Comments on: Breaking: Shooters On Loose In Ft. Hood, TX

By: lizard

lizard — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:44:02 +0000

Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Awake, Talking
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Wall Street Joural ^ | November 9, 2009 | Staff
FORT HOOD, Texas – A U.S. Army hospital spokesman said the man suspected in a deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood is conscious and able to talk. Dewey Mitchell, a spokesman at Brooke Army Medical Center, said Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan remains in stable condition. Mr. Mitchell said Maj. Hasan has been awake and able to talk since he was taken off a ventilator Saturday. Maj. Hasan is at Brooke Medical Center in San Antonio, about 150 miles southwest of Fort Hood. Authorities say the 39-year-old Maj. Hasan opened fire at a processing center Thursday at Fort Hood, the country’s…

By: Liberal Elite

Liberal Elite — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:56:23 +0000

@Miscreant

Hardly… I was playing WFF ‘N PROOF before I even got to high school. I can guess what you were playing with…

By: Miscreant

Miscreant — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:23:49 +0000

“I love comments that send me scurrying to wikipedia.”

Undoubtedly, you (and Liberal Elite) spend a lot of time there.

By: jason330

jason330 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:55:54 +0000

I love comments that send me scurrying to wikipedia.

By: Liberal Elite

Liberal Elite — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:57:31 +0000

@Miscreant “Apparently you have some reading comprehension and intellectual issues, LE. The “teabagger” comment wasn’t mine…”

But YOU were the one who said he deserved a gold medal, and that assessment required exactly such a jump. Thus, it is not my reading comprehension that is called into question, but your skills at basic logic. Modus tollendo tollens.

By: lizard

lizard — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:51:32 +0000

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6516302/Fort-Hood-shootings-FBI-given-gunmans-name-six-months-ago.html

Fort Hood shootings: FBI given gunman’s name six months ago The US Army major who killed 13 people in a shooting spree at America’s biggest military base had come to the attention of the FBI six months earlier over possible links to extremist comments posted on the internet.

By Gordon Rayner and Nick Allen in Fort Hood, Texas Published: 9:59PM GMT 06 Nov 2009

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a devout Muslim who was trying to buy his way out of the Army, was suspected of being the author of postings which compared suicide bombers to heroic soldiers who throw themselves onto grenades to save others.

It also emerged that Hasan, 39, had described the US Army as “the aggressor” in Iraq and Afghanistan and was resisting a planned deployment to Afghanistan, raising questions over whether the military missed warning signs which might have prevented the massacre.

Witnesses said Hasan shouted “Allahu akbar”, Arabic for God is great, as he opened fire – a phrase commonly used by Islamic militant suicide bombers – though investigators said there was no evidence he had been recruited by al-Qaeda or other Islamic extremist organisations.

By: Nosy

Nosy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:38:30 +0000

Liberal Elite – the weapon used was not miliary issued. According to report I heard on NPR this morning the soldiers on base don’t carry weapons unless they’re MP.

By: Miscreant

Miscreant — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:31:37 +0000

@Liberal Effete (intentional)

Apparently you have some reading comprehension and intellectual issues, LE. The “teabagger” comment wasn’t mine, and look who just made an amateur attempt at ‘profiling’ someone.

By: Liberal Elite

Liberal Elite — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:15:17 +0000

@Miscreant

So.. Is he a teabagger? Look who is jumping to conclusions now.

He certainly fits one of the major profiles (religious nutcase).

By: Miscreant

Miscreant — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:57:14 +0000

“…best line of the conversation…Comment by Delaware Dem on 5 November 2009 at 6:19 pm: “So it is best not to jump to conclusions until we know more.”

Nope. He gets a gold medal in the conclusion jump event here:

“Don’t worry, tea baggers. We won’t use this incident to take your guns, even if it turns out that one of you did this.”

God is Great!

By: Liberal Elite

Liberal Elite — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:44:02 +0000

Just think of how many lives would be saved and how many suicides would be prevented if the just didn’t issue guns on our military bases.

Why do they have guns there?

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:47:31 +0000

Just for update purposes, here's the latest: Another person died overnight, bringing the death toll to 13. The shooter is still alive apparently, and in the hospital. Hasan was troubled, and had trouble with patients. He shouted "allahu akbar" before the shootings. He was about to be deployed to Iraq, but didn't want to go.

By: arthur

arthur — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:40:46 +0000

hahahahahahaha..best line of the conversation…Comment by Delaware Dem on 5 November 2009 at 6:19 pm: “So it is best not to jump to conclusions until we know more.”

dont worry deldem, your president wont stop sending innocent people to be killed in Afghanistan.

By: Miscreant

Miscreant — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:18:06 +0000

Simple. While,I got that you were advising against prejudgment, and I appreciate your personal experience and perspective, blacks and mid-eastern people (not all Muslims) aren’t the only ones with the surname, Hasan. It could also be a Hebrew surname. You assigned the name to a specific race. It doesn’t escape me that, if a conservative had made that statement, you’d be on them, well… like white on rice.

By: Delaware Dem

Delaware Dem — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:46:36 +0000

How was that racist, Miscreant? I was advising against prejudging by saying he could be an African American, since my future cousin in law has the name Hasan and he is African American.