Killers at Fort Hood All U.S. Soldiers - Army

By Steve Hynd

By now you may have heard about the shocking situation at Fort Hood, Texas, where three shooters have killed 12 and wounded 33. AP has just reported Lt. Gen Bob Cone as telling a news conference that all three killers were U.S. soldiers and that all the shootings happened "at the base's Soldier Readiness Center where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening."

PTSD perhaps?

Update: ABC News says that the main suspect is a Major Malik Nadal Hasan. The rightwing Islamophobes are going to go nutzo about that name.

Update 2: At the moment I'm updating news as it appears from people on my Twitter stream. According to @marcambinder, CNN is reporting that Maj Hasan was a recently-minted psychiatrist trained at Walter Reed. The BBC reports that he was due to be deployed to Iraq very shortly.

Here's video of the Fort Hood commander's statement, again from the BBC.

Update 3: Richard "RockRichard" Smith has running updates at VetVoice. So does the excellent Robert Mackay at The Lede.

Update 4: Rep. John Carter says two others who were detained have been released. (And soon after Carter tells MSNBC one suspect is still in custody).

Update 5: (Final one of the night) Hasan is alive after been shot by law enforcement, and is in a stable condition under military guard. Reportedly, the other two suspects have been released after all and the confusion was because Hasan was still in custody.

More, I'm sure, on this tomorrow.

Our sympathies to the families of those killed and our best wishes to those wounded and their loved ones.

Comments

[Hugh G. Rection]

...reports that he was due to be deployed to Iraq very shortly.

The USA is STILL sending troops to Occupy Iraq ????

well, just goes to show you that the USA ain't NEVER leaving Iraq and all of that Lovely Lovely OIL behind.

never ever.

[Ron Beasley]

The story that won't be told here is that this guy had been listening to the horror stories of those returning from Iraq for years. But the stories will all be about his Arab name and his oposion to the war. PTSD is contagious.

[Ron Beasley]

High wingnut Pam Geller doesn't disappoint.