{"id":273,"date":"2012-06-09T07:43:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T07:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.110.86.41\/2\/?p=273"},"modified":"2017-01-05T21:39:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T04:39:05","slug":"fort-hood-massacre-and-ksm-what-do-they-have-in-common-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Fort Hood Massacre &#038; KSM What Do They Have in Common? Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Fort%20Hood%20Massacre%20%26%20KSM%20What%20Do%20They%20Have%20in%20Common%3F%20Part%20One\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><h2><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gotham-City-insider-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-274\" title=\"Gotham City insider logo\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gotham-City-insider-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gotham-City-insider-logo.png 679w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gotham-City-insider-logo-300x89.png 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gotham-City-insider-logo-500x149.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFort Hood &amp; the KSM trial- Part I: What do these terrorism stories have in common?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><em>By <a title=\"Gotham City Insider Peter Lance Fort Hood Massacre &amp; KSM link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamcityinsider.com\/2009\/12\/fort-hood-ksm-trial-part-i-what-do.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Lance<\/a> December 3rd, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Al Qaeda\u2019s Master Spy could be the key to them both<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In its firestorm of coverage, the mainstream media has overlooked a potential link between the two biggest domestic terrorism stories of the day: the shootings at Ford Hood and the decision by the Justice Dept. to try accused 9\/11 \u201cmastermind\u201d Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Five time Emmy-winning former ABC News correspondent and HarperCollins author Peter Lance shines a light on the man who may well be the greatest enigma in the \u201cwar on terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Ali-M.-mugshot3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-294\" title=\"Ali M. mugshot\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Ali-M.-mugshot3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a>His name is Ali Abdel Saoud Mohamed, aka Ali Amirki or \u201cAli the American,\u201d the ex-Egyptian Army officer who penetrated the CIA (briefly) in 1984, the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg from 1987 to 1989 and the FBI where he served as an informant from the early 1990\u2019s, interacting with top federal prosecutors and Special Agents as he trained the cell responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and \u201cDay of Terror\u201d plots. Earlier he moved Osama bin Laden\u2019s entourage from Afghanistan to Khartoum, set up the al Qaeda training camps in the Sudan, trained the Saudi billionaire\u2019s own personal bodyguard and later served as the principal plotter in al Qaeda\u2019s five year mission to blow up the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Mohamed was the ticking time bomb at Fort Bragg who should have redefined the Army\u2019s rules for uncovering traitorous Islamic radicals in the ranks 20 years before Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan went on his alleged rampage at Fort Hood.<\/p>\n<p>But more importantly, for all the critics who think trying KSM in the Southern District of New York is a bad idea, Ali Mohamed could represent the Feds\u2019 best witness at trial; insuring once and for all that Khalid Shaikh will finally be brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The spy who hid in plain site<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the years leading up to the 9\/11 attacks, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than Ali Mohamed. A member of the radical Egyptian Army unit that murdered President Anwar Sadat in 1981, Mohammed escaped prosecution, but he was later purged from the Egyptian military due to his radical Islamic views.<\/p>\n<p>In 1983 he caught the attention of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, five years before the doctor with the spectacles and go-tee joined bin Laden to form al Qaeda. Al Zawahiri saw Ali as the espionage agent he needed to penetrate the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2iO9cJo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10043 alignleft\" title=\"Screen Shot 2017-01-05 at 8.37.24 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-05-at-8.37.24-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a>After the 1983 bombings of the U.S. embassy and the Marine barracks in Beirut, the CIA was hungry to recruit assets who understood the radical Islamic mindset. So with very little vetting, the Agency sent Ali to Hamburg where he went into a Hezbollah mosque only to blow his cover and get his name on a Watch List.