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Officer 'shouted Allahu Akbar' before gun rampage - Americas, World - The Independent

Hasan, a devout American-born Muslim, was shot several times in the aftermath of the rampage by a civilian police officer who was today being hailed as a hero.

Mr Cone said Sgt Kimberly Munley and her partner responded to reported gunfire within three minutes.

She then disabled the suspect despite being shot herself in the process.

"It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer," the military spokesman said.

Shortly before her arrival, Hasan - armed with two non-military issue pistols, including a semi-automatic - entered a section used to prepare soldiers for deployment overseas and started firing.

Within minutes, 12 soldiers and a civilian at the base were dead or dying in the worst mass shooting yet at a military base in the US.




*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Nov 6th, 2009 at 01:12:31 PM EST
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"Allahu Akbar"? Sure. Why not. The Liberty 7 could said that, if anyone had witnessed their arrests.

Ultimately, what happened at Fort Hood had little to do with the 2007 debacle at Virginia Tech.

It has been reported, Hasan took his medical degree at USUHS, adjacent to the Naval Medical campus that is networked to Walter Reed facilities off- and on-site, all of which would be beneficiaries of Jackson Foundation funding and project management into mental health research. in particular.

To really know what happened to Hassan, we will have to know why he was being deployed to Iraq later this month, and whether he was to work with those suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, as reported, or whether he was called upon instead to combine his considerable psychiatric expertise, eight years at Walter Reed, with his knowledge of Arabic to serve in an intelligence capacity.

Who are the other perps?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Nov 6th, 2009 at 08:29:09 PM EST
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The story keeps changing - for a while Yahoo had a story that mentioned friendly fire, but that seems to have disappeared now.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Nov 6th, 2009 at 09:59:01 PM EST
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Former General Barry McCaffrey, IIRCC, appeared on NBC nightly news with that supposition.  He found it unlikely that one man, even with two 20 round clips for his pistol, could have caused all 40 reported injuries and speculated that some of the injuries could have been friendly fire, (i.e. shots intended for the shooter.)  A female police officer was reported to have been the first on scene and hit the shooter with two rounds while taking wounds herself.  Dr. Hasan was reported to be in serious but stable condition and has been transferred to a different facility.  PBS had an interview with the base Muslim chaplin who confirmed that Muslim soldiers had complained about harassment due to their religion. It is going to be interesting to watch this play out.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Nov 6th, 2009 at 10:25:58 PM EST
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"Serious but stable condition" is coma, I've heard from NPR reporting yesterday.

"Interesting" indeed is the "lone gunman" supposition intended to discredit further inquiry into "hate crime" complaints and criminal conspiracy of the first instance. It is so diabolical, it will work.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sat Nov 7th, 2009 at 06:35:12 AM EST
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