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12 Dead, 31 Hurt In Attacks At Ft. Hood Obama Calls Incident 'Horrific Outburst Of Violence' APRIL CASTRO, Associated Press Writers
POSTED: Thursday, November 5, 2009 UPDATED: 7:31 pm CST November 5, 2009
FORT HOOD, Texas -- A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, setting off on a rampage that killed 11 other people and left 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman, and the violence was believed to be the worst mass shooting in history at a U.S. military base.
The shooting began around 1:30 p.m., when shots were fired at the base's Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening, said Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood.
"It's a terrible tragedy. It's stunning," Cone said.
A law enforcement official identified the shooting suspect as Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly.
Two other soldiers taken into custody following the deadly rampage have been released, Fort Hood spokesman Christopher Haug told The Associated Press. "They're not believed to be involved in the incident," Haug said. He said a third person was in custody, however.
It was unclear what the motive was. U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison told CNN Hasan was scheduled to be deployed to Iraq "and appeared to be upset about that." Hutchison said she was told about the upcoming deployment by generals based at Fort Hood.
Military officials say Hasan, 39, was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six years before being transferred to the Texas base in July. The officials, who had access to Hasan's military record, said he received a poor performance evaluation while at Walter Reed. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because military records are confidential.
The Virginia-born soldier was single with no children. He graduated from Virginia Tech, where he was a member of the ROTC and earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1997. He received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., in 2001. At Walter Reed, he did his internship, residency and a fellowship.
Officials were investigating whether Hasan was his birth name or if he may have changed his name, possibly as part of a conversion to Islam. However, they were not certain of his religion.
The Soldier Readiness Center holds hundreds of people and is one of the most populated parts of the base, said Steve Moore, a spokesman for III Corps at Fort Hood. Nearby there are barracks and a food center where there are fast food chains.
A graduation ceremony for soldiers who finished college courses while deployed was going on nearby at the time of the shooting, said Sgt. Rebekah Lampman, a Fort Hood spokeswoman.
Greg Schanepp, Carter's regional director in Texas, was at Fort Hood, said John Stone, a spokesman for Carter. Schanepp was at a graduation ceremony when a soldier who had been shot in the back came running toward him and alerted him of the shooting, Stone said. The soldier told Schanepp not to go in the direction of the shooter, he said.
The wounded were dispersed among hospitals in central Texas, Cone said.
Lisa Pfund of Random Lake, Wis., says her daughter, 19-year-old Amber Bahr, was shot in the stomach but was in stable condition. "We know nothing, just that she was shot in the belly," Pfund told The Associated Press. She couldn't provide more details and only spoke with emergency personnel.
Pfund said Bahr joined the reserves when she was 17 to earn money for school and loved being in the military even though none of her friends were interested in joining the Army.
A Fort Hood spokesman said he could not immediately confirm any identities of the injured.
"I ask that all of you keep these families and these individuals in your prayers today," Texas Gov. Rick Perry said.
The shootings on the Texas military base stirred memories of other recent mass shootings in the United States, including 13 dead at a New York immigrant center in April, 10 killed during a gunman's rampage across Alabama in March and 32 killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history at Virginia Tech in 2007.
Around the country, some bases stepped up security precautions, but no others were locked down.
"The bottom line for us is that we are increasing security at our gates because the threat hasn't yet been defined, and we're reminding our Marines to be vigilant in their areas of responsibility," said Capt. Rob Dolan, public affairs officer for the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz.
In Washington, President Barack Obama called the shooting "a horrific outburst of violence." He said it's a tragedy to lose a soldier overseas and even more horrifying when they come under fire at an Army base on American soil.
"We will make sure that we get answers to every single question about this horrible incident," the commander in chief said. "We are going to stay on this."
Covering 339 square miles, Fort Hood is the largest active duty armored post in the United States. Home to about 52,000 troops as of earlier this year, the sprawling base is located halfway between Austin and Waco.
Fort Hood officially opened on Sept. 18, 1942, and was named in honor of Gen. John Bell Hood.
Lets keep these troops in our prayers...Condolences to the familys of those loved ones they lost..
Army: Civilian officer shot gunman, ended rampage The Associated PressUpdated: November 06, 2009, 9:09 AM
The top commander at Fort Hood is crediting a civilian police officer for stopping the shooting rampage that killed 13 people at the Texas post.
Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said Friday that Fort Hood police Sgt. Kimberly Munley and her partner responded within three minutes of reported gunfire Thursday afternoon. Cone said Munley shot the gunman four times despite being shot herself.
