"calling it right" first time around
Reader comment on item: FBI Investigating Possible Terror Ties of Fort Hood Suspect

Submitted by Patrick Dunleavy, Nov 9, 2009 22:23

Thank you Steve for speaking out on the incident and calling it what it is. I'm reminded of the case of Rashid Baz, aka the Brooklyn Bridge Shooter. In March 1994 after hearing a fiery serman preached at the Islamic Center of Bay Ridge, he went out armed with automatic weapons and opened fire on a van full of hasidic jewish students, killing Ari Halberstam and wounding several others. The authorities at the time refused to call it an Islamic act of terrorism. The District Attorney call it a simple act of "Road Rage" It was not until all the facts were brought out and the relentless pursuit of the Halberstam family that it was declared a terrorist act in December 2000 by the United States Justice Department. It took them over six years to call it what it was. Thanks for calling it right the first time.

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