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I’ll just take a deep breath here because I wasn’t far wrong when I opined yesterday that this story was bound to get uglier: the alleged shooter at Fort Hood, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is a terrorist, domestic terrorist even. The AP reports:

“The officials also say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan communicated 10 to 20 times with a radical imam overseas who in the past came under scrutiny for possible links to terror groups. They say the communications began last year and continued into this year between Hasan and the imam, Anwar al-Awlaki, and that U.S. officials had been aware of them since last year.”

So much for the PTSD-victim line of thought.

How was this freak even in the military? If the feds knew of his activities, why the hell was this guy not just discharged from the Army?

For the larger meaning of it all, the New York Times has a decent round-up of opinionistas. I’m afraid I’ve got to line up with the more hardline voices out there who argue that there are some radical Muslims here in America who want to commit acts of terror against us (the Fort Dix plot, for example) and that Maj. Hasan is far from alone in his hatred for the US. Where you take that kind of thing I don’t know, but I do know that as a citizen I have the right to be protected from these kinds of losers, all of us do.

I know some readers and Peter Breggin himself have speculated that Maj. Hasan was on anti-depressants. Right now, that’s nothing but guesswork. We’ll know more down the road.

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