The Fort Hood terrorist tried to contact al Qaeda months ago and the FBI knew about it

I find it just a little bit ironic that just a few weeks after Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for his rhetoric that inspired the world to search for peace that the first terrorist attack on American soil since September 11th took place. Apparently Nidal Malik Hasan didn’t get the message.

I also find it a little ironic that during the press conference that Barack Obama held in which he managed to find time to mention the killings that he urged Americans not to jump to conclusions; he asked Americans to wait until all of the facts are known. I find this ironic because this is the same man that when asked about the Cambridge police during the whole Professor Gates fiasco said that he didn’t know the facts but that the Cambridge police acted stupidly. He jumped to a conclusion in that incident but now he is cautioning us not to jump to conclusions.

Consider the conclusion jumped. As if we  didn’t know enough about Hasan to realize that he was a terrorist and that the Fort Hood shooting was a terrorist act we are learning even more about Hasan that confirms this. On top of all the evidence that points to terrorism that I wrote about here, we are now finding out that Hasan had visited a mosque in 2001 that three of the 9/11 hijackers frequented around the same time. And he has been tied to the cleric of that mosque, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was questioned after 9/11 and is now hiding in Yemen, and who now hails Hasan as a hero.

Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan,” Awlaki said. “How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done?”

“In fact 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

And there is more, Nidal Malik Hasan tried to contact al Qaeda and the FBI knew about this months ago yet did nothing. The facts are in, Hasan is a terrorist and the massacre at Fort Hood was a terrorist act. In the end I still believe that Hasan was working alone but that does not mean this attack isn’t terror related.

Barack Obama does not want to fess up that there was a terrorist attack on his watch, that is why he will not call this a terror attack. Hell, he does not want to admit that terrorism exists. Normally I would not hold the president accountable for an attack that happened on a secure military base but we are left to wonder how this man slipped through the cracks. Sure political correctness probably led to the military’s unwillingness to take action against Hasan before it was too late but I want to know if Barack Obama instituted policies that handcuffed the FBI and Homeland Security.

The FBI was too quick to eliminate terrorism as a motive, they did so while the situation was still fluid. There can only be two reasons for this that I can come up with; either the FBI wanted to cover up their ineptitude leading up to the attack or the FBI is under a gag order from the president who does not want to admit that terrorism still exists and that his policies may have stopped the FBI from acting in time to stop the attack.

It infuriates me to know end that this administration and the media is unwilling to call this what it obviously was– a terrorist attack. It infuriates me that Homeland Security does not even want to use the term “terrorism” any more.

Perhaps we actually got lucky that Hasan lived because now he will go to court– civilian court– and all of the details that the president didn’t want to come out will come out. Perhaps then the president will have to admit that he was on guard while a terrorist attack happened on United States soil and just possibly his politically correct policies led to the failure of the FBI or Homeland Security to stop Hasan before he committed the massacre.

Joe Lieberman is saying that he will call for an investigation into the military but the investigation can not stop there, the investigation must be widened to see if the FBI, Homeland Security, and the president himself can or should be held accountable for policies that prohibited authorities from stopping this attack before it happened.

The warning signs were there, the FBI was watching Hasan, they knew he could be dangerous, and yet nobody did anything in time to stop this attack. Somebody has to be held accountable for the failure to stop this attack with all of the warning signs that were there.