that's closer to Fort Hood and for him to receive rehabilitation there, but I'm yet to hear back about my request," he said.

San Antonio is about 125 miles from Fort Hood, and Galligan said the distance makes it difficult to work on the case.

"I just want closer access," he said. He said he expected Hasan to remain in the hospital for another three months and then undergo physical therapy.

Galligan also said he has requested additional defense attorneys under the uniform code of military council but said he also is waiting for a reply on that issue.

The shooting prompted military brass at Fort Hood to tighten security procedures and expand mental health services.

The FBI has conducted a preliminary review of the shooting, and the Pentagon is conducting its own investigation into whether any signs that could have warned of the rampage were missed.

Last week, the FBI announced that former FBI and CIA Director William Webster will lead an outside investigation of the bureau's "policies, practices and actions" before the shooting.
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« Reply #892 on: December 18, 2009, 11:29:20 AM »

Hood strengthens rules for gun registration

By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Dec 18, 2009 9:53:12 EST
   
The commanding general at Fort Hood, Texas, where 13 people were gunned down by an Army officer on Nov. 5, has issued a new policy governing possession of privately owned firearms on post.

The policy signed by Lt. Gen. Robert Cone went into effect Tuesday and was announced in a news release.

It requires all service members and their families living or temporarily staying on Fort Hood to preregister any privately owned firearm with the Directorate of Emergency Services.

Those same people will have to notify DES of any sale, purchase, trade, gift, exchange or any other action that changes the ownership or long-term possession of a private firearm kept on post.

Soldiers living in barracks or in post temporary housing must notify their immediate commander and keep the weapon in their respective arms rooms in accordance with Army Regulation 190-11, which is also Fort Hood’s policy.

The policy also states that commanders at individual installations may use their own discretion with regard to the transportation of privately owned firearms.

Until now, individuals entering Fort Hood with a privately owned firearm were not required to register or declare the weapon, nor were there any restrictions on how the weapon was transported onto the installation.

Individuals could come through the gate with a weapon and say they were going to a firing range or into a hunting area. Now, weapons being transported on or off post by all persons must be preregistered. Owners will be required to carry proof of registration and declare the weapon.

What is unclear is whether individuals who have valid state concealed carry permits can carry a privately owned weapon on their person for activities that fall outside firing range or hunting areas.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who had been assigned to Fort Hood in July and was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan, is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.

Hasan allegedly carried out his attack at the Soldier Processing Center with two handguns — a .357 caliber magnum and a semiautomatic 5.7 mm pistol.

The new Fort Hood policy is punitive in nature and applies to all III Corps and Fort Hood service members, major subordinate units, tenant activities and family members across Fort Hood.

To download a printable copy of the registration form, visit http://www.hood.army.mil/corps.policies.aspx.

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« Reply #893 on: December 21, 2009, 07:54:47 PM »

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Lawyer: Fort Hood suspect's rights violated

By GUILLERMO CONTRERAS
San Antonio Express-News
Dec. 21, 2009, 6:33PM

SAN ANTONIO — The lead defense lawyer for accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan said Monday that he believes the Army is violating Hasan's religious rights because it prohibited him from praying from the Koran in Arabic with a relative.

Attorney John P. Galligan said he learned that police guarding Hasan at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio cut short a phone conversation Hasan was having with one of his brothers on Friday because Hasan was not speaking in English.

“Police at the hospital refused to let him pray, in Arabic, from the Quran with his brother,” Galligan said. “I think it's illegal and a violation of his religious rights.”

Hasan practices Islam, a religion whose followers hold that Jumu'ah (Friday) prayers are one of its most strongly affirmed duties.

Hasan, who is charged with murdering 13 people and the attempted murder of 32 others at Fort Hood, is paralyzed from the chest down. He was shot by police responding to the Nov. 5 shootings. He is confined mostly to his hospital bed at Brooke.

His command, the Army's III Corps at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, has imposed pretrial restrictions on Hasan, including a requirement that he speak only in English with visitors or on the phone, unless an Army-approved translator is present.

Army officials did not respond to requests for comment about Galligan's contention.

Such a restriction would be unusual in the civilian criminal justice system, but not so in the military system, according to those familiar with it. In the civilian world, inmates have successfully challenged religious limitations imposed by jails and prisons. In the military system, Hasan's command may have considered that he is a threat based on his previous actions.

