Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Ft. Hood shooter, was charged with 13 counts of murder as he lies on a hospital bed, paralyzed from the waist down due to the four bullets he took that ended his shooting spree. Reports indicate that Hasan contacted Islamic militant preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who currently resides in Yemen. As Thom Hartmann points out, good thing the last President still isn’t in charge, as with the right-wing frothing over themselves that the Ft. Hood shooting constitutes a “terrorist” attack, we probably would have been dropping bombs in Yemen by now.
The Obama administration announced, care of Attorney General Eric Holder, that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed -along with four others who assisted with the plot- will be tried in a U.S. federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, just blocks from Ground Zero. Of course, this led to outrage from Republicans, with the NRSC releasing a histrionic press release stating that the only reason why KSM is being tried in a Manhattan court room is due to Harry Reid caving into the “far Left.” The release included the following quote:
“Those who think elections don’t matter will have an important wake-up call when Khalid Shaikh Mohammed walks into the very American city where he helped slaughter thousands of innocent Americans and they shouldn’t forget that Harry Reid helped roll out the welcome mat,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Brian Walsh.
