Submitted by: Barbara Payne
Taliban warns of more Fort Hood attacks
Agence France-Presse
November 11, 2009
THE Taliban has warned the United States of more attacks like the Fort Hood shooting rampage unless Washington ends its policies in Afghanistan and Iraq, the SITE Intelligence Group said today.
The Afghan militants also described the American army psychiatrist suspected of carrying out the shooting in Texas as a “hero”, the monitoring group said, quoting a message posted on the internet.
“The recent attack on the military base in Texas warns that if the occupation policy of the American rulers continues in this way, without them folding the carpets of occupation and transgression in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is natural then that incidents and attacks similar to Texas will spread to the Pentagon and other American military centres,” the message said.
“According to media reports, the hero of the attack is a Muslim psychiatrist and major in the American army, of Palestinian origin,” said the message posted on jihadist forums, SITE said.
Major Nidal Hasan, a Muslim of Palestinian origin, is suspected of killing 13 people in the shooting spree at a Texas army base last week.
Hasan was due to be deployed to Afghanistan later this month and his family has said that he complained of harassment in the military and was deeply concerned about his orders to go to Afghanistan.
He has emerged from a coma after being wounded in the Fort Hood shootings.
December 12th, 2009 at 8:20 am
What the Taliban have not learned yet is that there is no room in modern life for a six centuy dogma. They are not wanted in Afghanistan or Pakistan. As for Maj. Hassam being a “hero” he is just a murderer who felt he had permission to perpetrate the atricity at Ft. Hood. Other people are psychiatrists who work with our soldiers and others in the military who do not resort to murdering the very people who make it possible for them to live a free life.