Major Nidal Hasan, the an army psychiatrist who turned one of the most secure army bases on the US soil, Fort Hood, Texas, into a grotesque human shooting range has been charged with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder for his abrupt and incomprehensible shooting spree that left 13 people dead.

On November 5th, 2009, Maj. Hasan entered into the medical center of Fort Hood at the time when several soldiers were inside the center preparing for their overseas deployment and started indiscriminate firing killing 13 souls. According to witnesses present at the scene, Maj. Hasan yelled, “Allahu Akbar!” (God is great!) took out two pistols and started firing at anyone unfortunate enough to come into his line of sight.

On Tuesday, the US army had informed Nidal’s civil attorney that, they were planned to examine Hasan to ensure that he would be fit to stand trial and the army is also trying to establish Maj. Hasan’s state of mind at the time of the incident. However, the civil attorney to Maj. Hasan, John Galligan has stated that, he has infact moved the courts to get a stay order on the proposed evaluation by the army, citing the reason that his client is currently in the intensive care unit at the San Antonio military hospital, where he was admitted after being shot by law enforcement officers.

According to Mr. Galligan,

“I’m incensed at the way the military is handling this, serving additional charges on my client when he’s in the hospital and defense attorneys are not present. And nobody will tell me what the plans are for the evaluation.”

Via Associated Press.