Yesterday Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on a shooting rampage at a processing center in Ft Hood, TX.Details are still emerging, but as of now 13 soldiers are dead, 28 wounded while Maj Hasan was wounded (initially thought to have been killed) when confronted by Officer Munley.
Some of the shooter's backstory:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_shooting_suspect
As usual the mainstream media (MSM) continues to ponder the "alleged shooter's" motives.
Let's see:
Someone advocating that his fellow Muslims "resist aggression" + selecting a deployment outprocessing center as his target = a rather clear motive to me.
Terrorism is an act of politically motivated violence. It appears Major Hasan's views against our operations in Iraq and Afghanistan were well-known. Opening fire inside a center processing soldiers for deployment would be a prime location to "make a statement."
Federal law enforcement agencies have yet to call this an act of terrorism because they view such acts with a narrow focus. That is, for them to consider an incident to be a terrorist act, the perpetrator(s) have to be members of a terrorist group. They don't consider what Mark Steyn calls "Sudden Jihad Syndrome."
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