<\/p>\n<p>Undaunted, Mohamed got onto a TWA flight from Athens to JFK in 1985. On the brief trip across the Atlantic, he managed to seduce an older American woman named Linda Sanchez who was returning from vacation in Greece. They were married six weeks later at a drive-through wedding chapel in Reno. After that, Ali moved into Linda\u2019s home in Santa Clara, California and set up an al Qaeda \u201cswitchboard\u201d and sleeper cell with an ex-Egyptian medical student named Khalid Dahab.<\/p>\n<p>In 1986 he drove to Oakland and enlisted in the U.S. Army, careful to stay under the radar and avoid the scrutiny of Officer Candidate School. Astonishingly, though still a resident alien, he was posted to Fort Bragg where he managed to work his way up to the rank of E5 (sergeant) and, without any security clearance, get posted to the highly secure JFK SWC where elite Green Beret and Delta Force officers train.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A chilling precursor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far, in its official reaction to the Fort Hood massacre the U.S. Army has been taking a page from the Claude Raines school of crisis management; imitating the reaction of the duplicitous Capt. Renault in the film Casablanca who professed, \u201cshock, shock\u201d that there was gambling going on at Rick\u2019s club only to be handed his winnings.<\/p>\n<p>But two decades before Maj. Hasan allegedly dropped thirteen people in cold blood, key officials at Bragg were aware of Ali Mohamed\u2019s openly jihadist views. They even used him in a training video, in which Ali declared (with chilling confidence) that it was the duty of all Muslims to change countries with secular governments into Islamic regimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an obligation,\u201d said Ali on the training tape, \u201cit\u2019s not a choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And how much was known at Bragg among the officer elite of Ali\u2019s subversive agenda? Ask his own commanding officer, Col. Robert Anderson:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you or I would have a better chance of winning the Powerball lottery, than an Egyptian major in the unit that assassinated Sadat would have getting a visa, getting to California, getting into the Army and getting assigned to a Special Forces unit. That just doesn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it did and Ali was so audacious at Bragg that he announced to Anderson that he was going to use his leave to visit Afghanistan and hunt Soviets. It was an act that could have had global implications akin to the Soviet shoot down of Francis Gary Powers\u2019 U-2 flight, if Mohamed had been captured or killed in the midst of the covert U.S. war to help the Mujahideen.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview for my HarperCollins biography of Mohamed, Triple Cross, Anderson said that he tried to get Ali court martialed after he returned from Kabul and brazenly dropped two belts from Soviet Spetsnaz commandos on his desk. Bragging that he\u2019d killed them, Ali wasn\u2019t worried in the slightest that he\u2019d be reprimanded and Anderson said he was told by a JAG officer that there was insufficient evidence \u201cto convict anyone of anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Does this resonate with the kind of audacious behavior Maj. Hasan exhibited at Walter Reed Army Hospital only to be given a pass? As the French say, \u201cplus c\u2019est change, plus c\u2019est la meme chose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Al Qaeda\u2019s secret spy in New York<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But the Afghan theater of ops wasn\u2019t where Ali Mohamed did his most damage. On weekends, in 1989 he began commuting up to New York from Fort Bragg where he trained Mahmoud Abouhalima, a six foot two-inch red headed Egyptian cab driver, Mohammed Salameh, a Palestinian illegal alien, and Nidal Ayad, a Kuwait \u00e9migr\u00e9 and Rutgers grad \u2013 all later convicted by Southern District prosecutors in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/masjid-al-salam-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-296\" title=\"masjid al salam sm\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/masjid-al-salam-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>Working out of what the Feds called \u201cthe Jersey jihad office,\u201d the Kennedy Boulevard based <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?layer=c&amp;cbll=40.731748,-74.066462&amp;panoid=-QCYTeSUvD6mVh4NQqPyUg&amp;cbp=12,199.522064,,1,-16.033878&amp;ved=0CBQQ2wU&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=XOsXS872LI_CM4vSqYYB\">Al-Salaam mosque in Jersey City<\/a>, Ali even played his Fort Bragg training video for the \u201cbrothers\u201d as he schooled them in and weapons training and other covert operations.<\/p>\n<p>Should the Army have known about Ali\u2019s clandestine trips back then? Maybe not initially, but the alarm bells should have gone off at the JFK SWC in November, 1990 when El Sayyid Nosair, another Ali trainee, gunned down Rabbi Meier Kahane, founder of The Jewish Defense League as he gave a speech at the Marriot Hotel on Lexington Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>That night as multiple law enforcement units descended on Nosair\u2019s house in New Jersey they found a treasure trove of intelligence suggesting that Ali Mohamed (who stayed with Nosair on his New York visits) had betrayed not only the U.S. Army, but his adopted country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kahane-assass-photo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-299\" title=\"Kahane assass photo\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kahane-assass-photo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kahane-assass-photo1.