The latest from The Washington Post:
The Arlington-born Army psychiatrist suspected of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others in a shooting rampage on a military base remains hospitalized and on a ventilator, officials said Friday morning.
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The attack erupted shortly after lunchtime on the sprawling complex northeast of Austin that has absorbed more than 500 fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than any other base. When the gunfire stopped, soldiers schooled in battlefield medicine ripped their clothes to make tourniquets and bandages.
Someone hustled to seal off an auditorium in the same building where 138 troops were marking their graduation from college. Sirens typically used to warn of tornados sweeping across the plains alerted residents, schools locked down and the Fort Hood community struggled to comprehend what had just happened.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations moved quickly to call the attack "cowardly." The organization, an advocacy group for American Muslims, said it condemned the shooting "in the strongest terms possible."
"No political or religious ideology could ever excuse such wanton and indiscriminate violence," CAIR said in a statement. "The attack was particularly heinous in that it targeted the all-volunteer army that protects our nation."
The Post does a nice job of detailing what we know of the events up to this point. Get caught up here.
This Twitter feed has real time reports from the area around Fort Hood.

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this Army officer was nothing of the sort.
He is a traitor, pure and simple. he disregarded everything he swore to uphold and defend. He prospered under our freedoms and our way of life, but when called to pay a price and deploy, he'd rather shoot our soldiers.
I can assure you his free life here was way different than he would have experienced in any middle eastern country. You got to love that sharia law........
Of course he attacked when he knew our soldeirs would be unarmed. wouldnt want a straight up fight, jihadi's never do.
This guy needs to be tried, and hung like the traitor he is.
Remember this guys name. he is the modern Benedict Arnold.
And for those of you who would defend him, the airports are open, take the next plane to one of the Sharia law countries and let me know how you like it.
Oh yeah, they dont allow free speech or dissent. Funny huh.
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You are on point but why would it take a civilian like yourself to put two and two together and realize this very basic concept . I'll tell you why ........because this country has become so money starved greedy and lustful for resources that they are not thinking rationally. There are simply no checks and balances when it comes to decision making. Everybody is all like I'm in charge and what I say goes. Or they want to be that way. Historically this has always been a recipe for disaster. I mean the man should have been made to draw blood to prove his loyalty to America before they educated him. I know of countless similar stories where foreigners slurped up free education through various programs put in their lil two or three years and left the country while I, whose father fought in the korean war, am force to make life time payments on those predatory student loans.
Nidal Hassan is simply messed up in the head. There are thousands of Americans from different ethnicities or religion that are messed up in the head. Some are in some of the most lucrative profession. Sometimes, people go the extra length to do stupid stuff. Hassan is an example.
If Hassan were to be a Christain or pagan or jewish or buddist etc would our view about Arabs differ? I don't think so.
It is sad nobody in the military caught this stupid act before it happened. My prayers to the families of the deceased and wounded. God bless their hearts. This is a healing period for Fort Hood.
I think we just learned how powerful religion beliefs and sense of belonging can be strong. Obviously this man felt more loyal to his faith and his origin than the country he was serving. he was a very bad soldier, and because of he is knowledge in psychiatric, he should have told his superior that he couldn't kill arabs. The army need to impliment a mental screening for every soldier about their faith beliefs and their ability to killing who they can relate with.
Very tragic, but Obama has nothing to do with this, this was a nut that finally cracked. What I find funny is how everyone thinks that obama was going to get in office and in less than 9 months pull out every single troop in both Iraq and Afghanistan. You people serious? Leave Iraq unstable sitting with all the oil and next to Iran? And did everyone forget that it was an unstable Afgan under the Taliban backed by the Pakistans that gave shelter to Al Queda? The real enemy. In less than year Obama is supposed to puill us out and put us back to square one. This will take time and bullets.
Just like when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor, we should round everyone of these religious nuts from that crazy part of the world living in this country up and put them in confinement. And then deport their azzes. You never know when one of them will get that call from Allah and start killing people like the gutless vermin they truly are.
didnt u get banned a44 breath??? i see u still posting stupid sh!t
Why iz it dat amerikkkans "expect" 2 be able 2 illegally go into "other, foreign" countriez and KILL their citizenz and NOT have it come back 2 haunt them on their own soil?
Fools.
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Boy was he wrong. If anything, President Obama is proving to be every bit of the war-mongering tool that Bush was (don't hate, I voted for Obama, too!)
President Obama did not start these wars that he now has to manage nor cause the economy to be in the shape that it is. He hasnt even been in office a year.. are you all crazy or just infantile and want your goodies now !!!!
A rational adult understands that change of this magnitude takes time.