The day of the shootings, the Army has said, some witnesses claimed that an armed Hasan got on a table and yelled “God is Great” in Arabic before or as he opened fire on troops and others in the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood. Some have also said Hasan, a military psychiatrist for Army troops, did not want to deploy to Afghanistan with his unit because he did not want to kill other Muslims.

That backdrop, some argue, provides justification for the military to severely restrict his activities for security reasons.

“He's under military control,” said Jeffrey Addicott, a former Judge Advocate General's Corps officer for 20 years, who now heads the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio. “They can put reasonable restrictions on his movements and activities. The question is what is reasonable. In light of the fact that he is clearly influenced by radical jihad, in my opinion, it's entirely reasonable to limit his spoken activities to English.”

English is Hasan's primary language, and he learned Arabic later in life, according to news accounts. Addicott argued that, because Arabic is not his primary language, and there may not be Arabic-speaking guards available, then the military is justified in its restrictions.

Hasan's article 32 hearing, which is similar to a grand jury or probable cause hearing in the civilian system, is expected to take place sometime early next year. Some congressional leaders, in the meantime, have said they will postpone hearings looking into what intelligence government agencies knew about Hasan before the shootings.
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Accused shooter Hasan kept from reading Quran in Arabic

By Guillermo Contreras - Express-News



The lead lawyer for Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan said Monday that he believes the Army is violating Hasan's religious rights because it prohibited him from praying from the Quran in Arabic with a relative.

Attorney John P. Galligan said he learned that police guarding Hasan at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio cut short a phone conversation Hasan was having with one of his brothers on Friday because Hasan was not speaking in English.

“Police at the hospital refused to let him pray, in Arabic, from the Quran with his brother,” Galligan said. “I think it's illegal and a violation of his religious rights.”

Hasan practices Islam, a religion whose followers hold that Jumu'ah (Friday) prayers are one of its most strongly affirmed duties.

Hasan, who is charged with murdering 13 people and the attempted murder of 32 others at Fort Hood, is paralyzed from the chest down. He was shot by police who responded to the Nov. 5 shootings. He is confined mostly to his hospital bed at BAMC, which is on Fort Sam Houston.

His command, the Army's III Corps at Fort Hood in Killeen, has imposed pretrial restrictions on Hasan, including a requirement that he speak only in English with visitors or those he talks to on the phone, unless an Army-approved translator is present. Messages seeking comment were left Monday for III Corps officials. The calls and e-mails were not returned.

Such a restriction would be unusual in the civilian criminal justice system, but not so in the military system, according to those familiar with it. In the civilian world, inmates have successfully challenged religious limitations imposed by jails and prisons.

In the military system, Hasan's command may have considered that he is a threat based on his previous actions. The day of the shootings, the Army has said, some witnesses claimed that an armed Hasan got on a table and yelled “God is Great” in Arabic before or as he opened fire on troops and others in the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood. Some have also said Hasan, a military psychiatrist for Army troops, did not want to deploy to Afghanistan with his unit because he did not want to kill other Muslims.

That backdrop, some argue, provides justification for the military to severely restrict his activities for security reasons.

“He's under military control,” said Jeffrey Addicott, a former Judge Advocate General's Corps officer for 20 years, who now heads the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio. “They can put reasonable restrictions on his movements and activities. The question is what is reasonable. In light of the fact that he is clearly influenced by radical jihad, in my opinion, it's entirely reasonable to limit his spoken activities to English.”

English is Hasan's primary language, and he learned Arabic later in life, according to news accounts. Addicott argued that, because Arabic is not his primary language, and there may not be Arabic-speaking guards available, then the military is justified in its restrictions.

Hasan's article 32 hearing, which is similar to a grand jury or probable cause hearing in the civilian system, is expected to take place sometime early next year. Some congressional leaders, in the meantime, have said they will postpone hearings looking into what intelligence terrorism task forces knew about Hasan that might have prevented the tragedy, until after the Army's investigation is complete.
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« Reply #895 on: December 21, 2009, 08:51:31 PM »

FBI Agents Play Blame Game: Report

Who found which e-mails and when did they share them is at question
By R. STICKNEY
Updated 1:01 PM PST, Mon, Dec 21, 2009

The alleged Fort Hood shooter traded e-mails with a radical Muslim leader for months before the Nov. 5 shooting on the army base. Thirteen people died in the shooting, a San Diego U.S. Army Reservist.

