As with most things, the path that led Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan to allegedly stage an attack on his fellow servicemen and -women at Fort Hood was complex. No doubt his minority status had something to do with it, although an awful lot of adherents of minority religions get along just fine in the U.S. military. Beyond all this identity stuff, however, it looks as if Hasan had a clear history of professional incompetence. It's easy to imagine someone with minimal proficiency in his profession shifting blame for his incompetence to the system that employs him. The vast majority of Arab-Americans and American Muslims are quick to acknowledge their gratitude to a society that, while far from perfect, has offered them an equal shot at life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Let's not write off the tragic case of Nidal Hasan as Y.A.M.T. (Yet Another Muslim Terrorist).

Remember Japanese internment Camps? For a while after World War 2 we entertained ourselves into believing that that unfortunate chapter in our history was one more misguided mistake from the past that we would never again commit. Of course, that was before George Bush junior got installed into the presidency and the US saw a resurgence of medieval methods like torture--physical and psychological--and a slew of other uncivil policies assuring the erosion of our liberties.

Remember Japanese internment Camps? For a while after World War 2 we entertained ourselves into believing that that unfortunate chapter in our history was one more misguided mistake from the past that we would never again commit. Of course, that was before George Bush junior got installed into the presidency and the US saw a resurgence of medieval methods like torture--physical and psychological--and a slew of other uncivil policies assuring the erosion of our liberties.

In my 2005 book 9/11 Synthetic Terrorism, I argued that 9/11 and other recent terrorist attacks represented provocations cynically orchestrated by privately controlled rogue networks operating within the US intelligence agencies for purposes of mass political manipulation. Starting from an overview of terrorist actions from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 through 9/11, I developed a method of analysis of state-sponsored false flag terrorism which distinguished the roles of fanatical, duped, or psychotic patsies like Oswald, of subversive moles ensconced as officials within government agencies, and of technicians or professional killers who actually create the observed effects, all commanded and coordinated from outside of government, and all operating within the atmosphere of mass brainwashing provided by the Wall Street media. I also highlighted the role of drills and exercises which are hijacked and turned into real-world terror attacks. In order to understand the Fort Hood massacre, it is indispensable to apply this method here as well. TROOPS THOUGHT IT WAS A DRILL ­ DID MAJOR HASAN THINK SO TOO?

THE dead at Fort Hood had not even been laid to rest when their massacre became yet another political battle cry for the self-proclaimed patriots of the American right [who proclaimed that] Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a terrorist. Joe Lieberman announced hearings to investigate the Army for its dereliction of duty on homeland security. Peter Hoekstra vowed to unmask cover-ups in the White House and at the C.I.A. It’s quite possible that some of what this crowd says is right . Yet the mass murder at Fort Hood didn’t happen in isolation. It unfolded against the backdrop of Obama’s final lap of decision-making about Afghanistan. In a week of horrific news, it was good to hear at the end of it that Obama is dissatisfied with the four Afghanistan options he has been weighing so far. The more time he deliberates, the more he is learning that he’s on a fool’s errand with no exit. If we have learned anything concrete so far from the massacre at Fort Hood, it’s that our hawks, for all their certitude, are as utterly confused as the rest of us about who it is we’re fighting in Afghanistan and to what end.

These wars themselves are insane, and the US military practice of plucking people from Hispanic, African-American, other minority and poor white communities to send them off to fight for "freedom," offering them the promise of a "brighter future," is abusive, offensive and harmful to the health of this nation and this world. Not to mention the fact that what our occupying forces have done in Afghanistan and Iraq is a sin against humanity: All the killing, the torture and the degradation have sown seeds of hatred and resentment, creating deep wounds that future generations on this planet will somehow have to find a way to heal. What also shouldn't come as a surprise to us is that the American people, who, generally speaking, ignore much of the reality of what takes place on planet Earth, have begun to consider the idea that the psychiatrist did not go mad by repeatedly bearing witness to the tormented stories of haunted and grief-wracked patients, but rather that this attack was part of a terrorist conspiracy carried out by Nidal Malik Hasan. It appears that the reasoning behind this latter theory is based solely on the fact that Hasan's name sounds foreign and that he is a Muslim of Palestinian descent. What should surprise us is that, in spite of all the paranoia in the United States, the nation did not take better measures to prevent what happened at Fort Hood, the very site where two incidents of a smaller scale had already taken place.

