Yesterday I was driving to work when I heard about the standoff between three unidentified gunmen and the US army. This was happening not at some university, hospital, shopping mall or government office! But at the largest army base in the US, at Fort Hood, Texas. And the more horrifying fact was that the gunmen shooting at army personnel was US army soldier.

My first thoughts at the news report was that some lunatic with guns was venting out his frustrations or lunacy. As the story unfolded I was shocked that the person shooting was nothing near to being eccentric, stressed, or someone frustrated because of lay offs. It was a major in the US army and himself a psychiatrist. An hour later the newscasters revealed that this gunman had killed 11 people, injured another 31 and was shot. He was assumed dead but towards the end of the day we came to know that he is alive and stable.

The worst thing about this whole incident is that this guy is a Muslim who harbors radical Islamic feelings. He has been apparently making statements such as “Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan should stand up against their aggressors,” i.e. Americans. He apparently expressed happiness when he heard about a newly converted Muslim killed two soldiers in Arkansas army recruitment center. News reporters dug up his military record spoke to his former colleagues to find out and reveal these shocking statistics.

I am surprised at how the mainstream media is handling this scenario. They are saying that he was driven by stress to act out this way. He was mortified by deployment. Well if he was mortified and didn’t want to go to Iraq, he should have shot himself, not the 11 others at the army base. One of the news reports said that he was not randomly shooting but he was targeting specific individuals and shooting at them. This clearly proves that he was motivated by hate and this was a planned offensive and not an expression of frustration at deployment.

In my opinion this attack is surely an act of terrorism. The beginning of terrorist attacks in America started off with the dastardly 9/11. But the proliferation of terrorism is happening the way it happened in India. Slowly, with small seemingly insignificant and unrelated incidents, but definitely aimed at creating terror, wrecking havoc and destabilizing life in this country.

I hope the American establishment wakes up and takes notice to the more serious underlying problem and not dismiss this incident as a random criminal act. It may be interesting to know that there are Terrorist Training Camps in the US Soil.