Red Army: The Radical Network That Must Be Defeated to Save America by Klein Aaron & Elliott Brenda J

Author:Klein, Aaron & Elliott, Brenda J. [Klein, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Disarming America

Since assuming office, President Obama and his administration have been minimizing the threat of Islamic fundamentalism while maintaining close associations with Islamic groups of questionable character. At the same time, a network of radical left-wing organizations, working with like-minded administration officials—many with deep ties to those same radical groups—have been engaged in a multipronged assault that seems aimed at disarming America as a superpower by emboldening our enemies, spurning our allies, and dismantling the greatest military the world has ever known.

“We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing,” President Obama stated in a Rose Garden appearance one day after a Muslim Army psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was accused of being the lone gunman in a shooting massacre at the Fort Hood, Texas, military base in which Hasan murdered thirteen in cold blood, wounding thirty others.1 Obama urged Americans not to “jump to conclusions” about the motives behind the shooting, a theme the president echoed in a speech the next day in which he downplayed religion as a motive in the deadly attack.

“They are Americans of every race, faith and station,” Obama said, speaking of the broad diversity of those who serve in the armed forces. “They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers. They are descendants of immigrants, and immigrants themselves. They reflect the diversity that makes this America. But what they share is a patriotism like no other. What they share is a commitment to country that has been tested and proved worthy.”2

Hasan’s Islamic motivations were immediately clear. According to eyewitnesses, Hasan reportedly jumped onto a desk and, like scores of other Muslim terrorist attackers, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” before firing more than one hundred rounds at soldiers processing through cubicles in the Soldier Readiness Center, where personnel receive routine medical treatment immediately prior to and on return from deployment, and on a crowd gathered for a college graduation ceremony.3

It would quickly emerge that Hasan attended the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, in 2001, at the same time as Nawaf al-Hazmi and Hani Hanjour, two of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks.4 The mosque at the time was led by Anwar al-Awlaki, an Islamic cleric who, according to U.S. government officials, had become “operational” as a senior talent recruiter, motivator, and participant in planning and training for al-Qaeda operations.5 Hasan expressed admiration for al-Awlaki’s teachings, with U.S. intelligence agencies intercepting e-mails between the two in which Hasan wrote to al-Awlaki, then living in Yemen, that “I can’t wait to join you” in the afterlife. Hasan also asked al-Awlaki when jihad is appropriate, and whether it is permissible if innocents are killed in a suicide attack.6

In an emerging scandal, it would be made public that officers within the Army were aware of Hasan’s tendencies toward radical Islam since at least 2005. According to an internal Army investigation leaked to the media, in one incident in August 2007, Hasan gave a classroom slide show presentation titled “Is the War on Terrorism a War on Islam: An Islamic Perspective.

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