NIDAL MALIK HASAN OF VIRGINIA TECH, BETHESDA, AND
FORT HOOD: A MAJOR PATSY IN A DRILL GONE LIVE?By Webster G. Tarpley
14 November 2009
http://actindependent.org/HasanPatsy.pdfIn the wake of the massacre at Fort Hood Texas, two principal theories have emerged to
explain the conduct of the accused shooter, identified by the U.S. Army as Major Nidal
Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist of Jordanian-Palestinian ancestry. One of these
theories is embraced by left liberals and other supporters and acolytes of the Obama
regime, and argues that Major Hasan is a sincere and devout Muslim who was the victim
of a tragic contradiction between his religious faith and the logic of the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars, both the heritage of the odious Bush-Cheney regime. According to
this version, Hasan must be viewed as a troubled and tormented individual who
"snapped," breaking down psychologically under the stress of his awful predicament.
Here is how Obama summed up this approach: “Even within the extraordinary military
that we have – and I think everybody understands how outstanding the young men and
women in uniform are under the most severe stress – there are going to be instances in
which an individual cracks.” (New York Times, 10 November 2009) Calling Major Hasan
a terrorist amounts, in this view, to racism and vindictive prejudice.
The other theory is the one advocated by assorted neocons, reactionaries, Islamophobes
and others generally hostile to Obama. This account maintains that Major Hasan was a
homegrown, self-starting Islamic terrorist, trumpeting his devotion to jihad and suicide
bombing, seeking to make contact with “Al Qaeda,” and generally filled with hate for
America, for freedom, and for his fellow soldiers. In this view, it is only the pervasive
political correctness and multicultural obsession of the subversive-riddled and soft-onterrorism
Obama regime that prevented Major Hasan from being neutralized before he
could act, and which prevents Obama and his Democratic allies from telling the truth
after the fact.
These views are both superficial, naïve, and inadequate.1 They amount to two prongs of
an articulated campaign of media hysteria and mass manipulation designed on the one
hand to prod the dithering Wall Street puppet Obama – who is having second thoughts
about his own political survival – into an early decision in favor of massive escalation of
the war in Afghanistan for the purpose of hastening the breakup of Pakistan, and thus
threatening China. On the other hand, the delirium of Islamophobic hatred being ginned
up against Major Hasan by the usual cast of reactionary radio ogres (Limbaugh, Beck,
Hannity, Levin) seeks to accentuate and strengthen the racist and xenophobic elements in
the militant anti-Obama opposition, in particular among the Tea Party movement. The
decision to put the infamous Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his confreres on trial in New
York City, plus the recent government seizure of numerous US mosques and other
buildings on the grounds that they are Iranian assets, also contribute to a growing mood
1 Another concept asserts that the 13 Army personnel were killed during the suppression of a mutiny
occasioned by the overstretch of US forces caused by Obama’s contination of the Iraq war and escalation of the Afghan war. Almost a week after the massacre, no direct substantiation for this idea has emerged.of anti-Moslem hysteria. This atmosphere is accentuated by the reckless and irresponsible
actions of some Moslem groups which happen to be foundation-funded, and must thus be
considered as part of the apparatus of US domestic social control.
The media narrative which is now being consolidated a week after the shootings is full of
contradictions, embarrassed silences, and absurdities. A third and distinct approach to this
case is therefore required, one which regards Major Hasan as a manipulated patsy in the
context of a relatively sophisticated operation mounted by forces within the US
intelligence community, using methods and assets which by now ought to have become
familiar. Major Hasan can be seen as a mixture of Lee Harvey Oswald, legendary 9/11
“suicide pilot” Mohammed Atta, and Cho Seung-Hui (the alleged April 2007 Virginia
Tech shooter). He also has elements of reputed Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan,
and of John Hinckley Jr., who was involved in an attempt to kill President Reagan – both
of whom survived the operations in which they were implicated. He thus represents a
new cocktail of patsy ingredients. Until now, Islamic terrorists had come in collectivist
groups, and not alone. Major Hasan by contrast is a troubled loner in the tradition of
Oswald, at the same time that he embodies the religious fanaticism of Atta, along with
some of his peccadilloes. Major Hasan is that novelty, a troubled Islamic fundamentalist
loner, even though this is something of a contradiction in terms. Like Cho, Major Hasan
emerges from the psychiatric clinic, in his case as a practicing psychiatrist, but as a shrink
with egregious symptoms of his own. Like all patsies, Major Hasan combines the
flamboyant and bombastic proclamation of his personal creed with a seeming immunity
from bureaucratic countermeasures which would normally be automatic in shutting him
down. Hasan is revealed as a fanatic, a misfit, and a quasi-psychotic or psychotic mental
case in his own right – who could not subsist without protectors in high places of the US
intelligence community.
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?
In investigations like this, it is generally a great mistake to fixate on the scapegoat dished
up by the mass media. The more we focus on the Oswald of the day, the less we
understand of what actually happened. Let us turn away from the TV pundits, and listen
instead to the eyewitness testimony of the troops who were present at the shootings.
Many of them are on record agreeing that the events of November 5 were initially
interpreted by those on the scene as an exercise, as a drill. Emphasis will be added to
bring out this central fact.
From ABC News we get the following testimony: Solider Keara Bono ‘told "Good
Morning America" today that she initially thought the scene of Hasan standing up,
praising Allah and starting to fire was a drill. She didn't believe it was real even when
she felt her own blood, she said. "Then I looked to my left and right and I saw people that
were bleeding," she said. That's when Bono realized that Hasan's rampage wasn't a
drill.’ (ABC News GMA)2
In the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel of 9 November 2009 we find: “Pfc. Amber Bahr of
Random Lake [Wisconsin] heard someone yelling and ducked at the sound of gunfire, but
she said she thought supervisors at Fort Hood were holding a drill last Thursday. She
didn't know she was under live fire until she heard people screaming.”3 This story was
based on an interview given to NBC’s Today Show.
