Dots, Not Connected clipped by: merrie 
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Not in time, anyway. The murders of 12 people and wounding of 31 others by one man with two handguns probably made a lot of things painfully obvious, and probably helped cut through a lot of clutter and red tape pretty quickly.
But when, within a matter of hours, the following facts and suspicions are widely reported, it suggests there may have been insufficient urgency in some quarters, maybe official obstacles in others, maybe reluctance to act on concerns elsewhere … maybe a desire to see the problem known as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan go elsewhere … and in the end, a lot of dots not connected.
Had told family members he was being harassed because he is a Muslim. At least one superior officer and family members are saying publicly they were aware he didn’t want to go to serve in those wars.
Presumably, officially, the Army knew it, too.
Was actively trying to get out of the Army, but had been denied.
Tags: ft hood texas, maj. nidal malik hasan, suspect killer of 13 military members, wounded another 38 troops
clipper's remarks: Well, you don’t get to not go just because you don’t want to. Apparently was disturbed by what he was hearing from the combat-traumatized solders he was counseling. Very sensitive, couldn’t hang with the war wounds. Had poor performance reports and was himself in counseling.
Sounds a bit like the psychiatrist, not simply unwilling and ill-suited to the military career he had chosen, might have been morphing into patient, or should have been, as he found himself increasingly conflicted at the intersection of various aspects of his life, which appears to have included a respectable level of stress and some potentially extreme contradictions. Given that he worked at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, that part of it starts to sound like a very big dot that shouldn’t have needed that much connecting.
Here’s another one, dot-connection in process.
Had been the focus of some level of attention by federal agents for at least six months....
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merrie on 11-6-2009 10:17 PM
....due to disturbing Internet postings that appear to justify suicide bombings and other threats. They believed he was the author, and were in the process of seeking warrants to examine his computer. That starts to sound like a really big problem.
Apparently the latter process wasn’t moving fast enough. Unclear what the Army itself was up to, whether any of the dots were being connected and the concerns voiced or addressed…..
Maj. Hasan was alive at last report, critical but stable, under armed guard and expected to live. An apparently heroic MP, a woman who was shot by him, managed to shoot him and ended it. At last report she had emerged from surgery and was stable.
Big roundup at Memeorandum.
http://www.memeorandum.com/091105/p126#a091105p126
>> Read more
http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/06/dots-not-connected/
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wiccantexan on 11-7-2009 12:43 PM
He's been trying for a discharge for years now, from what I understand. Even offered to repay his medical training.
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Antara on 11-7-2009 4:13 PM
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/11/videoo-wounded-soldier-in-islamic-attack-on-fort-hood-speaks.html
This woman---who was actually present--HEARD him say it.
by Antara on 11-7-2009 4:15 PM
(sorry, I was responding to a different clip---but it is still a great video of one of the Fort Hood survivors)
by merrie on 11-7-2009 9:05 PM
Isn't the preferred method of killing by pious muslim males, attack by ambush on unarmed civilians.
a great video of one of the Fort Hood survivors
That lady soldier has amazing composure and courage, and I'm happy that her gun shot injury isn't more serious.
It could have been a ricocheted bullet that hit her in the back, but regardless she appeared to be in good
physical and emotional condition.
That creep should have been discharged with a dishonorable status based on statements to fellow colleagues and his unfavorable evaluation at Walter
Reed Hospital. Also, I've heard that he was trying to
proselytize his patients!!!
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