"I Am The Shooter"
"Panel members, good morning. On the morning of November 5, 2009, thirteen U.S. soldiers were killed and many more injured. The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter. The bodies found that day show that war is an ugly thing. Death, destruction and devastation are felt from both sides, from friend and foe. The evidence will show I was on the wrong side. The evidence will also show that I then switched sides. The evidence will show we mujahedeen are imperfect soldiers trying to establish a perfect religion in the land of the supreme God. I apologize for any mistakes in this endeavour."
Major Nidal Hasan, U.S. Army psychiatrist
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| In this photo released by the Bell County Sheriff's Office, U.S. Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who is charged with murder in the Fort Hood shootings, is seen in a booking photo after being moved to the Bell County Jail on April 9, 2010. |
Major Nidal Hasan is no longer practising as a U.S. Army psychiatrist. That he was trained by the American military as a medical specialist in psychiatry represents a devilishly impish if not evil irony. He is single-handedly responsible for what a Senate report characterized as the "worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001." In that context, Major Nidal Hassan was hugely successful.
Not necessarily as a psychiatrist, since he obviously suffered from a malign pathology, as testified to through the above-noted address to a judge and jury at Fort Hood, Texas. His very particular conceit in his transmission of what he clings to as his very particular brand of truth, is testament to his birth and his obviously fragile state of mind, one badly needing of the professional skills of a practising psychiatrist himself untroubled by a world-shaking agenda.
Insisting on conducting his own defence, Major Hasan is obviously proud of his horrendous misdeed which has made of him a semi-martyr, an honoured hero in the annals of extreme Islamist jihad missionaries. Paralyzed from the waist down, his medical condition is respected during court proceedings. Born in the United States to Palestinian immigrants and steeped in Islam, while immersed in the American way of life his mind became inextricably twisted in the miasma of hate.
Major Hasan was notified that he would be shipped out to serve in Afghanistan. "They've got another think coming if they think they are going to deploy me", he said to an army doctor. Which would not have represented the first and only occasion when this man indulged in peculiar and disturbing outbursts betraying a strange mindset. That pre-warning evidently elicited no concern, no follow-up. And Major Hasan went on to practise marksmanship.
He bought ammunition, asked staff at a shop called Guns Galore for "the most technologically advanced handgun on the market". Whereupon he took possession of an FN Herstal 5-7. When, during court proceedings he was shown the confiscated weapon he responded: "Your honour, I'd like to speak for the record that this is my weapon." In early November of 2009 he began to divest himself of personal belongings.
On November 5, 2009 Major Dr. Nidal Hasan entered Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Processing Centre to join dozens of recruits awaiting medical check-ups before being sent off to Afghanistan. Dr. Hasan, 42 years of age, sat among the other recruits, medical records in hand, and a semi-automatic handgun fitted with two laser sights in his pockets along with 16 magazines packed with 420 ammunition rounds. And a fully loaded revolver.
Shouting "Allahu Akbar!", he opened fire on the defenceless men in the area. "He was shooting soldiers literally a few feet away. He used the laser sights to kill the uniformed soldiers, and only the uniformed soldiers. Laser sights flashed through the now gun-smoke-filled building", stated military prosecutor, Col. Steve Henricks, stressing that Dr. Hasan had planned to "kill as many soldiers as he could."
What occurred on that morning in November 2009 was a "methodical, targeted shooting spree of those wearing the uniform", while civilians present were spared, said Col. Henricks. A woman in uniform, pregnant, pleaded for mercy for her unborn child. There was no mercy for those in uniform. In the space of a few minutes 146 rounds were fired. Soldiers desperate to escape were shot in the back, before Dr. Hasan himself was shot in the chest, the carnage finally halted.
Dr. Hasan had attempted to plead guilty, in a bid to avoid execution. Prosecutors nonetheless are seeking capital punishment. If he is sentenced to death for his extraordinary display of rabid hatred unleashed on unsuspecting military personnel by someone himself in uniform, trained as they had been to respect and represent the best interests of the country that succoured them, he will be the first American soldier to face execution since a 1961 court martial.
At the present time, he is still considered to be a serving soldier in the U.S. Army. Accordingly, he has continued to draw almost $300,000 in salary, since that infamous attack took place.
Labels: Catastrophe, Crime, Immigration, Islamism, Justice, United States
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, August 08, 2013
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