Now, according to published reports, an investigation will look into when those emails were uncovered and who was responsible for alerting the military.

Muslim leader, Anwar al-Aulaqi praised the actions of Nidal Malik Hasan immediately after the deadly shootings at Fort Hood.

Al-Aulaqi now lives in Yemen. But earned his master's degree at San Diego State and served as an imam at this La Mesa Islamic Center, where two hijackers involved in the September 11th attacks used to pray.

Early this year, Hasan sent an email to Al-Aulaqi. Law enforcement officials said the email was general, asking about the role of Muslim soldiers and was not considered threatening.

The army was notified, but no action was taken against Hasan.

However, this weekend the Washington post reported more e-mails were uncovered but not turned over to military officials.

The e-mails were obtained by an FBI-led task force in San Diego between late last year and June the Washington Post reported citing government and congressional sources.

What has unfolded is a blame game within the FBI pitting the San Diego office against Washington D.C., reports Kelly Thornton with our media partner voiceofsandiego.org.

FBI agents based in San Diego intercepted close to 20 emails between Hasan and al-Aulaqi, but voiceofsandiego.org reports those emails were shared with counterparts in Washington, D.C.

"Everything was fully communicated to the Washington field office, they had computer access to everything San Diego had," a law enforcement source told the online news site. "It was received and [Washington] said they didn't think it was an issue."

Thirteen people died in the Fort Hood shooting rampage including San Diegan Capt. John Gaffaney who was at the base preparing for his deployment with the U.S. Army Reserves.

Read more in the full article on voiceofsandiego.org.

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San Diego FBI Caught in Fort Hood Fallout


Posted: Sunday, December 20, 2009 2:30 pm | Updated: 3:58 pm, Sun Dec 20, 2009.

By KELLY THORNTON

Agents from San Diego's Joint Terrorism Task Force "pestered" counterparts in Washington, D.C., to investigate the Army psychiatrist who would later become the alleged Fort Hood shooter because of his communication with a former San Diego imam who counseled Sept. 11 hijackers, federal law enforcement sources said.

To the consternation of the San Diego agents, who had intercepted about 18 to 20 e-mails between Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi, the Washington Joint Terrorism Task Force determined the communications did not pose a threat and failed to act or pass information along to the military, said two sources familiar with the situation.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is secret and the e-mails are classified. The sources are not part of either task force.

What has unfolded is a blame game within the FBI pitting the San Diego office against Washington.

As an independent review of the FBI's actions gets underway, San Diego agents are preparing to defend their handling of the communications between al-Aulaqi and Hasan, who is accused in the fatal shootings of 13 people and the wounding of dozens more on the Texas Army base Nov. 5.

"Why are they talking about something that's classified and pointing the finger this way?" one of the sources said, referring to the Washington field office. The source added: "They're pointing the finger this way, otherwise it's mud on their face."

In the months leading up to the Fort Hood massacre on Nov. 5, Hasan and al-Aulaqi exchanged e-mails in which they discussed religious and financial matters, including transferring money overseas surreptitiously, according to the Washington Post.

A blog entry posted on al-Aulaqi's website after the attack at Fort Hood called Hasan a "hero" and a "man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people." The website has since been removed.

FBI Director Robert Mueller said last week he tapped Judge William Webster, a former FBI director, to conduct the investigation in part to make recommendations for change if Justice Department rules blocked the sharing of information, both within the FBI and with the military.

One federal source described the probe this way: "Webster is going to investigate the Fort Hood guy and al-Aulaqi and whether the FBI screwed up. They're saying San Diego failed to communicate the e-mails -- but San Diego pestered the shit out of them, sending e-mails multiple times. The Washington field office didn't do anything on it."

The Washington Post, quoting anonymous counterterrorism sources, said San Diego agents sent most of Hasan's e-mails to counterparts in Washington initially, but later did not pass along at least two troubling e-mails after determining the chatter was "in keeping with Hasan's research interests."

Not so, said federal sources in San Diego.

"Everything was fully communicated to the Washington field office, they had computer access to everything San Diego had," a law enforcement source said. "It was received and [Washington] said they didn't think it was an issue."

Darrell Foxworth, the local FBI spokesman, declined to comment.

A news release from the FBI's national press office, explaining its actions in vague terms, acknowledged the e-mails but didn't specify which terrorism task force determined they were innocent, nor did it identify al-Aulaqi.