CBS News reported: “Two days after narrowly escaping death at Fort Hood and just
hours after his release from the hospital, Corporal Nathan Hewitt still can't believe what
happened was real. The survivor spoke to CBS News Correspondent Don Teague about
those fateful minutes…. Even after being shot, Hewitt didn't believe what was happening.
He thought the gunfire was a training exercise and that he'd been hit by a rubber
bullet. He says other victims thought the same thing.”4
ABC newsman Bob Woodruff found further corroboration of this general impression
when he was allowed to interview shooting victims who were recovering in the hospital:
“For many of the 43 people wounded when an Army psychiatrist allegedly went on a
shooting rampage at Fort Hood, the scene was unreal – it seemed like something out of a
movie. Maybe it was a drill. ….Capt. Dorrie Carskadon, a combat stress specialist from
Wisconsin, who was at Fort Hood training for a deployment to Afghanistan, said she
initially thought the shooting was a drill.”5 Notice that this testimony comes from a
field grade officer, a captain.
The Austin television station KXAN provides the following evidence: ‘Spc. Scott
Hamrick and First Sergeant James McLeod made it out of the Soldier Readiness
Processing Center alive after some maneuvering to get away from the suspect, Maj. Nidal
Malik Hasan. "My initial thought is that it was a drill," said Hamrick. "Because you
2 http://mobile.abcnews.go.com/wireless/abcnews/section/US/9018559_2
3 http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/69626847.html
4 Don Teague, “Hood Eyewitness Remembers the Tragedy: Corporal Nathan Hewitt Thought Gunfire was
a Drill, Until He Realized He was Bleeding,” at
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/07/eveningnews/main5567562.shtml
5 “Bob Woodruff Hears Soldiers' Tales of Survival, Recovery,” http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/presidentsoldiers-families-flock-ft-hood-memorial/Story?id=9039151&page=1know you're always getting drilled for situations." However, what Hamrick thought
was a drill turned out to be something closer to war at home.’6
The Miami Herald furnished this account: ‘For Skip Blancett, the senior pastor at the
First United Methodist Church of Killeen, news of the shooting left him anguishing for
hours because his daughter, Hollye Davis, was at a building next door to where the
gunman started firing. She and others were in lockdown for hours. Without a cellphone,
she couldn't call home. “They had no idea what was going on; everyone thought it was a
drill at first,'' Blancett said.’7
The idea that the shooting was part of a drill or exercise was so widespread that it had to
be expressly countered in the first emergency announcement posted on the Fort Hood
web site, which read: "Effective immediately. Fort Hood is closed. Organizations/units
are instructed to execute a 100 per cent accountability of all personnel. This is not a
drill. It is an emergency situation."8
Based on this testimony, it seems clear that unannounced, surprise terror drills are
standard operating procedure at Fort Hood and probably other military bases as well.
They are frequent enough to be the first thing many soldiers, including at least one
officer, thought was happening. Drills are designed to be as realistic as possible. But the
acme of realism is reality – real killing, which can occur through small but decisive
changes in the unfolding of the drill. We may therefore be dealing here with a drill which
has been taken live or flipped live, as so often happens in terror incidents.9
This array of evidence allows us to pose the following question: If so many of the Army
personnel on the scene thought at first that the incident was a drill, did Major Hasan also
think he was attending a drill? Did he imagine that he was going to be an actor playing
the assigned role of a member of the terrorist red team in a realistic exercise? In other
words, was this inept, troubled and quasi-psychotic individual somehow under the
impression that he was attending an officially sanctioned exercise of some routine type,
until real bullets began to be fired by other more qualified shooters, thus taking the drill
live? This might also help us to account for the extraordinary intensity of firing at the
scene – well over 100 rounds. For this working hypothesis to stand up, we would have to
show that there were other gunmen firing – gunmen who knew that the drill was turning
into a real massacre. The additional shooters would according to the classification
referred to above represent the technicians in this action – the trained killers who have
the ability to do the things that the patsy is accused of doing. Interestingly enough, extra
gunmen are exactly what we find.
ONE SHOOTER, OR THREE?
6 http://www.kxan.com/dpp/military/army/kxan_military_Hasan_family_contacts_attorney_11092009
7 http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/1321119.html
8 http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/reports-of-mass-shooting-at-forthood/?src=twt&twt=nytimes
9 My 9/11 Synthetic Terror provides a detailed discussion of how virtually every aspect of 9/11
corresponded to an exercise or drill which was then taken live.How many shooters were there? Early reports indicated that there were at least one, and
perhaps two, in addition to Major Hasan. Dow Jones newswires reported at about 5 PM
Eastern Time: “A second gunman is in custody after a shooting at the Army's Fort Hood
in Texas in which at least seven people were killed and 12 wounded, reports KCEN-TV
of Waco. The report comes about two hours after a first suspect was captured, shortly
after gunfire broke out.”10 According to the Dow Jones report cited, shooting had
occurred in two separate locations on the Fort Hood base: “The incident reportedly began
at Fort Hood's theater and then moved to the Soldier Readiness Processing Center,
Killeen City Public Information Officer Hillary Shine told Fox News.” According to an
AP wire, these facts were also announced by an official Army spokesman at the base:
“The spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Banks, says two shooters were apparently
involved. There is no word yet on who they were, nor on identities of the dead. Banks
says the second incident took place at a theater on the sprawling base.” 11 Many of the
embarrassing reports about multiple shooters have been purged after the fact from
websites, but a few have survived, as in the case of this Wisconsin radio station, where
we read that the triple assassin theory had been embraced by the commander of the base:
"Newsradio 620 WTMJ: Lt. General Bob Cone at Fort Hood confirms 12 dead, 31 hurt in
shooting. Soldier gunman killed. 2 others in custody.”12 During the later afternoon, cable
television talked of three shooters, and in the London Daily Mirror account we find:
“Twelve people were killed and 31 wounded when three gunmen in uniform opened fire
at the US Army's largest armoured base in Texas yesterday. One gunman was shot by
civilian police and the two others held at Fort Hood.”13
GEN. CONE BRINGS MAJOR HASAN BACK FROM THE DEAD AFTER 8 HOURS
It was only in the late evening that the official lone assassin version of these events was
assembled in another press conference by General Cone held about eight hours after the
shooting had started: “KILLEEN, Texas (KXAN/AP/MSNBC) - Twelve died and
another 31 were hurt in a mass shooting on Fort Hood that stunned the nation on
Thursday. Accused gunman Major Malik Nidal Hasan is alive and in stable condition, Lt.
