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fort_hood_and_the_election.htmlAmerican Thinker:

My liberal friends and family often ask what's the source of my passion to see Mitt Romney defeat Barack Obama. They never like the answer.

 

Pvt. Francheska Velez.

 

Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, an Army bomb disposal specialist who served in Iraq was three months pregnant when Major Nidal Hasan deliberately shot her in the abdomen during the murderous rampage at Ft. Hood. Screaming in agony, her final words were "My baby, my baby."

 

Witnesses in the Article 32 hearing in 2010 testified that a man in an Army combat uniform stood by a front counter, shouted "Allahu Akbar!"("God is great!") and started shooting. Major Hasan also had 20 "email communications with senior al-Qaeda recruiter and Yemen-based cleric Anwar al-Awlaki."

It has been 153 weeks, or almost three years, since the Ft. Hood murders on November 5, 2009 and Major Hasan's court-martial has still not begun. Justice for the victims and their families has not only been criminally delayed, but the integrity of the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) and its processes have been damaged. Don't expect any MSM coverage on the three-year anniversary of the shootings, a day before the presidential election.Scissors-32x32.png

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Updated: 6:12 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 | Posted: 6:11 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012

Court: Fort Hood suspect can be forcibly shaved

 

By ANGELA K. BROWN

The Associated Press

FORT WORTH, Texas —

An Army appeals court ruled Thursday that the Fort Hood shooting suspect can have his beard forcibly shaved off before his murder trial.

The U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the military trial judge's decision to order Maj. Nidal Hasan to appear in court clean shaven or be forcibly shaved, according to a release from Fort Hood. The opinion came on the heels of last week's hearing at Fort Belvoir in Virginia in which the court heard arguments from both sides.

Hasan, who did not attend the hearing, has said he grew a beard because his Muslim faith requires it, despite the Army's ban on beards. A few exceptions have been made for religious reasons.

The appeals court also ruled that Col. Gregory Gross, the trial judge, properly found that the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act does not give Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/crime/court-fort-hood-suspect-can-be-forcibly-shaved/nSg6F/

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