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To: Ilaine who wrote (57592)	11/6/2009 7:39:02 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217739

<<Who are you? Are you who you are, genetically, or are you who you are, culturally? And then, which you are you, at any given time?>> ... what is your take ? << was interested to see the dilemma of the Fort Hoot shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. I think it will turn out that he self-identified with two antithetical cultures and could not reconcile them, putting himself into a classic double-bind>> ... dunno. i will wait until he speaks. either he psychologically snapped, or he knew exactly what he must do. either way, looks like he worked out his dilemma.

To: Ilaine who wrote (57592)	11/6/2009 8:10:31 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217739

<<I was interested to see the dilemma of the Fort Hoot shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. I think it will turn out that he self-identified with two antithetical cultures and could not reconcile them, putting himself into a classic double-bind.>> one must watch n brief on non-usa media for some details, and if factual, does not sound as if the guy is having difficulty reconciling anything you may sense. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6512329/Fort-Hood-shooting-13-killed-and-30-injured-at-US-Army-base.html ... Major Hasan, a military psychiatrist who had allegedly called for Muslims to attack Americans over the Iraq war, is critically ill and under guard in hospital. CCTV images unearthed by US news broadcaster CNN appear to show Hasan in traditional Muslim clothing, including a prayer cap, in a shop on the base in the hours before the killings. Nidal Malik Hasan 'wrote about suicide bombings' The authorities initially believed he had been killed in the ensuing gun battle with police but it later emerged he was still alive despite being shot four times in the incident at Fort Hood base, the largest American military installation in the world. The serviceman was about to be posted to either Iraq or Afghanistan and argued regularly against the wars, it has been claimed. Hasan, armed with two handguns, walked into a training centre and opened fire on fellow soldiers who were having last-minute medical check-ups before being deployed to Afghanistan. Thirteen were killed and 30 injured. However, there were suggestions that some of the dead might have been shot by the authorities in their attempt to stop the gunman ...