Extreme anti-war protests
In one of the worst killings ever reported on a US military base, a psychiatrist at the Fort Hood Army base opened fire and killed 12 people. Major Nidal Malik Hasan discharged two handguns that also left 31 others wounded. Hasan, shot multiple times, is now listed in stable condition at the Army hospital.
Asked whether the shootings were a terrorist act, Lieutenant-General Robert Cone, Fort Hood’s commanding officer, said, “I couldn’t rule that out, but I’m telling you that right now the evidence does not suggest that.”
Nader Hasan, the gunman’s cousin, said Hasan was a US-born Muslim who had joined the military from high school. He had served as a psychiatrist at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC, which treats many badly wounded troops. Hasan was due to be deployed to Iraq but was resistant to the deployment.
On June 1, 2009, 23-year-old Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, upset about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, opened fire from his vehicle and killed one soldier and wounded another standing outside a military recruiting station in Little Rock, AR.
Muhammad fled the scene and was arrested minutes later and police confiscated a Russian-made SKS semiautomatic rifle, a .22-caliber rifle and a handgun.
These anti-war measures are a long way from sit-ins of the 60s and 70s. Where to from here?