Michael Scheuer, Walid Phares Agree With Me: Ft. Hood Was a Terrorist Attack
The former head of the Bin Laden unit at the CIA, Michael Scheuer, conquers with me that the attack on Ft. Hood by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was indeed an act of terrorism.
“Clearly I think it was a terrorist act. Whether he was connected to another group or not or a formal group is question we’ll find out over the next couple of days,” said Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden unit.
“But for years now, it’s been very clear that two of the targets for Al Qaeda and other Islamic groups for recruitment were in the U.S. military and in the U.S. prison system,” he said. “So this is not really much of anything new.”
Walid Phares, who characterized the incident as “”the largest single terror act in America since 9/11,” sums it up well:
“What happened at Ft. Hood is not about being frustrated by America’s foreign policy or exacting revenge for racial slurs. Nor is it about simply being a Muslim-American serving in the military or about being a member of any faith,” he wrote in an opinion piece published in FoxNews.com’s Fox Forum.
“The murders at Ft. Hood are about the radicalization of individuals by an extremist ideology — jihadism — which fuels acts of terror,” he said. “The main question we should be asking is when did Hasan become radicalized and who indoctrinated him? Everything else will fall in place once we have these answers. Moreover, this would allow us to detect other potential terror acts that may be in the making.”
At least I’m not the only one who isn’t blinded by political correctness.
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