Shooting at VA tech

[Xalimopatra]

157 Iraqis today in baghdad...It's sad that it's not even surprising anymore.May Allah SWT ease their loved ones pain,amiin.

 

Awlugeeye,Fairfax you say?Hmmm...But yeah he showed alot of signs that he was a troubled soul.

 

 

I just watched the live conference that they held and it was like a circus.The Police looked lost and kept on switching speakers when one was uninformed... the lack of knowledge on the available info that most of them displayed was not good at all.If they didn't know they should have not of even held the news conference.

[Ariadne]

For some reason I forget the analysts name but I remember his theory. A year after the columbine massacre he wrote that the youth of a nation act

out mostly when they are amidst a war and when the war is coming to an end.

The worst acts of atrocities are commited.... because of the desensitization of from the war covereage.

 

So pretty much what he was saying was the worst is yet to come.

[Chimera]

 

Yahoo-V-Tech

 

CAIRO, Egypt: Graduate student Waleed Mohammed Shaalan, one of the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre, called home a day before the shooting to say he was returning to Egypt next month to take his wife and child to the United States.

 

Shaalan, a native of the Nile Delta town of Zagazig, had gone to Virginia last year to study for a Ph.D. in civil engineering. He was hit by three bullets, including one in the head, while in a classroom building, Egypt's state-run Middle East News Agency, MENA, said Thursday.

 

Monday's massacre, which left 32 killed, was the deadliest school shooting in modern U.S. history. The shooter, South Korean-born and a senior majoring in English Cho Seung-Hui took his own life.

 

The New York Times' Website Thursday quoted Randy Dymond, a civil engineering professor at Virginia Tech, as saying Shaalan was shot twice while trying to save another student.

 

He was badly wounded and lay beside the other student, who was not shot but played dead as Cho returned twice to search for signs of life, the Times quoted Dymond as saying.

 

When Cho noticed the student, Shaalan made a move to distract him, at which point he was shot a second time and died, Dymond told the Times. The unidentified student believed Shaalan purposefully distracted Cho to save him, said Dymond.

 

"He was the simplest and nicest guy I ever knew," Fahad Pasha, Shaalan's roommate, said on the Web site of the Muslim Students Association at Virginia Tech of which both men were members. "We would be studying for our exams and he would go buy a cake and make tea for us."

 

Shaalan's father, a retired government official, said his son spoke to the family Sunday using an Internet telephone-video link, according to MENA. "The night before his death, he insisted on talking with us through a web-camera to see our faces," the father told Cairo's daily newspaper Al-Masry el-Youm.

 

On Tuesday, the family received a call from the Egyptian Embassy in Washington informing them of Shaalan's death, he said.

 

Shaalan is married with a 15-month-old son. He told his family Sunday that he planned to come home in May to take his wife and son back to the states.

 

"Americans and Egyptians are shocked and saddened by these tragic killings that took place in a center of learning," U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Francis Ricciardone, said in a statement Thursday. "Our hearts go out to Mr Shaalan's family and friends and to all of the victims of this terrible incident."

 

Shaalan obtained his bachelor and master's degrees in civil engineering from Zagaziq University. He worked at a government research center before he received a scholarship to study at Virginia Tech, according to MENA.

 

His body will be flown to Egypt for burial in his hometown of Zagazig.

 

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[Xalimopatra]

Allahu uu naxaristo,