He was supposed to bring them comfort. Instead, he brought death.

An Army shrink who specialized in combat stress snapped Thursday and launched a bloody rampage at Fort Hood Army Base in Texas that killed 12 people and wounded 31, officials said.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist who was about to be deployed overseas, was initially reported killed by a civilian police officer.

Eight hours later, officials revealed that Hasan was actually alive, in stable condition under heavy guard, with four gunshot wounds.

"He is not currently speaking to investigators," said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the base commander, who called the bloodbath "stunning."

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) said Hasan - who had worked with the wounded for years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center - was angry about being sent to war and tried to get his orders changed.

The people in the building Hasan shot up were mostly soldiers preparing for their deployment.

Texas TV station KXXV reported that the gunman told a civilian as he passed that he was shooting only military men.

She said he targeted specific people as he stalked through a deployment center, two handguns blazing.

In what should have been one of the most secure places in the country, frightened military families huddled behind locked doors - in some cases comforted by soldiers calling from faraway war zones.

"Here I am in Iraq, worried my wife and son are in danger in their own backyard," blogged Army Spec. Naveed Ali Shah, a public affairs specialist in Iraq.

Late last night, the FBI was assisting the Army in investigating the massacre.

Hasan's defense of Islamic suicide bombers in a comment he posted on the Internet was being scrutinized. Co-workers came forward to say that the Muslim doctor, the American-born son of Jordanian immigrants, opposed the war in Iraq.

But Cone said the shooting did not appear to be political.

"Evidence does not suggest this was a terrorist event," the general said.

It was the worst mass shooting ever at an American military base.

President Obama mourned the "horrific outburst of violence" that killed those who had volunteered to protect the nation.

"It's difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas. It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil," Obama said.

"We will make sure that we get answers to every single question about this horrible incident. We are going to stay on this."

The 1:30 p.m. shooting spread mass chaos and confusion on the sprawling military installation, the nation's largest.

The entire base was on lockdown, with sirens wailing for five hours as the public address system crackled with urgent calls for blood donations.

Officials told the base population of nearly 34,000 to take cover as they hunted for accomplices.

Despite initial reports of multiple shooters - and the detention of two suspects who were later freed - officials said only Hasan opened fire at the Soldiers Readiness Processing Center.

Retired Army Col. Greg Schannep was heading for a 2 p.m. graduation ceremony on the base when he heard three or four volleys of shots and saw a wounded soldier run by.

"Initially, I thought it was a training exercise," he said.

"A soldier came running past me and said, 'Sir, there is someone shooting.' As he ran past me, I saw blood on his back. I don't think he even knew he had been shot. He has since been treated and should be okay," he said.



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2..._hood_in_t.html

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His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.

An owner of a 7-Eleven convenience store in Fort Hood, Texas, said Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan came in for coffee and hashbrowns most mornings, including the day he allegedly shot dozens of soldiers.

Surveillance video from the store obtained by CNN shows a man who, according to the store owner, is Hasan at the cashier's counter at about 6:20 a.m. Thursday (7:20 a.m. ET) -- about seven hours before the mass shooting -- carrying a beverage and dressed in traditional Arab garb.

"He looked normal, came in had his hashbrowns and coffee as you see in the surveillance video," the owner told CNN.

Another surveillance video from the store on Tuesday showed the man believed to be Hasan in scrubs.

While the owner said he was too busy to chat with Hasan whom he knows as "Major Nidal" on Thursday, he said that through his brief talks with Hasan he learned the officer's background was Jordanian, though he didn't speak Arabic well. He added that Hasan didn't wear a wedding ring and joked several times on whether the owner knew a bride for him.

Hasan would also ask the owner whether he planned to attend Friday prayers, a mainstay of Islam, to which the owner would say that he was too busy.

Since 2001, Hasan had been telling his family that he wanted to get out of the military but was unsuccessful, said a spokeswoman for his cousin, Nader Hasan. The Army officer told his family that he had been taunted after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the spokeswoman said.

"He was mortified by the idea of having to deploy," his cousin told the New York Times. "He had people telling him on a daily basis the horrors they saw over there."

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who had been briefed by a general at the post, told CNN that Hasan was to have been deployed to Iraq and was unhappy about it.

