juliet: a new government report showing a rise in homegrown stepper since 2009 as the d defense classified the ft. hood shooting not as a terrorist attack but as workplace violence. joining us now are a couple whose son, private william long was gunned down if a terror attack in 2009 outside an army recruiting station in arkansas. thank you very much, both of you, for joining us today. i have to ask you, the fact that the ft. hood shooting was, is being considered a workplace violence and not a terror attack, what is your response? well, it s a problem with language. instead calling out what it is, they have come up with euphemisms to down play it, to me it is just unconscionable. juliet: why would they do that do you thing?
an army recruiting station. he was murdered just because he was in the united states army and the army and the f.b.i. for that matter treating us as this ordinary crime. the federal government did not even prosecute that as a terrorism crime even though he was killed by someone who was a muslim convert who was trained in yemen and came back to this country to kill the american military. that case was not brought into federal court as a terrorist case. they treated it as an ordinary crime. we re trying to figure that out. it could be because the f.b.i. had dropped the ball along the way and didn t want this brought out or it could be this overriding tendency in this administration to try to treat these as workplace incidents to somehow not highlight the fact that it s islamic terrorism and there are people in the military who feel very strongly about this and they are good people. they are people, i believe, in the political end of it who are pulling back on this. they don t want to giv
israel, indonesia and pakistan. interestingly enough, 75% of people in egypt said arabs not responsible for 9/11. should we cue up some bin laden tapes where he s admitting the entire thing or khali shaikh mohammed talking about how the plot was put together or the video confessions of those suicide of the suicide terrorists before they died? i mean, would that help? that s not even a tough question. it isn t a tough question. yet the disconnect continues to be there. we always hear that, it makes no sense obviously to us here. meanwhile, let s get to your headlines. we will indeed. defense lawyers plan to present an insanity defense today in the arkansas murder trial of abdul akim muhammad accused of killing one soldier and wounding another outside an army recruiting station in little rock. muhammad insists he s not insane and claims his actions were justified by the quran. a texas man who was kidnapped has been found dead in mexico.
terrorists before they died? i mean, would that help? that s not even a tough question. it isn t a tough question. yet the disconnect continues to be there. we always hear that, it makes no sense obviously to us here. meanwhile, let s get to your headlines. we will indeed. defense lawyers plan to present an insanity defense today in the arkansas murder trial of abdul akim muhammad accused of killing one soldier and wounding another outside an army recruiting station in little rock. muhammad insists he s not insane and claims his actions were justified by the quran. a texas man who was kidnapped has been found dead in mexico. police say he was murdered after his family could not pay a $10,000 ransom. he worked as a federal court interpreter in el paso and was kidnapped after bringing his car into mexico for repairs. the f.b.i. is now investigating this. ok. an american blogger stumbles in on an apple store in cumming,
radicalized walked into an army recruiting station in little rock, arkansas, and killed an army recruiter. the tragedy is that the army doctor who stands up up and killed 13 americans at ft. hood. the previous guest said the range tragically in an open society is limited but this is where the people of our country have to be alert. the classic if you see something, say something. if you see someone acting suspiciously call the local police. neil: senator in manhattan everyone looks weird. good to have you. before september there was october 2000, the commander of the uss cole on the al qaeda connection then.