[Excerpt: "Hasan attended prayers regularly when he lived outside Washington, often in his Army uniform, said Faizul Khan, a former imam at a mosque Hasan attended in Silver Spring, Md. He said Hasan was a lifelong Muslim."]
Associated Press
November 5, 2009
by Brett J. Blackledge
WASHINGTON (AP) -- His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.
There are many unknowns about Nidal Malik Hasan, the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base. Most of all, his motive. But details of his life and mindset, emerging from official sources and personal acquaintances, are troubling.
For six years before reporting for duty at Fort Hood, Texas, in July, the 39-year-old Army major worked at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center pursuing his career in psychiatry, as an intern, a resident and, last year, a fellow in disaster and preventive psychiatry. He received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., in 2001.
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[Excerpt: "According to an FBI release, the indictment states that between December 2008 and June 2009 Khalid Shaikh, used the ApacheBench software program to launch against YouSendIt's servers."]
PC World
November 5, 2009
by Michael Cooney
Well that's one way to kill your business. The former CEO of Web 2.0 service company YouSendIt was indicted by a federal grand jury this week with four counts of mail fraud.
According to an FBI release, the indictment states that between December 2008 and June 2009 Khalid Shaikh, used the ApacheBench software program to launch against YouSendIt's servers. Each DOS attack temporarily rendered the servers incapable of handling legitimate network traffic and deprived YouSendIt's customers' use of the company's services, the FBI stated. |
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U.S. says group battling Ethiopians is linked to al-Qaida
TwinCities.com
November 6, 2009
by David Hanners
With clear, straight answers, a St. Anthony man admitted to a federal judge Monday that he lied to a grand jury when he denied knowing men who had returned to Somalia to fight Ethiopian troops who were occupying their homeland.
Adarus Abdulle Ali, 25, said he was scared when he was called to testify before the grand jury in Minneapolis, and that's why he didn't tell the truth — that he knew the men and knew why they were going to Somalia.
In pleading guilty to a single count of perjury, Ali became the fourth person to enter a guilty plea in connection with the exodus of young local Somali men back to Africa to take up arms for a group that the State Department says is a terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida.
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[Excerpt: "In the face of Islamist terrorism, Mansur deplores the "appeasement mentality" of liberal-left multiculturalists in the West as well as the "deafening silence of Muslims, except for lonely voices of feeble opposition."]
LFPress
November 5, 2009
by Rory Leishman
Among post-modern multiculturalists, it's commonplace to suppose that all cultures are of equal moral worth. Salim Mansur, professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario, emphatically disagrees.
In an illuminating collection of essays entitled Islam's Predicament: Perspectives of a Dissident Muslim, he maintains Islam is afflicted with "a terrible malady," which "reflects the irreparable breakdown of the civilization's centre . . . which at one time in history was co-equal, if not briefly superior, to Christendom."
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