THE QUESTION nagging the investigators and Fort Hood high ranking officers is: Was major Hasan alone in shooting 13 persons dead? Did he have an accompalice? The ballistic test results just received point out that the dead personnel had been shot with one weapon, a private hand gun. None of the dead were hit by a police bullet. The deadly shooting was the result of the devilish design of the army psychiatrist who reportedly shouted Allah-hu- Akbar before carrying out the satanic act.
While in actual shooting Major Hasan was alone, the question of his being brain washed by a jihadi group or an Islamist terror group cannot be ruled out at this stage. The psychiatrist was himself a patient of imbalanced behaviour as is made out by new facts about his dress. He wore a typical Muslim dress while shopping in a convenience store and anarmy fatigue while praying in a mosque. Moreover, he was feeling bugged by his colleagues taunts after 9/11 tragic incidents because he was a Muslim. He had sought legal advice about leaving the army.
The ghastly shooting was absolutely pre-meditated. In the morning he visited his neighbours and handed over his personal effects, a carpet, a copy of the Quran and so on saying he would not need them as he was being deployed either in Iraq or in Afghanistan. He, on behalf of other muslim army men, had asked men of Islamic theology how an American Muslim could fight against an afghan Muslim?
Now a serious debate among citizens is reging about the correctness or otherwise of employing Muslims in the US Armed Forces. president obama has cautioned his compatriots against jumping to conclusions.
A word about the brave police woman who reached the shooting spot in no time and shot Major Hasan four times to injure him and prevent further loss of life.Sergeant Kimberly Munley is being praised and applauded by the American nation for her courage and wisdom. She indeed deserves a bravery award because she took on the murderer despite the fact that she herself had suffered a bullet wound in that indiscriminate firing.