"Because the content of the communications was explainable by his research and nothing else derogatory was found, the JTTF concluded that Major Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities or terrorist planning," the release said, later adding: "Further dissemination of the information regarding Major Hasan was neither sought nor authorized."

The San Diego agents were concerned enough to pass along the information because they were all too familiar with al-Aulaqi, former leader of the Masjid Ar-Ribat al-Islami mosque on Saranac Street on the border of San Diego and La Mesa, where Sept. 11 hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid al-Midhar attended in 2000.

The agents have been monitoring al-Aulaqi since he came to their attention after the terrorist attacks. In the Fort Hood matter, the agents had tracked the communication between Hasan and al-Aulaqi from December 2008 to the middle of this year, federal sources said.

San Diego counterterrorism agents believe al-Aulaqi, who has since returned to Yemen and is believed to be an al-Qaeda recruiter, had advanced knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks and has since inspired others to commit terrorist attacks around the world.

While in San Diego, al-Aulaqi routinely met with Alhazmi and al-Midhar behind closed doors at the Saranac Street mosque after Friday prayers, said Ray Fournier, then a San Diego-based agent with the State Department who investigated al-Aulaqi.

After departing San Diego in early 2001, al-Aulaqi became spiritual leader of a mosque in Falls Church, Va., which was also attended by Alhazmi, al-Midhar and a third hijacker, Hani Hanjour, a pilot. The trio was aboard the jet that crashed into the Pentagon.

Al-Aulaqi, whose name has also been spelled "al-Awlaki," left the United States in early 2002, as law enforcement attention focused on him, but before the San Diego Joint Terrorism Task Force could build a solid terrorism case against him.

The San Diego counterterrorism agents, stinging from what they call undeserved criticism over their handling of the Hasan-Aulaqi e-mails, noted they are the same investigators who feverishly worked to build any case -- terrorism or not -- against al-Aulaqi in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, only to have it rejected in 2002 by federal prosecutors in Denver.

Charges were filed and an arrest warrant was issued for al-Aulaqi on June 17, 2002, by a magistrate judge in Denver, for felony passport fraud. But three months later prosecutors decided they didn't have enough evidence to support a conviction and went to the judge and had the warrant rescinded.

Al-Aulaqi had already left the United States when the warrant was issued, but he briefly returned a few days after the warrant had been canceled and could have been apprehended, said Fournier, who put together the case against al-Aulaqi at the request of San Diego Joint Terrorism Task Force agents.

Fournier said he was profoundly disappointed when the case was dropped and even flew to Denver to speak to the prosecutor, to no avail.

He said the passport case was critical because agents needed to buy time to build a terrorism case against him. "A lot of people are still upset about it," Fournier said. "You don't give up an opportunity to arrest the spiritual leader of three of the 9/11 hijackers based on a misperceived viewing of probable cause that's already been determined by a judge. It's just insanity."

"In my view we had an obligation to the families (of 9/11 victims). We're not bending any rules, just looking at it with a different set of lenses than if it had been Joe Schmoe committing fraud. He was a very unique individual and it was very unique times."

Al-Aulaqi, a U.S. citizen, was born in Las Cruces, N.M. on April 21, 1971. His parents were attending New Mexico State University as foreign students from Yemen, studying agriculture. But soon after his birth, the family returned to Sanaa, Yemen, where he was raised.

According to court documents and Fournier, al-Aulaqi obtained a student visa in Yemen and returned to the U.S. on June 5, 1990, as a college student studying engineering at Colorado State University at Fort Collins, where he posed as a foreign student to get a $20,000 scholarship.

The day after arriving in the U.S. for school, al-Aulaqi applied for a Social Security number by claiming to be born in Yemen. He couldn't be prosecuted for fraud because the statute of limitations has expired. But in 1993, he used that illegally obtained social security number on a U.S. passport application, according to the arrest warrant.

Prosecutors balked when they learned that around 1996, al-Aulaqi had corrected his place of birth on the Social Security application, making the number valid.

U.S. Attorney David Gaouette of Denver, who was assigned to the case and decided to drop it, told ABC News he could not continue with a case just "because someone has a bad reputation."

For San Diego agents, their unheeded warnings about Hasan and al-Aulaqi before the shootings conjured memories of the way FBI headquarters failed to take action on information from the Minneapolis FBI field office about suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui before the Sept. 11 attacks.

One of the federal sources noted, "This is not unprecedented in the bureau for there to be a failure of leadership in the D.C. area when the field points out a problem."

