U.S. expected to say accused Fort Hood shooter carefully planned attack

[NewThinkingChance40]

(Reuters) - Prosecutors may argue on Tuesday that Major Nidal Hasan researched radical Islam topics and terms such as "jihad" on the Internet before carrying out the worst non-combat attack in history on a U.S. military base, killing 13 unarmed soldiers in 2009, military officials said.

After nearly four years of legal delays, prosecutors will lay out their case against Hasan in opening statements at his military court martial on the base where he is accused of the attack on November 5, 2009.

Hasan, 42, an American-born Muslim, is charged with killing 13 soldiers and injuring 32 civilian workers in the rampage, only days before he was scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan.

A military jury of nine colonels, three lieutenant colonels and one major will consider evidence in the case.

Hasan was shot and critically wounded to end the massacre. He is confined to a wheel chair.

He admitted at an earlier court hearing that his actions were taken to protect Muslims and the Taliban in Afghanistan from U.S. assaults. The base near Killeen, Texas, is a major center for soldiers deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/04/us-usa-crime-forthood-idUSBRE97301M20130804


I was on base the day this happened. The worst attack on a base on American soil since Pearl Harbor. This man needs to rot in hell for what he did, and I hope they show no mercy.

[exboyfil]

1. Already justice has been delayed

4 years after a mass shooting to stand trial?

[NewThinkingChance40]

2. This is why i think

in certain cases, due process is a load of crap. There were a large number of witnesses, and he was shot by the police while in the act. He killed 13 people and injured 31, this was an open and shut case, and yet they still let him try and plead guilty. He should have been sped through and executed.

[freshwest]

3. Gotta have due process. I don't know what you mean abour pleading guilty, though.

You couldn't pay me enough to take care of him, can you imagine taking care of someone who'd kill you if they had the chance. I am not a saint.

I doubt he'll be executed and the military will take care of him for life. While other veterans do without. Seems wrong, but the solution is to take care of everyone.

[NewThinkingChance40]

4. I admit bias

As I said, I was there the day it happened. I knew one of the people killed very well. I shouldn't have said for all cases, but this one, I would be more than happy to see the son of a bitch fry.

[freshwest]

5. Sorry about your friends. I've been to the Fort Hood store, (I think where it happened?) and sorry

there has been no closure.

There is the betrayal of the whole thing. Someone here, s4p, I think, posted the reasons he gave. About why he did it. He took it on himself to kill the people there. And he seems to be very clever, too, or so it would appear.

I believe they are trying to give him the best trial they can so that there won't be appeals. Not sure how stuff works in that legal system. Seems a lot different than civilian. But the military is a different world, where members have expectations of trust in each other.

He broke his word in the worst possible way. In days gone by he might have been killed on the spot, he was lucky to have not been killed that way.

It must be very hurtful to have this drug out the way it has been. They know he does not regret it. s4p thinks he is insane, and I guess a lot of people want to make exuses for him, but only because they don't want to admit people like that exist.

Take care of yourself and your friends there.

[NewThinkingChance40]

7. Thank you

and the shooting happened at the deployment processing center. I went there pre and post deployment, and it felt kinda weird going through after this incident.

[freshwest]

8. Just went through the Wikipedia page on him. What a circus this trial. He even talked to Fox News.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Malik_Hasan

[cali]

6. He should NOT be executed. Aside from my personal belief that no one

should be executed ever, it's a stupid move.