Nidal Hasan Tells Judge He Shot Up Fort Hood to Protect Mullah Omar
Tom Scocca · 06/04/13 02:15PMThe Los Angeles Times reports that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, facing trial in the shooting of 45 people at Fort Hood, asked the judge today for a three-month delay so he can prepare a new strategy: The psychiatrist-allegedly-turned-gunman wants to argue, he said, that he was acting in "defense of others."