Ruel Marc Gerecht (former CIA officer):Major Hasan and Holy War; A domestic Islamic threat is real, and the FBI is unprepared
Ruel Marc Gerecht (former CIA officer): “For those of us who have tracked Islamic militancy in Europe, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s actions are not extraordinary. Since Muslim militants first tried to blow a French high-speed train off its rails in 1995, European intelligence and internal-security services have increasingly monitored European Muslim radicals. Whether it’s anti-Muslim bigotry, the large numbers of immigrant and native-born Muslims in Europe, an appreciation of how hard it is to become European, or just an understanding of how dangerous Islamic radicalsim is, MOST EUROPEANS ARE FAR LESS CIRCUMSPECT AND POLITICALLY CORRECT WHEN DISCUSSING THEIR MUSLIM COMPATRIOTS THAN ARE AMERICANS.”
“A concern for not giving offense to Muslims would never prevent the French internal-security service, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST), which deploys a large number of Muslm officers, from aggressively trying to pre-empt terrorism. As Maj. Hasan’s case shows, this is not true in the United States.