Nidal Hasan's Murder

On November 5, 2009, the public gained knowledge about an incident that took place at an U.S. Army installation. Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. He was facing a deployment to one of the many war zones overseas (McFadden, 2009). There are many reports about this incident and what actually took place. From what I’ve gathered, Hasan went into a processing center where soldiers go before and after they come back from deployment. After Hasan’s shooting rampage, he was finally stopped when Army Military Police (MP) officers shot him a total of four times. He is now paralyzed from the waist down due to the shooting. The Fort Hood shooting marked the worst shooting ever to take place on a military installation state side, to record. There was almost no structural damage because he used hand guns instead of bombs, or what we call weapons of mass destruction.

On June 11, 2001 the world did become a slightly better place without such a disgrace for human life was rid of this earth.Timothy McVeigh was a complete psychopath. He never showed any remorse, empathy, or sadness for what his actions have caused. A witness at the scene recalls seeing “his face drained of emotion” (Bacharach 130). He carefully and precisely planned at the execution of 168 innocent people including children who had not began their lives yet (Bragg). They had no chance; they had no choice. No one in that building did.

Hasan, of Syrian descent, was a young Muslim in respect to practicing the religion but was not reported to possess hostile views toward the U.S. His family reported that he often talked about his job positively. Hasan could have been converted to extremist views by the imam due to his influence within the mosque, and that because extremist ideals contradict his Army position. U.S. officials released that as many as 20 emails were exchanged between Hasan and al-Aulaqi (http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/11/05/texas.fort.hood.shootings/index.html).

Natalee Holloway was an eighteen year old girl from Mountain Brook,Alabama who suddenly went missing in Aruba on a graduation trip on May 30, 2005. Joran Van der Sloot being accused for the murder of Natalee Holloway is not an example of a witch hunt because there is no mass hysteria and, there’s only one man that has been accused. Also the only reason Van der Sloot is being accused is because he’s a possible suspect, he was responsible for the murder of a young woman named Stephany Flores Ramirez on May 30, 2010 and he was at the bar where Holloway went missing back in 2005.

Justine is accused and tried for the murder of William. In the novel, Justine is found with a locket that has a picture of Caroline in it. This locket was in Williams pocket before he was murdered. She shows remorse in front of the court, and claims that she was only roaming the village on the day of the murder. Justine is faced with making a decision to confess and go to prison to be executed. She does not want to confess because she knows she did not commit the murder but as she discusses it, Justine is not afraid of death, she believes to not prang on the past. The novel expresses how by confessing that she would not face excommunication from the church and atone for her supposed disgraceful conduct.

John Allen Muhammad, along with his partner Lee Boyd Malvo, carried out a series of murders in the Metropolitan D.C. area in October of 2002. Armed with a high powered sniper rifle, Muhammad and his underage accomplice murdered 10 people and wounded three others over the course of 20 days. Muhammad and Malvo targeted civilians going about their everyday lives in a series of seemingly random attacks. This included people filling their car up with gas, exiting gas stations, and mowing the lawn. With no clear and apparent reason for these murders, Muhammed and Malvo caused panic throughout the country and shut down the D.C. area as authorities tried to identify and capture the suspects. John Allen Muhammad’s early life, military history, marital issues, and personality traits give insight as to why he would commit such violent crimes.

The thing that was the most surprising was the person who did and planned this whole thing. That man was Timothy McVeigh age 33. This man was someone who i thought would never do it because of his background. He grew up in a town called Pendleton, New York. He was raised their as a child and mover all over town at his young age. Although he seems like a bad person he really wasn't. He was the kid in school that wanted to be a engineer and make the big bucks. He was one of the most intelligent kids in his class and had A’s and B’s in high school. One thing people thought was cool about him was he was interested in guns as a child. He loved to shoot targets with his grandpa that he loved very well and enjoyed spending time with. His grandpa was someone who taught him how to shoot a gun and make a bomb out of things around the house. While he knew how to do that he did it quite often and was told to stop before he got hurt. His childhood was like many others that you here about.

