I recently watched a AMC movie eerily similar to this event starring Robert Mitchum defending a insane army officer accused of murder. Man in the Middle is a courtroom drama with Robert Mitchum as a military lawyer urged by his superiors to cover up the facts behind a civilian murder committed by a military officer. Set in 1944 India, Mitchum plays a lieutenant colonel assigned to defend American soldier Keenan Wynn after he murders a British civilian; Mitchum quickly discovers that everyone involved in the case, from top general Barry Sullivan to British medical officer Alexander Knox, wants him to fall in line with a rush to execute Wynn and save face, despite his obvious insanity.

Insanity is not generally well accepted as the reason one kills.

Get the guy feeling better and then give him 100 years and a day at HARD labor. Death is too good for this guy. He needs to pay for his crimes and not be sent early to his 72 male virgins.

On the other hand, a military court martial trial, is not quite the pansy self serving lawyer circus we have become accustomed to in our "justice system", is it? This man, can cry insanity all he wants. He can even claim his religion is inherently insane if he likes, but when he is convicted of his crimes, that firing squad, chosen to send him to his next disappointing date with the "virgins", will see insanity in the crosshairs and serve up some military justice.

You can bet your sweet ass that after having the tube pulled, he is very ABLE to communicate. But I'd venture to guess, that waking up from an induced coma, and seeing armed U.S. Army guards, and doctors in scrubs, as opposed to seventy two nubile, burka clad virgins, just waiting for his supposedly martyred grubby paws to be all over them, well, let's just say that ol' prisoner Hasan, had a rude surprise waiting for him.

Or as the old warden in "Cool Hand Luke" said......"what we have here, if failuh t' c'mmunicate". I have a feeling he'll improve, as soon as the Army appoints him an attorney. I can't wait to hear what the boy has to say......or for that matter, whether he shows up in court in his muslim garb that looks like my mama's housecoat, or a snappy U.S. Army dress uniform, claiming insanity.