Did Major Hasan Attempt to Contact Al Qaeda???

New Questions has arisen now that the Army and Feds knew that Major Nidal Hasan had tried to contact Al Qaeda ABC news has learned.

US intelligence agencies including the CIA have been monitoring Major Nidal  for months  discovered he was trying Al Qaeda by “electronic means” brief ABC news anonymously on classified material.

Brian Ross of ABC News says the Army was aware but what was done about it is not certain.

Republican  Representative Pete  Hoekstra of Michigan the top ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee is asking the CIA and other agencies of   what was known and what is being done. The CIA rebuffed  Hoeksta.

Rep. Hoekstra issued what a called a document preservation request to CIA head Leon Panetta. The letter dated on November 7th went to the following agency heads Dennis Blair(DNI),  Robert Mueller(FBI); Lt. Gen Keith Alexander (NSA) and Leon Panetta (CIA).

Hoekstra is “absolutely furious” that the requests were denied to the intelligence committee.

“This is a law enforcement investigation, in which other agencies—not the CIA—have the lead,” CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said in a response to ABC News. ” Any suggestion that the CIA refused to brief Congress is incorrect.”

Investigators want find out if Hasan  was in touch with radical Muslim Cleric Anwar al Awlaki, who was the head of a mosque in Falls Church,VA in Suburban Washington,D.C. Al Awlaki is now in Yemen.

Ironically, Cleric al Awlaki posted on his blog:

“Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing,” Awlaki calls Hasan a “hero” and 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.”

The AP learned the Hasan attended the same mosque in Falls Church that Al Awlaki preached at about  time of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The London Telegraph  revealed that Al Awlaki  had made contact with two of the 9/11 hijackers when he was based in San Diego. Al Awlaki denied knowing the hijackers and he was never charged. Soon Afterward Al Awlaki left for Yemen.

On Sunday, Senator Joseph  Lieberman(I-CT) wonders out loud if Hasan is a Radical Muslim extremist and calls for an investigation to find out if the Army missed clue into Hasan’s mindset.

“If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have a zero tolerance,” Lieberman told Fox News Sunday.

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Ft. Hood Killer Slip Through the Cracks

When Major Nidal Hasan went his killing spree at Ft. Hood on Thursday. No one knew of his anger towards the US.

Hasan problems began after September 11th Terrorist attacks. Hasan’ cousin told Fox News anchor Shepard Smith that he was harassed by fellow soldiers. He believed that US should not be in Middle East. He was hoping that President Obama would get the US out of Afghanistan.

According to Gawker Hasan was on Obama campaign  Homeland Security Policy Institute’s presidential transition task force last year. The group was to draft American policy recommendations for the in-coming Obama Administration.

According to AP a former classmate of Hasan gave a startling presentation at the war on terror was  a war on Islam. Hasan “made himself a lightning rod for things” when his faith was challenged.

According to Wall  Street Journal soldiers who witnessed Hasan “shouted Allahlu Akbar” the Arabic Phrase for God is Great before opening fire. Meanwhile the Army is investigating  Hasan writing on his blog if it gives clues into his mindset and his defense of suicide bombing.

The Army warns not to draw conclusions  on why Major Hasan would attack his fellow soldiers. There questions if his religion play any role in attack.

The Army psychiatrist was also  angry  about his deployment to Afghanistan. Hasan was previously stationed at Walter Reed Army Hospital. At Walter Reed. He was not a sympathetic voice or a sounding board when listening and talking to soldiers coming back from Iraq or Afghanistan. Or those who are shipping out.

However, those who know Hasan wasn’t aware of his hostilities towards the war and US role in it. They said couldn’t tell by his actions.

“It’s a shock,” said Col. Kimberly Kesling, who supervised Maj. Hasan at Ft. Hood.

Neighbors found Hasan friendly and personable.  His neighbor Patricia Villa didn’t notice anything wrong as he was preparing to leave for Afghnistan.  Nadal ask Villa to tidy up his apartment for $60. Villa asked about him about the deployment.

“I asked him, ‘Are you afraid of going over there?’” Ms. Villa recalls. “He said, ‘I’m ready for it.”

