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A doctor says that after surgery, the first words of the civilian police officer whose quick actions stopped the gunman at Fort Hood were, "Did anybody die?" And a medic said that Sgt. Kimberly Munley, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds from Major Nidal Malik Hasan on Thursday, "was fading in and out of consciousness. She wasn't saying much," raising concerns she might not survive.
Right now, Munley is stable, she's reportedly "doing very well and "in good spirits." But ABC News reports that she was lucky: The 34-year-old mother of two "was shot twice in both legs during Thursday's confrontation. Two powerful 'cop killer' rounds allegedly fired by Hasan tore through her left thigh, exited and blasted through her right thigh as well. She was also struck in the wrist." And the NY Times described the confrontation:
Munley — a woman with a fierce love of hunting, surfing and other outdoor sports — bolted from her car, yanked her pistol out and shot at Major Hasan. He turned on her and began to fire. She ran toward him, continuing to fire, and both she and Major Hasan went down with several bullet wounds...Whether Sergeant Munley was solely responsible for taking down Major Hasan or whether he was also hit by gunfire from her partner is unclear, but she was the first to fire at him, the authorities said.Fort Hood's director of emergency services said, "She’s absolutely a hero. She had the training; she knew what to do. And she had the courage to do it — by doing it she saved countless people’s lives."
Thirteen—twelve soldiers and one civlian—were killed and 38 others were injured. The investigation is continuing and officials have declined to say whether Hasan acted alone or if there were additional accomplices. (A colonel at the base said that it didn't appear that anyone was hit by friendly fire.)
Hasan, who was shot four times and is now in a coma, was scheduled to be deploy to Afghanistan and had been giving away his possessions and making "methodological goodbyes." The AP reports, "The 39-year-old Army psychiatrist emerged as a study in contradictions: a polite man who stewed with discontent, a counselor who needed to be counseled himself, a professional healer now suspected of cutting down the fellow soldiers he was sworn to help." A cousin said that Hasan, a Muslim, had become more devout after his mother's death nine years ago.
The same cousin told CNN that Hasan wanted to leave the army because he was disrespected over his religion, "There was racism towards him because he's a Muslim, because he's an Arab, because he prays. They used to see him dress in traditional Muslim clothing, so he was a bit irritated because of this. Also, the fact that they wanted to send him to Iraq. He decided to leave the Army for good and hire a lawyer because of this matter."
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He's sure going to need a better lawyer "because of this matter"
...assuming he wakes from his coma.
A speedy recovery to Sgt Munley and others fired upon in cold blood. Sgt Munley is a hero and I wish her all the recognition that comes as such.
Seconded.
Avid hunter from Texas?
Didn't Obama refer to her type as bitter as "they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them"?
Actually, the Obama quote was about people from Pennsylvania, not people from Texas.... but don't let that stop you from your irational need to find some reason to hate Obama based on every single news event.
"but don't let that stop you from your irational need to find some reason to hate Obama based on every single news event."
We don't need to find a reason; Øgabe presents one EVERY NEWS DAY.
Just loved his "shout out" to a medal of freedom winner (NOT the medal of honor as your tongue tied teleprompter-challenged marxist misspoke) BEFORE he got around to mentioning Fort Hood.
And lets not forget his "lets not jump to conclusions" - which he was so happy to do in Cambridge - white cop stupid, black nationalist prof breaking into his own home without alerting the local PD must be right.
Who cares that the scum-sucking jihadist was screaming ALLAH AKBAR as he went back and RE-SHOT OUR WOUNDED TROOPS, or that he was found on video taken THE SAME MORNING walking around in his bed-sheet in the market after he gave away copies of his koranus.
Noooo, our "former" muslim President Training Pants insists "we mustn't jump to conclusions..."
So go back and reminisce on your snide and snarky "Bush-co" and "nuklear" remarks of the the last 8 years and whatever foul remarks you made or tolerated about "Bush-Nazis".
You're going to hear a lot more about your crypto-commie, muslim-apologist child-man before we stop him from Chavezing America.
You might want to check in with your doctor. I think the dosage on your medication needs tweaking.
p.s. until you have evidence what I did or did not say during the Bush administration, you might want to shut your piehole about it. I regularly brought irrational liberals to task for blaming every hangnail of theirs on the President during that time, so you might want to shut it.
And yet you find time to defend the Øgabe because the state reference is wrong.
Funny, other muslim soldiers never complained and in fact thought that this wacko was not fit to serve as a lay helper in their mosque because of his weirdness. They also told him that fighting other muslims was permitted as muslims in the Middle East and Central Asia are constantly fighting with other muslims.
Unfortunately, as the piles of evidence mounted that this guy was disloyal to his country and his army, no one did anything (had he only been a nazi) because they didn't want to sound bigoted. As the old SNL skit of Buckwheat's assasination had it:
"Did you know the killer?"
"He was real normal and quiet."
"Were you surprised that he killed Buckwheat?"
"Oh, no, that's all he talked about"
In any casr, as MSNBC paints it, this incident was a real tragedy for muslims.
Muslim dead - 0
Non-muslim dead - 13, 38 wounded
(That's a really bad day in Afghanistan)