Bob Koehler: Moving forward from the latest massacre, three narratives — well, one of them is no more than the familiar, all-purpose shrug of experts, puzzled over yet another “isolated incident” — are vying to explain what happened and set the direction of our future. Is Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged killer of 13 people at Fort Hood last week, A) a Muslim terrorist; B) a solitary guy who snapped; or C) a broken healer and victim of the misbegotten war on terror?

If Bill Clinton - or, presumably, Al Gore (or even Ralph Nader) - had been President in 2001, the Ft. Hood massacre almost certainly wouldn't have happened. Because George W. Bush was president, it did. Here's why it's Bush's fault:

"American soldiers deployed to war and occupation zones from Fort Hood and other military bases in their own land or that of others are not defending their country. Not their nation, nor its borders, nor its coasts. Not their communities, their homes or their families. They may be securing their government’s and the nation’s business interests’ objectives – economic, energy, political and geopolitical – but they are not defending their country. Not even by extension."

The tragedy at Ft. Hood has shocked the whole nation. Many lives were lost that should not have been. While the Right-Wing talking head idiots have done everything in their power to politisize this act of violence, I believe that instead of pointing fingers or scoring political points we should say thank you to a true American hero.

Even in the United States, land of diversity and individualism, there's still nothing like race and ancestry to imprison you in other people's dumbest assumptions and cruelest distortions. An American -- American-born, American-bred, American-educated -- is suspected of having committed the mass killing that resulted in the death of 13 people at Fort Hood on Thursday. The killer joins the long list of other Americans who have committed mass killings, the second-worst of them in 1991 in the small central Texas city of Killeen, the after-hour shadow of Fort Hood. But the suspect this time has an Arabic-sounding name. Although it shouldn't, it changes everything. A mass murder, bad enough in itself, becomes cause for mass speculation studded with prejudice.

I don't want to go too deep down the Fort Hood Rabbit Hole Of Weirdness, so I'm just going to get off my chest some of the incredibly weird shit that's being thrown around in the media to confuse us or throw us off. It's looking pretty clearly like there’s a cover-up in progress, and not a very professional cover-up either. But the sad thing is that all the confusion and bullshit thrown our way will probably succeed in its goal of steering the public away from whatever it is the military doesn’t want us to find out about the shooting massacre. Anyway, here's my list of The Top Twelve Disinformation Tales to keep an eye on: 1. A ridiculous story planted in London's Daily Telegraph makes Hasan out to be an old pal of the 9/11 terrorists. The Telegraph also reported that a mysterious Arab-looking visitor came to Hasan's apartment 2 days before the shooting, like something out of a bad TV show: “It was very unusual because he had never had anyone round before. He had long black hair and a moustache and a dark complexion." Remember, this is the same Daily Telegraph that last month ran a fake story claiming that Iran's leader Ahmadinejad was born a Jew--a story that was quickly debunked as a disinformation plant. The Telegraph has a history of false plants–like the 2003 article claiming they had discovered “proof” that Saddam Hussein trained up the 9/11 terrorists in Baghdad.

Joe Lieberman echos Rahm Emanual..... "Never let a serious crisis go to waste." "A couple of years ago, after a two-year investigation, my committee put out a report that said the new face of terrorism in America would not just be the attacks as 9/11 organized abroad and sending people in here, it would be people within this country, homegrown terrorists, self-radicalized, often over the Internet, going to jihadist websites, 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," - Lieberman 11/8/09 The Lieberman spin will of course go beyond 'Muslim extremists' to any patriotic American who dares to question the lies and the illegal wars of profit by the corrupt US administration, Congress and the military. Our first and second amendment rights will be under attack....again. http://kennysideshow.blogspot.com/2009/11/dual-citizen-joe-lieberman-to-hype-fort.html

Sen. Joe Lie-berman (I- but really R) called the Fort Hood massacre an act of "Islamist extremism" - even as top Army brass warned Sunday against guessing at a motive, fearing backlash against Muslim soldiers. "There are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act," Lie-berman told Fox News on Sunday.