Gen. Bob Cone said at a Thursday evening news conference just outside the storied
military post - the largest in the United States. Counter to initial reports, the 39-year-old
psychiatrist - who was thought to be killed by local police - is hospitalized and not
expected to die of multiple gunshots wounds sustained during the 1:30 p.m. attack. The
local police officer who allegedly shot Hasan and injured him is in the hospital also in
stable condition.”14
10 Dow Jones Newswires 11-05-091656ET at http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-newsstory.aspx?storyid=200911051656dowjonesdjonline000934
11 www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ihGepAkECGoDagETVBMpPb3w7Y3gD9BPJO100
12 Newsradio 620 WTMJ, November 5 at 2:01pm CST, at http://www.facebook.com/620wtmj accessed 13
November 2009.
13 www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/06/brown-it-s-like-ww1-2-115875-21801278/
14 http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/military/military_kxan_texas_shooting_on_ft._hood_2009110514301257453645749In the course of the day, we had thus gone from three shooters to only one. The separate
shooting incident at the Howze theater on the post reported earlier had also been
expunged in the process. Most remarkable of all was the ability of Major Hasan to come
back from the dead after eight hours in which the world had been assured of his demise.
Such resurrection is of course a physical impossibility for mere mortals. When
individuals are alleged to have performed deeds which are physically impossible in the
world as we know it, from Oswald's feats of shooting to Atta’s (and Hani Hjanjour’s)
feats of flying, we must become suspicious that intelligence agencies are assisting the
probable patsies in hidden ways. Major Hasan is said to have fired more than 100 rounds
using the two pistols he is alleged to have carried. This seems like a lot of shooting for a
single person surrounded by scores of trained combat veteran soldiers, even if these latter
had not been carrying their usual weapons.
The categorical imperative for every patsy is to get noticed, and to call attention to
himself or herself pointedly and repeatedly, by hook or by crook. They must stand out so
much that they will be remembered by many ordinary people after the process of their
demonization has been launched. In order to fulfill their function, patsies must leave a
trail of clues and evidence which will tie themselves and the larger target group they
supposedly represent to the heinous actions they will shortly be accused of having
committed. Oswald handed out leaflets sympathetic to Cuba and told a television
audience that he was a Marxist. He went to the USSR, and tried to go to Cuba. Atta
cultivated a frightening stare, and took time to argue ostentatiously about a parking place
at an airport in Maine while he allegedly thought he was on his way to death. Major
Hasan seems to have some of the same strange proclivities. On the day of the shooting,
Major Hasan made sure there was no doubt about his religious loyalties by donning a
trademark “Islamic” white robe and skull cap to go to his local Seven-Eleven, where he
was sure to be filmed by the security cameras there. This footage was then played on all
the networks for the next 48 hours. This gesture recalls the Koran Atta left in his car at
Boston’s Logan airport. When the FBI located Atta’s rented car, they found a copy of the
Koran, airline schedules, terrorist literature and videotapes, and Atta’s crudely forged last
will and testament in the luggage – all obviously and crudely left behind to make the
necessary point. Atta’s will betrayed the amateurish attempt of some half-baked area
specialist to sound Islamic
At Fort Hood, Major Hasan ‘told a colleague, Col Terry Lee, that he believed Muslims
should rise up against American "aggressors."’ 15 Count de Borchgrave points out that
Major Hasan had made at least one overtly ominous statement just before the shooting
spree: ‘As the Virginia-born major told a female neighbor in his apartment complex, "I'm
going to do good work for God."’16 The neighbor would not forget that grim pledge
anytime soon. Major Hasan was suspected of having authored internet postings that
compared suicide bombers with soldiers who throw themselves on hand grenades to save
others, although here we must be cautious, since these postings could have been made by
imposters. All accounts agree that witnesses heard a shout of “Allahu Akbar” just before
15 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6521758/Fort-Hood-shooting-Texasarmy-killer-linked-to-September-11-terrorists.html
16 http://www.newsmax.com/borchgrave/hasan_martyr/2009/11/09/283713.htmlthe firing started. Less clear is whether these words were spoken by Major Hasan. And if
he did say them, was this a line from the scenario script of a drill?
MAJOR HASAN’S RANT TO MILITARY DOCTORS: “WE LOVE DEATH MORE
THAN YOU LOVE LIFE”
The most elaborate attempts by Major Hasan to assert and establish a thoroughly Islamic
profile for himself came in the form of a lecture at the Uniformed Service University of
the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He was supposed to present a paper on an
issue of medical or clinical interest, but instead elected to make a ranting speech about
the oppression of Moslems in the US military and the dangerous consequences this was
sure to have. Here are some relevant parts of the account published by Dana Priest in the
Washington Post: ‘The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood
warned a roomful of senior Army physicians a year and a half ago that to avoid "adverse
events," the military should allow Muslim soldiers to be released as conscientious
objectors instead of fighting in wars against other Muslims.
The title of Hasan's PowerPoint presentation was "The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the
U.S. Military." Under a slide titled "Comments," he wrote: "If Muslim groups can
convince Muslims that they are fighting for God against injustices of the 'infidels'; ie:
enemies of Islam, then Muslims can become a potent adversary ie: suicide bombing, etc."
