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I just learned that the FBI had been tracking this guy for 6 months under suspicions of links to terrorists.
I just learned that the FBI had been tracking this guy for 6 months under suspicions of links to terrorists.
Gotta linky?
No just heard it on the radio, I'll keep an eye out though.
Around 300 soldiers had assembled at the Soldier Readiness Center on the base, where they were to have inoculations before being sent to Afghanistan, when Hasan, dressed in his military uniform, entered at 1.30pm and opened fire at close range with two privately-owned handguns.
None of the soldiers were armed and some barricaded themselves into rooms off the main hall of the building while Hasan repeatedly reloaded his weapons and fired indiscriminately for 10 minutes, killing 12 soldiers and a civilian.
Survivors described how Hasan had "a very calm and measured approach" as he fired scores of rounds. Lt Gen Bob Cone, the base commander, said one soldier had told him "I made the mistake of moving and I was shot again". Others "would scramble to the ground and help each other out", he added.
Officer Munley and a colleague were on the scene three minutes after the first shots were fired, but it took several more minutes before they could stop Hasan as he carried on firing.
Once the gunman had been brought down, soldiers rushed to treat their comrades by ripping up their uniforms into makeshift bandages.
I guess what I am saying is if I was in the Army in Iraq and in a FOX Hole I am not sure I would want some with the name of Hassan or Obama having my back...............
See this is the exact mentallity and rehetoric that causes such stress within the military and our troops.
The teabag message.
Because you are afraid of that which you do not understand.
I guess what I am saying is if I was in the Army in Iraq and in a FOX Hole I am not sure I would want some with the name of Hassan or Obama having my back...............
:rofl
As if that even matters. Ideology is ideology, regardless of whether or not it's religion or free state or social movements.
See this is the exact mentallity and rehetoric that causes such stress within the military and our troops.
The teabag message.
Except this guy was never deployed anywhere.
I appreciate your honesty....but sadly I think you are misguided and do a lot of disservice to many men and women who serve honorably and don't deserve to be treated in that manner.
Maybe but when your in a fox hole you should just have to worry about the enemy in front of you not your comrades behind you........Its easy to say you would have not any doubts but if the actual incident came to pass it might be a different matter...........
I think about those 43 unarmed people gunned down yesterday...They might have felt just like you the day before................
Just like one of my most favorite women in the world, spent a large part of her childhood in an interment camp. She is strongly pro-US....yet we treated her as if she were the enemy. She harbors no ill-will. I'm not sure that I would be so forgiving.
Whole different ball game my friend and you know it...........
Whenever I hear this kind of stuff it makes me really sad. I have a good friend who is Lebanese who is in Iraq for the third time. It makes me really sad to think that his fellow soldiers might turn their back on him just because he is Arab American.....BTW his name is Walid.
You got it backwards my friend.............American soldiers are not killing Moslem American soldiers............Its the opposite...............
Sorry Navy....but now you are getting offensive. I would think that someone who professes to be such a supporter of the military would not do such a disservice to the men and women who wear the uniform.
I had a little more respect for you....that however is fading fast.
My friend and many like him are just as freedom-loving American as anyone else. I guess you are a cafeteria-supporter of the military.
So should my friend and those like him be discharge honorably or dishonorably?
Why are you so willing to turn your back on the good men and women of the military so quickly. I just cannot understand it.