Military to add religious practices and terrorist screenings

Military to add terrorist screening

By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Aug 21, 2010 9:53:48 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.
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