Reviving the War of Terror: Patsy framed in Secret Team psy-op to generate public support for wars

Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster: Patient Care, Community Consultation, and Preventive Medicine

(published in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry)

Early Mental Health Intervention Reduces Mass Violence Trauma

(published by The National Institutes of Mental Health)

Military Psychiatry

The Prisoner of War (Chapter 17) - Emotional Aftermath of the Persian Gulf War

Treatment Guidelines

APA Practice Guideline for the Treatmentof Patients With Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Understanding PTSD and ASD There has been a new addition to the website since its 'revamp': a paper outlining guidelines to Fort Hood residents about how to assist children coping from the trauma of the shootings: Talking to Children about the Ft. Hood Disaster.

In May, the same month he received promotion to major, Dr. Hasan participated in a task force panel hosted by the Homeland Security Policy Institute, a think-tank connected to George Washington University. He contributed to the task force's report on 'Security Priorities for the Next Administration.'

Does it make sense that an Army Major with Hasan's academic background and involvement in organizations bridging military and government interests in such matters as Large-scale Quarantine Following Biological Terrorism in the United States would exhibit the symptoms of a deranged lone gunman? We naturally wonder if, besides being a Muslim, there is a connection between his 'extra-curricular' military duties and his being selected to take the fall on November 5?

The one 'black mark' on Hasan's successful military and academic career is a poor evaluation report from the Walter Reed Hospital:

For six years before reporting for duty at Fort Hood, in July, the 39-year-old Army major worked at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center pursuing a career in psychiatry, as an intern, a resident and, last year, a fellow in disaster and preventive psychiatry. But his record wasn't sterling. At Walter Reed, he received a poor performance evaluation, according to an official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

A poor evaluation report - versus 6 years of otherwise successful academic and professional achievement - during which time he himself underwent counselling. The media dutifully belabored this point, insinuating that it suggested disloyalty or a lack of duty. But only a conscienceless robot would fail to experience conflict in this field of work, dealing daily with traumatized war vets and their tales of horror from the killing fields in Iraq and Afghanistan, coupled with the fact that staff and patients at Walter Reed suffer deplorable working conditions because of a government that doesn't care about war veterans. After all, what use is a soldier that can't kill anymore?

With his membership of the CSTS erased and his solid military and academic record leaving them scraping the barrel for mud to throw at him, anonymous (Secret Team) leaks to the press next revealed that the FBI had been tracking Major Hasan for 6 months because of some "dubious comments" he made about suicide bombers:

At least six months ago, Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades.

They had not determined for certain whether Hasan is the author of the posting, and a formal investigation had not been opened before the shooting, said law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the case.

The actual content of the post did not justify or praise suicide bombings as the media have implied: it was a brief attempt to objectively understand the strategy behind them. Of course, just mentioning "suicide" and "bomber" in the same sentence would have alerted every intelligence agency database in the US and elsewhere, a fact Muslims living in the US must be keenly aware of 8 years after 9/11. Yet we're supposed to believe that the FBI just sat on that information for six months? The FBI have gone to farcical lengths to generate the illusion that America is overrun with terrorist sleeper cells, yet they did not at least take Hasan in for questioning just for mentioning the words 'suicide bomber'? Maybe they did. Maybe they thought Hasan's faux-pas could come in handy one day. But it's far more likely that Hasan was never invesitgated because he never wrote the web post; the obscure comment was fabricated and attributed to the patsy after he was chosen as the new face of Terrorà "ž .

People that knew him on the base described their sheer disbelief that Hasan could be capable of such a thing. As did the man who knows him best, his grandfather:

"He is a doctor and loves the U.S." Ismail Mustafa Hamad told Reuters in an interview at his home in the Palestinian town of al-Bireh. "America made him what he is."

"Whether he became angry or something else, I don't know... What I do know is that it is impossible that he would do something like that," Hamad, 88, said.

Much ado has been made about his giving away 2 copies of the Koran as gifts. He gave one to his landlord, who, irony of ironies, shares the same name as another American Muslim persecuted for imaginary crimes against the state, Jose Padilla. Implied in virtually all press coverage of this act of kindness is the insinuation that this is typical of what an 'extremist' would do, as if the Koran itself were a terrorism manual. Quite why any undercover al-Qaeda operative, having spent over a decade working his way deep into enemy territory, would then reveal his game the day before his big day of martyrdom has not yet been explained by anyone in the mainstream media. Here's what really happened during Hasan's last encounter with Padilla:

Earlier this week, Hasan asked Padilla his native language. When Padilla said it was Spanish, Hasan immediately went up to his apartment to get him a Spanish-language Quran. Padilla said Hasan also refused to reclaim his deposit and last month's rent, surrendering $400 that the major said should go to someone who needed it.

The fact that he gave away his belongings to his neighbours on the base the day before the shootings has been twisted to imply that he was preparing for jihad. But the fact is he was due to deploy to Iraq/Afghanistan (reports conflict) the next day. Giving away unnecessary personal effects before leaving for a tour of duty is customary behaviour. In fact, all his neighbours and peers that were interviewed described a man who was respected and the furthest thing from an "extremist". Although the media showed "exclusive footage" of him appearing at the local 7/11 for his regular morning coffee and pastry, his friendly manner and small-talk with the owner were portrayed as a diabolical disguise and headlined as the actions of someone that seemed "cool, calm, religious". And that terrorist outfit he was wearing? A dead giveaway that he was bent on revenge against the infidels.

As Michael Yaki writes:"the implied presumption on Hasan appears to be terrorist unless proven otherwise." On every news report, the fact that he was a muslim is being highlighted over and over again. When a non-muslim offs a bunch of people, there's no mention of the killer's religious beliefs. Lost amid the hype painting Hasan with 'Islamo-fascist leanings' is the fact that "he had listed 'no religious preference' on his personnel records." His religion, by birth or choice, is irrelevant to ascertaining his motive. But instead it has become the noose for the media to strangle him with, and a focal point once more for American vengeance:

A top Republican congressional recruit said on Friday that the shooting at Ft. Hood, Texas yesterday by a solider allegedly sympathetic to suicide bombers shows that the "enemy is infiltrating our military."

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