Allah Akbar!, a statement which the Fort Hood gunman yelled before his terrorist attack.  An attack which is trying to be smoothed over by white house officials as simply:  A guy who went crazy and was emotionally conflicted.  Bullshit.

“Allah Akbar” – Usually translated “God is [the] greatest,” it is a common Islamic Arabic expression, used as both an informal expression of faith and as a formal declaration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takbir

After 9/11, the FBI released a handwritten hijackers’ letter found in three separate copies at Dulles, the Pennsylvania crash site, and in Mohamed Atta’s suitcase. It included a practical checklist of final reminders for the 9/11 hijackers. One notable excerpt: “When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.”[2][3]

When in 2003, Imam Samudra became the second Bali bomber from a violent Islamist group to be sentenced to death for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people, Samudra greeted the sentence with chants of “Allahu Akbar”.[2][3]

In the 2007 Fort Dix attack plot, a group of radical Islamist[4] men were convicted of plotting to stage an attack on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey. A group of them[5] had recorded video footage of themselves shooting weapons and shouting Allahu Akbar.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takbir

“INTELLIGENCE agencies intercepted between 20 and 30 emails last year and this year from accused Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Malik Hasan to a radical cleric in Yemen known for his anti-American views.

But federal authorities dropped the matter after deciding the emails to Anwar al-Awlaki, who once served as imam at a Virginia mosque that Hasan attended, did not require further investigation.

Sheikh Awlaki, who was born in the US, replied twice, but officials told the Washington Post that the responses were ”innocent” and were not followed up.”

http://www.theage.com.au/world/killers-emails-to-cleric-ignored-20091110-i7gz.html

“In May 2006, USA Today reported that, under Hayden’s leadership, the NSA created a domestic telephone call database. During his nomination hearings, Hayden defended his actions to Senator Russ Feingold and others, stating that he had relied upon legal advice that the White House order to build the database was supported by Article Two of the United States Constitution executive branch powers (in which the President must “take care that the laws be faithfully executed”), overriding legislative branch statutes forbidding warrantless surveillance of domestic calls, which included the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Previously, this action would have required a warrant from a FISA court. The stated purpose of the database was to eavesdrop on international communications between persons within the U.S. and individuals and groups overseas in order to locate terrorists [10][11][12]“

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hayden

“Mr. Panetta has a reputation in Washington as a competent manager with strong background in budget issues, but has little hands-on intelligence experience. If confirmed by the Senate, he will take control of the agency most directly responsible for hunting senior Al Qaeda leaders around the globe, but one that has been buffeted since the Sept. 11 attacks by leadership changes and morale problems.

Given his background, Mr. Panetta is a somewhat unusual choice to lead the C.I.A., an agency that has been unwelcoming to previous directors perceived as outsiders, such as Stansfield M. Turner and John M. Deutch. But his selection points up the difficulty Mr. Obama had in finding a C.I.A. director with no connection to controversial counterterrorism programs of the Bush era.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/panetta-to-be-named-cia-director/