Staff Sgt. Marc Molano, currently based at Fort Knox, Kentucky, told CNN that he was treated by Hasan for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) while at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington earlier this year.

"Dr. Hasan provided me with nothing but the best care," Molano said. "He was a very well-mannered, polite psychiatrist, and it's just a shock to know that Dr. Hasan could have done this. It's still kind of hard to believe."

Molano described him as "far and away one of the best psychiatrists I ever dealt with."

A soldier who served two tours in Iraq and is awaiting medical retirement for chronic PTSD and severe mental disorders called Hasan "a soldier's soldier who cared about our mental health."

But, he added, "Hasan hears nothing but these horror stories from soldiers who come back from Iraq and Afghanistan -- just hearing it I'm pretty sure would have a profound effect."

Mindy B. Mechanic, an associate professor of psychology at California State University, Fullerton, said listening to horror stories can indeed have an impact, but was unlikely to have such an extreme one.

The impact on therapists who work with traumatized individuals is known as vicarious traumatization or compassion fatigue, she said. "But they don't go out on shooting sprees," she said. "They might get depressed or have some emotional fallout from it, but to go on a shooting spree is not part of what happens to people from having to deal with trauma survivors all the time."

Mechanic, who did not know Hasan, said people don't just snap. "When you start looking back, there are crumbs that suggest everything was not hunky-dory."

A former neighbor of Hasan said he lived in a high-rise apartment complex in Silver Spring, Maryland, with another man, apparently his brother, and that the two appeared friendly.

"They had some Arabic signs out there, and I asked them what they meant," said the woman, who asked not to be identified. The other man, who routinely wore a chef's outfit, told her it was a prayer, she said. "They seemed like they were nice people," she said.

The two men moved out three or four months ago, which she noticed because the Muslim prayer had been removed from their door.

"Honestly, they seemed like very cool, calm guys, and religious guys," she said. "It's kinda strange."

According to military records, Hasan was born in Virginia, and a federal official said he was a U.S. citizen of Jordanian descent.

Military records show Hasan receiving his appointment to the Army as a first lieutenant in June 1997 after graduating from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, with a degree in biochemistry.

Six years later, he graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences' F. Edward Hebert School Of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, and was first an intern, then a resident and finally a fellow at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Promoted to captain in 2003, he was promoted to major in May.

In 2009, Hasan he completed a fellowship in disaster and preventive psychiatry and was assigned to Darnall in July.

He had been awarded the National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the Army Service Ribbon, but was never deployed outside the United States.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/fort.hood.suspect/

Put blame where it belongs. Nidal Hasan is an evil murdering traitor and I hope he gets the death penalty. Don't let him off the hook by shifting the blame to the U.S. Army. There are plenty of brave American soldiers who don't "snap". This one individual is evil - let him keep all his blame for himself.

He probably couldn`t take the Lindsay Lohan/Michael Lohan rift that the media deems necessary to report 20 gabillion times a day.

He is :wacko2:

This shows that many muslims have a problem assimilating into our culture. He never should have been allowed in the armed forces given the views that he held.

Now it's time to send him back to allah! :killem2:

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The blame should be placed where it clearly belongs: this vile, destructive death-cult of his. Muslims should not be allowed to serve in the U.S. Military. Period. :angry:

Exactly! Or to put it another way—he's a Muslim! :ph43r:

Officers don't argue with troops about the war.. It's not done. I have heard of stupid, incompetent sargeants and officers getting fragged in Vietnam, but that's like one individual grenade in a shit house.This is the second time a muslim in uniform has killed fellow soldiers.. The third I've heard about --in May a non muslim shot up a psych office in Bagdad..He just wanted the rank,money and dick duty at Walter Reed. Just think,, if he went into a school on base and started shooting children. Fuck him going over seas to Iraq, he wasn't better than anybody else. Just hang him and set an example for the other muslims that want to be martyrs. He could have just went over the hill and deserted, but no, he had to kill people, this is Islamic shit plain and simple.

Oh Hairy-tic,
You are such a ignorant moron :drool: . You're blatant racism is really showing today. :nazi:

I see you're foaming at the mouth again, Pearl. :drool: Better do something about those rabies before all of your brain is destroyed.

