The FBI and Department of Defense call these cases ‘insider threats.’ They include not just active and reserve military personnel but also individuals who have access to military facilities such as contractors and close family members with dependent ID cards.
NPR Officials define that as a case requiring a formal investigation to gather information against suspects who appear to have demonstrated a strong intent to attack military targets. This is the first time the figures have been publicly disclosed.
Officials would not provide details about the cases and the FBI would not confirm the numbers, but they did say that cases seen as serious could include, among others things, suspects who seem to be planning an attack or were in touch with “dangerous individuals” who were goading them to attack.
The FBI and Department of Defense call these cases “insider threats.” They include not just active and reserve military personnel but also individuals who have access to military facilities such as contractors and close family members with dependent ID cards. Cases seen as serious could include, among others things, suspects who seem to be planning an attack or were in touch with “dangerous individuals” who were goading them to attack.
“I was surprised and struck by the numbers; they were larger than I expected,” Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut and chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, told NPR. ”The reality is it only took one man, Nidal Hasan, to kill 13 people at Fort Hood and injure a lot more,” Lieberman said.
Hasan was an Army major at Fort Hood in Texas who is charged with opening fire on soldiers in the base’s processing center in November 2009. The rampage is considered the most serious terrorist attack on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11 attacks.
- MAJOR NIDAL HASAN
Prosecutors say Hasan had been in touch with an American-born radical imam, Anwar al-Awlaki, to ask for spiritual guidance ahead of the shooting; and Awlaki is said to have blessed it. Awlaki was killed in a drone attack in Yemen last year. Investigators also say Hasan had been displaying signs of increasing radicalization before the shooting took place, but the behavior had not been properly reported. Hasan’s court-martial is set to begin on Aug. 20, and he faces the death penalty.
The FBI compiled its tally of Islamic extremist cases in the military late last year for a joint hearing that Lieberman co-chaired. The hearing was looking at possible threats to military communities inside the United States, and the number of cases was revealed at that time. The FBI typically divides investigations into three categories: assessment, preliminary investigations, and then full investigations in which agents have enough evidence to justify using all the investigative tools at their disposal. As of last December, there were a dozen cases in that last category.
“This number speaks not only to the reality that there is a problem of violent Islamic extremists in the military, but also that the Department of Defense and the FBI since the Nidal Hassan case are working much more closely together,” said Lieberman. But the Fort Hood shooting inspired new reporting procedures aimed at catching plots before they unfold. Since 2001, law enforcement officials have foiled and prosecuted more than 30 plots or attacks against military targets within the United States.
Just last month, an AWOL Muslim soldier named Naser Jason Abdo was convicted of plotting to attack Fort Hood. Officers found components for an explosive device in Abdo’s hotel room not far from the base.
- NASER JASON ABDO
Officials say for many aspiring violent jihadis a military base is seen as fair game for an attack. Al-Qaida’s narrative revolves around the idea that America is at war with Islam the world over, and the perception is that the U.S. military is at the forefront of that battle.
Counterterrorism officials say that for many freshly minted jihadists, a military target is an easier choice than targeting a shopping mall or other soft civilian targets — precisely because it is seen as part and parcel of the battle.
“After the Fort Hood shooting, having just one serious case, much less having a dozen, is cause for concern,” says Bruce Hoffman, a professor and counterterrorism expert at Georgetown University and a distinguished scholar at the Wilson Center. You have to think about how people in the military community aren’t just your run-of-the-mill jihadis,” Hoffman says. “These are people who have access to guns and to bases and are supposed to have security clearances. This is not the community you want to be radicalizing.”
Charge them as traitors or spies. They are mohommedists and live by Sharia and their quran thus they are spies or Traitor, they cannot be American Soldiers and live by the Oath taken by all solders. If they say they can they are perjuring themselves. There is no such thing as a moderate mohommedist. They live to destroy and kill the only difference is by degree. Just by degree.
This is getting way out of hand…we need to escalate against this movement and indeed, perhaps do as Norway and New Zealand…export them out…all of them that have come in say the last ten years or so…otherwise, we will be another UK..where rape, sodomy, etc against women are for the need, want, desire and nothing more is done..
Get ALL Muslims out of the U.S. Military..Fact! Islam/Koran do not coincide with the US Constitution..
I agree, all Muslim’s out of our military an every aspect of our government as well.
After 9/11 our nation should have banned Islam from our nation and recognized it as a theocracy.
The safety of out nation depends on it.
All Muslims must be rounded up and shipped to Saudi Arabia, their Islamic paradise on earth, no matter where they were born.
An excellent, and the cheapest, form of transport would be requiring them to swim.
Co-conspirators to send with them: Obama, Holder, Dempsey, Pelosi, Reid, G. W. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bill and Hillary Clinton (you add your own favorite swimmers)…
if you look at all of the ass lifters you don’t see any white people. I think muslims must be racists…..LOL
There are white people. They are the new converts and often, the most dangerous.
