Release the Al-Awlaki/Major Nidal Hasan Correspondence Now!
The month after Major Nidal Hasan open fired at Fort Hood, killing thirteen people and injuring thirty-two others, his mentor — the American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki — gave an interview to Al Jazeera.
In the December 2009 interview, al-Awlaki describes his year-long email correspondence with Hasan, explaining that he coached Hasan to kill American soldiers on the grounds that, according to Islamic law, it was Hasan’s duty to do so.
The interview was predictably pro-jihad. But there was one notable comment that stood out. About one-third of the way through the interview, al-Awlaki asks his Al Jazeera counterpart:
I wonder where were the American security forces that one day claimed they can read the numbers of any license plate, anywhere in the world, from space?
In other words, al-Awlaki wondered why, with all the high-tech surveillance the National Security Agency (NSA) has at its disposal, the messages between him and Major Hasan weren’t intercepted and read. The argument that al-Awlaki’s emails would have been a needle in a haystack does not hold water. Al-Awlaki has remained high on every U.S. intelligence agency radar ever since it was revealed — in the “9/11 Commission Report” — that he was linked to at least four of the 9/11 hijackers through two separate mosques where he preached. One, the Dar al-Hijrah mosque, is located near Falls Church, Virginia, and the other, the Masjid Ar-Ribat al-Islami mosque, is located in San Diego, California. That al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico, attended Colorado State University, is a U.S. citizen, and left America for Yemen in 2002 to preach jihad online makes him a person of interest who was most definitely being watched — long before Nidal Hasan ever attacked Fort Hood.
On Wednesday, March 17, a new al-Awlaki audio tape emerged. In it, al-Awlaki goads President Obama into releasing the entire contents of his year-long email correspondence with Nidal Hasan.
Annie, I guess I have to disagree with you on two points. First is that Hassan would be a “US Person” under the law and so would have required a FISA Court order to intercept; even if they intercepted him by accident, it would have literally been criminal to keep the intercepts.
The second is that the information you want to have revealed — whether Hassan was being intercepted and what was said, or conversely that he wasn’t intercepted, and the weaknesses that might indicate — is pretty much exactly what is meant by “sources and methods”. As such, it’s properly classified and likely to remain classified.
Charlie, Hassan may be an American jihadist, but s-Awlaki is not. Moreover, s-Awlaki is a terrorist, who is being investigated by the US. So, all his exchanges with anyone in the universe can/will/should be automatically recorded and stored. I am sure there is already a legal permission by the Courts to do so – and it’s likely there is no need for a legal permission, since this s-Avlaki person is outside of US.
Secondly, if US cannot intercept emails to and from the US base to a known Islamic terrorist – that’s quite embarassing.
Lastly, affirmative action and wrongly understood diversity lead to very costly failure – just watch what Barack Obama and Hassan did to this country in the last year.
Hasan was on the radar of intelligence in 2008; but when Obama, and Holder took over, the investigation was shut down. It was known that Hassan was ‘a soldier of allah’.
I would refer to full explanation on the site I frequently read at:
http://www.strata-sphere.com.
Aj did a good job in explaining that Obama and Holder wanted to accomate muslims. Go, and read in Aj’s archive, it will explain this incident.
With naive gullible, fools like Charlie Martin watching THEIR backs it seems that ANY Terrorist can do as he likes. Is it any wonder Islamic Terrorist scum can infiltrate the USA with impunity.
Aulaki had popped up in every investigation from September 11th, to Toronto,
Ft. Dix, the TransAtlantic bomb plot, and now apparently with “Jihad Jane’
and company. I can’t imagine he wouldn’t have raised red flags
If Israel were to, G-d forbid, “lose”; the American Islime would rise up and rip the USA to the ground exactly as called for by this Imam, (like Iraq) and the current administrtion would say they have a constitutional right to protest; and if you tried to defend your life and/or property against the American Islime, this administration would jail you, if for nothing else, for insulting Islime…
My analysis is exactly correct.
Al-Awlaki sounds just like a serial killer taunting the authorities because he enjoys portraying himself as smarter than them. Guess what? Whether our gov had the emails all along or not, he is right. Stupid not to have the emails. Stupid not to have taken them as a serious threat. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Leaves me wondering if anyone has even bothered to see if there are any dots to connect regarding the guy who beheaded his wife or the guy who brutally attacked a woman at a bar? Both men were muslims. They may be isolated incidents and only related to the attacker’s personal beliefs and not related directly to a larger purpose, but…what if they aren’t?
6. Jay Getty: “My analysis is exactly correct.”
Good for you! And how long have you been undergoing analysis?