[sic] The last bullet point on that page reads simply: "We love death more then [sic] you
love life!" Under the "Conclusions" page, Hasan wrote that "Fighting to establish an
Islamic State to please God, even by force, is condoned by the Islam," and that "Muslim
Soldiers should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk to hurting/killing
believers unjustly – will vary!" The final page, labeled "Recommendation," contained
only one suggestion: "Department of Defense should allow Muslims [sic] Soldiers the
option of being released as 'Conscientious objectors' to increase troop morale and
decrease adverse events."’17
Objections were made to Major Hasan’s tirade: “Students on a 2007-2008 master’s
programme at a military college revealed … that they had complained to faculty about
Major Hasan’s alleged anti-American views. They included him giving a presentation
that justified suicide bombing and telling classmates that Islamic law trumped the US
Constitution.”18 But nothing serious happened. According to National Public Radio's
Joseph Shapiro, the worst thing that happened was that Hasan was given a period of
probation early in his postgraduate work because of his insistence on seeking to convert
to Islam some coworkers and the soldiers he was treating.
The title of this speech, "The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S.
Military," sounds very academic and not very Islamic at all. It seems to imply that Islam
and the Koran are just a world view or Weltanschauung among others. It falls far short of
17 Dana Priest, Washington Post, 10 November 2009 at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110903618.html. See the slide show, which is posted with this
article.
18 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6521758/Fort-Hood-shooting-Texasarmy-killer-linked-to-September-11-terrorists.htmlthe basic Islamic fundamentalist claim to represent the authority of absolute revealed
truth. We are reminded of Mohamed Atta’s will and instructions for his own funeral,
which Islamic experts have found to be replete with elements and formulations utterly
alien to Islam.
The categorical imperative for every mole is to protect the relevant patsies from
investigation or arrest until the terror event has occurred and it is time to round the patsies
up as scapegoats. The part about "We love death more then [sic] you love life!" is blatant
ID format “Al Qaeda” speak, and in a military setting this speech would normally be
more than enough to trigger a probing investigation into Major Hasan's activities and
belief structure. But no serious consequences ensued, suggesting that Major Hasan was
an asset who was being protected for the sake of some future mission which he was being
groomed and prepared to perform.
Thus, while Hasan’s medical superiors were aware of him as a problem case, they chose
to do nothing: a “group of doctors overseeing Nidal Malik Hasan's medical training
discussed concerns about his overly zealous religious views and strange behavior months
before the Army major was accused of opening fire on soldiers and civilians at Fort
Hood, Texas. Doctors and staff overseeing Hasan's training viewed him at times as
belligerent, defensive and argumentative in his frequent discussions of his Muslim faith, a
military official familiar with several group discussions about Hasan said…. As a
psychiatrist in training, Hasan was characterized in meetings as a mediocre student and
lazy worker, a matter of concern among the doctors and staff at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences military
medical school, the official said.” (AP, 11 November 2009)19 At the same time, the
training of a psychiatrist involves intensive psychological profiling and in-depth analysis
by professors as an integral part of the training. As a shrink among shrinks, Major
Hasan’s psychology must have been well known to the military doctors who were his
professors. This opens up an avenue for manipulating and controlling him which has not
been present in other terrorism cases. Did one or more of the Major Hasan’s analysts
have a sideline as terrorist controllers and mind benders working for the rogue network?
WALTER REED OFFICIALS ASKED: “WAS HASAN PSYCHOTIC?”
A more explicit and illuminating version of Major Hasan’s psychiatric review comes
from National Public Radio. Here we find that he was variously evaluated as
“disconnected, aloof, paranoid, belligerent, and schizoid.” This raised the problem of
whether he was actually psychotic and thus suffering from severe mental illness: ‘Starting
in the spring of 2008, key officials from Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences held a series of meetings and
conversations, in part about Maj. Nidal Hasan….One of the questions they pondered:
Was Hasan psychotic? Both fellow students and faculty were deeply troubled by Hasan's
behavior – which they variously called disconnected, aloof, paranoid, belligerent, and
schizoid. The officials say he antagonized some students and faculty by espousing what
they perceived to be extremist Islamic views. His supervisors at Walter Reed had even
19 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_fort_hood_shootingreprimanded him for telling at least one patient that "Islam can save your soul." Hasan
spent six years as a psychiatrist at Walter Reed, beginning in 2003, and he had a
fellowship at USUHS until shortly before he went to Fort Hood in the summer of 2009. A
committee of officials from both places regularly meets once a month to discuss pressing
topics surrounding the psychiatrists and other mental health professionals who train and
work at the institutions. Participants in the spring meeting and in subsequent
conversations about Hasan reportedly included John Bradley, chief of psychiatry at
Walter Reed; Robert Ursano, chairman of the Psychiatry Department at USUHS; Charles
Engel, assistant chair of the Psychiatry Department and director of Hasan's psychiatry
fellowship; Dr. David Benedek, another assistant chairman of psychiatry at USUHS;
psychiatrist Carroll J. Diebold; and Scott Moran, director of the psychiatric residency
program at Walter Reed, according to colleagues and other sources who monitor the
meetings.’20 Why did this august panel not take any practical steps in regard to Major
Hasan? This account blames bureaucratic inertia and political correctness founded on the
fear of seeming to discriminate against Moslems. But these reasons need to be
supplemented with another possibility: that a witting mole (or moles) was shielding
Major Hasan from any sanctions so he could go on to greater things as a witting or
unwitting agent provocateur and patsy.
One comment included in this NPR account was especially ominous: “Another official
reportedly wondered aloud to colleagues whether Hasan might be capable of committing
fratricide, like the Muslim U.S. Army sergeant who, in 2003, killed two fellow soldiers
and injured 14 others by setting off grenades at a base in Kuwait.” Despite such real and
present dangers, nothing was done.
MAJOR HASAN’S MOSQUE LINKED TO THE CIA’S CHECHEN TERRORISTS
In recent years, Major Hasan attended a mosque in Silver Spring Maryland which hosted
fundraising for CIA covert operations against Russia: “Imam Faizul Khan ministered to
Hasan when he worshiped at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Md…. The
Muslim Community Center has held fundraisers for Chechen jihadists, and promotes on
its website a Shariah-based financial product offered by a Muslim Brotherhood front
group under federal investigation.”21 The essential element here is that the mosque was
raising money for Chechen rebellion, which is notoriously a strategic tool of the United
States and the United Kingdom against Russia. Perhaps such a fundraiser for Chechen
terrorism might have been attended by Ilyas Achmadov, the de facto ambassador of the
leading CIA-backed Chechen organization implicated in terrorism, who lives in
Washington, DC at US taxpayer expense thanks to his sponsorship by Zbigniew
Brzezinski, the gray eminence of Obama’s foreign policy team.
