Lawyers: Army Attacker Mentally Ill

Fox News ^ | April 12, 2005 | AP

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FORT BRAGG, N.C. — An Army sergeant on trial for an attack that killed two officers in Kuwait suffered from mental illness for years and could not have planned it, defense lawyers told a military jury during opening statements Monday.

[RandallFlagg]

Hmmm. Fear of pork chops and an intense desire to beat women into submission while fantasizing about America's destruction?

Mentally ill, perhaps. But not enough to save the scum from the firing squad.

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I would say there is no disputing this guy's noodles have slid completely off his plate. But the fact remains he killed two people in what looks like a very premeditated attack. And he should pay for taking the lives of two people. And the punishment should be the severest possible.

[Cindy]

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[Jeff Head]

could not have planned it,

Absolute, unadulterated Bravo Sierra, IMHO. So he just happened to hit the command tents on the eve of the invasion?

What rubbish.

[spodefly]

An Army sergeant on trial for an attack that killed two officers in Kuwait suffered from mental illness for years ...

That much is indisputable ... he was, after all, a convert to Islam.

[LibKill]

BULL! He planned and pulled executed the attack.

I doubt that this tactic will get him off. Military juries are composed of mature level-headed NCOs for the most part.

[StonyBurk]

IMO anybody who chases after that bloody religion of forced
submission is bloody well a mental case. Was not the prophet
of Islam choked into submission? Was he not a mental case
himself? Every Muslim is a head case. So we are left with
the Scriptural injuction "Thou shalt not suffer a murderer
to live." By the shedding of innocent blood the land is
defiled-and only by the shedding of blood can it be restored. The familys of the men murdered and wounded ought
be gathered around Akbars cell --and given a mixed lot of
practice grenades and the real deal and allowed to pull pins
and roll 'em at will.Until the blood he spilt has been answered.

[StonyBurk]

Cindy-- Thanks-Much. The bloody murderer was sane enough to
plan and to execute his plan to murder men in their tents.
As brutal as it sounds -- I stand by my solution.Grenades in
the night- or while he is reading his Koran-- or while he is
eating his meal of camel dung and innocent blood.It is Old
Testament-and the only language these animals understand.

[Kozak]

Belief in Islam is a mental illness. If Mohamed had taken his meds and not hallucinated an angel we wouldn't have the problem in the first place.

[Certified Horticulturist]

Islam is a mental disease™. Like liberalism.