Accused Fort Hood shooter heads to trial in Texas court-martial

al Reuters ^ | 8/6/2013

[markomalley]

The court-martial of Nidal Hasan begins on Tuesday, with the U.S. Army major facing charges he killed 13 people in a 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, the worst non-combat attack in history at a U.S. military base.

Hasan, 42, an American-born Muslim, could be sentenced to death if convicted in the trial at the military post for the attack nearly four years ago that also left 32 people wounded.

Prosecutors are expected to lay out their case against Hasan in opening statements on Tuesday. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, is accused of opening fire at the base near Killeen, Texas, where soldiers were preparing to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan.

The military judge for the court-martial, Colonel Tara Osborn, ruled on Friday that prosecutors may present evidence that Hasan was on the Internet in the days - and even hours - before the attack, searching terms such as "Taliban" and "jihad" - which some radical Islamists define as a holy war.

[The Bat Lady]

So, why has it taken 4 years to bring this slimy buzzard to trial?

Because the Major had to get his monthly salary for a LONNNNNGGGGG time before we cut him off for his crimes. (/sarc)

His trial should have been within 30 days, lasted 10 minutes and the execution lasted another 10 minutes.

One of the Founding Fathers said, " after a trial, take the condemned man out THE NEXT DAY, and hang him. Unless the next day is a Sunday and then hang him on the next Monday"

Wish we would get back to that AND put it on TV. Would stop a lot of crimes, I'll bet.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"Can’t a renegade guard just shoot this Mofo and get this over with?"

They'd probably find some Skittles in poor Nidal's pocket and make him into the victim instead. Obama would say he looks like the son he never had.