You stupid cruel commie bastard. Those were the people defending your right to come here and trash this country.Was not what he did evil ?? Was not what he did treason? He was an American Army Officer and he randomly murdered those people.He shot a fucking pregnant woman, He shot a woman cop who thankfully shot him back. Didn't you see the video of the muslim son of a bitch in the convinience store dressed like Casper the fucking ghost ? I thought fudgie was a kid killing faggot son of a bitch, but I hate to say it, you out degenerated a gay alcoholic kid killer. I know you're a butt slammer, but what is it you got exactly ? A Jeffery Dhamer kind of homosexuality ???? I think when he gets better, they ought to round up his family, men women and kids and shoot them in front of him and see how he likes it. Your muslim buddies believe in that right?? an eye for an eye kind of stuff. Really you are one lousy goddam chicken shit , ya know that dontcha ??????


I tried to find an updated victims list as of this time it's incomplete. it now shows 13 dead and 30 wounded but does not list all 43 names. So far two women killed and 5 women wounded. I just looked at the women because I loath a woman killer, don't matter if they are in uniform or not. Muslims just dont care who they kill.

Do you have a link to show this alleged 'racism' of mine? I suspect you have absolutely no idea what the word means. Dumbass. :drunk3:

Here's a hint genius: the word you're groping for is 'bigotry'. Racism and bigotry are two different things. And just to show you how inclusive I am, I despise ALL death-cultists, regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, etc. Black, white, brown or yellow, ALL Muslims are scum. They have no business living in a civilized society, and any peoples foolish enough to allow them in amongst their midst will quickly find themselves mired in mindless violence and Stone Age savagery. Exactly what we saw Thursday, and exactly what we’ll continue to see so long as we suffer their presence.

Course if you actually a ‘Communist’, you wouldn’t be wasting your time defending Muslims. But you’re obviously too stupid to figure that out as well. Dumbass. :drunk3:

Fort Hood gunman tried to contact Al Qaeda and U.S. intelligence knew - report

Counterterror agents intercepted messages between the Army shrink who killed 13 at Fort Hood and a radical imam in Yemen with ties to Al Qaeda - but decided they were harmless, U.S. officials said Monday night.

Critics want to know whether the feds - and the military - underestimated Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. And FBI Director Robert Mueller has launched an internal probe into whether his agency botched the case.

Accused mass murderer Hasan and radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki exchanged 10 to 20 "communications," sources said. Hasan caught the FBI's eye in December 2008 as part of another investigation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Agents pulled Hasan's military records, but the FBI in a statement said his contact with Awlaki was "consistent with research" he was doing "as a psychiatrist at the Walter Reed Medical Center."

"There was no indication that Maj. Hasan was planning an attack anywhere at all," a senior investigator said last night.

The FBI shared the info with Army brass, who not only refused to boot Hasan from the service but promoted him - even after colleagues were stunned by his views on the wars abroad.

Hasan turned a medical presentation at Walter Reed into a rant on Islam in late 2007, The Washington Post reported on its Web site last night.

"It's getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims," The Post said he lectured.

Yesterday's series of developments had critics steaming that the feds and military brass failed to connect the dots.

"The very fact that you've got a major in the U.S. Army contacting [a radical imam], or attempting to contact him, would raise some red flags," Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the use Intelligence Committee, told the Los Angeles Times.

Even colleagues at Fort Hood said they had complained to higherups that Hasan was anti-American.

Awlaki, who reportedly counseled two 9/11 hijackers and was the imam at a suburban Virginia mosque where Hasan worshiped, praised the accused gunman yesterday for doing the "right thing" when he shot dead 13 people and wounded 29.

"Nidal Hassan is a hero," Awlaki wrote on his blog."Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done?"

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), head of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Sunday the panel will "ask whether the Army missed warning signs."

Meanwhile, Hasan, who was shot by hero cops who responded to the base massacre, was awake and talking with nurses yesterday. Investigators were rebuffed Sunday from quizzing him after Hasan's family hired Col. John Galligan, a military lawyer, to represent him.

President Obama and the First Lady will attend a memorial service at Fort Hood Tuesday.