Re Hassan.... This is just an example of how unpatriotic the government has become. I remember when about ten years ago they had to make special provisions to keep this Japanese company from purchasing a part of the Yellowstone National Park.
They paid for this man's education and He understood what he was in for. If he didnt want to go to war he should have taken out some of those horrendous predatory student loans that we were forced to in order to get a degree
It is known that Nidal Malik Hassan did not want to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. It is alleged that he got into a number of arguments with other soldiers and superiors about the course President Obama was going to take regarding these two countries, and that he may have felt that he was being harassed as the result of a poor evaluation. He may have known that he was going to Afghanistan and may have become increasingly upset about it.
If he was a psychiatrist, then he was responsible for the lives of many soldiers coming back with PTSD as well as other physical and mental maladies. It may have caused him to question his own connection to this nation's armed forces.
I don't think Hassan had a sympathetic outlet for his fears and pain, and they multiplied. He talked to his imam about wanting to marry, which does mean that he was thinking about his future. But if that future meant him going and facing death in the Middle East, then this man was under great pressure.
I do not believe Hassan was a jihadist. I do believe that he was a devout Muslim. But being devout does not always devolve into the kind of fanaticism practiced by al Qaeda. He became a sociopath.
One thing has come out of this horror: the shooter is alive. Unlike killers like Lee Harvey Oswald or Andrew Cunanan, he could tell us why he went off. It will not excuse his actions or bring him pity, but it will give people a reason why. I think people are wanting a reason why, especially those soldiers and their families who were murdered or maimed. This was an area where they could get help and be healed. Instead, it turned into the equivalent of a Taliban strike in a Kabul marketplace.
I pray for all of us during this time. It seems that when a year is coming to a close, there is sudden and unexpected death and awful catastrophes. And people begin to show their true faces; and frankly, they're not pretty.
How ironic that the actual caregiver, an Army major and psychiatrist specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is the most unlikely perpetrator of violence against active duty U.S. soldiers. Moreover, there is also another irony in that no record of Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan having ever been in military combat or served in a combat zone exists.
Beyond all that may be investigated and discovered about this murderous tragedy on a stateside military base, the U.S. Department of Defense's inability to get ahead of the curve on the PTSDs of returning soldiers is a bad sign of other problems to come. As more of our men and women are deployed, stretched, returned and redeployed for major combat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other beyond the headline war zones, there needs to be a more proactive and fully competent addressing of the numerous mental health issues of returning U.S. warriors, and their families.
In actuality, war is absolutely nothing like any high definition movie or video game. There's never a pause or reverse button for the actual bullets, bombs and bloodletting that are a daily unrelenting reality in real warfare. Despite the impression of TV crime dramas and local crime news reports, no amount of stateside street violence can match one minute of close quarter military combat on any scale.
Increased federal and state funding, and much larger staffs of well trained regularly screened psychiatric personnel, must become an additional military priority to remedy the current and coming soldiers with any level of PTSD. For my tax dollars, a minimum ratio of five fully trained PTSD specialists for every 200 soldiers would be a welcomed increase in psychiatric and counseling personnel.
This or any war is not, and never was, just over there. It is also being fought right here in the homes, neighborhoods and nearby bases of many returning soldiers. Haven't we fully learned the lessons from Vietnam's U.S. veterans? No doubt, then as is now, there will never be any dishonor in having faced down and survived the horrific violence of war. The only dishonor is not having regular easy access to effective pre- and post-combat counseling and testing.
We demand so much of our soldiers, especially those near or beyond the breaking point. As General Colin Powell once put it, "You break it, you own it." The time is way past due that we all take full-time ownership and care of our military men and women, plus their uniquely challenged families that carry burdens many Americans would never take on.
We owe them, big time — and all the time!
Dennis Moore — Publisher — POTUSworld.com — ppceo@POTUSworld.com
yo, screw this dog. he should have never made it for the paramedics.
he is placed on trial for treason and then hung!
Not trying to justify the shooter's actions, but could this be what happens when disenchanted voters believe in "Change You Can Believe In"? I would almost bet that
Mr. Nidal M. Hasan sincerely believed the Black President with the muslim name would put an end to America's Zionist Wars...
Boy was he wrong. If anything, President Obama is proving to be every bit of the war-mongering tool that Bush was (don't hate, I voted for Obama, too!)
As an atheist/agnostic, I cannot support religious extremism in any way; however I strongly suspect taht the looming reality of being "used" as an Instrument of Destruction against his fellow muslims perhaps made this dude "snap"... Oh well, just one more reason why it's far better to ditch religion... sad though... very sad.
yet another "Full Metal Jacket" story.... God save america from ppl like them..