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kahane-assass-photo1-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kahane-assass-photo1-1024x475.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kahane-assass-photo1-500x232.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>They filled forty-seven boxes with evidence seized, including Green Beret manuals marked \u201cTop Secret for Training\u201d and communiqu\u00e9s classified as Secret from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.<\/p>\n<p>Another memo, entitled \u201cLocation of Selected Units on 05 December 1988,\u201d listed the precise positions of Special Operations Forces (SOF) worldwide\u2014including the army\u2019s Green Berets and Navy SEAL teams\u2014along with details of their missions. That single communiqu\u00e9 could have easily gotten Mohamed indicted on charges of espionage and treason, defying the legal judgment of the JAG officer at Bragg who had spurned Lt. Col. Anderson\u2019s request for a court martial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A warning of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe cache also contained hints of al Qaeda\u2019s most famous New York target: the World Trade Center. One passage inside Nosair\u2019s notebook called for the \u201cdestruction of the enemies of Allah\u2026by\u2026 exploding\u2026their civilized pillars\u2026and high world buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Considering the \u201cstove piping\u201d that existed back then, you might ask how would the FBI have known about Ali\u2019s presence at Fort Bragg or his links to El Sayyid Nosair?<\/p>\n<p>Fair question, until you realize that 16 months before the Kahane assassination, the FBI Special Operations Group followed Nosair and a group of other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boilingfrogspost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/PeterLanceArtPic1.png\">\u201cME\u2019s\u201d (middle eastern men)<\/a> from a Brooklyn mosque to the Calverton shooting range on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-09-at-10.28.31-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-300\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-06-09 at 10.28.31 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-09-at-10.28.31-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-09-at-10.28.31-PM.png 869w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-09-at-10.28.31-PM-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-09-at-10.28.31-PM-500x139.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Over four weekends in July, the Bureau agents took dozens of surveillance photos of Nosair, Abouhalima, Salameh, Nosair and Ayad (all trained by Ali Mohamed) firing handguns, AK-47\u2019s and other semi-automatic weapons. They even had shots of the chrome-plated .357 Magnum, Nosair would use to rub out the rabbi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u201clone gunman\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even more shocking, when you ponder why the dots weren\u2019t connected, was the presence of Abouhalima and Salameh, Nosair\u2019s intended getaway driver\u2019s, at his New Jersey home the night of the assassination.<\/p>\n<p>They were taken into custody; only to be released by the NYPD the next day. Later, despite the involvement of three co-conspirators, Chief of Detectives Joe Borelli labeled the assassination a \u201clone gunman shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nosair, a Prozac popping janitor who worked in the basement of Manhattan\u2019s civil court was tried locally by the Manhattan D.A. and to the surprise of Bill Greenbaum, the ADA who prosecuted the case, the Army kept their distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had people from Fort Bragg who came up,\u201d he told me. \u201cBut then they went home and we never heard a word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nosair lawyered up with William Kuntsler who succeeded in getting him convicted on mere weapons charges vs. the actual Kahane murder. Years after the 9\/11 attacks Eleanor Hill, chief investigator for the House-Senate Joint Inquiry, revealed that Osama bin Laden himself helped pay for Nosair\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first U.S. blood spilled by al Qaeda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The legal fee from the Saudi billionaire suggested that the rabbi\u2019s death at the hands of an Ali Mohamed-trainee was the first in a series of al Qaeda missions directed against U.S. citizens; the next being the murder of six people in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 Embassy bombings, the loss of 17 sailors in the bombing of the U.S. Cole in 2000 and the mass murder of 2,976 on 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Mohamed was personally connected to three of those five acts of terror. In the Embassy plot, he actually took the surveillance pictures that bin Laden used to pinpoint the location of the suicide truck bombs.