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12 dead, 31 wounded in Fort Hood shooting
Slain suspect at Texas base reportedly identified as Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan

Posted: November 05, 2009
3:31 pm Eastern

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Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan

An Army soldier opened fire at Fort Hood in Texas, killing 11 soldiers and wounding 31, before he was killed by a local police officer.

The Army identified the suspected gunman as Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan.

Hasan, 39, is a licensed psychiatrist from Silver Spring, Md., according to CBS News investigative producer Len Tepper.

Retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales told Fox News the massacre did not appear to be the act of a mentally ill or extremely stressed person.

"This was a deliberate act of execution," he said.

The shooter was immediately killed, according to Lt. Gen. Bob Cone, a base spokesman, and two additional suspects, also soldiers, have been apprehended.

One incident, at about 1:30 p.m. Central Time, took place at a medical processing center, a second took place at a theater on the base, Lt Col Nathan Banks at the Pentagon told the Associated Press.

The base, about 60 miles from Austin, and two area school districts are on lockdown.

Greg Schannep, an aide to U.S. Rep. John Carter, said he was on the Army post to attend a graduation service, the Austin American-Statesman newspaper reported. As he neared the entrance of a building where the service was being held, he said, a soldier with blood on his uniform ran past him and said a man was shooting.

Schannep told the paper the shootings appeared to have occurred in a complex near the theater where the service was scheduled.

CNN reported President Obama has been advised of the shooting. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the president is being kept updated. CNN said staffers have gathered in the situation room, possibly as a precautionary measure since details are still emerging.

The FBI reportedly was en route.

Sgt. Major Jamie Posten of the Fort Hood public affairs office said shooting took place "near the soldier readiness processing center, where soldiers cycle through as they prepare to deploy."

Posten said soldiers go to the center up to 60 days before deployment to begin the process of vaccinations and other preparation.

"It's still developing. We're trying to figure out what took place on the ground," he said.

Fort Hood, home to at least 4,929 active duty officers and 45,414 enlisted, is the largest U.S. military base in the world. Another 9,000 civilians work there.

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Nidal Hasan: Ft. Hood Shooter Participated in Homeland Security Disaster Preparation

The gunman who killed 12 people today at Ft. Hood appears, based on current media reports, to be Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan who was listed as a participant in a Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force last year.

The task force was not officially affiliated with the White House. It was a project of the Homeland Security Policy Institute, an independent thinktank housed at George Washington University, aimed at drafting policy recommendations for the incoming Obama administration.

According to the task force's May 2009 report [pdf], a "Nidal Hasan" from the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine was a task force event participant. Other participants included Senate and House staffers, Department of Homeland Security officials, Defense Department officials, and reporters for Politico, the Washington Post, and the London Times.

McClatchy reports that Maj. Malik Nidal Hasan attended "training in disaster and preventive psychiatry at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Md.," and his Virginia medical board license lists his name as "Nidal Malik Hasan," reversing the first two names of the identity reported so far and spelling "Nidal" differently than earlier reports did. (The New York Times is now reporting that his name is, in fact, Nidal Malik Hasan). So it seems likely that the "Nidal Hasan" affiliated with Uniformed Services University (USU) listed as a task force participant, the "Nidal Malik Hasan" listed by Virginia's state medical board as practicing psychiatry at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and by reported by McLatchy as having studied at USU, and the "Malik Nadal Hasan" who practiced psychiatry at Walter Reed identified in various media reports as the shooter are all the same person. Or were the same person.

Hasan's name is also listed in a July 2008 USU newsletter [pdf] as having graduated the Master of Public Health Program in June of last year.
www.gawker.com/538253/nidal-hasan-ft-hood-shooter

The Muslim murderer is still alive...
Personelly I think he with purpose killed those being prepared to go , he was helping the people of his faith, fellow muslim terriosts
America has many dedicated muslim terriost, m ost have the perfect cover, their job's , they are Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers / Professors and Military etc .
He showed no signs of mental illness, ha d not be en to Iraq or anyplace e lse in battle, he did not have PDS
He is a muslim, he did what mus lims do, kill A me rican Soldier's...just like th e other muslim did not long ago in Iraq,in the Army Ba rracks, he was a Soldier ( American ) too, but a muslim first.

Religious tolerance have gone too far when this country allow those of a religion whose end purpose is to eradicate people of other faiths.

This should be awake up call!

I agree, Frank, but I hate to say it, but I think Jeani is right, also, in that they will just try to sweep it under the rug. obama is a muslim, so only lip service will be done to this situation. Do we have anyone in Congress who will stand up and tell the world what their religion calls for - the killing of anyone who won't convert, and their quest for world-wide dominance? They are all terrorists, by definition. But, no profiling is allowed, we must be tolerant. Yes, and that is just one of the things so wrong with this nation today.

the muslim terriost is not dead, he survived being shot four t imes , b ut amoung those this terriost murdered ,was a young mother with child so 14 dead and I th ink 34 wounded

All I can do is shake my head in disgust for the Major who killed like the maniac that he is. WWJD? Still shaking my head.