Okay, go with me into the Twilight Zone. If you don't want to, don't read this post.
Let me preface what I've written below by saying that it is very possible that Major Hasan, the killer of soldiers at Ft. Hood, simply went homicidal as a result of a mixture of increasing Islamic devotion, trauma from listening to returning soldiers and their horrible tales from Iraq and Afghanistan, and increasing opposition to the American military intervention in the Middle East.
It is also possible that he became an Al-Qaeda sympathizer and, finally, operative. Which would indeed explain why he basically was willing to commit this ghastly homicide/suicide.
But the following scenario is also possible, it seems to me.
This mass shooting incident at Ft. Hood is very, very strange, if you ask me. To have an Army psychiatrist, of all people, turn into a robotic gunmen shooting his army comrades and fellow soldiers is so weird, it almost defies belief.
As someone who has been trained to help people through medicine and psychotherapy, your inclination is to help and not to hurt. If he wanted to make a statement against our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there are plenty of effective, moral ways to do that, like Matthew Hoh has done recently. Resign your commission, go to prison because you refuse to go to Iraq, speak to reporters of your new convictions that the war is wrong, etc.
It's almost too obvious that Major Hasan was of Palestininan descent and Islamic, though born and raised in the USA. In reality, he's no more 'Palestinian' than I am 'Swedish,' (I've visited Sweden, just like he visited Palestine to see family.) He may have become more devout recently in terms of his Muslim faith, but really, that does not make you into a mass killer of your fellow soldiers, despite what some would have you believe about devout Muslims.
Here's another interesting fact about Hasan, from Wikipedia, that you probably won't hear mentioned on television: he spent 8 years following high school in the army as an enlisted soldier. Then he went to college and medical school, all on the military's dime. That's 8 years I'd like to know more about. 8 years of being enculturated into the military culture, from age 18-26, when your convictions and beliefs are setting in and hardening. 8 years. What happened in those years? Where did he serve? What did he do? Did he become involved with army intelligence?
If you wanted to portray him as a crazed Islamist, you couldn't have anything more incriminating than the video running on TV of Major Hasan at the convenience store getting coffee in his Muslim clothing. To the average American, this means one thing. He's a radical Islamist, just like the 9-11 terrorists. It's almost too simple.
A question has popped into my mind this morning. It's probably crazy, but I must lay it out there: Could this guy somehow be an intelligence mole, set to go off when there is a need to inflame the American people against radical Islam, to ensure support for our interventionist foreign policy and to bring under suspicion all soldiers and officers of Islamic descent? If our intelligence agencies were to try and arrange something, Major Nidal Malik Hasan sounds like a wonderful candidate.
Having been reading recently about the CIA, the Kennedy Assassination, Oswald, etc, this has so many similarities to what has come out in recent years about the deep cover operations of the clandestine work of our intelligence services. Believe it or not. (If you're interested in reading more on that, check out Tim Weiner's book on the CIA entitled Legacy of Ashes, or James Douglass' book on the Kennedy Assassination, entitled JFK and the UNSPEAKABLE, both readily available.) But I can assure of one thing: you won't hear about this possibility on the MSM (mainstream media). Hence most people will think it sounds very crazy and completely far-fetched.
Here's the kicker: "U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman has called for a probe into the Fort Hood shooting, saying 'it's premature to reach conclusions about what motivated Hasan. ... I think it's very important to let the Army and the FBI go forward with this investigation before we reach any conclusions.' Later in the same interview he stated 'And there's concern from what we know now about Hasan that, in fact, that's exactly what he was, a self-radicalized home-grown terrorist.'" (Fox News)
Ah yes, "self-radicalized home-grown terrorist." Just what the neo-conservatives like Lieberman and their intelligence friends want us to worry about it, is it not? A new reason to grow more paranoid here at home, to clamp down with more surveillance on everyone by our intelligence agencies, to isolate our Islamic citizens, to inflame the instinctual patriotic response of all Americans toward our military, to make it harder to dissent from our military adventures abroad in the Middle East.
This has all the earmarkings of a covert action. I could be way off, or I could be right. It will be interesting to see if there are other speculations about this online. I know for sure I'll never hear anything like this mentioned on CNN.
And unfortunately, you can't know for sure if it's true. To paraphrase what's often said about Las Vegas, 'What happens in the CIA, stays in the CIA,' at least for a long time.