Muslim prayers in Pentagon next to 911 memorial inside Pentagon
Iftar prayer inside Pentagon : ( in urdu
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Lieberman is surprised? Why? Ft. hood and any place in america has muslims is going to have problems
people who want to kill you. very sad situation. OVERGROWN JUVENILE DELIQUENTS
Surely Muslims should be banned from the military. This is like allowing a Nazi into the army in WWII. We are at war with Islam.
There are lots of white muslims, mostly converts ofcourse. BNI often “introduces” them here, the “chubby” hijab/niqab wearing girls series. There are white male converts in England -seen them in videos posted on BNI-, and certainly they exist in any number of/many countries world wide. Very misguided people, all, unfortunately.
smooth, just posted a new CMCG video.
Nevertheless, white male converts are generally required to wear beards in order to enter mosques, while “born” Muslims, who belong to the Muslim “race” don’t. But it is very possible that some white converts don’t wear beards as a form of taqiyya. The only thing that can prevent infiltration is mass learning of Arabic. Only when most non-Muslims know Arabic, we can keep a close lid on the Muslims.
SO! NJow, jsut because I am the holder of a dependent ID card; I am a terrorist??? oh thanks a lot asswipe government. My father, brothers, husband, son, and daughter all served. So I guess that makes us all terrorists. My God, the world is upside down.
Linda are you a moslem? If not, I don’t think you have to worry! They are only investigating certain moslem soldiers/and their family members that show a propensity to attack America from the inside. Read what it said again “investigation to gather information against suspects who appear to have demonstrated a strong intent to attack military targets.”
“Investigators also say Hasan had been displaying signs of increasing radicalization before the shooting took place, but the behavior had not been properly reported.”
Of course it hadn’t been properly reported because to do so would have been “racist,” and the person reporting the behavior would have been sent to “sensitivity and diversity training.” Oh, brother!!!!
Why only 14? All of them including children!
Ban all Muslims from service in the military in every ‘Free World Western Country.’ Any person that converts to Islam whilst serving in the military must be automatically ‘Dishonourably Discharged.’ The seditious instructions of Mohammed in the Koran clearly indicate that all ‘True Muslim Believers in Mohammed, Qur’an, Hadiths, and Sharia Law are barbaric enemies within- no exceptions. There can be no peace while Islam exists in the West. We are at war with Islam because Islam is at war with us.
‘Warrior Against Islam’
It turns my stomach to see these miserable traitors besmirching uniforms of the U.S. Army — all non-Muslim soldiers must be warned to watch out for the Muzzies, never let them get behind you. But the FBI is infiltrated with Muslim sympathizers — and the PENTAGON — oh my God. We are really sitting ducks.
Muslims are even allowed in West Point, which means there will be Muslim officers in charge of soldiers — this is just taqiyya, they pretend to be loyal citizens until they can get in charge of som soldiers and will then lead them into death
There is even a mosque at WEST POINT!!!!! How can anybody be so stupid? You cannot be a Muslim and a loyal American citizen, the loyalties are completely imcompatible.
There are traitors at the highest positions in our military who allow such outrageous treachery.
Sarastro, it is long past time to declare that Islam will no longer be considered a religion but an enemy political system bent on the overthrow of our government. The practice of Islam would be outlawed, all mosques shut down, and all non-citizen muslims deported. Case closed.
BNI, AMEN!!!
I watched 4 short videos about Islamic Sexuality by Ann Barnhardt. This woman is definitely in the BNI camp. I discovered the videos at the Zion’s Trumpet website.
Ann’s site is barnhardt.biz That woman is awesome in her anti-Islamic zeal, and adorable as well.
Uncle, we’ve been Barnhardt fans since she first burned a quran, page by page, online, and dared the muzscum to come after her.
In Islam, bigotry is a ‘good’ thing, because Mohammed did it…but he was a sociopathic, pedophile pirate. Mohammed is normative Islam.
Well, let’s see now if we can get things in proper persprctive! I read the stories of muslime shit in the US Military, watch a couple videos of muslime pukes praying at the Pentagon, where Christian prayers would NOT be allowed, I get EXTREMELY pissed off, being a veteran of the US Military, Vietnam Era, then I ask “How could shit like these muzzy pukes even be allowed in the U.S Military to start with?…Then, I think “Oh yeah, our having a muslime piece of sh– in the White House that some dhimmi dips STILL call “President”….Needless to say, it will come an icestorm in HELL before I’ll call that muslime bastard “President”…But, not-to-worry, folks, come November I believe the people of America will let the “O” know exactly what they think of him and his “hope and change” BS!!
VIDEO- Allen West on terrorists in the military
Sure, let the foxes into the hen house, and then have to investigate them! Don’t let muslims into the military. It defies logic; although, logic has become passe.
what about the fucking muzzies inside the FBI??????
who’s investigating THEM????
If they follow the mosques and the koran, they ARE a threat – how many more do you want shot next time?
If they don’t follow the koran, they cannot be muslim, so find out what they DO believe in – easy.