Fort Hood suspect warned of threats within the ranks

[DearAbby]

The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood warned a roomful of senior Army physicians a year and a half ago that to avoid "adverse events," the military should allow Muslim soldiers to be released as conscientious objectors instead of fighting in wars against other Muslims.

As a senior-year psychiatric resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan was supposed to make a presentation on a medical topic of his choosing as a culminating exercise of the residency program.

Instead, in late June 2007, he stood before his supervisors and about 25 other mental health staff members and lectured on Islam, suicide bombers and threats the military could encounter from Muslims conflicted about fighting in the Muslim countries of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a copy of the presentation obtained by The Washington Post.

"It's getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims," he said in the presentation.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110903618.html?hpid=topnews

[kenny blankenship]

1. If he had shown up naked with a large sign saying "You are making me want to kill you"

would they have noticed?

[global1]

2. Too Bad He Wasn't Gay ......

they would have kicked him out of the military then.

[kenny blankenship]

3. Yeah it's too bad he didn't pretend

to be gay. All he would have had to do was offer to blow an MP. Yes there would have been terrible consequences for him, but considering how it turned out...

[virgogal]

4. What is his problem? GI's in WWII often fought against people

that shared their ethnicity or religion.

What I can never figure out is why this guy joined,and stayed in,the army.

[d_r]

5. I am probably wrong

but for some reason I thought that they only allowed Japanese-Americans to fight in Europe.

[cali]

6. Did we only allow German Americans to fight in Japan? How about Italian Americans?

[virgogal]

7. Of course you're right,but plenty of Italian Americans and German

Americans fought for the allies.