His    apartment complex owner Jose Padilla found him friendly. Hasan asked Padilla of his native language he said Spanish. He gave Padilla a Quran in Spanish. Two week ago Padilla give key to his owner and refused his $400 deposit.

“I cannot comprehend that the enemy was among us,” Padilla said, as he teared up. “I feel a little guilt that I was basically giving housing to someone who is going to do so much destruction.”

His relatives in the Washington D.C. area and the middle east was shock and troubled as well.

“Our family is filled with grief for the victims and their families involved in yesterday’s tragedy,” said Nader Hasan, a cousin who lives in northern Virginia. “We are mortified with what has unfolded and there is no justification, whatsoever, for what happened. We are all asking why this happened, and the answer is that we simply do not know.”

However, a cousin who lives in West Bank  said Hasan was treated poorly. “He told (them) that as a Muslim committed to his prayers he was discriminated against and not treated as is fitting for an officer and American,” said Mohammed Malik Hasan, 24, a cousin. “He hired a lawyer to get him a discharge.”

Mohammed Hasan said outside his home in Ramallah that he heard about the shooting from a relative. “I was surprised, honestly, because the guy and his brothers are so calm, and he, as I know, loves his work.”

Hasan filed a report with the Killeen Police Department  about vandalism to his car. An Army employee scratched his car causing about a $1000 in damages.  John Thompson manger of his building  said the soldier has just came back from Iraq and objected to Hasan’ religion. He took off sticker that read Allah is Love.

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Meet Sargent Kimberly Munley, Our American Wonder Woman

Sargent Kimberly Munley a civilian police  officer with Fort Hood Police shot down Major Nidal Hasan during the shooting spree at Fort Hood on Thursday. Sgt. Munley shot Hasan four times while he struck her in the shoulder and wrists.

US Army officials say it was Munley actions that stopped Hasan from reloading his gun. Munley was the first police officer who arrived on the scene at the Soldiers Readiness Processing Center.

Colonel John Rossi spokesperson for the Army told reporters at a briefing on Friday at Ft Hood said the victims  killed processing center system were unharmed.”Her efforts were superb,” he said.

Ft. Hood commander Lt. Col. Robert Cone praised Officer Munley.

“She happened to encounter the gunman. In an exchange of gunfire, she was wounded but managed to wound him four times,” he said.

“It was an amazing and aggressive performance by this police officer.”

Colonel Steven Braverman commander of FT. Hood’s Darnall Army Community Hospital says Sgt. Munley is at local community hospital and recovering and she is in stable condition.

Meanwhile Major Hasan has been transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Hasan in a coma  at this time.

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Shooting Spree on Ft. Hood 14 are dead and 40 injured

UPDATE:  9:15 EST The  shooter Major Malik Nadal Hasan is not deceased. He being treated for his wounds hospitalized tonight and in custody.  12 people are dead and 31 people wounded.  LT. Col.  Robert Cone said tonight. Hasan has been taken to Scott and White Hospital in Temple. Hasan is the lone gunman.

14 people were killed and 40 others injured when a gunman open fire at deployment center at Ft. Hood,TX in Killeen,TX area,on Thursday. The shooting happened approximately  1:30p.m. There is no motive for the shooting spree.

Ft. Hood, 60 miles north of Austin and 160 south of Dallas.

The Pentagon has identified  the assailant as  Major Malik Nadal Hasan an Army psychiatrist who was set to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Hasan was shot and killed by Military Police.

Soldiers Readiness Processing Center on the west side of the base. A spokesman for the base, Sgt. Major Jamie Posten, said the processing center was where soldiers “cycle through as they prepare to deploy.”

Two other people were detained by MP’s but have been released.
President Obama has been notified.  Later the president spoke at an event in Washington, D.C. Obama called the shootings a “horrific incident.”

“It’s difficult enough when we lose these great Americans in battles overseas,” Obama said at the Interior Department. “It’s horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil.”

The nation’s leading Muslim-American civil rights organization CAIR , Council of American-Islamic Relations spoke out and condemned the shooting. “this cowardly attack in the strongest terms possible and ask that the perpetrators be punished to the full extent of the law.”

”No political or religious ideology could ever justify or excuse such wanton and indiscriminate violence,” the council said in a statement. “The attack was particularly heinous in that it targeted the all-volunteer army that protects our nation. American Muslims stand with our fellow citizens in offering both prayers for the victims and sincere condolences to the families of those killed or injured.”

