Ten years ago at Fort Hood

In American Greatness, Lloyd Billingsley reminds us,

On November 5, 2009, at Ford Hood, Texas, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, began gunning down unarmed U.S. soldiers, including Francheska Velez, a 21-year-old private from Chicago who pleaded for the life of her baby. Hasan shot her in the chest and her unborn child perished with the mother.

The Muslim major, a self-described “soldier of Allah” yelling “Allahu akbar” as he fired, killed two other women that day along with 10 men—more than twice as many victims as the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. The Fort Hood massacre was also the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001, but that was not how President Obama described it.

In his mind, the Fort Hood mass murder was not terrorism or even gun violence. For the president of the United States, it was “workplace violence,” an absurdity for the ages that rendered Hasan’s victims ineligible for the medical treatment and medals they deserved. Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, who took seven bullets, sought just 10 minutes to tell President Obama how the government mistreated the Fort Hood victims but the White House declined his request.

In March 2010, the president urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood “terrible tragedy” and even referred to “the alleged gunman.” Two years later, it emerged that the attack could have been prevented. As a 2012 congressional hearing revealed, Hasan openly communicated with terrorist mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki, telling him in an email “Please keep me in your Rolodex in case you find me useful, and please feel free to call me collect.” Under FBI Director Robert Mueller “the case was dropped until November 5, when the media began circulating reports of the massacre.”

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“I’m supposed to get 72 virgins, not turn into one!"

Lee Ho Fuk reports for the satirical blog Duffleblog,

FT LEAVENWORTH, KS — An administrative error has been blamed for a mix-up in sentencing involving the cases of convicted Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan and Bradley Manning, the Army private convicted of leaking classified documents to the website WikiLeaks.

After sentencing concluded last Wednesday in Fort Hood, Texas, it was reported Hasan would undergo gender reassignment surgery and change his name from Nidal to Nahid Hasan. Nahid is an Arabic name meaning “one with full, round breasts.”

Not long after it was revealed, the traitor formerly known as Chelsea had been transferred to death row where he awaits execution by lethal injection.

Leavenworth officials announced that both gender reassignment and execution have been approved by fiscal offices. Due to end of fiscal year funding constraints, changing these allocations will be too costly in the final quarter.

Sequestration and work furloughs were also cited as possible contributors to the errors, which are now fiscally and administratively impossible to correct. Administrative offices in Leavenworth were unavailable for comment due to a “training holiday.”

Hasan, who had declined to speak on his own behalf previously, is reportedly now quite vocal concerning this turn of events.

“This is egregious,” the former Army psychiatrist said of the mix up. “I’m supposed to get 72 virgins, not turn into one. My mullah screwed me!”

At press time, Manning was unavailable for comment, throwing a hissy fit in his cell. This despite fellow inmates having assured him they would still call him girls names.

Al Jazeera America has reported Al Qaeda rumblings of possibly facilitating an arranged marriage between Hasan and Ayman al-Zawahiri. Since the announcement or the error, Hasan has received multiple proposals of marriage from various Afghan jihadis, including Zawahiri.

“A woman who used to be a man? That’s the best of both worlds,” remarked one jihadi. “Every day will be man-love Thursday!”