An apparent Muslim jihadist
strikes again — this time at Texas’ Fort Hood.
By Selwyn Duke
We’ve all heard about yesterday’s
tragedy at Fort Hood military base in Texas. At 1:30 p.m., army psychiatrist Major
Nidal Malik Hasan went on a rampage, targeting fellow soldiers and others
for destruction at the base’s Soldier Readiness Processing Center and the
adjacent Howze Theater. Using two semi-automatic handguns, Hasan claimed 12 lives
and wounded 31 people before being shot multiple times by local police (it
appears the other soldiers weren’t armed). The gunman was then taken into
custody and brought to a local hospital. It’s said his life is not in
danger.
While
there’s no “official” word on Hasan’s motives, it’s not hard to connect the
dots. A man of Jordanian descent and a pious Muslim, the major’s loyalties didn’t
seem to lie with the nation he’d sworn to protect. Instead, he had often expressed
support for Islamic jihadists, once saying that Muslims needed to “rise up”
against the aggressors (presumably the U.S. and the West in general). Expanding
on this, Philip Sherwell at the Telegraph
reports on the testimonials of retired officer and former colleague of Hasan’s
Col. Terry Lee, writing:
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