The impression that Major Hasan was in fact a protected patsy is strengthened by reports
that he frequented mosques which have figured in previous intelligence operations, and
20 Daniel Zwerdling, “Walter Reed Officials Asked: Was Hasan Psychotic?” National Public Radio,
November 11, 2009, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120313570
21 World Net Daily, 10 November 2009, at
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115465that he was in contact with an American-born Muslim cleric now living in Yemen who
currently plays the role of one of the most bombastic agent provocateurs operating under
the umbrella designation of “al Qaeda.”
ANWAR AWLAKI, PATSY MINDER FOR HANI HANJOUR OF 9/11 INFAMY
In earlier years, Hasan had worshipped with his mother at the radical Dar al-Hijrah
Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia. During 2001, he worshipped there alongside
some of the 9/11 patsies, specifically those alleged to have been aboard the aircraft which
allegedly struck the Pentagon. The dominant figure of this mosque was at that time a
certain Anwar Awlaki or Awlaqi, who must be regarded as an intelligence agency
operative and patsy-minder, the latter because of his role in supervising the alleged
Pentagon suicide pilot Hani Hanjour and other 9/11 figures who frequented the mosque.
Hanjour, whose purported feats of flying would if true have placed him above the Red
Baron in the Valhalla of air aces, was in fact a pathetic and clumsy nebbish.
Just after the Fort Hood massacre, Awlaki used his website for a bombastic endorsement
of Major Hasan and the Texas slaughter, evidently designed with Pavlovian technique to
goad Islamophobic US reactionaries into a frenzy and give the radio ogres much grist for
their mill. Here is the relevant report from the New York Times: ‘Mr. Awlaki, an
American citizen born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, wrote on Monday on his
English-language website that Mr. Hasan was “a hero.” The cleric said, “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.” He added, “The only way a Muslim
could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the U.S. Army is if his intention is to
follow the footsteps of men like Nidal.”’22 This was a piece of crude manipulation, and at
the same time an engraved invitation to an anti-Moslem pogrom. The report went on:
‘But since leaving the U.S. in 2002 for London, and later Yemen, Mr. Awlaki has
become a prominent proponent of militant Islam via his Web site,
www.anwaralawlaki.
com. The Toronto Star reported last month that a group of young Canadians
charged with plotting attacks against military and government targets were inspired, in
part, by listening to Mr. Awlaki’s sermons online. In 2000 and 2001, Mr. Awlaki served
as an imam at two mosques in the United States frequented by three future 9/11 hijackers.
Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi attended the Rabat mosque in San Diego, where
Mr. Awlaki later admitted meeting Hazmi several times but “claimed not to remember
any specifics of what they discussed,” according to the report of the national 9/11
commission. Both Hazmi and another hijacker, Hani Hanjour, later attended the Dar al
Hijra mosque in Falls Church, Virginia after Mr. Awlaki had moved there in early 2001.
The 9/11 commission report expressed “suspicion” about the coincidence, but said its
investigators were unable to find Mr. Awlaki in Yemen to question him.’23 We should
notice the nice plug given here to Awlaki’s web site by the New York Times; his site
22 “U.S. Monitored Fort Hood Suspect Before Shooting," New York Times, 9 November 2009 at
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33807907/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/?ns=us_newsthe_new_york_times
23 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33807907/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/?ns=us_newsthe_new_york_timestraffic is sure to benefit enormously. Major Hasan had taken care to establish his
devotion and fealty to Awlaki during the time leading up to the massacre. He left no
doubt that he was a disciple of Awlaki: ‘Hasan's eyes "lit up" when he mentioned his
deep respect for al-Awlaki's teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort
Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday's horrific shooting spree.’24
Major Hasan, it transpired, had also been exchanging emails with the fiery double agent
he so much lionized; the imam-provocateur had fled abroad after 9/11and was now
operating under “al Qaeda” cover from Yemen. According to one report: “two
government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not
authorized to discuss the case on the record, said the Washington-based joint terrorism
task force overseen by the FBI was notified of communications between Hasan and a
radical imam overseas, and the information was turned over to a Defense Criminal
Investigative Service employee assigned to the task force. The communications were
gathered by investigators beginning in December 2008 and continuing into early this
year. That Defense investigator wrote up an assessment of Hasan after reviewing the
communications and the Army major's personnel file, according to these officials. The
assessment concluded Hasan did not merit further investigation – in large part because
his communications with the imam were centered on a research paper about the effects of
combat in Iraq and Afghanistan and the investigator determined that Hasan was in fact
working on such a paper, the officials said. The disclosure Tuesday of the defense
investigator's role indicated that the U.S. military was aware of worrisome behavior by
the massacre suspect long before the attack. Just hours later, a senior defense official,
also demanding anonymity, directly contradicted that notion. The senior defense official
said neither the Army nor any other part of the Defense Department knew of Hasan's
contacts with any Muslim extremists…. Military, law enforcement and intelligence
agencies also are defending themselves against tough questions about what each of them
knew about Hasan before he allegedly opened fire in a crowded room at the huge military
base in Texas.” 25
AWLAKI HELPED ENTRAP FORT DIX SIX, TORONTO DUPES
The decision of the Army to ignore Major Hasan’s correspondence with Awlaki is all the
more astounding given Awlaki’s status as one of the premier terror impresarios of the age
operating under Islamic fundamentalist cover. More than a mere ideologue, he is a
recruiter and an entrepreneur of terror. His web site would not survive five minutes of
concerted US cyber-attacks, but he is not disturbed in his role as a pied piper of patsies.
