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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
To pay for school, perhaps?
Or when he did join up, he did not anticipate that he would be deployed against other Muslims?
The strange part of this is that I just don't see that they would send a psychiatrist into a battle situation. He would likely have been an office monkey treating soldiers on site, rather than back in Texas.
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I've never under stood this. Nidal was a long time soldier he served 8 years previous as an enlisted man then in 2001 earned his degree and continued in the armed services. He re-upped after the start of the Iraq war, he wasn't a victim of stop loss, he could have just walked away.
According to reports he started posting fairly radical thoughts on the web supporting suicide bombers, he also argued against his deployment to Iraq.
This whole investigation is certainly going to change any privacy rules in terms of being a member of the armed forces. Its also going to force a change in recruiting rules as Nidal's actions and his behaviours do point to a radicalization of his beliefs over a short period of time.
I would expect that the U.S. Army, Marines, Airforce and Navy and those of similar countries are going to start looking harder into their soldiers backgrounds and beliefs as part of gaining any type of access or clearance.
At the end of the day radical islam might have achieved one of thier goals yesterday on the back of one crazed lunatic, they've got the army looking inwards at muslim soldiers.