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Haq, 31, a US-born Muslim, is accused of opening fire with two semiautomatic pistols at the Jewish center. He told authorities he was angered by the war in Iraq and US military co-operation with Israel . According to a statement of probable cause, Haq told a 911 dispatcher: "These are Jews and I'm tired of getting pushed around and our people getting pushed around by the situation in the Middle East." A family friend told reporters last summer that Haq had been getting psychiatric help for 10 years, and hadn't been able to hold a job.

Well, this is an interesting analysis. Kinda makes him look like DeNiro in "Taxi Driver".

I was wondering what sort of psychiatric history he has. Maybe it had something to do with serious anger issues, a sense of persecution, a mouth-foaming hatred of all things Judeo-Christian and the obvious juxtaposition between that and the way we do things here in America, the land of his birth?

Yeah, I just bet he hadn't been able to hold a job. I'm just surprised it took him this long to blow up so good.

He also faces charges of kidnapping and malicious harassment, the state's hate-crime law.

Well, thank God for a sane prosecutor on this one. Is this actually, possibly, a case where a bastard like this could get the needle because of a "hate crime" statute?