Officials said Munley was in stable condition.
Cone said, "It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer."
Cone also said he was inspired by a woman who helped carry a wounded victim and used her blouse as a tourniquet, then later realized she'd been shot in the hip.
The suspected gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is hospitalized on a ventilator.
Obama, Perry Order Flags Half-Staff Houstonians Show Their Patriotism
POSTED: Friday, November 6, 2009 UPDATED: 12:32 pm CST November 6, 2009
HOUSTON -- Many Houstonians have dealt with the shooting at Fort Hood by showing their patriotism as flags around the country were ordered to go to half-staff, KPRC Local 2 reported.
: Fort Hood Shootings Students at Westside High School were supposed to be celebrating a big football game on Friday, but they paused to pay tribute to those killed and wounded at the Army post on Thursday.
"Even though it's a big game tonight, we're still focused on what had happened," student Conner Roberts said. "We're still taking into consideration the families that have been hurt. We're giving all our thoughts and prayers out to the families and friends."
Gov. Rick Perry has ordered all Texas flags lowered to half-staff until Sunday over the Fort Hood massacre.
"It is a small token in light of the sacrifices that are being made on our behalves," Houstonian Dana Ezer said.
Perry's order applies to all U.S. and Texas flags under the control of the state.
President Barack Obama on Friday said the "whole nation is grieving right now" over the mass killings. He ordered U.S. flags at the White House and other federal agencies to be flown at half-staff until Veterans Day, Nov. 11, as a tribute to those who lost their lives.
She stood ground, even as bullets struck her Base officer’s training kicked in when it counted By GARY SCHARRER and SCOTT HUDDLESTON CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE Nov. 7, 2009, 1:23AM . Associated Press Sgt. Kimberly Munley, a civilian Fort Hood police officer credited with helping to stop the carnage, is pictured in a July photo on her Twitter page.
One neighbor wasn't at all surprised to hear that Sgt. Kimberly Munley acted heroically to stop a gunman's deadly rampage Thursday at Fort Hood.
“I've always found her to be a very strong woman,” said Erin Houston, who lives on Munley's street.
Munley is a police officer contracted to work with base police, a Fort Hood spokesperson said today.
When many of the military wives on the block were caring for their families, while their husbands were deployed, Munley would keep an eye out for them and let them know of any criminal activity, Houston said. One night, after going on a date with her husband, she shooed away a couple of men trying to break into their house.
“She told them, ‘If you try to come in, I'm going to shoot you,' “ she said. “After they went away, she walked the neighbor — by herself — to make sure they were nowhere around.”
It was that kind of courageous fortitude that apparently kicked in for Munley on Thursday. Despite being wounded, she unloaded four rounds into the accused gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, ending his shooting spree that killed 13 soldiers and wounded many others.
Munley remained hospitalized today.
Brightcove tagsFORT HOOD — However complete her training or rounded her experience, Sgt. Kimberly Munley may be forgiven if she never expected a scene quite like the one Thursday, when she found herself in a courtyard facing an Army major apparently gone berserk and a body count that would keep rising unless she stopped him.
Two quick shots from her Beretta 9 mm — pop, pop — and now Munley had the attention of the gunman. She had missed. He was angry. Now his Belgian-made 5.7 mm pistol was pointed not at the already wounded soldier he was chasing, but at Munley, a civilian police officer hired to help keep order at the sprawling base.
He charged her, firing rapidly along the way. She returned fire and dropped to the ground to give herself more cover. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who in an inexplicable instant had turned from caregiver to accused mass murderer, was allegedly in the process of killing 13 people and wounding 38 more. He now had Munley in his sights.
Hasan “was interested in nothing else but trying to eliminate her as his threat,” said Chuck Medley, head of the Fort Hood police and fire departments, which are civilian operations contracted to the Army.
The two fired again, perhaps simultaneously, Medley said. Each was struck. The gunman took a bullet to the upper torso; Munley was hit in her legs and wrists. Both would survive and the carnage had ended.
“He went down,” Medley said. “She eliminated the threat. She did what she was trained to do.”
And the lives she saved?
“Countless,” he said.
Second officer also fired Munley was one of two people who shot the gunman, officials said Friday. Little information was available about Senior Sgt. Mark Todd, who also engaged the gunman and shot at him.
