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09 Nov 2009 09:30 am
The Reality Of Religious Terror
It's good - if sobering - to see the specifics in the NYT:
Witnesses said that the floor became drenched with blood and that
soldiers, apparently dead, were draped over chairs in the waiting area
or lying on the floor.
Specialist Matthew Cooke, 30, who was expecting orders to leave for
Afghanistan in January, was waiting in line to be processed in the
medical building when Major Hasan opened fire. A soldier standing near
him was hit and crumpled to the ground, and Specialist Cooke dropped to
his knees and leaned over the soldier to shield him from being struck
again, Specialist Cooke’s father, Carl, said in an interview.
Major Hasan walked up to Specialist Cooke, who had previously done a
tour in Iraq, pointed his gun down at his back and shot him several
times, Mr. Cooke said. “The rounds nicked his colon and several places
in his intestines, bladder and spleen,” he said, but the specialist
survived.
These human beings - citizens who risked their lives for the rest of us - were gunned down defenseless as they sought medical help. Because of religious fanaticism.
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