On Friday at approximately 4:30 p.m., two Muslim women were sitting on a Metropolitan Area Express train in Portland, one of whom was wearing a hijab. A man, identified as Jeremy Joseph Christian, approached the women and began to harass them with what the Portland police described during a press conference as "hate speech." When two men attempted to diffuse the situation and calm Christian down, he stabbed

Arcan Cetin, a United States resident who is originally from Turkey, is suspected of killing four women and one man at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington. It is presumed based on video evidence that he originally entered the mall unarmed, and then within minutes he walked back into the mall, into Macy’s, carrying a rifle when he then proceeded to shoot five victims. In an article by CNN, the police mentioned that when he was finally found, he seemed “kind of zombie-like” (2016) and did not say anything nor did he put up a fight when he was arrested. The police are currently unaware of his reasoning and motives behind the shooting and whether or not he even knew the victims that he fatally shot. He was a troubled teenager and had been in and out of the court system due to acts of assault and physical harassment of girls at his high school. There are no significant signs pointing to a terrorist threat but the police said that they were not going to rule anything out since it is so early in the investigation.

It is still undetermined if Al Qaeda was directly responsible to the Fort Hood Shooting. It is known that Hasan was in contact with Anwar al Awlaki, a known Al Qaeda supporter/member for months before the Fort Hood attack. The FBI Agents in San Diego had been investigating Awlaki, a former San Diego resident, for his possible connections to the 9/11 hijackers. During their investigation is when agents discovered the emails that Hasan had sent Awlaki (http://abcnews.go.com). The investigation into the shoot has not revealed any evidence that Hasan was directed by anyone to commit the shooting. It is believed that Hasan acted alone and that Awlaki or Al Qaeda had no direct involvement in the incident. Hasan is considered a lone wolf terrorists or a terrorist who commits acts of terrorism without being directed by anyone. After the Fort Hood attack Awlaki did comment on his web site by stating that Hasan was a hero and that every Muslim should do the

Prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the country was governed by President Mohammed Daoud Khan, who himself gained power through a bloodless coup and subsequent overthrow of his cousin, Mohammed Zahir Shah in 1973, ruler of Afghanistan for the better part of forty years. Promising a progressive and democratically reformed government, the Daoud regime turned out to be an autocratic, oppressive administration, particularly repressive to rival parties such as the People Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). Subsequently, with the assassination of a prominent member of the PDPA, there was an uprising and government protest. On the morning of 27 April 1978, troops loyal to the PDPA stormed the government palace and killed Daoud. The

Mohammad killed five people while injuring two others by shooting them at a military recruitment center and Naval and Marine Reserve Center on July 16, 2015 (United States Department of Justice, 2015). One of those people was a police officer in the city of Chattanooga (United States Department of Justice, 2015). While his true motives were not released, he could fit the definition because he resided in the United States and the act he committed was against a part of the government, therefore making it a terrorist act (United States Department of Justice, 2015). He also acted alone therefore, he could have been inspired by foreign terrorist beliefs to act out against these military centers. All of these factors together point to homegrown violent

It is the form of a poem I see my story come to life, the story of a portal. The portal is a bagh- a garden- located in the Amritsar, Punjab, India, and placed on the infamous border of Pakistan and India. Through the Jallian Wala Bagh one “see” the Amritsar Massacre, “hear” the partition that left Sikhs with no land, and “smell” the genocide that ravished the state in 1984. I use this poem to explore the atrocities that I grew up knowing and the justice I hope to obtain using my voice. Some words that a translation cannot do justice to have been kept in my mother tongue, but I will include rough translations at the end. The aesthetic of my mother tongue is also preserved through the absence of capitalization and punctuation. As this poem explores

On the morning of January 7 of 2015, two masked gunmen stormed onto the third floor of the Muhammad Cartoons Magazine building in Paris, France. The two men responsible for the shooting of the offices were brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi (Vinograd). There was third suspect named Hamyd Mourad he turned himself in but was released without being charged because the 18 year old was in class at the time of the shooting (Teen). The two men arrived at the building around 11:30 A.M. The men killed an officer worker on their way to the third floor of the building. When they reached their target, they opened fire killing twelve people, including a police officer and an editor. During the shootings one of the men can be heard shouting “Allahu Akbar”

In the small village in Baghpat district, India, two dalit sisters, 23-year-old Meenakshi Kumari, and her 15-year-old sister was ordered by a khap panchayat-an unelected all-male village council, to be raped & paraded naked as punishment for their brother 's elopement, according to Amnesty International. The family has filed a Supreme Court petition seeking protection after being victims of harassment and violence by the police. Thousands have signed a petition to stop such horrific sentence and have both sisters, and their family, return to safety to their home. This isn 't the first case of the unspeakable truth about rape in India, the murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey, a 23-year-old who was beaten and gang raped by six men while travelling in a private bus with a friend. After two days, Jyoti died of her injuries sparking international outrage and public protest in New Dehli.