November 06, 2009 02:50 AM UTC

Ft. Hood shooting open post

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• by: DavidThi808

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FRIDAY POLS UPDATE: Please stop with the emails about the similarity between the name of the alleged perpetrator of this crime and locally prominent individuals. There is absolutely no connection, according to news reports the perpetrator of the Ft. Hood shooting was born in Jordan–wrong country of origin, folks. And frankly, getting all excited about somebody’s name is something we would normally associate with Tom Tancredo or Dave Schultheis: meaning it’s deplorable and ignorant. Original post follows.

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This is horrible.

from CNN

Eleven people plus a gunman were dead and 31 wounded after the gunman opened fire Thursday on a soldier-processing center at Fort Hood, Texas, officials said.

The gunman was a soldier, and two other soldiers have been detained as suspects, Army Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said.

The slain gunman was identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, a law enforcement source told CNN. Licensed in Virginia, Hasan was a psychiatrist who previously worked at Walter Reed Army Medical Center but more recently was practicing at Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood, according to professional records.

Ten of the other dead also were soldiers, while the remaining one was a civilian police officer who was working as a contractor on the base, Cone said.

Two of the injured were in “very serious” condition, Fort Hood spokesman Christopher Hogue said.

from TPM

This is Going to Get Very Dark

The fact that the primary assailant has an Arabic name and is presumably, though we don’t know this yet, of Muslim extraction if not a practicing Muslim, is going to be the focus of attention.

from MSNBC

NBC News’ Pete Williams reported that U.S. officials identified the gunman as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who had been promoted to major in May. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, said military officials told her that the gunman, who was 39 or 40, was about to be deployed to Iraq and was “upset about it.”

NBC News’ Robert Windrem said Hasan specialized in traumatic stress. A U.S. military official said Hasan had orders to deploy to Iraq on Nov. 28.