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Hasan Cleaned House,
Gave Much to Neighbors

FORT HOOD SHOOTING

Nov 6, 2009 7:00 PM CST

Hasan Cleaned House, Gave Much to Neighbors

Suspect said he was Iraq-bound, offered mattress, food, clothes

(Newser) - Maj. Nidal Hasan cleaned out his off-base apartment in the days before yesterday’s shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, giving away many of his possessions to a neighbor, whom he told he was headed for Iraq and had no need of them. Patricia Villa tells the New York Times...

Hasan Felt Discriminated Against, Wanted Out of Army

fort hood shooting

Nov 6, 2009 5:30 PM CST

Hasan Felt Discriminated Against, Wanted Out of Army

Suspect moved to San Antonio hospital

(Newser) - Nidal Malik Hasan considered himself a victim of anti-Muslim bias and had been trying for 6 months to quit the Army, his cousin says. "I think because he’s a Muslim he didn’t want to go to Afghanistan or Iraq, and he didn’t want to expose himself...

Pregnant Soldier
Among Victims

fort hood shooting

Nov 6, 2009 3:03 PM CST

Pregnant Soldier Among Victims

Bases observe minute of silence 24 hours after shooting

(Newser) - One of the victims of the Fort Hood massacre was a pregnant 21-year-old set to start maternity leave in just 2 weeks. Francheska Velez of Chicago enlisted out of high school. "She loved the military, loved to serve," a friend told the Chicago Tribune . US military bases around...

Muslim Groups Condemn Hasan, Rush to Judgment

fort hood shooting

Nov 6, 2009 12:28 PM CST

Muslim Groups Condemn Hasan, Rush to Judgment

Groups preach tolerance as hate mail pours in

(Newser) - With hate mail already pouring in, Muslim American groups rushed to condemn the Fort Hood shooter today as a criminal who doesn’t represent Islam. “You wouldn't take a Christian or a Jewish soldier who did something like this and look at other Christians and Jews and say, 'Can...

Flags at Half-Staff Through
Veterans Day: Obama

FORT HOOD SHOOTING

Nov 6, 2009 11:55 AM CST

Flags at Half-Staff Through Veterans Day: Obama

President calls the move a 'modest tribute' to Fort Hood victims

(Newser) - President Obama today ordered that American flags at all federal properties be flown at half-staff until Veterans Day—next Wednesday—to honor the people killed at Fort Hood yesterday. The gesture is “a modest tribute to those who lost their lives even as others were preparing to risk their...

Hero Cop
Took Down
Shooter in
'Amazing
Performance'

fort hood shooting

Nov 6, 2009 10:56 AM CST

Hero Cop Took Down Shooter in 'Amazing Performance'

Swiftly responding officer shot once as she put 4 in Hasan

(Newser) - Sgt. Kimberly Munley, a civilian police officer, has earned the highest praise for taking down the Fort Hood gunman. She and her partner responded to the scene within 3 minutes, base commander Lt. Gen. Robert Cone reports, and she pumped four bullets into Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, from just a...

Blame 'Vicarious' PTSD

fort hood shooting

Nov 6, 2009 10:03 AM CST

Blame 'Vicarious' PTSD

Trauma is infectious, Essig writes, and therapists can catch it

(Newser) - When Todd Essig learned the Fort Hood shooter “was an Army psychiatrist who treats post traumatic stress disorder, himself on the cusp of deployment, I thought, ‘I’m not surprised.’” Why? Because there is a documented transfer of trauma disorders from sufferers to caregivers, dubbed “...

Witnesses: Major Yelled 'Allahu Akbar' Before Firing

fort hood shooting

Nov 6, 2009 9:01 AM CST

Witnesses: Major Yelled 'Allahu Akbar' Before Firing

Family says he is devout, not extremist

(Newser) - Witnesses to the Fort Hood rampage say gunman Nidal Malik Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar"—Arabic for "God is Great"—as he opened fire. The Army hasn't confirmed the callout during the "calm and measured" shooting spree that killed 13. Hasan is a devout Muslim, but...

