Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, M.D.<\/a>, who killed 13 human beings at Ft. Hood, carried on e-mail correspondence with radical jihadists, posted praise of suicide bombers and other radical Islamist sentiments on websites, gave lectures at Walter Reed on how Muslim soldiers should not fight fellow-Muslims, and in other ways was open about his radical jihadist beliefs. Not only that, officials knew he had done all these things! But they did nothing about it! Why not?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, M.D., who killed 13 human beings at Ft. Hood, carried on e-mail correspondence with radical jihadists, posted praise of suicide bombers and other radical Islamist sentiments on websites, gave lectures at Walter Reed on how Muslim soldiers should not fight fellow-Muslims, and in other ways was open about his radical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[879,1165,1584],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-ft-hood-shootings","tag-jihadism","tag-nidal-hasan"],"yoast_head":"\n
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