[REUTERS] Nidal Hasan, a former U.S. army psychiatrist accused of murdering 13 fellow soldiers and wounding dozens more in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood four years ago, told a court on Tuesday that the evidence would clearly show "I am the shooter."
Hasan, who is confined to a wheelchair after being shot by military police during the attack, is representing himself in the trial at the Texas army base.
In a brief opening statement on the first day of the trial, he said witnesses would testify that "war is an ugly thing,"
"What?"
"[Click! Click! Whirrr! Snap!] Wahr iss an urgly t'ing!"
"What?"
"Wahr! It is an urgly t'ing!"
"Oh."
with death and devastation on both sides.
[Click! Click! Whirrr! Snap!]
| Does this really need to be established for the benefit of a military tribunal, presumably intimately familiar with the uglier aspects of that war thingy? Will he also explain where down and up are located, and define the colour of the sky as "mostly blue during the daytime but seriously indigo at night"? |
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