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The shooting incident at Fort Hood Texas this past Thursday was a terrorist attack carried out by a single man. Everyone knows the numbers now: thirteen soldiers killed and more than thirty wounded by one of their own.
Was he one of their own? Major Nidal Malik Hasan wore the uniform and served in the Army for more than a decade. These facts explain how he moved freely about Fort Hood and gained access to an area full of soldiers preparing to deploy overseas and returning from overseas. By his own accounts Hasan felt increasingly isolated from his comrades and was angry at the prospect of being deployed in support of the ongoing war on terrorism.
Not a war on generic terrorism of course, but the militant Islamist variety of Osama bin Laden and his ilk. Unfortunately, groups like al-Qaeda derive their bloody ideology from the same Koran that ordinary Muslims cherish. Hasan, a natural born American and a life-long Muslim, decided over time that he identified more with militant Islamism and Jihad than with his fellow soldiers.
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