Too bad troop safety wasn’t as important as diversity…

General George Casey Jr., the Army chief of staff, said on Sunday that he was concerned that speculation about the religious beliefs of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, accused of killing 12 fellow soldiers and one civilian and wounding dozens of others in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, could “cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers.”

“I’ve asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that,” General Casey said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union. “It would be a shame — as great a tragedy as this was — it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well.” – NYT

This is looking worse all the time…

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.

It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said that he requested the CIA and other intelligence agencies brief the committee on what was known, if anything, about Hasan by the U.S. intelligence community, only to be refused. – ABC

This asshole needs a little backlash…

Imam Anwar, the spirtual leader of Nidal Hasan sez:

Nidal Hassan is a hero. He is 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. This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside and just pretend that it doesn’t exist. Any decent Muslim cannot live, understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims, and yet serve as a US soldier. The US is leading the war against terrorism which in reality is a war against Islam. Its army is directly invading two Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges. – GWP

Today should be a celebration holiday in every western nation that helped fight the scourge of communism.

Celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall are under way.

They began with a service at the Gethsemane Church in the east of the city, a centre of protest in the months leading to the opening of the Wall.

Later, (some) world leaders  will symbolically walk across the first East German border crossing to open in 1989.

The fall of the Wall led to the collapse of Communist power, German reunification and the Cold War’s end. – BBC

It will be nice to see Chris Matthews dance around this…

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother’s funeral was held there in May that year.

The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations. – Telegraph

Via Hot Air

Related shameful coverage:
- CNN’s Nguyen Asks: ‘Was It Taunting, Was It Teasing, Was It Harassment?’

- Media ‘Cringe’ That Mass Killer a Muslim Since It ‘Inflames’ Right Wing, ‘That Makes It Much Worse’

- MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan: ‘Who Cares’ What the Religion of the Muslim Shooter Is?

Political Correctness Kills.

You sure won’t hear this anywhere else in the MSM…

One of the most important historical events of the last 50 years, the collapse of communism, and The One can’t be bothered. Rank amateur…

The Cold War was the defining struggle of the second half of the 20th century — a clash of beliefs about God, man, government, and economics so utterly basic, so primal, that it stands in comparison with the Persian Wars or the long conflict between Rome and Carthage. “My view of the Cold War is simple,” Ronald Reagan once famously explained. “We win, and they lose.” And with the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago on Monday, that is just how it turned out. Liberty vanquished tyranny.

Barack Obama? He has no idea. No idea at all. – NRO

Political correctness is a deadly disease…

A Muslim fanatic with an Internet site praising Islamic suicide bombers as defenders of their comrades is a Major in the U.S. Army with access to military intelligence and lethal weaponry. And it’s not as though the army didn’t know that he was a Muslim fanatic and supporter of the Islamic jihad against the West. He was under investigation for six months because of his anti-American, jihadist rantings. He did not want to be deployed. He wanted to be discharged.

But despite his identification with America’s enemies, the army kept him in its officer corps. How in God’s name was this possible? But it was. And so, after calling America the “aggressor” in Afghanistan and Iraq this Muslim jihadist traitor army officer picks up his semi-automatic weapons and heads for the center at Ft. Hood where soldiers are being deployed to fight the jihadists in Afghanistan to conduct his massacre. Yet this morning the Fox News Channel chiron says “Investigators search for a motive in the Ft. Hood killings.” Is everybody out of their mind? – NewsReal

Related – Dancing Around the Truth of the Fort Hood Rampage

Deport. Them. All.

The Tamil Tigers organization hopes to use Canada as a strategic base to continue the fight against the government of Sri Lanka, according to an authority on the alleged terrorist group.

“I cannot think of any other country that is more important for the Tamil Tigers as Canada, to regroup and continue their campaign against Sri Lanka,” said Prof. Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, a Singapore-based think-tank. – CBC

Looks like the Goracle is cashing in big time…

Al Gore, the former US vice president, could become the world’s first carbon billionaire after investing heavily in green energy companies. – Telegraph