Posted on 11/09/2009 12:24:46 PM PST by La Lydia
FORT HOOD, Tex. -- Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who allegedly gunned down dozens of people at Fort Hood last week before being wounded by police, is conscious and talking to medical personnel at a U.S. Army hospital in San Antonio, hospital officials said Monday. Hasan, 39, was flown to Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston on Friday from a hospital in Temple, Tex., where he was taken following Thursday's shooting rampage at Fort Hood...
"He is in stable condition, and he is conversing with the medical staff, the doctors and nurses who are assisting with his medical needs," said Maria Gallegos, a spokeswoman at Brooke Army Medical Center.
She said she could not say whether Hasan has spoken to investigators about the Fort Hood shooting. She also declined to discuss Hasan's injuries.
Another hospital spokesman said Hasan has been able to talk since he was taken off a ventilator Saturday.
Investigators from the Army's Criminal Investigation Command and the FBI have been waiting to question Hasan as they try to establish a motive for the shooting and determine whether the suspect had any assistance or instigation from anyone else....
The investigators are looking into possible links between Hasan and Anwar al-Aulaqi, an American-born Muslim prayer leader who preached at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Va., when Hasan was attending it in 2001...
Cone said the Army ... is looking for other soldiers who may be under the same sort of stress that possibly could have affected Hasan.
"We're going to take a very hard look . . . at anything that might have been done to prevent this," Cone said. "We have some other soldiers that might have some of the same stress and indicators that he had."...
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Being a muslim?
He’s undergoing transformation into a symbol of reconciliation between cultures /sarc
I will bet he is not talking about how great the World Series was. lol
He was very careful not to say that. There must be some Lutherans in the Army who are about to blow, and we wouldn’t want to offend our Muslim brethern.
Stress indicators? You mean like being converted into jihad by our enemies and placed in the US military?
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I wonder what kid of beer he likes.
Yes...it is very stressful being a radical Muslim and knowing that you are being ordered to go and kill other Muslims.
I suggest the Army just start checking the barracks for copies of the Koran...big red flag the owner might be under the same type of "stress"...
Stress???????
They're going to whitewash this whole thing in broad daylight, while the entire country in looking....
Well the Oprahnization of Hasan has already begun. If he’s now able to talk the only question he should be asked is “do you choose hanging or firing squad/”
Will we ever know?
If we do find out that was the motive...how will the spin it?
They’re going to whitewash this whole thing in broad daylight, while the entire country in looking....
That will be kind of hard to do if he goes on trial and starts ranting about jihad from the witness stand like they do at Gitmo.
(y’all can just let your inner conspiracy theorist run wild now...)
I would hate to become apart of the healthcare team that takes care of this monster. Can you imagine having to say “How are you, sir? Are you having any pain? On a scale of 1 - 10 how would you rate your pain?” I want him to hurt.
“Allegedly.”
Yea, the MSM is still holding out hope that it’s all a grand conspiracy to smear Muslims.
I feel so much better knowing this SOB is awake and talking to medical staff. His well-being is definitely the first thing I wanted to learn.
State-run media ignoring all of the above: check
If the guards want to take a smoke break, I’ll watch him for a while - a very short while.
Yadda Yadda Yadda
There are LOADS of Christian, Jewish, atheist soldiers under the same stress at being deployed.. how many of them have bought weapons and shot their comrade?
These apologists for Islam make me SICK!
His cover story is probably already being worked on by his lawyer.
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