Munley, a 5-foot-2 weapons expert, was still on the scene when paramedics rushed Hasan to the hospital, Medley said. He visited the 34-year-old police officer in her hospital room Friday afternoon and found her in high spirits. She had only one request for her boss: Bring her husband, Staff Sgt. Matthew Munley — a soldier who recently transferred to Fort Bragg, N.C. — to Fort Hood to see her. The Army agreed, small compensation for a big act.
Surgeons repaired damage to Munley's left leg and knee, but they still have to remove a bullet from the right thigh. She is expected to recover.
Department of the Army police officers are civilians that compensate for the deployments of military police.
“She's a small young lady, but don't let that fool you at all,” Medley said. “She's very, very, very physically fit, and very capable, especially with firearms.”
Kept neighbors safe As military wives on Munley's street cared for families while their husbands were deployed, she would keep an eye out for them and let them know of any criminal activity, said Erin Houston, a neighbor. “I've always found her to be a very strong woman,” Houston said.
One night Munley shooed away a couple of men trying to break into their house, telling them, “If you try to come in, I'm going to shoot you,” Houston said. “After they went away, she walked the neighborhood — by herself — to make sure they were nowhere around.”
Hasan was shot four times, officials have said. He was transferred to San Antonio's Brooke Army Medical Center on Friday afternoon, according to BAMC spokesman Dewey Mitchell.
Munley completed 80 hours of firearms instructor certification taught by Texas A&M University's Texas Engineering Extension Service last September, said Lee Santo, the TEEX training manager. “She knows what she's doing with a pistol in her hand,” he said.
Nobody will ever doubt it.
Nobody will ever doubt it.
“She ran into gunfire and stopped the bad guy,” Santo said. “I think she's a hero.”
Nobody would doubt that, either.
Neighbor: Hero cop always a ‘strong woman'
One neighbor wasn't at all surprised to hear that Sgt. Kimberly Munley acted heroically to stop a gunman's deadly rampage Thursday at Fort Hood.
“I've always found her to be a very strong woman,” said Erin Houston, who lives on Munley's street.
Munley is a police officer contracted to work with base police, a Fort Hood spokesperson said today.
When many of the military wives on the block were caring for their families, while their husbands were deployed, Munley would keep an eye out for them and let them know of any criminal activity, Houston said. One night, after going on a date with her husband, she shooed away a couple of men trying to break into their house.
“She told them, ‘If you try to come in, I'm going to shoot you,' “ she said. “After they went away, she walked the neighbor — by herself — to make sure they were nowhere around.”
It was that kind of courageous fortitude that apparently kicked in for Munley on Thursday. Despite being wounded, she unloaded four rounds into the accused gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, ending his shooting spree that killed 13 soldiers and wounded many others.
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Re: 12 dead 31 hurt in Fort Hood attacks.. « Reply #5 on Nov 7, 2009, 10:30pm »
How the hell do u expect to get schooled for free by the federal govt and then not expect to be deployed?.... if he didnt agree with the U.S govt as far as the war then why the hell did he enlist??? i say save the taxpayers money and pull the plug on the hoe!
FORT HOOD, Texas — A U.S. Army spokesman says the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator but still remains in intensive care at a military hospital.
Spokesman Col. John Rossi told reporters on Saturday at Fort Hood that he is not sure if Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is able to communicate.
Hasan was shot during an exchange of gunfire during Thursday's attack. The military moved him on Friday to Brooke Medical Center in San Antonio, about 150 miles southwest of Fort Hood. Army officials have said Hasan is "not able to converse."
Thirteen people were killed and 29 others wounded in Thursday's attack at Fort Hood.
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Officials: Husan tried to contact al Qaeda? « Reply #7 on Nov 9, 2009, 8:53pm »
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fort-hood-....tory?id=9030873 Officials: U.S. Army Told of Hasan's Contacts with al Qaeda Army Major in Fort Hood Massacre Used 'Electronic Means' to Connect with Terrorists By RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS Nov. 9, 2009
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.
Army knew suspected Fort Hood gunman had contact with al Qaeda recruiter.According to the officials, the Army was informed of Hasan's contact, but it is unclear what, if anything, the Army did in response.
Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said that he requested the CIA and other intelligence agencies brief the committee on what was known, if anything, about Hasan by the U.S. intelligence community, only to be refused.
In response, Hoekstra issued a document preservation request to four intelligence agencies. The letter, dated November 7th, was sent to directors Dennis Blair (DNI), Robert Mueller (FBI), Lt. Gen Keith Alexander (NSA) and Leon Panetta (CIA).