At Fort Hood, Pain, Questions

SLIDESHOW

Nov 6, 2009 8:30 AM CST

At Fort Hood, Pain, Questions

The Army town of Killeen struggles to understand the tragedy

(Newser) - An Army community painfully accustomed to death on foreign shores, Killeen's 86,000 residents are struggling to understand this very different kind of tragedy. "I kind of thought after 9/11, it was only a matter of time before there was a terrorist attack here," Sharon Gregory, who lives...

Fort Hood Death Toll Hits 13

Nov 6, 2009 7:53 AM CST

Fort Hood Death Toll Hits 13

SWAT teams, FBI scour suspect's home

(Newser) - The death toll from yesterday's shootings at Fort Hood hit 13 early this morning after a woman died of her injuries, a military spokeswoman says. A SWAT team and FBI agents raided the Killeen, Texas, home of suspected shooter Nidal Malik Hasan overnight in an effort to learn what could...

Army's Stress Most Obvious
at Fort Hood

ANALYSIS

Nov 6, 2009 6:16 AM CST

Army's Stress Most Obvious at Fort Hood

Repeat deployments prompt record levels of suicide, depression

(Newser) - Fort Hood has had more suicides than any other US Army facility since the start of the Iraq war, and while Nidal Hasan, the man officials say is responsible for yesterday's massacre, likely had unique motivations, he was perhaps only the most troubled member of a volunteer force buckling under...

Gunman Hasan a Lifelong Muslim, Devout Soldier

FORT HOOD SHOOTING

Nov 5, 2009 11:20 PM CST

Gunman Hasan a Lifelong Muslim, Devout Soldier

He counseled returning soldiers with PTSD

(Newser) - The details emerging about Nidal Hasan, who authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a US Army base, paint a picture of a man torn by contradictory loyalties. Hasan was a lifelong Muslim, an imam at his mosque said, but not an extremist. He had served 8...

'Death Is Not Imminent' for Hasan Despite Multiple Shots

FORT HOOD SHOOTING

Nov 5, 2009 9:23 PM CST

'Death Is Not Imminent' for Hasan Despite Multiple Shots

Plus, a report that he was yelling in Arabic

(Newser) - Suspected Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan isn’t mortally wounded despite taking at least four bullets, military officials say tonight. “I would say his death is not imminent,” notes a spokesman at the Texas military base where the Army psychiatrist killed 12 and injured 31 earlier...

Shooter Alive, in Custody

FORT HOOD SHOOTING

Nov 5, 2009 8:29 PM CST

Shooter Alive, in Custody

Army had said Nidal Malik Hasan was killed after spree

(Newser) - A US Army spokesman says the suspect in today's shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, is alive and was not killed by authorities responding to the attack. Lt. Gen. Bob Cone also says the death toll from the attack remains 12 after another victim died.

Shooter Drew Attention With Internet Posts

FORT HOOD SHOOTING

Nov 5, 2009 7:54 PM CST

Shooter Drew Attention With Internet Posts

Hasan equated suicide bombers with heroes: federal sources

(Newser) - Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the man who killed 12 today at Fort Hood, had been on federal law-enforcement authorities’ radar for months after Internet postings about suicide bombings and the like. AP sources say the feds are still trying to confirm that the Army psychiatrist authored, in particular, a blog...

Gunman Identified as US Army Major

fort hood shooting

Nov 5, 2009 6:23 PM CST

Gunman Identified as US Army Major

Malik Nadal Hasan, about 40, was being sent to Iraq

(Newser) - The shooter in today's rampage at the Fort Hood Army base has been identified as Major Malik Nadal Hasan. He is described as an Army psychiatrist, 39, who was to be sent to Iraq on Nov. 28, reports ABC . Hasan was reported killed after opening fire at a soldier processing...