Posted by
Always To The Right on Sunday, November 08, 2009 3:21:56 AM
And so a personnel file already teeming with red flags gets another giant one.
If you’re wondering how a British newspaper managed to track down this
information when the U.S. military apparently couldn’t, you’re not
alone. There’s no question now that we need congressional hearings into
how the army missed the warning signs on Hasan, especially given the suspicions as to why they might have looked the other way. Chop chop, Messrs. Boehner and Cantor.
The Telegraph’s got a whole package on Hasan tonight, which I recommend. This piece
— which includes details of a mysterious man seen with him for the
first time just last week — is also worth reading, and provides the
first hard details I’ve come across about him handing out Korans to the
neighbors the night before the murders. Exit quotation from the hero of
Fort Hood, uttered as her very first words after regaining
consciousness: “Did anybody die?”
Update: Asra Nomani
interviewed the congregants at the mosque he attended while living in
Maryland. Quote: “He was a typical fundamentalist Muslim.”