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Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan

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He was supposed to bring them comfort. Instead, he brought death.

An Army shrink who specialized in treating combat stress snapped Thursday and launched a bloody rampage at Fort HoodArmy Base in Texas that killed 12 people and wounded 31, officials said.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist who recently completed training in treating badly wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, was shot and has been hospitalized.

Sen. Kay Bailey Huchison (R-Tex.) said he was angry about being sent to Iraq and targeted specific people as he stalked through a deployment center, two handguns blazing.

"He was not happy about being deployed. He was very upset. I don't think they realized just how much," she said.

Texas TV station KXXV reported the gunman told a civilian as he passed that he was shooting only military men.

The men in the building Hasan shot up were mostly soldiers preparing for deployment.

"It's a terrible tragedy. It's stunning," said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the base commander.

President Obama mourned the "horrific outburst of violence" that killed those who had volunteered to protect the nation.

"It's difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas. It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil," Obama said.

"We will make sure that we get answers to every single question about this horrible incident. We are going to stay on this."

A former co-worker said Hasan wanted Obama to pull the troops out of Iraq andAfghanistan.

"He said maybe the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor," Col.Terry Lee told Fox News Channel.

"At first, we thought he was talking about how Muslims should stand up and help the armed forces in Iraq and in Afghanistan, but apparently that wasn't the case."

Hasan's cousin, Nader Hasan, told Fox News the whole family was stunned.

"I gotta be honest with you, we are shocked," he said. "The guy was born and raised here. He's a good American. We are trying to make sense of this."

Nader Hasan told Fox News his cousin "was dealing with some harassment from his military colleagues."

KXXV reported someone keyed the word "Allah" into Hasan's car last week. He reported it as a hate crime.

Despite initial reports of multiple shooters, officials said only one gunman opened fire at the Soldiers Readiness Processing Center, where troops prepare for deployment.

Hutchinson said most of the victims were collecting their final deployment papers.

Retired Army Col. Greg Schannep, an aide to Rep. John Carter (R-Tex.), said he was heading for a 2 p.m. graduation ceremony on the base when he heard numerous shots and saw a wounded soldier run by.

"Initially, I thought it was a training exercise," he said.

Schannep said he heard three or four volleys of shots with eight to 12 shots in each volley.

"A soldier came running past me and said, 'Sir, there is someone shooting.' As he ran past me, I saw blood on his back. I don't think he even knew he had been shot. He has since been treated and should be okay," he said.

When the shooting began, officials warned the base population of nearly 34,000 to take cover as they hunted for accomplices.

The sprawling military installation, the nation's largest, was on lockdown, with sirens wailing for five hours.

The public address system crackled with urgent calls for blood donations.

Frightened military families huddled behind locked doors – in some cases being comforted by soldiers calling from faraway war zones.

"Here I am in Iraq, worried my wife and son are in danger in their own backyard," blogged Army Spec. Naveed Ali Shah, a public affairs specialist in Iraq.

Early witness accounts of multiple shooters led to general panic and the arrests of two other soldiers who were later released without charges.

FBI agents were assisting the Army's Criminal Investigation Command, which was leading the probe as information about the killer trickled out.

Hasan, who was single, was born in Virginia to parents who emigrated from Jordan.

He was a 1997 graduate of Virginia Tech  coincidentally the scene of the nation's last terrible mass murdering rampage in 2007.

He received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University inBethesda, Md., in 2001.

He did his psychiatry internship, residency and fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center before being transferred to the Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood in July.

Military officials with access to Hasan's records told The Associated Press that he had received a poor performance evaluation at Walter Reed.

Hasan was also associated with the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress and was promoted to major by the Army in March. 

How bad is that.

From the reasons of those torribles deeds are the American Movies, which encourage the violance between people.

this was not the first, and not the last, every year, we see many attacks like that, from students who kill them friends at schools using weapons.

Isn't time to delete the violance from american movies !!!!!!!

the much bigger tragedy is the war in Afghanistan….

it was not a gun man who did this amok,  it was an us military psychiatrist who was forced through the us military and through the politician like obama( the peace nobel price winner) to go in the senseless war in Afghanistan….

the much bigger tragedy is the war in Afghanistan….

well said

the us military psychiatrist is not the only one who got crazy by the order to go in one of the two us/nato wars… 117 soldiers killed them-self before going in the war in the first 10 month this year…. 35 percent did it in uniform….there must be lot of pressure in the us military!

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29eLdw6rt8

 I was in the US when I saw the story on the  news.

If only people were quicker to condemn the bomber than to come over and defend Islam, whether it is responsible or not, I might think that people's values were in the right place.

The US is doing the right thing in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and the perpetrator is a cowardly treacherous murderer, radicalized no doubt by lies and misinformation.

radicalized no doubt by lies and misinformation

fabs,what do you think why the other117 us soldiers killed this year them self,before going fighting into the two  senseless us/nato wars with more than 100000 killed people…...most of the self killed us soldiers have sure a christian background …

real background information about the us military tragedy

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125720469173424023.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLTopStories

I would do it, too. I think, he did a good job. He always wanted to quit the army but he wasnt allowed to it.You dont have the brain to understand this because you are slaves of the western media.

As I see, fabs is still stupid. This is all because of the racism of usa and its imperialism thought and dont forget their zionist friends.

I was in the US when I saw the story on the  news.

you moved from Montreal to NY and saw that !! what a coinsidence !!

and with whom !! the Rabbis, and what you thought you !! how to hate muslims more.

My relatives told me how religious men in motreal deal and walk in groupes and live in special places for them, specially in english side of Mornteal, wearing black clothes, having long hear.

any way, it seems that they influence you and teach you how to deal.

this man was born in USA and grown up there, and their collegues that he is a good person, and all people who know him were surprised for what he did.

The US is doing the right thing in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and the perpetrator is a cowardly treacherous murderer, radicalized no doubt by lies and misinformation.

many people will try to attache what happenned with the religon of this man.

when some rabbis made illegal trade in human organs and spawning of funds, recently cought in USA, nobody say that the Judaism is the reason.

when some priests Raping children, nobody that the christianity is the reason.

but when muslim do anything, all go and accuse Islam for what he did.

When Americans kill civilians in pakistane and Afganistane evryday, without judgement and punichement, that is normal, because it's USA.

but when a muslim kill anyone in USA or europe, all the world say that is terrorism and  they may attach it to Qaida and ben ladden and international terrorism.

All that because the Media in weastern countries, they transmate the message that they want, and the can laugh at the brain of people, and make them believe what they say to them.

A part of a Media which controled by the Zionism, who look to make anything against mulims, because they're working for their freedom from the occupation.

The world doesn't have a  Equitable criteria !!!!!!!

the last war the us military had won with allierts was the second world war….now the time has changed the globalisation confront also the military but they live in the past know only the history and have no idea how to make our present and future save…