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WHEN ARE LIBERALS GOING TO GET IT THROUGH THEIR FUCKING HEAD THAT IF WE'D JUST ARM EVERYONE THERE'D BE NO MORE SHOOTINGS? COPS ARE ABSOLUTELY USELESS! WHEN ARE WE GOING TO ARM OUR MILITARY? WAIT...
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Fort Hood shooting: 12 killed as US soldier goes on rampage at Texas army base
A US Army officer, Major Malik Nadal Hasan, has gone on on a shooting spree at a military base in Texas, killing 11 people and wounding more than 30 others before he was shot dead by police.
By Nick Allen
Published: 12:06AM GMT 06 Nov 2009
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Major Malik Nidal Hasan was killed after after opening fire at the Fort Hood base
Police respond at the scene Photo: AP
Sgt. Anthony Sills comforts his wife as they wait outside the Fort Hood Army Base. The Sills' 3-year old son is still in daycare on the base. Photo: AP
The army major, armed with two handguns, walked into a training centre and opened fire on fellow soldiers who were having last minute medical check-ups before being deployed to Afghanistan.
Hasan, believed to have been a convert to Islam, was shot dead by police following the massacre at the sprawling Fort Hood base, the largest American military installation in the world. It is not clear if the attack was an act of political terrorism.
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Sources said Major Hasan had been due to be deployed to Iraq shortly and was an army psychiatrist. He is believed to have been in his late 30s and from Virginia.
Ten of the victims were soldiers and one was a civilian police officer. Two other injured soldiers were in a “very serious” condition in hospital.
Gun fire later erupted around the base as two alleged accomplices, also US soldiers, were captured and police said there may have been more than one gunman.
One of them had barricaded himself in a traumatic brain injury unit where he was surrounded by SWAT teams. Four police officers were wounded before he was arrested.
More than 500 soldiers were deployed to lock down Fort Hood as helicopters hovered overhead.
Base commander Lieutenant General Bob Cone said: “It has been a terrible tragedy, it’s stunning. We have a terrible, tragic situation here. Soldiers, family members and the civilians that work here are absolutely devastated.
“The shooter was killed. He was a soldier. We since then have apprehended two additional soldiers who are suspects. There were eyewitness accounts that there may have been more than one shooter.”
The shootings took place in the Soldier Readiness Centre, a former sports dome, where soldiers go for final checks before being sent overseas.
As well as soldiers about to be deployed, those returning and undergoing medical screening would have been there.
It happened shortly before a graduation ceremony for soldiers was due to start at the base.
President Barack Obama, speaking in Washington, said it was a “horrific outburst of violence.”
He said: “These are men and women who have made the selfless and courageous decision to risk, and at times, give their lives to protect us.
“It’s difficult enough when we lose these brave men and women overseas. It is horrifying when we lose them on American soil.”
Fort Hood is one of the US’s premier installations for training heavy forces and tens of thousands of soldiers go through every year, many heading to Afghanistan.
It covers an area of 340 square miles near Killeen, some 50 miles from Waco, Texas.
There are up to 65,000 people, including families, on the site at any one time.
Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said: “Our dedicated military personnel have sacrificed so much in service to our country and it sickens me that the men and women of Fort Hood have been subjected to this senseless, random violence.”
Local congressman John Carter said: “I had a man on the scene, who is the former chaplian at Fort Hood. He was waiting to go to a graduation ceremony when a soldier came running up to him saying somebody was shooting. He heard small arms and some rifle fire.”
Fort Hood has also been working to rehabilitate many soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, Mr Carter said.
George Stratton said his son, George Stratton III, was five feet away from the shooter and suffered a gunshot wound to his left shoulder.
He said: “I talked to him right before surgery. He said, 'Dad, I’m getting ready to go into surgery. I love you.”
Base commanders and the Pentagon said they had no early indication of a motive for the shootings.
The base has seen other violence in recent years. In September last year a 21-year-old 1st Cavalry Division soldier shot his lieutenant to death and then killed himself.
