[Skybird]

I can understand the military nopt accepting his offer. If you volunteer, you cannot later demand to be allowed to handpick the missions yourself you are willing to embark on. If really that alone is his problem, he hasn't thought about this scenario intense enough before joining the army, or, as they say, the reports of the wounded returning and what he saw in psychological problems in them has horrified him.

They also said he lived an isolated life, having been unable to find a family life and a wife, although he desired that very much. with the isolation he seem to have met in the military as well, and the daily harassment that also is referred to, he must have been under pressure, with religion being his only relief valve, apparently - that may explain why during his amok run he now gets reported to have shouted "Allahu Akhbar".

I really hope this does not turn out to show some Islamic wacko going mad over religious motives only. It would confirm every cliche you could think of about Muslims in vital or critical Western services. Forming hostile attitudes on the basis of cliches only would not do any good to anyone.