In particular, Awlaki and his work were used to motivate and encourage groups of
mentally impaired and suggestible young dupes who were entrapped into “terrorist plots”
by busy FBI and Canadian RCMP agents during recent years, thus keeping the boogey
man of Islamic terrorism in the public eye. ‘In addition to his contacts with Major Nidal
Hasan, the radical American cleric, Anwar al Awlaki, served as an inspiration for men
convicted in terror plots in Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, according to government
24 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6521758/Fort-Hood-shooting-Texasarmy-killer-linked-to-September-11-terrorists.html
25 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091110/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_fort_hood_shootingofficials and court records reviewed by ABCNews.com….Despite his ties to other plots,
including the one against the Army post at Fort Dix, some 20 e-mails between Awlaki
and Major Hasan were dismissed as "innocent" by a military investigator working on the
FBI's Joint Terror Task Force in Washington, D.C...."He is not just a proselytizer but
someone who is operational, with deep and longstanding connections to al Qaeda and has
been for some time," said a former senior American intelligence official who had access
to classified information. Awlaki was characterized in court testimony as an inspiration
by two of six Muslim immigrants convicted on conspiracy and other charges in a plot to
kill U.S. military personnel at Fort Dix….In Toronto, members of the so-called Toronto
18 watched videos of Awlaki at a makeshift training camp where they allegedly planned
an attack on the Canadian parliament and prime minister.’26
YET ANOTHER DELIBERATE FBI SNAFU
Just as in the 9/11 instance, the scandalous failure to connect the dots and round up the
patsies was due to the non-feasance and malfeasance of the FBI, the criminally negligent
agency which, according to 9/11 commission co-chair Gov. Thomas Kean, “failed and
failed and failed,” but nevertheless escaped breakup after 9/11. Starting in 1996, the FBI
had been aware that international terrorists were making a show of learning to fly
passenger jets at U.S. flight schools, but took no action. According to a press report, the
failure to inform Major Hasan’s superiors was the direct and specific responsibility of the
FBI: "The Pentagon said it was never notified by US intelligence agencies that they had
intercepted e-mails between of the alleged Fort Hood shooter and an extremist imam until
after last week's bloody assaults, raising new questions about whether the government
could have helped prevent the attack…. a person familiar with the matter said a Pentagon
worker on the terrorism task force overseen by the Federal Bureau of Investigation was
told about the intercepted e-mails several months ago. But members of the terror task
forces aren't allowed to share such information with their agencies, unless they get
permission from the FBI, which leads the task force. In this case, the Pentagon worker, an
employee from the Defense Criminal Investigations Service,, helped make the assessment
that Major Hasan wasn’t a threat, and the FBI’s ‘procedures for sharing the information
were never used,’ said the person familiar with the matter."27 Those involved in this
decision by FBI and the Defense Department need to be probed as possible terror moles.
This is reminiscent of the FBI’s Dave Frasca, who could not assemble and act on the pre-
9/11intelligence he had on his desk. This was a new chapter of the story of FBI sabotage
told by Colleen Rowley and documented at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui in 2006. If the
FBI had rounded up the 9/11 patsies, the operation could not have occurred – not because
the patsies were going to fly planes into buildings by themselves, but because the jailing
of patsies before the fact would have made the targeting of the Moslem world impossible.
26 ABC News, “From Yemen, Anwar Awlaki Helped Inspire Fort Dix, Toronto Plots
Despite Terror Connections, E-mails with Major Hasan Did Not Raise Red Flags” at
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/anwar-awlakis-terrror-ties/story?id=9055322
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/anwar-awlakis-terrror-ties/Story?id=9055322&page=1
27 Yochi J. Dreazen and Evan Perez, “Army Wasn’t Told of Hasan’s Emails,” Wall Street Journal, 11
November 2009.In this sense, the same FBI rogue networks which made 9/11 possible are still in place
and still effectively sabotaging effective law enforcement.
MAJOR HASAN’S SECURITY CLEARANCE: SECRET
Major Hasan reportedly has a security clearance which allows him to receive secret
information. All US Army officers are required to have at minimum a secret-level
security clearance, and Major Hasan’s clearance might even have been at the more
stringent top-secret level. All indications are that Major Hasan’s clearance was never
reviewed, despite his ostentatious antics. Major Hasan’s aberrant behavior should at the
very least have put him in line for a National Agency Check or NAC. Newsweek writes
that ‘extended NACs, which the officials indicated are more likely for would-be military
officers, would include checks of local and state police records in jurisdictions where the
subject lived, as well as credit-bureau and financial-record checks. In the event that some
kind of “derogatory” information turns up during these checks, one of the officials said,
field investigators are likely to be sent out to conduct interviews, and the procedure could
also include an interview with the security-clearance applicant.’28 This puts Major Hasan
in a very special category, subject to special rules and surveillance which are enforced by
specific agencies, and not by military physicians of whatever rank. Perhaps the most
direct evidence that Major Hasan was a protected patsy was the fact that he could make
incendiary speeches and correspond with self-proclaimed “al Qaeda” firebrands without
having his security clearance reviewed, to say nothing of lifted.
As a well informed Stratfor letter to the editor posting points out: “The contacting of a
foreign Islamic militant who openly espouses killing of Americans is, in and of itself, a
violation of U.S. security regulations with respect to individuals with security clearances.
Hasan’s foreign contact should have been reported through the chain-of-command to his
commander, Lt. Gen. Cone, in consultation with his G-2, Counter-Intelligence Staff
Officer, Personnel Security Officer and the CID, could have immediately suspended Maj.
Hasan’s security clearance subject to a local AR 15-6 investigation. Lt. Gen. Cone is
responsible for force protection of assets in his command, not a DoD criminal
investigator. A minimally competent investigation would have uncovered other
comments and actions that would probably have resulted in adverse command action on
Maj. Hasan’s security clearance and possibly led to charges being brought for conduct
unbecoming an officer.”29 But the usual rules were suspended for Majopr Hasan,
indicating that he belonged to a special class of persons – patsies who were being
groomed for future actions and therefore had to be kept out of trouble.