I know, I know, I've the CIA on the brain. I plead guilty.
Let me preface what I've written below by saying that it is very possible that Major Hasan, the killer of soldiers at Ft. Hood, simply went homicidal as a result of a mixture of increasing Islamic devotion, trauma from listening to returning soldiers and their horrible tales from Iraq and Afghanistan, and increasing opposition to the American military intervention in the Middle East.
It is also possible that he became an Al-Qaeda sympathizer and, finally, operative. Which would indeed explain why he basically was willing to commit this ghastly homicide/suicide.
But the following scenario is also possible, it seems to me.
This mass shooting incident at Ft. Hood is very, very strange, if you ask me. To have an Army psychiatrist, of all people, turn into a robotic gunmen shooting his army comrades and fellow soldiers is so weird, it almost defies belief.
As someone who has been trained to help people through medicine and psychotherapy, your inclination is to help and not to hurt. If he wanted to make a statement against our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there are plenty of effective, moral ways to do that, like Matthew Hoh has done recently. Resign your commission, go to prison because you refuse to go to Iraq, speak to reporters of your new convictions that the war is wrong, etc.
It's almost too obvious that Major Hasan was of Palestininan descent and Islamic, though born and raised in the USA. In reality, he's no more 'Palestinian' than I am 'Swedish,' (I've visited Sweden, just like he visited Palestine to see family.) He may have become more devout recently in terms of his Muslim faith, but really, that does not make you into a mass killer of your fellow soldiers, despite what some would have you believe about devout Muslims.
Here's another interesting fact about Hasan, from Wikipedia, that you probably won't hear mentioned on television: he spent 8 years following high school in the army as an enlisted soldier. Then he went to college and medical school, all on the military's dime. That's 8 years I'd like to know more about. 8 years of being enculturated into the military culture, from age 18-26, when your convictions and beliefs are setting in and hardening. 8 years. What happened in those years? Where did he serve? What did he do? Did he become involved with army intelligence?
If you wanted to portray him as a crazed Islamist, you couldn't have anything more incriminating than the video running on TV of Major Hasan at the convenience store getting coffee in his Muslim clothing. To the average American, this means one thing. He's a radical Islamist, just like the 9-11 terrorists. It's almost too simple.
A question has popped into my mind this morning. It's probably crazy, but I must lay it out there: Could this guy somehow be an intelligence mole, set to go off when there is a need to inflame the American people against radical Islam, to ensure support for our interventionist foreign policy and to bring under suspicion all soldiers and officers of Islamic descent? If our intelligence agencies were to try and arrange something, Major Nidal Malik Hasan sounds like a wonderful candidate.
Having been reading recently about the CIA, the Kennedy Assassination, Oswald, etc, this has so many similarities to what has come out in recent years about the deep cover operations of the clandestine work of our intelligence services. Believe it or not. (If you're interested in reading more on that, check out Tim Weiner's book on the CIA entitled Legacy of Ashes, or James Douglass' book on the Kennedy Assassination, entitled JFK and the UNSPEAKABLE, both readily available.) But I can assure of one thing: you won't hear about this possibility on the MSM (mainstream media). Hence most people will think it sounds very crazy and completely far-fetched.
Here's the kicker: "U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman has called for a probe into the Fort Hood shooting, saying 'it's premature to reach conclusions about what motivated Hasan. ... I think it's very important to let the Army and the FBI go forward with this investigation before we reach any conclusions.' Later in the same interview he stated 'And there's concern from what we know now about Hasan that, in fact, that's exactly what he was, a self-radicalized home-grown terrorist.'" (Fox News)
Ah yes, "self-radicalized home-grown terrorist." Just what the neo-conservatives like Lieberman and their intelligence friends want us to worry about it, is it not? A new reason to grow more paranoid here at home, to clamp down with more surveillance on everyone by our intelligence agencies, to isolate our Islamic citizens, to inflame the instinctual patriotic response of all Americans toward our military, to make it harder to dissent from our military adventures abroad in the Middle East.
This has all the earmarkings of a covert action. I could be way off, or I could be right. It will be interesting to see if there are other speculations about this online. I know for sure I'll never hear anything like this mentioned on CNN.
And unfortunately, you can't know for sure if it's true. To paraphrase what's often said about Las Vegas, 'What happens in the CIA, stays in the CIA,' at least for a long time.
I know, I know, I've the CIA on the brain. I plead guilty.
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