ABC News;

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.

That sound you hear in the distance is the mainstream media changing gears from “Hasan The Hapless Victim” to finger pointing at the failure of those within the Obama administration to “connect the dots” … oh, wait…
Questions remain – victim of war or victim of feminism? Well, he’d never actually been to war….

Kim is of my best friends in dog sport, and owns one of my Mini Schnauzers. When I learned earlier today that she’d been on the scene at Fort Hood, I asked if she’d be willing to write about the experience. In her own words….

I was notified by dispatch that there were several shots fired and potentially several victims. The scene was not safe so we were instructed to “stage” close to the scene. While staging I was approached by a police officer that their was an “officer down!”…I told him I had not gotten a “code 4”, our code that the scene was safe for emergency responders to enter the scene. The officer left and came back again to me to tell me again there was an officer down and needed EMS NOW!
He assured me the scene was safe so we proceeded into the scene. Several bystanders were around and Ft Hood fire dept was already on scene. My partner went to a pt lying on the ground on her side of the ambulance and I approached the officer who had been shot; her gun shot wound was exposed which appeared to be potentially fatal due to the location, a tourniquet was applied prior to my arrival which probably saved her life; she was conscious but appeared very pale and probably in compensated shock at this point due to the massive amount of blood loss I witnessed around her.
I was then summoned to other patients calling for EMS; the next pt I approached was shot in the neck with a arterial bleed…I instructed bystanders to continue to hold pressure to the wound and gave them bandaging material. I triaged several pt’s with potentially life threatening wounds, each worse than the next.
A young man walked up to me and asked if I could help him, I asked him, “where are you shot?”, he told me in the chest…I directed him to go sit in my ambulance and an army medic sat with him and started oxygen and bandaging on him; in the mist of the madness I was trying to determine who would be the first to be transported still waiting on the helicopters to land so I could fly out the worst.
While getting more bandaging material off my ambulance several bystanders carried a soldier to my truck that had been shot in the head, he was conscious and breathing, he kept asking me “am I gonna die?”, I told him I was doing the best I could, knowing from experience his situation appeared bleak.
Behind my ambulance several bystanders were doing CPR on a lady that had obviously been fatally shot, in a mas-cal situation you do “the most good for the most people”…that means save the ones you can and black tag the un-salvageable…it’s a harsh truth but effective in this type of situation.
Since the helicopter was still not there I made the decision to take off and transport these two critical patients to Darnell Army Hosp which was about 4 mi away. I quickly dropped off those patients and headed back to the scene with an ER nurse as well to help. In the meantime, several other ambulances had showed up and others had been transported leaving me with one soldier shot in the shoulder, and deservedly last, the shooter was the last to leave the scene and was flown to a hosp approx 30 mil away since the local hosp’s were overwhelmed at this point.
I consider myself and seasoned and experienced medic but no one can prepare you for a war zone, which is exactly what this was…I felt so helpless trying to help so many with such limited resources. Thank God for all the bystanders, fire dept and community EMS services that came to our aide. Thank you officer Kimberly Munley for being so brave and fearlessly doing your job….

And you too, Kim.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
April, 2009 – “The report is not saying that veterans are extremists. Far from it,” Napolitano said on CNN’s State of the Union. “What it is saying is returning veterans are targets of right-wing extremist groups that are trying to recruit those to commit violent acts within the country. We want to do all we can to prevent that.”
November, 2009 – Napolitano said: “The investigation into the shootings has began and it would be inappropriate to speculate on the causes of this terrible crime, so let me not comment any further as the investigation is ongoing.” While she was in Brussels, reports out of the US suggested that the suspect in the killing of at least 13 people at the Fort Hood base shouted “Allah Akbar” (God is great) before opening fire.”

It’s the new “cry for help”.

According to the suspect’s cousin, Hasan was also harassed after 9/11 because of his ethnicity, and was called a “camel jockey.”

Well said: Horrific Outbreak of Stupidity
h/t Jason
Update: Not all are equally reluctant – “So we give congratulations to the Ummah for their jihadist operation executed by the brother Nidal Malik Hasan on the American base where he was working as a psychiatrist and recently (received orders to go Iraq), and he seemed upset and did not want to participate in this war, and he did not want to be among the ranks of infidels against his Muslim brothers”