LIKE ATTA AND KSM, THE DEVOUT MAJOR HASAN LIKES STRIP CLUBS
Thanks to the investigative work of Daniel Hopsicker, it has been revealed that key 9/11
figure Mohammed Atta was no devout and puritanical Moslem, but a hedonist. The
28 Mark Hosenball, “Fort Hood Shooter: How Recently Was His Security Clearance Updated?” in
Newsweek at http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/11/06/ft-hood-shooter-howrecently-was-his-security-clearance-updated.aspx
29 http://www.stratfor.com/content/hasan_case_1legendary Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), touted by the controlled media as the “9/11
mastermind,” was also devoted to alcohol, floozies, and nightlife. It is striking that Major
Hasan, allegedly a rigid and doctrinaire Moslem, also conforms to this model. Patsies
working for or manipulated by the de facto Islamic fundamentalist directorate of Anglo-
American intelligence seem to share the same decadent western foibles. One of Major
Hasan’s favorite relaxations was to attend the local strip club: ‘Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan
came into the Starz strip club not far from the base at least three times in the past month,
the club's general manager, Matthew Jones, told FoxNews.com. Army investigators
building their case against Hasan plan to interview Jones soon. "The last time he was
here, I remember checking his military ID at the door, and he paid his $15 cover and
stayed for six or seven hours," Jones, 37, said. Jennifer Jenner, who works at Starz using
the stage name Paige, said Hasan bought a lap dance from her two nights in a row. She
said he paid $50 for a dance lasting three songs in one of the club's private rooms on Oct.
29 and Oct. 30. She recalled that he arrived at about 6:30 p.m. and stayed until 2 a.m. She
said he brought in a six pack of light beer, took only a few sips from one can and gave the
rest to the strippers. "He preferred the blondes," said Jenner, whose hair was dyed blond
at the time. "He said he was a medic and that he was being deployed soon, but mostly he
wanted to ask us questions."’30 Needless to say, alcohol and strippers do not an Islamic
fundamentalist make.
As for prominent 9/11 figure Atta, he was in fact not a practicing Moslem at all, but
rather a devotee of alcohol, cocaine, call girls, and pork chops. Like Major Hasan, Atta
preferred blondes, specifically pink strawberry ones. He cohabited with a 22-year old call
girl who may also have been a sex operative for one of the intelligence agencies. Amanda
Keller worked for a “lingerie model escort service” in Sarasota called Fantasies & Lace.
Atta loved to attend topless bars, where he would order lap dances at the Pink Pony, or
else stuff twenty-dollar bills into the g-strings of the dancers at the Olympic Garden
nightclub. He was also a regular at Harry’s Bar in Naples. Atta’s favorite nightspots were
the Cheetah in Venice, and Margarita Maggie’s in Sarasota. FBI investigators showing
around pictures of Atta after 9/11 found that he had been in a bar drinking Stolichnaya
vodka for three hours quite recently; with him was accused suicide pilot Marwan al
Shehhi, who preferred rum. Atta was also a frequent cocaine user. He would habitually
snort rows of cocaine with a dollar bill. Are we therefore dealing here with two patsies
from the same levy, two parallel patsy lives?
FROM ARMY-MCCARTHY TO ARMY-LIEBERMAN
The reactionaries of today yearn for the days of Senator Joe McCarthy (R-Wisconsin),
who launched his campaign of red-baiting and witch-hunting some six decades ago. At
the height of the Cold War, McCarthy launched the hysterical charge that the US Army
had been massively infiltrated by agents of the international communist conspiracy. This
led to the infamous and protracted Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate, during which
McCarthy’s influence reached its demagogic apex. Today, the neocons are still full of
rancor and resentment over their wholesale ouster from the government through the end
of the Bush-Cheney era, and the ascendancy of the Brzezinski-Nye-Soros faction of
30 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573052,00.htmlliberal imperialists who control Obama. Immediately after the shootings, Senator Joe
Lieberman announced that he will use his Homeland Security Subcommittee to
investigate the failure of the intelligence agencies to connect the dots in the Fort Hood
incident. Already, neocon web sites are contending that the US Army of the Obama era is
thoroughly infiltrated by Islamic fundamentalists favorable to terrorism. Lieberman says
he wants to know how the Army missed numerous warning signs about Hasan's radical
views. The Army-Lieberman hearings may soon launch an anti-Moslem witch hunt in the
US military, fulfilling much neocon nostalgia. The best approach would be to empanel a
genuinely independent board of inquiry to investigate the Fort Hood massacre. Care
should be taken to avoid the begging of the question and the blatant conflicts of interest
which made the recent Kean-Hamilton 9/11 commission such a mockery. Care should
also be taken to keep the inevitable Lee Hamilton out of any board of inquiry, given his
wretched track record of cover-up and misprision.
FORT HOOD MOSLEM CLERIC TO MAJOR HASAN: “THERE’S SOMETHING
WRONG WITH YOU”
The London Daily Telegraph interviewed Osman Danquah, a local Moslem clergyman,
who had contact with Major Hasan. Osman Danquah had come to the conclusion that
Major Hasan had debilitating mental problems, and was not suitable for any leadership
roles – even though he was an Army officer of the middle rank. Citing several sources,
this paper writes: ‘What does seem clear is that the army missed an increasing number of
red flags that Hasan was a troubled and brooding individual within its ranks. "I was
shocked but not surprised by news of Thursday's attack," said Dr Val Finnell, a fellow
student on a public health course in 2007-08 who heard Hasan equate the war on
terrorism to a war on Islam. Another student had warned military officials that Hasan was
a "ticking time bomb" after he reportedly gave a presentation defending suicide
bombers…. Osman Danquah, the co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater
Killeen, said Hasan never expressed anger toward the army or indicated any plans for
violence. But he said that, at their second meeting, Hasan seemed almost incoherent. "I
told him, 'There's something wrong with you'. I didn't get the feeling he was talking for
himself, but something just didn't seem right." He was sufficiently troubled that he
recommended the centre reject Hasan's request to become a lay Muslim leader at Fort
Hood.’31
The pathos Major Hasan’s existence is perhaps most clearly portrayed in his unsuccessful
effort to find a wife of his own faith: ‘Relatives said that the death of Hasan's parents, in
1998 and 2001, turned him more devout. "After he lost his parents he tried to replace
their love by reading a lot of books, including the Koran," his uncle Rafiq Hamad said.