The victims were  taken to to area hospitals. Ft. Hood was on lock down for several hours.

One of the witness was Retired Army Col. Greg Schannep  an aid to Rep. John Carter(R-TX) was a Ft. Hood to attend a services told the FT. Hood Sentinel that he heard at least“three or four volleys of shots, with eight to 12 shots in each volley.”

“Initially, I thought it was a training exercise,” he said. But then, “a soldier came running past me and said, ‘Sir, there is someone shooting.’

“As he ran past me, I saw blood on his back,” Schannep told the base paper. “I don’t think he even knew he had been shot.”

Staff Sgt. Fanuaee Vea, 32, had just left  the solider readiness center and was and was at home when the shooting took place. Vea was there an hour before the shooting took place. Vea drove back to Ft. Hood.

Some of the victims were taken to Scott & White Hospital in Temple, Tx according to The Waco Herald-Tribune. Four are operating tables the others  six others were in the emergency rooms under evaluation.

Scott and White is the only hospital is the central Texas that is a Level one trauma center between Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex and Austin.

Scott and White Hospital has made accommodations for the victims families.

All doctors at Scott and White were called in. Scott and White Hospital were placed on location.

Scott and White has asked the public to donate blood. The response was overwhelming.  They had been turned away.

One person who has able to donate was John Hamilton a salesman from Austin, heed the call for blood. Hamilton went to Scott and White in Temple. Hamilton listened to radio while driving on Interstate 35.

“I figured that it was the least I could do,” Hamilton said.

The Temple VA center in Temple, Texas offered assistance and set aside 14 beds.

Killeen Independent School District was placed on locked down including schools located on the base.  Temple Independent Schools were also placed on lock down.

“Temple Police Department requested Temple ISD place all campuses and district buildings in a soft lockdown, due to a situation at Fort Hood, TISD spokesperson Regina Corley told News 10 by news release.

“We have been directed to follow our regular dismissal schedule,” Corley said in a follow-up release.

Central Texas College was locked down until 5 P.M.

Texas A&M canceled classes for the remainder of the day.

Lt. Col. Robert Cone the Commanding officer at Ft. Hood.  Lt. Cone   said One person is dead and two others were arrested. All three was US soldiers.

Maj. Hasan 39  was recently transfer to Ft. Hood from Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington D.C. Hasan was stationed at Walter Reed for six years.  Officials say Hasan had received poor marks at Walter Reed. The person spoke on anonymity.

Our thoughts and prayers are with  victims and families at Ft. Hood.

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California’s Immigration Medical Scandal

A scandal has rocked the medical industry here in Los Angeles as a doctor has allegedly faked medical  exams for immigrants seeking entry to the  US.

Levon Tebelekian, 72, has been accused of falsifying medical records of immigrants seeking US Visas.  Tebelekian  put on phony medical exam results lab tests according the Los Angeles Times.

For instance, Tebelekian allegedly to an ICE officer is a he wasn’t going to disturbed “disturb his blood” he “did not look like he had AIDS,” according to an affidavit.

Immigrations authorities  are not sure of how many other victims  of Tebelekian are out there. Also they are not sure of the number of immigrants who was given visual AIDS exam.

“Aspiring immigrants are required to undergo a medical exam as part of the application process to ensure they don’t have any medical conditions or diseases that might pose a public health threat,” Miguel Unzueta, of ICE in Los Angeles, told the Associated Press.

“By allegedly giving some of his patients a clean bill of health without even examining them, this physician potentially put our communities at risk,” Unzueta said.

If Tebelekian is found guilty he could serve 80 years in prison.

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Cleveland House of Horrors: Four More Bodies Found

Grim News Four more bodies and the remains of a fifth have been found in the home of Anthony Sowell in Cleveland’s Southeast side. This bring the total 10 bodies.  The additional bodies were found buried in the back yard.

Sowell a convicted rapist has been charged with five counts with Aggravated Murder by Cleveland Police. Police discovered the bodies after a brief pause on Sunday.

The coroner’s office and police set up a tent with heating to continue find additional bodies  around the clock.

