“Allahu Akbar” means “God is great” in Arabic.
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The gunman behind the carnage at a Texas military base hollered “Allahu Akbar!” before unleashing a bloody rampage that left more than a dozen dead, an onlooker told investigators.
“We do have a witness who reported that,” Col. John Rossi said Friday morning from Fort Hood.
“Allahu Akbar” means “God is great” in Arabic.
Witnesses described Hasan,
Security video shows gunman Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan in a convience store in Killeen, Texas early Thursday morning, just hours before the attack. Hasan wore his Army uniform during his assault.
, as steely calm. He paused only to reload one of his handguns. Hasan lay motionless after the shooting, leading officials to mistakenly believe he was dead.
The gunman, an Army shrink who specialized in combat stress, was about to be deployed to Afghanistan. Sources close to him said he objected to going to battle against other Muslims.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) said Hasan – who had worked with the wounded for years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center – was angry about being sent to war and tried to get his orders changed.
The people in the building Hasan shot up were mostly soldiers preparing for their deployment.
Texas TV station KXXV reported that the gunman told a civilian as he passed that he was shooting only military men.
She said he targeted specific people as he stalked through a deployment center, two handguns blazing.
“Here I am in Iraq, worried my wife and son are in danger in their own backyard,” blogged Army Spec. Naveed Ali Shah, a public affairs specialist in Iraq.
Late last night, the FBI was assisting the Army in investigating the massacre.
Hasan’s defense of Islamic suicide bombers in a comment he posted on the Internet was being scrutinized.
Co-workers came forward to say that the Muslim doctor, the American-born son of Jordanian immigrants, opposed the war in Iraq.
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