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Lieberman and Scott Brown Move to Strip U.S. Citizenship For Terrorists
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyIn the wake of the bombing attempt in New York City's Times Square, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Scott Brown (R-Mass.) introduced a bill in the Senate Thursday to revoke the U.S. citizenship of suspected terrorists if the State Department finds they are affiliated with a foreign terrorist organization. The lead suspect in the Times Square case, Faisal Shahzad, is a U.S. citizen. The State Department already has the authority to revoke citizenship of anyone who takes up arms against the United States as a part of a foreign army, but Lieberman said Thursday that terrorists are "stateless ...
Fort Hood Troops Ordered to Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 12) -- The Pentagon has ordered 3,100 troops, mostly based in Fort Hood, Texas, to deploy to Afghanistan as part of President Barack Obama's plan to beef up U.S. forces there. Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said Tuesday the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division should arrive in summer. The 2,600 soldiers assigned to the brigade will be accompanied by about 500 support troops. Joe Raedelle, Getty Images Troops from Fort Hood, Texas, where an attack from fellow soldier Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people, learned that they will be heading to ...
Primary Sources: Maj. Nidal Hasan
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL NewsAs investigators dig for clues about what led to the Fort Hood massacre, bits and pieces of the suspect's life are available online for all to see. Taken together, they present a strange and chilling portrait of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. AP Maj. Nidal Hasan's business card. (Nov. 20) -- The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 colleagues had business cards with "SoA(SWT)" printed below his name. SoA stands for "Soldier of Allah" and is an acronym commonly used among jihadists, according to terrorism experts. SWT is shorthand for "Subhanahu Wa Ta'all," an Islamic Arabic phrase ...
6 Red Flags in Fort Hood Case
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Hindsight is always 20/20, especially as investigators and reporters try to connect the dots following a tragedy as stunning as the Fort Hood massacre. In the week since the attack that left 13 dead, these possible warning signs about Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged with killing his fellow soldiers, have come to light. 1. Colleagues and patients complained about his religious proselytizing Hasan, who was about to be sent to Afghanistan, frequently claimed that the U.S. was waging war on Islam and argued that Muslims should not be sent to kill fellow Muslims. "He ...
Fort Hood Killings Revive Controversial Book
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Nov. 11) - A book that claims to expose a rising Muslim threat in the United States is gaining unexpected popularity amid the fallout from the Fort Hood massacre. "The Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America," by P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry, has shot up in Amazon's ranking since the shooting spree allegedly carried out by a Muslim Army officer, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. The shootings at Fort Hood, which left 13 dead and 42 wounded, has led to a heated debate about whether Hasan's deadly rampage was related to his contacts with Islamic extremists, a ...
Opinion: Conflating Fort Hood and Terror Fight
By Ozzie Nelson - AOL News(Nov. 11) - There is an understandable urge to label the Fort Hood shooting suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an "Islamist terrorist." But such pronouncements, rather than aiding America's struggle against al-Qaida and other terrorist groups, would weaken it. Next week, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing to examine the Fort Hood shootings. This sort of investigation could prove valuable if it reveals how someone could kill 13 people in a heavily guarded Army base. But committee members should avoid using the hearing, as Sen. Joe Lieberman ...
How Right-Wing Talkers Crassly Exploited Ft. Hood Tragedy
By David Corn - Politics DailyOn Tuesday morning I accidentally had the chance to listen to Chris Plante, a Rush-wannabe radio talk-show host who appears on a D.C. station. He was going on and on about how the Fort Hood shootings have driven the nation apart. An agitated Plante noted that 9/11 had brought the country together, but that in the wake of the horrific Fort Hood attack there's been no unity. Why? Because, as his Web site noted, Democrats and liberals have been "trying desperately to convince America" that Nidal Hasan, the presumed shooter, was "just a crazy guy who spent too much time around deployed soldiers ...
How Right-wing Talkers Crassly Exploit the Fort Hood Tragedy
By David Corn - Politics DailyOn Tuesday morning I accidentally had the chance to listen to Chris Plante, a Rush-wannabe radio talk-show host who appears on a local DC station. He was going on and on about how the Fort Hood shootings have driven the nation apart. An agitated Plante noted that 9/11 had brought the country together (that is, until George W. Bush exploited the attack to invade Iraq on false pretenses) but that in the wake of the horrific Fort Hood attack there's been no unity. Why? Because, as his website noted, Democrats and liberals have been "trying desperately to convince America" that Nidal Hasan, the ...
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