Please contact Kelly Thornton directly at kellythornton7407@yahoo.com.

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« Reply #896 on: December 21, 2009, 08:57:07 PM »


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Bridgewater soldier wounded at Fort Hood receives 'quilt of valor'

By Somerset Reporter
December 21, 2009, 10:25AM

pix-1229 alan carroll.jpgCourtesy Hunterdon County Quilting GuildAlan Carroll with a quilt of valor sewn by the Hunterdon County Quilting GuildBRIDGEWATER — Pvt. Alan Carroll of Bridgewater was presented a quilt of valor by Daryle Earl and MaryLou Kaminski from The Hunterdon County Quilting Guild, at the home of his mother, Tersa Scholte, on December 18.

Carroll was among those injured during the massacre at Ft Hood, Texas, last month. After a short visit over the holidays, Carroll will be returned to his unit on December 29 and deployed to Afghanistan in January.

Carroll is a 2007 graduate of Bridgewater-Raritan High School. He served on the North Branch Volunteer Fire Company since the age of 15 before joining the Army in 2008.

His duties when he rejoins his unit will be as a Combat Engineer, or clearing the roadways of potential threats.

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« Reply #898 on: December 21, 2009, 10:01:25 PM »

Military Denies Fort Hood Suspect Additional Lawyers for Defense

By Ben Casselman

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 12 soldiers and a civilian at Fort Hood last month, won't get the two additional military lawyers his defense team has requested.

John P. Galligan, the retired Army colonel who is representing Maj. Hasan, asked the Army earlier this month to add the veteran legal officers to the defense team. In addition to Mr. Galligan, Maj. Hasan has a military-appointed defense counsel, Maj. Christopher Martin.

But Mr. Galligan said Friday night that the Army had denied his request, although he may be able to ask for different officers to join the defense.

Officials at Fort Hood couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

Maj. Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted murder in the Nov. 5 shootings. Maj. Hasan has not entered a plea in the case. He was paralyzed in the shootout and, although no longer in intensive care, remains in a military hospital in San Antonio, Texas

Military sources have said prosecutors will seek the death penalty.

The Army has several lawyers working for the prosecution, including Col. Michael E. Mulligan, a high-ranking prosecutor with experience in death-penalty cases

Mr. Galligan said he was concerned that the Army was making it difficult for Maj. Hasan to mount a proper defense.

"I think people are going to begin to see the patent unfairness with which this case is being handled," he said.

The Army is seeking to convene a panel soon to determine whether Maj. Hasan is sane enough to stand trial; Mr. Galligan is seeking to delay the examination.

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« Reply #899 on: December 22, 2009, 05:41:50 PM »


Five Americans were arrested this month in Pakistan amid suspicions that they were plotting terror attacks.



Police: American seeks death penalty charge in Pakistan

(CNN) -- One of five Americans arrested in Pakistan amid suspicions that they were plotting terror attacks has asked for a charge that would lead to a death sentence, a police chief said Tuesday.

The men were taken into custody December 9 in the small Pakistani city of Sargodha but transferred later to a more secure location in Lahore, police said.

The five are identified as Ahmed Abdullah Minni, Umar Farooq, Aman Hassan Yemer, Waqar Hussain Khan and Ramy Zamzam. A sixth man -- the father of one of the five -- also was arrested, police said.

Sargodha Police Chief Usman Anwar said Zamzam asked authorities to "charge us with something that would lead to the death sentence."

However, at the same time, he requested to be given asylum in Pakistan, Anwar said.

" 'You can put us behind bars for as long as you want, as long as you keep all of us together,' " Anwar quoted Farooq as saying.

The five were taken into custody at a home belonging to Farooq's relative, where they were staying.

"[The five] are quite composed and don't appear to have any regrets whatsoever," Anwar said.

The order keeping the five in custody will expire by Friday. To keep them in jail, police must get permission from a judge. The court will want a report from police before reaching a decision, Anwar said.

Anwar, who heads the Joint Investigation Team, said the group plans to recommend that the five be charged under Pakistan's anti-terrorism act. Conviction under that law can result in up to a life sentence.

Pakistani authorities have described the men in a report as college students who "were of the opinion that a jihad must be waged against the infidels for the atrocities committed by them against Muslims around the world."

CNN's Arwa Damon and journalist Umar Aziz Khan contributed to this report.
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