{"id":12449,"date":"2012-08-13T03:44:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T03:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=12449"},"modified":"2012-08-13T03:44:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T03:44:28","slug":"my-early-close-reading-of-nidal-hasans-ppt-reposted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=12449","title":{"rendered":"My early &#8220;close reading&#8221; of Nidal Hasan&#8217;s .ppt reposted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; my original SWJ post featuring my attempt at interpreting Nidal Hasan&#8217;s powerpoint slide show when it was first published, plus more recent links ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Nidal-Hasan-transform.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Nidal-Hasan-transform.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Nidal Hasan transform\" width=\"622\" height=\"301\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Nidal-Hasan-transform.png 622w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Nidal-Hasan-transform-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>At <strong>Zen<\/strong>&#8216;s suggestion, and since it&#8217;s no longer accessible on the revamped SWJ site, I&#8217;m posting here a link to my 2009 piece, <a href='http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SWJ-CC-Hasan-article.pdf'>The Hasan Slide Presentation: A Preliminary Commentary<\/a>, as it originally appeared in .pdf in the <a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/\"><strong>Small Wars Journal<\/strong><\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>My attempt then was to avoid, if possible, back-reading the facts of the Ft Hood shooting into the Hasan slide presentation &#8212; noting that at the time we lacked a clear sense of the verbal commentary with which Hasan had presented the slides.  <\/p>\n<p>Avoiding &#8220;projective hindsight&#8221; remains an interest of mine.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>More recently, I raised a related question about <strong>Maj. Hasan<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=11729\">here on Zenpundit<\/a>, and received first rate answers from: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Daveed Gartenstein-Ross<\/strong> and <strong>Lauren Morgan<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gunpowderandlead.org\/2012\/08\/nidal-hasans-fairly-benign-correspondence-with-anwar-al-awlaki\/\">Nidal Hasan\u2019s \u201cFairly Benign\u201d Correspondence with Anwar al Awlaki<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>JM Berger<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.intelwire.com\/2012\/08\/the-content-and-context-of-anwar.htm\">The Content and Context of Anwar Awlaki&#8217;s emails with Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>with indirect follow-ups from:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>emptywheel<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2012\/08\/06\/its-not-just-whether-nidal-hasans-emails-stuck-out-its-whether-abdulmutallabs-did\/\">It\u2019s Not Just Whether Nidal Hasan\u2019s Emails Stuck Out, It\u2019s Whether Abdulmutallab\u2019s Did<\/a>, and<br \/>\n<strong>Bernard Finel<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernardfinel.com\/?p=2164\">Was Ft. Hood (or Aurora) Preventable?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still in the relatively early throes of learning <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=12047\">my new job at UrbIm<\/a>, but hope to respond to these good folks once I&#8217;m a bit more settled in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve noticed, I don&#8217;t always manage to get to everything&#8230; : (<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; my original SWJ post featuring my attempt at interpreting Nidal Hasan&#8217;s powerpoint slide show when it was first published, plus more recent links ] . . At Zen&#8216;s suggestion, and since it&#8217;s no longer accessible on the revamped SWJ site, I&#8217;m posting here a link to my 2009 piece, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,770,483,162,211,1],"tags":[808],"class_list":["post-12449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-daveed-gartenstein-ross","category-extremists","category-small-wars-journal","category-terrorism","category-uncategorized","tag-jm-berger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12449"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12491,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449\/revisions\/12491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}