"He didn't have a girlfriend, he didn't dance, he didn't go to bars." His failed search for a
wife seemed to haunt Hasan. At the Muslim Community Centre in the Washington
suburb of Silver Spring, he signed up for an Islamic matchmaking service, specifying that
he wanted a bride who wore the hijab and prayed five times a day.” Major Hasan
returned repeatedly and obsessively to the same theme, according to a another
31 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6521758/Fort-Hood-shooting-Texasarmy-killer-linked-to-September-11-terrorists.htmlacquaintance: "Adnan Haider, a retired professor of statistics, recalled how at their first
meeting last year, a casual introduction after Friday prayers, Hasan immediately asked
the academic if he knew "a nice Muslim girl" he could marry. "It was a strange thing to
ask someone you have met two seconds before. It was clear to me he was under pressure,
you could just see it in his face," said Prof Haider, 74, who used to work at Georgetown
University in Washington. "You could see he was lonely and didn't have friends.32
WAS MAJOR HASAN BRAINWASHED?
Given the accumulated evidence that Major Hasan was possibly psychotic, there remains
the question of whether this psychosis might have been endogenous and due to natural
and spontaneous causes, or whether it had been artificially produced in him through a
program of brainwashing and heavy-duty “Clockwork Orange” psychological
manipulation by others. We cannot exclude the possibility that Major Hasan went out on
November 5 consciously determined to kill, and may also have discharged his weapons.
We thus have two possible scenarios: on the one hand Major Hasan the duped patsy
caught totally by surprise when the shooting started, and on the other, Major Hasan the
psychotic and criminally insane killer who possessed the will, if not necessarily the
ability, for serious shooting. There may be evidence for both scenarios. We should also
point out that seeing Major Hasan as a psychotic killer in his own right does not in any
way rule out the presence of additional and more capable shooters. We are reminded
here of the case of Sirhan Sirhan, who appears to have fired at Robert Kennedy, but who
also appears to have received a powerful assist from some other as yet unidentified more
expert shooter who may have actually fired the lethal bullet.
MAJOR HASAN’S VIRGINIA TECH CONNECTION
Where would Major Hasan have been brainwashed? An obvious place to look would be
the precincts of Virginia Tech, the home of Cho Seung-Hui, the alleged mass killer of 32
students and professors along with himself in April 2007. This incident involves far too
many unanswered questions to be addressed in detail here. In any case, the fact that
Major Hasan graduated from the alma mater of Cho should be enough by itself to raise
some red flags. We should also recall that several additional homicides have occurred in
and around Virginia Tech during the last year. In January 2009, a Virginia Tech doctoral
student beheaded a fellow student in a campus cafe. In this incident, a female graduate
student who had just arrived from China was killed when another graduate student she
knew attacked her with a knife and decapitated her.33 Beheadings are rare on American
college campuses even today, so this is an extraordinary event indeed. In August 2009,
two Virginia Tech University students were found murdered at a Jefferson National
Forest campground that is a popular hangout for students. The bodies of David Lee
32 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6521758/Fort-Hood-shooting-Texasarmy-killer-linked-to-September-11-terrorists.html
33 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national2009/01222009-01-22_virginia_tech_graduate_student_attacked_.htmlMetzler, 19, of Lynchburg and Heidi Lynn Childs, 18, of Forest were found by a
passerby.34
So what in the world is going on in or near Blacksburg, Virginia? The report on the
Virginia Tech slayings prepared by a special commission set up by Virginia Governor
Tim Kane covers up the failure of mental health professionals in and around Virginia
Tech to take effective action in regard to Cho, whom they had nevertheless recognized to
be a profoundly disturbed and potentially highly dangerous personality. This report
commits the usual fallacy of petitio principii, begging the question, and assumes from the
start that Cho was the sole shooter.35 Because of this failure to account for numerous
salient features of the Cho incident, this entire case must continue to be classified as
unsolved. We must therefore conclude this essay merely by citing one of the many clues
which the Virginia investigation chose to ignore, but which might begin to account for
the extraordinary number of homicides observed in the area of Blacksburg, Virginia. As a
somewhat obscure web site alleges in an unconfirmed report, "Blacksburg, VA houses a
US government ABOVE TOP SECRET underground laboratory (in the side of a local
Blacksburg mountain) that develops in conjunction with DARPA [Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency], weapons such as human robotic mind control
programming.”36 Does such a facility exist, and what does it do? At this point, any
further comment would be pure speculation.
We cannot be optimistic that, should he survive, a future trial of Major Hasan will clear
up these questions, any more than criminal trials established the real facts in the cases of
Sirhan Sirhan, Hinckley, McVeigh, or John Allen Muhammad. What does appear
confirmed as of now is the existence of a mutating model of terrorism alongside the
large-scale 9/11 or WMD paradigms of false-flag manipulation seen and propagandized
during the last decade. In this sense, Major Hasan represents the evolution of the figures
of Cho, and also of Steven P. Kazmierczak, the Northern Illinois University shooter of
February 2008. As I wrote last year, “The new model is Virginia Tech gunman Cho, a
mentally disturbed or brainwashed mass killer. Another case was that of Steven P.
Kazmierczak, who in mid-February 2008 shot 21 people and killed five of them at
Northern Illinois University in Dekalb. Kazmierczak was described as being intensely
concerned with “corrections, political violence, and peace and social justice.”37
Will the American public ever learn to see through and reject false flag operations, as
many Spaniards were able to do after the Madrid bombs? Will Americans ever swear off
the dangerous habit of being duped? Will opinion leaders ever master the rather
elementary methods of rogue network, false-flag terrorism? Until this occurs and the
gullibility of the public is reduced, such operations are likely to continue on scales both
small and large, with incalculable consequences for the future of humanity.
34 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/27/virginia-tech-students-fo_n_270892.html
35 http://www.governor.virginia.gov/TempContent/techpanelreport.cfm
36 http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=6409
37 Webster G. Tarpley, Obama The Postmodern Coup (Joshua Tree CA: Progressive Press, 2008), p. 71.