Hoekstra said he is "absolutely furious" that the house intel committee has been refused an intelligence briefing by the DNI or CIA on Hasan's attempt to reach out to al Qaeda, as first reported by ABC News.
"This is a law enforcement investigation, in which other agencies—not the CIA—have the lead," CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said in a response to ABC News. " Any suggestion that the CIA refused to brief Congress is incorrect."
In a blog posting early Monday titled "Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing," Awlaki calls Hasan a "hero" and a "man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people."
According to his site, Awlaki served as an imam in Denver, San Diego and Falls Church, Virginia.
The Associated Press reported Sunday that Major Hasan attended the Falls Church mosque when Awlaki was there.
The Telegraph of London reported that Awlaki had made contact with two of the 9/11 hijackers when he was in San Diego.
He denied any knowledge of the hijacking plot and was never charged with any crime. After an intensive investigation by the FBI , Awlaki moved to Yemen.
People who knew or worked with Hasan say he seemed to have gradually become more radical in his disapproval of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On Sunday, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) called for an investigation into whether the Army missed signs as to whether Hasan was an Islamic extremist.
"If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have a zero tolerance," Lieberman told Fox News Sunday.
Why in the holy fuk did the Army try to send that sonofab!tch overseas if they knew he was messing with terrorist..
Lawyer: Accused Fort Hood Gunman May Be Paralyzed Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan Could Face Death Penalty If Convicted ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer
POSTED: Thursday, November 12, 2009 UPDATED: 10:01 am CST November 13, 2009
FORT HOOD, Texas -- The Army psychiatrist accused in the fatal shootings at Fort Hood may be paralyzed from the waist down after being shot multiple times during the attack, his attorney told The Associated Press on Friday.
Civilian attorney John Galligan said Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan told him that he had no feeling in his legs and extreme pain in his hands. Hasan, who was shot four times by civilian police officers, said doctors told him the condition may never improve.
Galligan said he spoke with Hasan for about an hour in the intensive care unit at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio on Thursday, the same day Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder.
The attack at the sprawling Texas post last week injured 43 people, including 34 who suffered gunshot wounds. The military initially said 29 people and Hasan had been wounded, but some of the injuries came to the attention of authorities days later as they pieced together what happened the day of the shooting.
Galligan said that his client's medical condition remains "extremely serious" and that Hasan didn't flinch when Galligan touched his leg. One of Hasan's relatives was able to see him Thursday for the first time since he was hospitalized.
Hospital spokesman Dewey Mitchell said he could not confirm whether Hasan was paralyzed because Hasan told hospital officials not to release any information about his condition or injuries.
Galligan said military prosecutors have not told him whether they plan to seek the death penalty, but he plans to file motions asking for a second military defense attorney and a civilian investigator to help with the case.
Army officials have said they believe Hasan acted alone when he jumped on a table with two handguns, shouted "Allahu akbar" and opened fire inside a building at Fort Hood. The 13 people killed included a pregnant soldier and at least three other mental health professionals.
Army Criminal Investigation Command spokesman Chris Grey has said Hasan could face additional charges.
It had not been decided whether to charge Hasan with the death of the soldier's unborn child, officials told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the case publicly.
Galligan said he wasn't pleased that Hasan was charged in the hospital without his lawyers present.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama has ordered a review of all intelligence related to Hasan and whether the information was properly shared and acted upon within government agencies.
Members of Congress, particularly Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, have called for a full examination of what agencies knew about Hasan's contacts with a radical Muslim cleric and others of concern to the U.S. and what they did with the information.
Hoekstra confirmed this week that the government knew about 10 to 20 e-mails between Hasan and a radical imam, beginning in December 2008.
Fort Hood deaths bring new scrutiny to Army Stretched thin by 2 wars, military may have missed Hasan warning signs By STEWART M. POWELL and GARY MARTIN WASHINGTON BUREAU Nov. 14, 2009, 10:30PM
WASHINGTON — At a time when U.S. Army troops are fighting two wars halfway around the globe, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan possessed all the qualifications the military so desperately needs: He is an Arabic-speaking Muslim of Palestinian descent, a doctor, a psychiatrist and a midlevel commander.
But that was before Nov. 5, before, authorities say, Hasan opened fire at Ford Hood, before he was accused of murdering 13 of his colleagues, and before his case raised questions about whether the U.S. military may have relaxed its standards to keep Hasan and others in uniform to meet the unrelenting demand for troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“The Army is caught in a perfect storm,” says Larry Korb, the Pentagon's top manpower official during the Reagan administration. “It's had to lower standards to keep people coming in — and it's made changes to keep people from getting out.”
