Shooting at Fort Hood

[ToughOmbre]

General Robert Scales (Ret) on FOX News is describing the shootings as "deliberate acts of execution" by the shooter.

TO

[vikingBerserker]

Dam...............

[Messy1]

What a shocking story.

[Vassili Zaitzev]

Holy ****!

[Gnomey]

Has to have been planned, wouldn't surprise me if there were some terrorist links either. Hope they get all the f*ckers and throw the book and everything else at them.

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Of course it was planned. There were 3 shooters in total and too attack sites. It was a premeditated attack.

I am just wondering if they were a member of some organization.

[Thorlifter]

I was going to post some information about the Major who was killed, but decided I don't want to post anything about that sorry coward. Glad he's gone, but it's very sad 12 people had to die first.

[wheelsup_cavu]

Words fail me...Sorry

My condolences to the families of the victims.


Wheels

[RabidAlien]

I'd heard they released the other two after some questioning. With three involved, that's a conspiracy to me, but if they found the other two innocent, that's just a guy flippin out. All of the news agencies I've watched so far are stuck in a spin-cycle, repeating the same information over and over and over, mixing up their words a bit so it doesn't get old and stale. My question is this, though: if its a planned terrorist thing, why did they use handguns? Why not an explosive vest in a crowded processing facility, or that graduation planned for a little while later? He killed 12 (for which I heartily congratulate the individual who finally capped his arse!), when he could've killed 200 or more. I may be wrong, but this just doesn't feel like a terrorist thing. I'll refine my opinions as more facts become available.

[GrauGeist]

One person or a hundred, the fact that an officer of the U.S. military would commit such an act is nothing more than an act of treasonous cowardice, regardless of thier motive.

I think killing the son of a b!tch was far too generous, but given the current attitude towards criminal rights, being dead is probably the best way for that piece of sh!t to end up...

[beaupower32]

DIdnt see this posted, so here is a sad one <S>

FORT HOOD, Texas – A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, setting off on a rampage that killed 11 other people and left 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman, and the violence was believed to be the worst mass shooting in history at a U.S. military base.

The shooting began around 1:30 p.m., when shots were fired at the base's Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening, said Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood.

President Barack Obama called the shooting "a horrific outburst of violence." He said it is a tragedy to lose a soldier overseas and even more horrifying when they come under fire at an Army base on American soil.

"We will make sure that we get answers to every single question about this horrible incident," the commander in chief said in Washington. "We are going to stay on this."

A law enforcement official identified the shooting suspect as Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

It was unclear what the motive was, though it appeared he was upset about a scheduled deployment. U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said the Army major was about to deploy overseas, though it was unclear if he was headed to Iraq or Afghanistan and when he was scheduled to leave. Hutchison said she was told about the upcoming deployment by generals based at Fort Hood.

Retired Army Col. Terry Lee told Fox News that he worked with Hasan, who had hoped Obama would pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Lee said Hasan got into frequent arguments with others in the military who supported the wars, and had tried hard to prevent his pending deployment.

Military officials say Hasan, 39, was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six years before being transferred to the Texas base in July. The officials, who had access to Hasan's military record, said he received a poor performance evaluation while at Walter Reed. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because military records are confidential.

The Virginia-born soldier was single with no children. He graduated from Virginia Tech, where he was a member of the ROTC and earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1997. He received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., in 2001. At Walter Reed, he did his internship, residency and a fellowship.

Officials were investigating whether Hasan was his birth name or if he may have changed his name, possibly as part of a conversion to Islam. However, they were not certain of his religion.

The Soldier Readiness Center holds hundreds of people and is one of the most populated parts of the base, said Steve Moore, a spokesman for III Corps at Fort Hood. Nearby there are barracks and a food center where there are fast food chains. The center is part of the largest active duty armored post in the United States. Covering 339 square miles, the post halfway between Austin and Waco was home to about 52,000 troops as of earlier this year.

A graduation ceremony for soldiers who finished college courses while deployed was going on nearby at the time of the shooting, said Sgt. Rebekah Lampman, a Fort Hood spokeswoman.

Greg Schanepp, Carter's regional director in Texas, was at Fort Hood, said John Stone, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. John Carter, whose district includes the Army post. Schanepp was at a graduation ceremony when a soldier who had been shot in the back came running toward him and alerted him of the shooting, Stone said. The soldier told Schanepp not to go in the direction of the shooter, he said.

Soldiers don't carry weapons with them unless they're doing training exercises, said Spc. Jerry Richard, 27, who works at the building where the shooting happened — though he was not on post at the time.

"Overseas you are ready for it. But here you can't even defend yourself," he said.

Two other soldiers taken into custody following the deadly rampage have been released, Fort Hood spokesman Christopher Haug said. "They're not believed to be involved in the incident," Haug said. He said a third person was in custody, however.

The wounded were dispersed among hospitals in central Texas, Cone said.

Lisa Pfund of Random Lake, Wis., says her daughter, 19-year-old Amber Bahr, was shot in the stomach but was in stable condition. "We know nothing, just that she was shot in the belly," Pfund told The Associated Press. She couldn't provide more details and only spoke with emergency personnel.

Pfund said Bahr joined the reserves when she was 17 to earn money for school and loved being in the military even though none of her friends were interested in joining the Army.

A Fort Hood spokesman said he could not immediately confirm any identities of the injured.

"I ask that all of you keep these families and these individuals in your prayers today," Texas Gov. Rick Perry said.

The shootings on the Texas military base stirred memories of other recent mass shootings in the United States, including 13 dead at a New York immigrant center in April, 10 killed during a gunman's rampage across Alabama in March and 32 killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history at Virginia Tech in 2007.

Around the country, some bases stepped up security precautions, but no others were locked down.

[B-17engineer]

PRESS CONFERENCE...

The shooter is NOT dead, he was shot but is in stable condition and 2 men were released and one is still in custody.

[ToughOmbre]

Surprising news from that press conference. The piece of SH*T is alive, and he is the single shooter.

More to come!

TO

[B-17engineer]

I'm glued to my TV

[Thorlifter]

WOW!!!!!!