"Violent Islamic Extremist," instead they refer that the army needs to identify "behavioral clues." WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!
Exerts from Security Management by Matthew Harwood
Former Secretary of the Army Togo West, Jr., and retired Admiral Vern Clark defended their decision to not identify the internal threat specifically as violent Islamist extremism in the report and in testimony. “We didn’t use the magic term…on purpose,” Clark said, noting jihadism is just one subset of the larger phenomenon of violent radicalization.
But Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME), vocal critics of the report, told West and Clark that they had missed an opportunity to recognize the specific threat “violent Islamist extremism” poses to the U.S. military. Both lawmakers referred to an incident in the mid-90s when three Neo-Nazi soldiers from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, murdered two African-Americans in a racially motivated attack. The incident and subsequent investigation, Collins said, led to specific guidelines addressing white supremacy in the U.S. military and terminating service members holding white supremacist views. Lieberman said the Pentagon should follow its earlier example and revise the guidelines banning white supremacy by adding violent Islamist extremism to its list as well.
While West, who was secretary of the Army during the Ft. Bragg investigation, conceded that specific guidelines identifying jihadist behaviors should be considered, he reiterated more broadly that “violent aggressive religious extremism is a threat to service members no matter its source.”
The problem, Levin observed, is that while the military must be intolerant of religious views that are radical and violent, where does it draw the line? Following that line of inquiry, Levin asked West whether multiple contacts with a radical cleric or saying the Constitution comes second are legitimate signals that radicalization is afoot. Hasan had reportedly done both.
West answered yes to both signals.
The difficulty moving forward, Clark said, will be educating service members to know when an individual has crossed “the red line” and creating an environment where service members feel they have an obligation to report such behavior.
Mr. Clark and Mr. West, when I served in the military 35 years ago we took care of the problem people our selves: We had a soldier go AWOL(absent without leave) at Ft. Lewis WA, went to Canada, when he got back in basic training, He told us "he did not believe in the war" and began refusing the training, acting strange, making "wild comments about America:"
That night when he got up in the middle of the night to go to the restroom, some how, he slipped on a bar of soap with a blanket over his head, and ended up in the hospital with bruises all over his body. He was removed from the barracks, taken to the hospital, treated for his injuries, put in the brig(Jail). Never seen again in that unit.
The men and women in uniform know how to identify who is going to "have their back" when the shooting starts.
They identify, isolate, and remove the cancer: then the brass get the message and remove the soldier for their own protection.
I saw the same thing happen in Vietnam, with soldiers who got strung out on heroin, the unit knew they could not depend on them in a fight, so they had a "blanket party." Once the cancer was removed the unit, with "Trust" restored, could function again. The unit inherently knows when someone has crossed "the red line."
I have Reprinted my November 21, 2009 assessment.
The First Terrorist Act since 9/11
November 21, 2009 by Michael MackOn Thursday November 5th, 2009 America experienced it’s largest terrorist attack since 9/11.
Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan killed 14 wounding 39. The reason I say there is 14 one woman was pregnant.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” — “God is great!” in Arabic — before opening fire. This is the same phrase the terrorist who flew the planes into the World Trade Center used on 9/11.
Email communication between. Major Hassan and the imam who — been known for encouraging. Muslims to Jihad,
imam Anwar al-Awlaki said Hasan first e-mailed him in December 2008. Eventually, al-Awlaki said, Hasan came to view him as a confidant.
Al-Awlaki also denounced Muslims who condemned the attack. “They say American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan should be killed,” the imam argued, “so how can they say the American soldier should not be killed at the moment they are going to Iraq and Afghanistan?”
In 2001, Anwar Aulaqi was an imam, or spiritual leader, at the Washington-area mosque. Aulaqi told the FBI in 2001 that, before he moved to Virginia in early 2001, he met with 9/11 hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi several times in San Diego. Al-Hazmi was at the time living with Khalid al-Mihdhar, another hijacker. Al-Hazmi and another hijacker, Hani Hanjour, attended the Dar al Hijrah mosque in Virginia in early April 2001. Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan attended the same mosque and had ties there.
“Hasan told Awlaki he couldn’t wait to join him in the discussions they would have over non-alcoholic wine in the afterlife,” ABC quoted the official as saying.
18 e-mails were exchanged between Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, who encouraged Muslims to kill U.S. troops in Iraq, from Dec. 2008 until June of this year.
Hasan — with an annual salary around $92,000 — also wrote, “My strength is my financial capabilities,” the source said. Investigators have found the Army major donated as much as $30,000 per year to Islamic “charities.” American authorities have found several such charities to be conduits to terrorist networks.
Several colleagues and acquaintances of Hasan now say they had concerns about him in the past. Americans think the main reason these people kept silent was political correctness:
This year, a person by the name Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, shot two members of the U.S. military at the Army-Navy Career Center in a shopping center in West Little Rock, Arkansas. One of them was killed. In cyberspace jihadi threats against U.S. military serving in the homeland and against American cities has been ongoing. Information collected by authorities, including from suspects and indicted individuals has shown a pattern by the jihadists (militants or propagandists) indicating their intentions to strike at military and security installations.
We are told again and again by “experts” and “talking heads” that Islam
is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to
live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is
entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel
better and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of terrorist rampaging across
the globe in the name of Islam.
It is the terrorist who systematically slaughter.
In the wake of the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. base, President Obama on Friday cautioned against jumping to conclusions on the motive of the suspect.
“We don’t know all the answers yet and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts,” Obama said in the Rose Garden of the White House.
Did we Jump to conclusions? I don’t think so, But Mr President you sure do! Here is a little reminder:
Here is what we know. On July 16th, Professor Gates, an African- American came home from China to find his door jammed. A neighbor sees Gates and another man trying to open the door, suspects a break-in, and calls police.
Police rush to the home and Professor Gates gets into a confrontation with the officers, accusing them of racial profiling. The professor ends up being arrested for disorderly conduct. And two nights ago President Obama said the police acted stupidly when the arrested the professor.
With the Fort Hood Incident we have Eye witnesses seeing the shooter open fire,
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” — “God is great!” in Arabic — before opening fire.
In a matter of minutes 14 people are dead 39 wounded, The shooter reported dead that day, we later learn he was just wounded.
Terrorist seem to fit this profile:
Middle Eastern decent
Their ages are between 17 and 39.
They practice the Islam faith and they are extremist.
One thing for sure all Muslims are not terrorist but all the Terrorists’ have been Muslims.
I don’t think anyone is jumping to conclusions the facts are what they are!
America Quit Hiding behind Political Correctness. Call it for what it is an Act of Terror!
The Life you save could be your own.
Michael Mack, An American
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