Alarmed, the White House and Capitol Hill are vowing to investigate whether warning signs of potential trouble are being routinely ignored in a military stretched to — or beyond — the breaking point.
“The president has asked every agency involved ... to investigate why this happened, how this happened, and to ensure that they can tell him that it won't happen again,” said President Barack Obama's spokesman, Robert Gibbs.
In Hasan's situation, there are many reasons why Pentagon officials wouldn't want to lose an officer of his background. Arabic-speaking Muslims are in extremely short supply, as are doctors and psychiatrists.
Indeed, the Army has been trying to train and keep psychiatrists such as Hasan for years amid mounting cases of post-traumatic stress disorder among soldiers returning from multiple tours in the war zone.
The ranks of Army psychiatrists suffer some of the most chronic shortages among the Army's 27 medical specialties, according to the Government Accountability Office, Congress' watchdog. Physicians in general are in short supply. The Army fell short 159 doctors over the eight-year period ending in 2008, meeting only 93 percent of its goal of 2,421 physicians, the GAO found.
Some doctors are being forced to remain in uniform under the Pentagon's “stop loss” authority that enables the military to keep soldiers beyond their official enlistment limits. At least 11,000 soldiers in the Army, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard are being retained under “stop loss” rules.
Majors are needed Hasan also was a valuable find for the military because he helped fill another need: Majors.
Because of enlistment cutbacks dating back to the end of the Cold War, the Army faces a shortage of midlevel officers, including a 15 percent shortage of majors in the medical corps. To ease a looming shortage of 3,000 majors, the Army has put young captains on the fast track to the rank of major. A decade ago, 78.1 percent of captains were promoted to the rank of major. In the past year, that percentage jumped to 94.1 percent.
Because of shortages among specialists — and also to maintain troop levels needed to fight two wars — the Army also has been forced to periodically rewrite standards for incoming recruits to keep up a flow of more than 70,000 enlistees each year.
It raised the maximum enlistment age from 34 to 42 in 2006. Fitness standards have been pushed to the breaking point: 25 percent of prospective recruits between the ages of 17 and 24 are now deemed medically obese — five times the percentage in the 1980s.
Educational standards have slipped, as well. The Army accepted nearly 14,200 high school dropouts among 67,395 incoming recruits without prior military service in 2007, for example.
The Army also has been flexible on recruits' prior criminal activity. It granted 10,236 waivers for misconduct including felonies and 4,962 medical waivers including failure to pass drug or alcohol entrance tests to enlist 67,395 new recruits in 2007.
“They've taken people in who should not be in — and they're promoting people quickly who should not be promoted,” said Korb, the military manpower expert. “Now we have to live with that.”
An Army Recruiting Command spokesman, Douglas Smith, says the service retains “high recruiting standards” with the quality of the force “always top priority.” But the military also offers “deserving individuals who have overcome mistakes an opportunity to realize their potential to be high performing soldiers.”
The nation's deep recession has freed the Army to raise entrance standards again as more civilians flee poor job prospects in the economy to join the armed forces.
The Army is drawing its highest percentage of high school graduates since 1996, with 58,836 of the 61,933 recruits in fiscal 2009 holding high school diplomas.
Because of the manpower shortages, some lawmakers are asking if the military is ignoring potential warning signs in individual cases.
Hasan, for example, won a crucial promotion two years after cautioning colleagues at Walter Reed Army Medical Center that Muslims needed leeway to leave the Army as conscientious objectors to “decrease adverse events.” He reportedly said that the Koran took precedence over the U.S. Constitution.
But his superiors and his psychiatric colleagues apparently never had him evaluated on either security or psychological grounds.
Background checks Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee panel that handles military readiness, says the Army needs to “conduct a good, good background check on these people.”
“We need to ask, before these people become officers or are accepted into specialty schools like medical doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists, about their commitment to our nation,” Ortiz said.
Hasan's ability to remain in the military also raises questions about the lack of coordination between U.S. intelligence services. Months before Hasan pinned on the golden oak leaves of an Army major, he exchanged e-mails with a radical Islamic cleric in Yemen who knew three of the 9/11 hijackers and once presided over a mosque in Falls Church, Va., attended by Hasan.
The e-mails came to the attention of a joint FBI counterterrorism task force last year, but the exchange was never shared with intelligence agencies — an oversight that President Barack Obama ordered investigated on Thursday
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