Massacre at Fort Hood (Updated 11/6/09)

Ft. Hood, Texas. 6:04 p.m. Eastern

Twelve killed, 31 injured.

The current report, via Gateway Pundit, is that the primary shooter was US Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan, a psychiatrist. He reportedly was killed by civilian law enforcement and is rumored to have been a convert to Islam about to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Two other suspects have been apprehended.

Update (6:30 p.m. Eastern): Via Hot Air, the two apprehended suspects were also shooters, and also soldiers.

Update (11/6/09 12:30 p.m. Eastern)

• The Army has released the apprehended suspects. The massacre was performed by a single shooter, US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
• Hasan is alive, hospitalized, and recovering from four gunshot wounds which he received from a female civilian police officer, Sgt. Kimberly Munley, who ran from directing traffic toward the sound of gunfire to within a few feet of Hasan. Sgt. Munley was shot by Hasan and is recovering following surgery.
  
• Hasan is a licensed psychiatrist who reportedly joined the Army immediately after high school and received his medical degree training at a cost of about half a million dollars paid for entirely with taxpayer dollars.
• A devout Muslim, Hasan is reported to have prayed in his mosque every day.
  
• Hasan thought it was a good idea for a Muslim convert to shoot two young soldiers taking a break outside a recruiting center.
  
• Although born in the U.S. and serving as a U.S. Army major he identified himself in writing as a Palestinian. The photo at the right shows Hasan dressed in traditional Muslim garb the morning of the massacre.
  
• He was fast-tracked to become a major, and he received his promotion this past May.
  
• He interned at Walter Reed Hospital, where he treated soldiers returning from combat.
  
• On the morning before the massacre, he handed out Korans to his neighbors.
• He hired a lawyer to keep him from being deployed to Iran or Afghanistan, where he would have been serving as a psychiatrist.
  
• As he shot more than 40 unarmed people waiting for medical exams, he shouted out the name of Allah.
  
• To kill more people, he jumped up on a table to shoot.
  
• One of his victims was a pregnant woman.

Some above info via Mark Steyn, sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.

Update (11/6/09; 1:30)

• This year, 2009, Hasan completed a fellowship in "Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry." (h/t gravenimage, commenter at Jihad Watch.)
• Last year, 2008, Hasan was listed as a participant in a Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force.

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