The Sowell home on Imperial Ave in Mt. Pleasant is one of the deadliest crime scenes in Cleveland.

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Cleveland, OH Man Arrested After Police Discovers the Bodies Six People in His Home

A Cleveland, OH man was captured by Cleveland Police on Saturday afternoon.  The suspect identified as 50 year old Anthony Sowell of Cleveland’s Mt. Pleasant neighborhood on the city’s  southeast side.

Police went to the home Thursday on 12200 block of Imperial Ave to serve Sowell a warrant for felonious assault and rape; and discovered a freshly dug grave  with two bodies that have been decomposing for a while. Sowell was not there.

On Friday afternoon, Cleveland police discovered another grave this time in the basement at 12205  Imperial Ave. The bodies of two women were discovered.

Later Friday evening police found two more bodes on the second floor of the home. The police discovered a second grave in the backyard with a body buried making a total of 6 bodies  found in the home.

A person walked in the city 4th District police station and said a person that fit the description of Sowell was walking on Manor Ave. The police sent patrol officer to arrest the suspect said Cleveland Police Chief Michael Mc Grath.

While arrested Sowell admitted that he was the person of interest while being fingerprinted. The police had task force of 100 officer searching for Sowell.

Cleveland Police said two of the bodies of black women they not yet been identified. The other bodies haven’t been identified either.

The Cuyhoga County coroner’s office is working to establish the gender , race  and age of the deceased and the cause of death.

The police attempted to serve a warrant on Sowell in regard to September 26th assault on a woman. In this case he met a woman and invited her to his home. There she was punched, choke and raped.

Cleveland Police investigated the case and attempted to arrest Sowell on Thursday.

Sowell had served 15 years in prison because of a rape conviction. He is a registered sex offender.

Crimestoppers offered of  reward of $2,000. While the U.S. Marshall had $10,000 reward for the information on Sowell whereabouts.

“He’s at the top of our list,” says Drew Deserto, Assistant Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal. “Our guys are going non-stop now since this case was referred to us.”

“This is the type of guy that this Task Force was created for,” Deserto tells WKYC.

A neighbor of Sowell admitted to picking up the man from his sister’s home  and was taking him home . When they saw the police barricade he had her to let him out of the car. Then Sowell left on foot.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, express sorrow and remorse fo the victim’s families and  gave kudos to the police in finding Sowell from the tips by the public at large.

“This will help bring justice to the families,” he said. “I was confident the public would help.”

Neighbors wondered about the bodies found in the home.  A relative of Nancy Cobbs a missing woman from the area.

“I just need to know if it’s her,” sobbed Kyana Hunt, Cobbs’ daughter, who said her was missing since April 23rd. Hunt was passing out flyers in the neighborhood.

Another relative of Cobbs, Denise Patton said, “When we heard about something like this so close to him, we kind of figure that’s it. That’s my worst fear.”   “She (Cobbs) only lived one street away and no one has heard from her, and that’s not like her.”

Sowell was livng with is stepmother, aunt and uncle. The home has been in the Sowell family for many years  according to his older brother Allen, 66 ,of Cleveland Heights,OH. Allen Sowell said he had not been in touch with his brother  since Anthony went to prison in 1990.

Anthony Sowell rented the top floor from their stepmother, Segerna Sowell, after leaving prison. Soon afterwards Mrs. Sowell complained of Anthony’s drug use  and  non-payment of rent because he says that he shouldn’t pay rent because father owned the house.

Allen Sowell last seen his stepmother at cookout in 2008. He had talked their stepmother several times after that and said she told him that she was filing papers on Anthony to evict him. That was the last time Allen talk to their step mom. He has tried to contact her. Neighbors said Mrs. Sowell is  living in a nursing home.

Now Allen fears the worst.

“She would be calling me,” he said. “That’s not happening, and that worries me.”

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Attack on a Los Angeles Synagogue Injured Two Men

Two men were injured today by an gunman during morning prayers at syanagogue in North Hollywood a section of Los Angeles in the city’s San Fernando Valley. The incident placed Southern California Jewish institutions on alert.

A motive was not  given by Los Angeles Police Department.  It is believed the the attack was by a lone shooter.

“We certainly recognize the location and we’re sensitive to that,” Deputy Police Chief Michel Moore said. “But we do not know that this was a hate crime at all.”

