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08-20-2010, 07:18 PM
Military to add terrorist screening
By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Aug 20, 2010 18:06:52 EDT
In the wake of the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, last year, the Pentagon is devising new methods to identify terrorists or other dangerous people working inside the military community, according to a new report.
That includes revising mental health screening tests to add factors correlated with violence, such as “work, home, financial, legal and interpersonal stressors,” according to the Defense Department report released Aug. 20.
In addition, commanders will soon receive better instructions on how to “distinguish appropriate religious practices from those that might indicate a potential for violence or self-radicalization,” the report said.
The 23-page report details the Pentagon’s response to the mass shooting in November 2009 when Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an American-born Muslim who was serving as a psychiatrist, allegedly shot and killed 13 people and wounded 43 others after becoming a radicalized Muslim with extremist anti-American views.
The report is the military’s final response to an independent review of the shooting that was commissioned by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The review was completed in January and included a series of recommendations.
The military will also launch a new effort to ensure the mental health of mental health care providers. That will include hiring additional health care providers; keeping close watch on their deployment lengths and dwell time at home; and possibly using temporary mental health care providers to fill shortfalls, according to the report.
Military installations will have a new requirement to install 911 emergency call systems on par with surrounding civilian communities, according to the report. That is part of a broader effort to better integrate force protection, law enforcement and emergency response efforts on military bases, the report said.
Hasan, who spent several years working at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., is facing a court-martial. Army officials are seeking the death penalty.
Shortly before the shooting, Hasan allegedly traded e-mails with a radical Muslim cleric in Yemen who had ties to the hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/08/army-add-terrorist-screening-forthood-083010/
By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Aug 20, 2010 18:06:52 EDT
In the wake of the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, last year, the Pentagon is devising new methods to identify terrorists or other dangerous people working inside the military community, according to a new report.
That includes revising mental health screening tests to add factors correlated with violence, such as “work, home, financial, legal and interpersonal stressors,” according to the Defense Department report released Aug. 20.
In addition, commanders will soon receive better instructions on how to “distinguish appropriate religious practices from those that might indicate a potential for violence or self-radicalization,” the report said.
The 23-page report details the Pentagon’s response to the mass shooting in November 2009 when Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an American-born Muslim who was serving as a psychiatrist, allegedly shot and killed 13 people and wounded 43 others after becoming a radicalized Muslim with extremist anti-American views.
The report is the military’s final response to an independent review of the shooting that was commissioned by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The review was completed in January and included a series of recommendations.
The military will also launch a new effort to ensure the mental health of mental health care providers. That will include hiring additional health care providers; keeping close watch on their deployment lengths and dwell time at home; and possibly using temporary mental health care providers to fill shortfalls, according to the report.
Military installations will have a new requirement to install 911 emergency call systems on par with surrounding civilian communities, according to the report. That is part of a broader effort to better integrate force protection, law enforcement and emergency response efforts on military bases, the report said.
Hasan, who spent several years working at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., is facing a court-martial. Army officials are seeking the death penalty.
Shortly before the shooting, Hasan allegedly traded e-mails with a radical Muslim cleric in Yemen who had ties to the hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/08/army-add-terrorist-screening-forthood-083010/