Nov 11, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood had "more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI" than radical imam Anwar al-Awlaki, investigators have found, a senior U.S. official reportedly said Tuesday. The name of the individuals Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was in contact ...
Continue ReadingNov 10, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Times Online: President Obama is to ask members of Nato to provide up to 4,000 more troops to help to break the deadlock in Afghanistan. Mr Obama is poised to confirm a surge of more than 30,000 US combat troops, according to senior military sources. He will also urge the rest of Nato to provide thousands of ...
Continue ReadingNov 10, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is considering four options for realigning U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, his spokesman said Tuesday, while military officials said the choices involve several ways the president could employ additional U.S. forces next year. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama will discuss the four scenarios with his national security team ...
Continue ReadingNov 10, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
PINE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A 42-year-old father of an Army veteran upset by the treatment of U.S. military personnel sneaked a disassembled shotgun into a middle school just after classes began Tuesday, put it together in a bathroom, then held the principal hostage for more than two hours before surrendering without firing a shot, ...
Continue ReadingNov 10, 2009 12 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) – Finger-pointing erupted between federal agencies Tuesday over Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan. Government officials said a Defense Department terrorism investigator looked into Hasan's contacts with a radical imam months ago, but a military official denied prior knowledge of the Army psychiatrist's contacts with any Muslim extremists. The two government officials, speaking on ...
Continue ReadingNov 9, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The LA Times: An Army hospital spokesman said today that Nidal Malik Hasan is now conscious and able to talk. The 39-year-old Army major and combat psychiatrist is accused of unleashing a bloody massacre Thursday when he opened fire at a processing center at Ft. Hood Army military base, killing 13 and wounding 29. The question now: Who ...
Continue ReadingNov 9, 2009 16 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Bloomberg: Nov. 8 -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told the military and civil militias today to prepare for war as a deterrent to a U.S.-led attack after American troops gained access to military bases in neighboring Colombia. Chavez said a recently signed agreement that gives American troops access to seven Colombian bases is a direct threat to ...
Continue ReadingNov 9, 2009 13 Comments ›› Erik Wong
(That isn't a picture of Hasan :-P) FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - The man accused of killing 13 people and wounding 29 at Fort Hood is able to talk, a hospital spokesman said Monday, but it's unknown when investigators might take advantage of his improving health to press forward with their probe into the shooting spree. Authorities ...
Continue ReadingNov 9, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Wall Street Journal: A senior U.S. senator on Sunday said the shootings at Fort Hood could have been a terrorist attack, and that he would launch a congressional investigation into whether the U.S. military could have prevented it. Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who heads the Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said initial ...
Continue ReadingNov 9, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
ABC News: 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. It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was ...
Continue ReadingNov 8, 2009 13 Comments ›› Erik Wong
BBC: Senior US Senator Joe Lieberman says he plans to open a congressional investigation into last week's deadly shooting at a Texas army base. Mr Lieberman, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told Fox TV that he wanted to find out whether it was a terrorist attack. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim army major, is suspected of ...
Continue ReadingNov 8, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (AP) - The alleged Fort Hood shooter apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there. Whether the Fort Hood shooter associated with the hijackers is something the FBI will probably look into, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on ...
Continue ReadingNov 6, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON – Authorities say Fort Hood shooting Nidal Malik Hasan remains in a coma but is expected to live. A federal law enforcement official said investigators have not been able to talk to Hasan since the deadly rampage that left 13 people dead and injured 30 others at the sprawling Army post in Texas on Thursday. The ...
Continue ReadingNov 6, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FORT HOOD, Texas – An Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned out his apartment in the days before the rampage that left 13 people dead, a neighbor said Friday. The neighbor, Patricia Villa, said Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan came over to her apartment Wednesday and Thursday and offered her ...
Continue ReadingNov 5, 2009 172 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Facebook: Sarah Palin offers her condolences and encouragement. Twitter: @jaketapper ABC News has learned the main suspect is a Major Malik Nadal Hasan. MSNBC Reports the second gunman had a high power rifle and was "shooting to kill." He struck down 4 SWAT officers before being taken into custody. There is a possibility of as many ...
Continue ReadingNov 5, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
ABC: Twelve people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting spree at a Texas military base in a murderous rampage that officials believe was carried out by an Army psychiatrist. The suspected gunman was identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan. He was promoted to major status in May, according to the Army Times. Sen. ...
Continue ReadingNov 5, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Examiner: Although most responsible news outlets are withholding the name of the deceased shooter in the Fort Hood military base massacre in Texas, we can confirm that he was a military officer, an Army Major from Virginia, who had converted to Islam. Sources state that the officer was to be deployed to the Iraq War and ...
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