Five American soldiers died in Baghdad earlier this year in a shooting by one of their comrades at a combat stress clinic. It had been set up by the Pentagon following criticism that the US military had not done enough to treat soldiers who had undergone repeated tours of duty.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ldier-goes-on-rampage-at-Texas-army-base.html
Fort Hood shooting: 12 killed as US soldier goes on rampage at Texas army base
A US Army officer, Major Malik Nadal Hasan, has gone on on a shooting spree at a military base in Texas, killing 11 people and wounding more than 30 others before he was shot dead by police.
By Nick Allen
Published: 12:06AM GMT 06 Nov 2009
Previous
1 of 3 Images
Next
The army major, armed with two handguns, walked into a training centre and opened fire on fellow soldiers who were having last minute medical check-ups before being deployed to Afghanistan.
Hasan, believed to have been a convert to Islam, was shot dead by police following the massacre at the sprawling Fort Hood base, the largest American military installation in the world. It is not clear if the attack was an act of political terrorism.
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Sources said Major Hasan had been due to be deployed to Iraq shortly and was an army psychiatrist. He is believed to have been in his late 30s and from Virginia.
Ten of the victims were soldiers and one was a civilian police officer. Two other injured soldiers were in a “very serious” condition in hospital.
Gun fire later erupted around the base as two alleged accomplices, also US soldiers, were captured and police said there may have been more than one gunman.
One of them had barricaded himself in a traumatic brain injury unit where he was surrounded by SWAT teams. Four police officers were wounded before he was arrested.
More than 500 soldiers were deployed to lock down Fort Hood as helicopters hovered overhead.
Base commander Lieutenant General Bob Cone said: “It has been a terrible tragedy, it’s stunning. We have a terrible, tragic situation here. Soldiers, family members and the civilians that work here are absolutely devastated.
“The shooter was killed. He was a soldier. We since then have apprehended two additional soldiers who are suspects. There were eyewitness accounts that there may have been more than one shooter.”
The shootings took place in the Soldier Readiness Centre, a former sports dome, where soldiers go for final checks before being sent overseas.
As well as soldiers about to be deployed, those returning and undergoing medical screening would have been there.
It happened shortly before a graduation ceremony for soldiers was due to start at the base.
President Barack Obama, speaking in Washington, said it was a “horrific outburst of violence.”
He said: “These are men and women who have made the selfless and courageous decision to risk, and at times, give their lives to protect us.
“It’s difficult enough when we lose these brave men and women overseas. It is horrifying when we lose them on American soil.”
Fort Hood is one of the US’s premier installations for training heavy forces and tens of thousands of soldiers go through every year, many heading to Afghanistan.
It covers an area of 340 square miles near Killeen, some 50 miles from Waco, Texas.
There are up to 65,000 people, including families, on the site at any one time.
Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said: “Our dedicated military personnel have sacrificed so much in service to our country and it sickens me that the men and women of Fort Hood have been subjected to this senseless, random violence.”
Local congressman John Carter said: “I had a man on the scene, who is the former chaplian at Fort Hood. He was waiting to go to a graduation ceremony when a soldier came running up to him saying somebody was shooting. He heard small arms and some rifle fire.”
Fort Hood has also been working to rehabilitate many soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, Mr Carter said.
George Stratton said his son, George Stratton III, was five feet away from the shooter and suffered a gunshot wound to his left shoulder.
He said: “I talked to him right before surgery. He said, 'Dad, I’m getting ready to go into surgery. I love you.”
Base commanders and the Pentagon said they had no early indication of a motive for the shootings.
The base has seen other violence in recent years. In September last year a 21-year-old 1st Cavalry Division soldier shot his lieutenant to death and then killed himself.
Five American soldiers died in Baghdad earlier this year in a shooting by one of their comrades at a combat stress clinic. It had been set up by the Pentagon following criticism that the US military had not done enough to treat soldiers who had undergone repeated tours of duty.
