12 dead, 31 injured in shooting at Fort Hood Texas

Some years ago, that included retaining a lawyer and asking if he could get out of the Army before his contract was up, because of the harassment he had received as a Muslim...

In one posting on the Web site Scribd, a man named Nidal Hasan compared the heroism of a soldier who throws himself on a grenade to protect fellow soldiers to suicide bombers who sacrifice themselves to protect Muslims.

“If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory,” the man wrote. It could not be confirmed, however, that the writer was Major Hasan...

The former imam at a Silver Spring, Md., mosque where Major Hasan worshiped for about 10 years described him as proud of his work in the Army and “very serious about his religion.” The former imam, Faizul Khan, said that Major Hasan had wanted to marry an equally religious woman but that his efforts to find one had failed... “He wanted a woman who prayed five times a day and wears a hijab, and maybe the women he met were not complying with those things,” the former imam said.

Unfriggin believable, I finally agreed with GCTMT on something

the sky is falling, the sky is fallin!!

I wonder . . .how did one man with two handguns shoot that many people on an Army base where people are trained to fight?

steph

Generally unless there is an exercise going on or an alert at bases that are not in a war zone the military does not go around armed. The military police are generally the only ones armed but stateside think of them more as regular cops, they function just like any police force. Military bases are some of the safest places on earth to be. People can leave doors unlocked and there is little to no crime on most bases. These guns that were used I bet were his own personal weapons and not military issued.