<\/p>\n<p>And what about the culpability of the two \u201cBin Laden offices of origin;\u201d The FBI\u2019s New York Office (NYO) and the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) in failing to sniff out Mohamed as an al Qaeda spy?<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect their record is shameless. But the seeming inability of the Southern District Feds to connect the dots continued up through the mid 1990\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>In prepping for the 1995 \u201cDay of Terror\u201d plot, an al Qaeda scheme to blow up the bridges and tunnels into Manhattan, assistant U.S. attorneys Patrick Fitzgerald and Andrew C. McCarthy put together a list of 172 un-indicted co-conspirators.<br \/>\nAli Mohamed was on the list along with Osama bin Laden and a little known individual named Waleed al Noor \u2013 co-owner with Egyptian Mohammed El-Attris of a small check cashing and mailbox story in Jersey City called Sphinx Trading.<\/p>\n<p>If the Feds had any doubts about how \u201cmobbed up\u201d with al Qaeda Sphinx was, all they had to do was visit the building that housed the \u201cJersey Jihad\u201d office and the al Salaam mosque where blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, al Qaeda\u2019s spiritual leader, held court. Sphinx Trading was on the ground floor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 9\/11 dots that never got connected<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nOne of the most shocking discoveries I made in researching Triple Cross was that, six and a half years after McCarthy and Fitzgerald put Waleed al-Noor on that list with bin Laden and Ali Mohamed, Khalid al-Midhar and Salim al-Hazmi, two of the muscle hijackers who flew AA Flight #77 into the Pentagon on 9\/11, got their fake ID\u2019s at Sphinx from Mohammed El-Attriss, al-Noor\u2019s partner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meeting Mohamed face to face<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1996, Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (now the top Federal prosecutor in Chicago) was charged by DOJ brass with getting an indictment of bin Laden. He turned to Squad I-49 in the FBI\u2019s NYO where he began working with Special Agents Jack Cloonan and Dan Coleman.<\/p>\n<p>By the summer of 1997, suspecting that something very bad was developing in Africa, Fitzgerald sent Coleman to Nairobi where he searched the home of Wadih El Hage, a bin Laden confident who was one of the principal bombing plotters.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman was shocked to discover links between El Hage and Ali Mohamed, who had been cooperating with the Feds since 1992. That prompted Fitzgerald himself to fly across country to Sacramento where Ali was then living. In a face to face meeting, the federal prosecutor naively hoped he could turn Mohamed.<\/p>\n<p>But Ali was not about to betray his \u201csheikh,\u201d Osama. He actually admitted to Fitzgerald that he \u201cloved\u201d bin Laden and \u201cbelieve[d] in him.\u201d Then, he uttered words that amounted to treason; boasting that he didn\u2019t need a fatwa to make war on the U.S., since America was \u201cthe enemy.\u201d There was no way he was going to betray the jihad to these hapless Feds. Finally, he got up and left.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, Fitzgerald turned to Cloonan and said, \u201cThat is the most dangerous man I have ever met. We cannot let this man out on the street.\u201d But that\u2019s just what he did; allowing Ali to remain free for another 10 months; waiting to arrest him until a month after the bombs went off in Africa killing 224 and injuring thousands. It was a plot that Ali had been perfecting since 1993.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cutting a deal with the devil\u2019s \u201caide\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back at Fort Bragg, Col. Anderson, Ali\u2019s C.O. had described him to me as a \u201cfanatic.\u201d He wasn\u2019t the devil, the Colonel said, \u201c he was more like the aide to the devil. He had an air about him; a stare, a very coldness that was pathological.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Does that not echo the growing testimony we\u2019ve heard from Army colleagues who interacted for years with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan?<\/p>\n<p>It took Fitzgerald more than a year to get any real cooperation out of Mohamed. It wasn\u2019t until the year 2000 that Ali finally pled guilty to the Embassy bombings in return for being spared the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was, as the months counted down to the 9\/11 attacks, why didn\u2019t he give up the \u201cplanes as missiles plot?\u201d From what Cloonan told me, Mohamed knew every detail. How could a top Fed like Pat Fitzgerald cut a deal with al Qaeda\u2019s chief spy and not squeeze the truth out of him about bin Laden\u2019s ultimate goal?<\/p>\n<p><strong>In PART TWO we\u2019ll look at how much Ali may have known about the 9\/11 plot and why, if the Feds were smart, he could become the secret weapon against KSM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Fort%20Hood%20Massacre%20%26%20KSM%20What%20Do%20They%20Have%20in%20Common%3F%20Part%20One\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Fort Hood &amp; the KSM trial- Part I: What do these terrorism stories have in common? 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