"Thirteen American soldiers were killed by a gunman at Fort Hood in Texas last Thursday, but 75 others have died by their own hand at the same army base since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Why? To most people, the answer is obvious. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been frustrating, exhausting, and seemingly endless, and some people just can’t take it any more. But the Pentagon is spending $50 million to search for other possible causes, because it doesn’t like that answer. "

“The handguns used in yesterday’s rampage shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, demonstrate the deadly firepower available to any American--whether that person is a member of the military or a private citizen. Initial news reports describe the handguns possessed by the shooter as a semiautomatic pistol and .357 revolver, apparently neither was military issue. Like the Luby’s massacre in neighboring Killeen, Texas that occurred 18 years ago and left 23 dead and 20 injured, the facts are as simple as they are disturbing: easy access to unmatched firepower allows angry individuals to kill and wound at will. "

If the government really were concerned about all the suicides and PTSD cases, they could have prevented Mj. Hasan’s murder-suicide mission before it happened. It would have been easy: Hasan had pleaded with his superiors not to be sent to Iraq, where he was scheduled to be deployed, but his requests were denied. RIght-wing bloggers like Michelle Malkin and some mainstream outlets have seized on reports emerging that Hasan supposedly voiced opinions sympathetic to suicide bombers. But if he was an Al Qaeda sleeper-cell suicide bomber himself, it makes no sense why he’d a) argue with fellow soldiers that the wars are wrong and we should withdraw; and b) that he tried to get out of being deployed to Iraq. The 9/11 terrorists did their best to “blend in” and pretend like they were as American as apple pie, because the point is not to draw any attention to yourself if you’re a terrorist planning to suicide bomb a military base. Moreover, the timing of his shooting, the day before he was to be sent off, shows that his desperation had reached the limit. What this suggests is that the massacre could have been avoided if Maj. Hasan’s objections were taken into account.---

A soldier opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday, unleashing a stream of gunfire that left 12 people dead and 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman, and apprehended two other soldiers suspected in what appears to be the worst mass shooting at a U.S. military base. The shooting began around 1:30 p.m., Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said at a news conference. He said all the casualties took place at the base's Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening. "It's a terrible tragedy. It's stunning," Cone said. A law enforcement official identified the shooting suspect as Army Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan. The official said Hasan, believed to be in his late 30s, was killed after opening fire at the base. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly. [Note: An army major was the shooter? Whose name was Malik Nadal Hasan? There appears to be more to this picture than what we are being told so far.]

Guy Fawkes Day attack: Gunman Kills at Least 7, Wounds 30 at Ft. Hood 05 Nov 2009 (Texas) Third Gunman has opened up on SWAT team - Fort Hood, the largest military base in the US, is under lockdown --Shooters were wearing military uniforms, armed with military-style weapons. At least one suspect is in custody. At least different shooting areas and three different shooters participated in the attack. The assault was pre-mediated and well-planned. Injuries stand at thirty. Nine schools on Ft. Hood are under lockdown. Shooting began at 1:30 Central Time.

"More gathered in protest Sunday night after a questionable raid at a gay club in Fort Worth spurred a series of demonstrations. Throughout the debate and investigation, the man allegedly hurt the worst in the raid remained silent. However, Sunday he finally spoke out. On June 28, Chad Gibson was at the Rainbow Lounge when two TABC and seven Fort Worth police officers conducted a bar check at the newly opened gay nightclub in Fort Worth. Witnesses said the unprovoked officers manhandled Gibson and slammed him to the ground. Police said Gibson was intoxicated and grabbed an officer's groin. Now, Gibson said he wants the officers involved in the raid prosecuted. He also called the response by the city of Fort Worth a cover-up."