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2...telligence.html

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I'm amazed he could find the time in his busy schedule. He must figure there'll be a lot of cameras there. :angry:

That article is too sad. I don'tthink youll see Red Herring commenting on that.

Now I blame the Army for this. They had prior knowledge.

Now why would he do this if he already shared the info with the Army? He did his part unless there was something else he could have done. The Army had this info and "somebody" promoted him. I want to talk to that guy or the members of that board and see the bastards fitness reports.

The first thing the dirty bastard did when he woke up was lawyer up, So much for my brain tumor benifit of doubt!. Even anti-war Kerry didn't shoot his own troops. I'm old school, the old rules of war.Now what do you do when you find an enemy behind your lines in the uniform of your country. ans: Like the Germans who did it in the Battle of the Bulge---fireing squad and nearest wall. Sabotuers are shot, traitors are hung. I'm waffling between the two. I don't know which it was sabotage or treason. Maybe this will make Obama think again about closing Guantanamo. Seems like too many ties to 9/11 to be a coincidence.

Well then how about we gently suspend him by the neck, so that he remains conscious, then gut-shoot him with a .22 short?

How about we just admit that another 13 people died as a result of political correctness, as well as this mindless celebration of ‘diversity’ for diversity’s sake? They certainly weren’t the first, and I daresay they won’t be the last. :angry:

:angry: Frankly I won't be terribly surprised if thousands if not millions of Americans die in the near future in the name of "diversity" and/or "political correctness." :nope: A sorry state of affairs.

If and when it happens, I won't blame our enemies nearly as much as I will the mindless liberal trash in our government who facilitate and even invite it. :realmad:

The murderous major lived so close to Fort Hood he didn't need an alarm clock - he was awakened every morning by a bugler playing reveille.

Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan bunked at the Casa De Norte complex in Apartment 9, three blocks from the base where the feds say he massacred 13 people.

Hasan paid $325 a month for a modest one-bedroom pad on the second floor that looks out on a small courtyard.

Hasan's landlord considered him a great tenant because he paid the rent six months in advance.

Now building manager Alice Thompson hopes Hasan rots.

"Hasan betrayed everyone," she said. "Hasan was a disgrace."

Shortly after the slaughter, red roses and prayer candles sprung up in the courtyard under Hasan's window.

When tenants complained, Thompson quickly added some American flags so "there would be no mistaking who this memorial is for."

Neighbors said Hasan told them he was being deployed overseas and cleaned out his apartment before the rampage, giving away his furniture along with several copies of the Koran.

Hasan was especially generous to neighbor Patricia Villa.

In addition to giving her fresh fruit and vegetables, Hasan gave her husband a black wool Harvé Benard jacket, matching dress pants, a white cotton dress shirt and two ties - one red and black; one blue and black.

"I thought he was being nice," she said. Hasan even had the clothes dry-cleaned, and delivered them in the plastic cleaners bag.

"My husband won't put that suit on his body," Villa said. "He doesn't want that man's clothing touching his skin. It's like touching evil."

Villa has plans for the clothes.

"I'm going to sell it on eBay," she said. "I'm going to make me some money.



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2...pt_complex.html

The sexual pressure on gays in the military is unbearable sometimes.
Just imagine gay and a muslim, oh my!

Slit this fuckers throat, they never should have let him in the military!

Oh I agree :iagree: 1 million percent that poor poor man.

This SOB ain't much better. Some people will do anything for a fricken buck. My guess is Red Dawn is highest bidder.

I see they charged him today with 13 counts of murder under the UCMJ. He'll get a jury (panel rather) of officers (peers) and most likely be condemned to death. I think if he is to die Obama has final say as commander in chief in chain of command. I see the shysters in a turf battle to drag it out into federal court. I see him claiming to be a martyr and wanting to die. All we need is Obama and Casey to sign off on it. I have my doubts about Casey more than Obama, what with his statements about diversity in the Army being more important. I still can't fathom if what he did was espionage or treason, but I haven't seen where he has been charged with anything except murder. There's a subtle difference between espionage and treason especially if it ever applies to him. It may make a difference to history if he's killed as a traitor, spy, or just plain murderer.