The two men in their 40’s  are members of Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Orthodox synagogue. The men were shot both in the legs.  The men had just arrived around 6:30 A.M. for morning prayers when the attack occurred.

The two men are in stable condition in a LA area hospital. They are expected fully recover soon.

The police described the alleged assailant as black male wearing a hooded sweatshirt. LAPD was had detained a person who filled the description he was released later.

The FBI joined in the search.

“We are being vigilant for any follow-ups that may occur,” Moore said.

The police  is being investigated as a hate crime.  However, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa cautioned the public from overreacting.

“Until they have concluded their investigation, none of us, none of us should presume or speculate more about this crime other than it was a random act of violence,” Villaraigosa said.

A student of the  synagogue school 13 year old  Shayan Yaghoubi, was heading to school when he and his parent was turned away for their safety.

“The cops told us we can’t go,” he said. “I feel very bad because this is my favorite school … I have a lot of friends over there. I hope everyone is OK. There’s never been a problem with fighting.”

A local resident Micheal Bloom 30, says the area has a history of Antisemitism.

“This has been going on for years. Everything from “death to Israel” to “dirty Jew,’” he said. “There are gangs in the area. It’s not the safest neighborhood.”

But Sholomo Yaghobi, 18 says the neighborhood is “calm, relatively.”

His brother who attends the schools is concerned.

“I’m upset if something would have happened to my brother, who would answer to that?” he said.

A spokesperson from the Simon Wiesenthal Center a Jewish Civil Rights  organization told FOX 11 News.

“When an attack actually takes place in the perimeter of a house of worship, it’s a source of deep concern,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center told KTTV. “Look, we don’t know whether this is a lone gunman, it could be drugs, who knows. But the fact of the matter is there were no words exchanged, violence was used.”

Rabi Cooper analyzed timing of the attack.

“If it’s someone who had been watching the community they would know that every weekday morning somewhere between 10 and 25 or 30 men are going to be coming to the early morning service.”

This comes 10 years from the attack on the Jewish Community Center by White Supremacist Bufford Furrow in Northridge section of LA.  Furrow shot and wounded 3 kids, a teen and adult.  Furrow then proceeded to kill a Filipino Mail Man.  He is serving life in prison with out the possibility of parole.

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Stabbing and Shooting at a Medical Office Building in Boston

This afternoon a patient of Boston psychiatrist was stabbed on Tuesday wounding the doctor. The patient was then was killed by an off duty security guard at Massachusetts General  Psychiatric Center Bipolar Clinic and Research Program.

The victim is identified as Dr. Astrid Desrosiers of Belmont, MA; she was attacked by her patient identified as Jay Carciero, 37, of Reading,MA. The attack happened around 2 P.M.

“While being seen by a physician, (the patient) attacked the physician with a knife and stabbed her. During the course of the incident, an off-duty security officer who was armed interceded,” Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said.

An off duty security guard told Carciero to drop the weapon.  Caricero did not heed the warning. The security guard shot and killed the assailant.

“Certainly heroic. We are happy he was here,” hospital spokeswoman Bonnie Michaelman said.

Witnesses saw the Dr. Desrosiers taken by gurney out of the building. Arthur Frigault and his wife Karen Heicox were on the 6th floor of the building.

“One (victim) was wheeled out here, and one came out of the foyer. There was a woman and she was all bloody. She was all covered up,” Frigault said.

Desrosiers was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with stab wounds in her chest and abdomen. She is in stable condition.

The attacker motives were not known at this time.

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Chicago Tax Cheats Beware City Wants you to Pay Up and Will Use Snitches to Get it Done.

Chicago tax scofflaw be aware the city is coming for you with a twist. They are ready to pay people to rat you out if you owe back taxes. The city is calling it a “tax whistle blower” program that will pit neighbor versus neighbor on business scene.

City hall will pay cold hard cash to these informants based on a percentage of  what the tax cheating businesses owe to the city.

“It’s just another way of bringing people into compliance,” Revenue Department spokesman Ed Walsh told the Sun-Times.

“It would probably be … a business knowing that a competitor is not remitting a tax. An employee [of the tax-dodging business] could know that, too. Typically, you need to provide some type of incentive.”

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