This is unbelievable! The leader of our country, the Commander-In-Chief isn't outraged at what happened at Fort Hood? Major Nadil Malik Hasan committed an ACT of TERROR on the largest U.S. military base for heaven's sake. His loyalty was clearly NOT with the United States that he swore allegiance to defend when he signed up for military service. His loyalty and allegiance was with the Muslim EXTREMIST CAUSE! He didn't have post traumatic stress disorder, he never went to Afghanistan nor Iraq. This crazy person bought a gun and went to a shooting range weeks before to prepare for this day. He premeditated this shooting spree that KILLED 13 un-armed innocent people, 1 was pregnant returning home from Afghanistan and 30 un-armed innocent people were INJURED. This psychopath would have KILLED more with his automatic weapon and pistol if given a chance. Fortunately, police responded quickly and he was shot down.
Just before he began shooting he shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" then started shooting. HELLO! How obvious is that Mr. President? He was a flagrant SUICIDE SHOOTER! Whether he made this decision to sacrafice his life for the extremist cause on his own or was encouraged by other muslim extremist is irrelevant! This ACT is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE and you should as our President make that very clear to people here in the United States and to the rest of the World. My gosh these SOLDIERS were KILLED on American soil and at a U.S. military base no less!
No one cares if somebody is a practicing Muslim, this is America where we have FREEDOM of religion. Nevertheless, what concerns Americans are these crazy radical psychopathic Muslims who are INTENT on self-sacrificing mass murders of Americans! Mr. President, you need to grow a back-bone and make it clear to the radical muslims that KILLING Americans will NOT BE TOLERATED. Who's side are you on Mr. President? The radical muslim killer or our soldiers he KILLED?
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The Guardian UK
Fort Hood: Obama urges caution amid fears of backlash against Muslims
written by Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Friday November 6, 2009 19.14 GMT
Barack Obama today joined calls from across America for calm amid fears of a backlash in the wake of the shooting spree by a Muslim soldier at the Fort Hood that left 13 dead and 28 wounded.
Obama, speaking in the White House Rose Garden after being briefed by the FBI, sought to dampen tensions, as did politicians from both the Democratic and Republican parties, the military, Muslim associations and the family of the alleged shooter, Major Nadil Malik Hasan.
"I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we get all the facts," Obama said. The risk of a witchhunt rose today when the commander at the Fort Hood base, Lieutenant-General Robert Cone, disclosed that wounded soldiers said Hasan had shouted "Allahu Akbar" before opening fire on unarmed soldiers at the Texas base.
The troops, from 12 different units across the US, had been receiving final medical checks before deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hasan, 39, was initially reported by the military to have been killed but hours later officials confirmed he was still alive, though wounded. He was on a ventilator today.
The trained military psychiatrist had been due to be deployed to Afghanistan later this year and had been desperately trying to get out of it.
As the initial shock of the massacre began to wear off today, a bout of national soul-searching began about the mental strain caused to troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, in particular as a result of multiple tours of duty.
Although the vast majority of Muslims in the US are fully integrated, websites on major newspapers sites quickly filled with hate mail questioning their loyalty.
There have been only a few incidents since 9/11 of troops from a Muslim background killing comrades, and nothing near this scale.
Obama's call for patience, saying there were still too many unanswered questions, was echoed by Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress, and by the Pentagon.
In a statement, Hasan's family said his actions were "despicable and deplorable". "His actions did not reflect how they were raised in the US," they said.
Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary, joined the calls for patience. "That investigation is under way by law enforcement authorities, and let's let that be the number one priory in terms of ascertaining what motivations he had," she said in a television interview.
Obama ordered flags across the country to be flown at half-staff in tribute to the dead. The president was scheduled to visit Walter Reed military hospital today, where coincidentally Hasan previously worked as a psychiatrist.
Twelve of the dead were soldiers, with one lone civilian.
Dozens of grief counsellors were being sent to Fort Hood to help the families of the dead. The FBI was today going through Hasan's apartment and office to see whether there is a clue to his motivation on his computer, as well as from his phone records.
Investigators were by his bedside, hoping to interview him when he regained consciousness. He took four bullets from a policewoman, Kimberly Munley, 34, who was wounded in the encounter.
"She happened to encounter the gunman. In an exchange of gunfire, she was wounded but managed to wound him four times," Cone said. "It was an amazing and aggressive performance by this police officer."
Soldiers said that Hasan had two handguns, including a semi-automatic, and shot down troops in clusters. Cone said one soldier who had been shot told him: "I made the mistake of moving and I was shot again."
Hasan had been in uniform at the time.
Questions were raised about why the FBI had not pursued postings on a website from a person identified as Hasan who appeared to express sympathy for suicide bombings.
Video footage at a grocery store showed him relaxed, buying goods as normal. But his behaviour then changed, going home to clear out his flat and the usually reclusive figure went round his neighbours distributing groceries from his kitchen and handing out Qur'ans.
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