Dean
6th November 2009, 14:10
"There was a single shooter that was shot multiple times at the scene. He was not killed as previously reported. He is currently in custody and in stable condition," Cone said. Hasan was born in the US to Muslim Palestinian parents who had emigrated from a small town near Jerusalem, US media said.
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"Every day, he heard how horrible those stories were and he really started to question the wars, according to what his cousin and sources who knew him said.
"Hasan became more devout in his religion and started arguing with soldiers about whether the wars were right or not, to the point where he received disciplinary action and negative work reviews.
"He was transferred to the medical facility here at Fort Hood, where apparently these feelings continued.
"It raises a major question - how can a person responsible for the mental health of soldiers returning [from war] be allowed to continue in this profession when he has these kinds of questions himself?"
AJE - Deaths in US army base shooting (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/11/200911641042388762.html)
My emphasis.
So, what do you think? Despite the atomized nature of the violence, I'm not sure that there is anything 'wrong' with what he did. It was an attack on the racist imperial forces of this nation. Obama's response was particularly childish and machiavellian, as usual.
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"Every day, he heard how horrible those stories were and he really started to question the wars, according to what his cousin and sources who knew him said.
"Hasan became more devout in his religion and started arguing with soldiers about whether the wars were right or not, to the point where he received disciplinary action and negative work reviews.
"He was transferred to the medical facility here at Fort Hood, where apparently these feelings continued.
"It raises a major question - how can a person responsible for the mental health of soldiers returning [from war] be allowed to continue in this profession when he has these kinds of questions himself?"
AJE - Deaths in US army base shooting (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/11/200911641042388762.html)
My emphasis.
So, what do you think? Despite the atomized nature of the violence, I'm not sure that there is anything 'wrong' with what he did. It was an attack on the racist imperial forces of this nation. Obama's response was particularly childish and machiavellian, as usual.