Barry Barely Cared

Justice at last for the Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Hasan

Last Friday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced plans to authorize the execution of Nidal Hasan.” The people have a right to wonder why this man deserves such a fate.

On November 5, 2009, at Fort Hood, Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gunned down Michael Grant Cahill, Libardo Eduardo Caraveo, Justin Michael DeCrow, John Paul Gaffaney, Frederick Greene, Jason Dean Hunt, Amy Sue Krueger, Aaron Thomas Nemelka, Michael Scott Pearson, Russell Gilbert Seager, Francheska Velez, Juanita Lee Warman, Kham See Xiong, and one more. Pfc Velez pleaded for the life of her baby before Hasan shot her. Maj. Hasan wounded more than 30 others, including Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, who took seven bullets from Hasan.

“The red laser went across my line of site, I blinked,” Lunsford explained. “He discharged the weapon, the first round went in above my left eye. So the impact caused me to spin around.” As Lunsford played dead, he heard Hasan’s “slow methodical fire.”

President at the time was Barack Obama, who grew up in Indonesia as Barry Soetoro, stepson of Lolo Soetoro, the Indonesian student his mother Ann Dunham married in 1965. As David Garrow revealed in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, the 1995 Dreams from My Father was a novel and the author a “composite character.” For the full story, see this writer’s Barack ‘em Up: A Literary Investigation and Yes I Con: United Fakes of America.

The composite character president called the mass murder “workplace violence,” not terrorism, not a crime, and not even “gun violence.” Hasan described himself as a “soldier of Allah” and yelled “Allahu Akbar” as he fired, but the president wondered what could possibly motivate someone to commit such an act. Vice president Joe Biden expressed sympathy for the families of the “soldiers who fell,” but did not name the jihadist who killed them. For the Delaware Democrat it was all just a “senseless tragedy.”

As Sgt. Lunsford and other victims pointed out, Hasan got better medical care than they did, and continued to draw his pay. Lunsford later requested a brief meeting with President Obama, who turned him down. When it came to victims of Islamic terrorism, Barry barely cared.

Hasan was sentenced to death in 2013 but continued to praise terrorists from his prison cell. Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, with 13 Americans killed, prompted Hasan to proclaim “We have won! All praises be to almighty Allah!” and so on. Hasan might have recalled the massive attack of September 11, 2001, after which President Bush declared “Islam is peace.” In similar style, CIA director John Brennan, a Gus Hall voter in 1976 (the Communist Party candidate that year), believed that Islamic jihad is “a holy struggle in pursuit of a moral goal” and has nothing to do with violence.

No surprise that the CIA failed to stop the 9/11 attack. So did the FBI, which also failed to prevent Islamic terrorist attacks at Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon, San Bernardino, and Orlando. Those all claimed massive loss of life and the FBI played no role in the takedown of the terrorists.

At Fort Hood in 2009, civilian police officer Kimberly Munley managed to wound Hasan. In the style of Jesus Quintana (John Tuturro) in The Big Lebowski, Munley should have slammed in a full clip and shot Hasan until the gun went “click.” If the troops stood the jihadist against a wall, it would be hard to blame them, but it was not to be. Hesketh wants it done now, but the story won’t end there.

The FBI knew that Maj. Hasan was communicating with al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al Awlaki about killing Americans. Even so, the FBI judged that Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities, and someone in the bureau’s Washington office called off the surveillance.

As Kash Patel recently revealed, on January 6, 2021, the FBI deployed 274 undercover agents. That was under Christopher Wray, who contended there was never any FBI spying on Trump, and that on July 13, 2024, Trump was hit by “shrapnel,” not one of the eight bullets from Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Patel should now reveal which officials in the FBI’s Washington office looked the other way at Nidal Hasan’s murder spree. The people have a right to know.