Suspected Fort Hood shooter charged with 13 murders

A US army psychiatrist charged in a deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood begins a legal process Tuesday that will bring him face-to-face with his victims and could result in his execution.The November 5, 2009 rampage which left 13 people dead and 42 wounded at the Texas army base shocked the nation, while military officials faced criticism for possibly missing an array of warning signs about the suspected gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.

A former White House security adviser has alleged that the Muslim army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 at a Texas military base may not have been investigated because of "political correctness."Frances Fragos Townsend, a Homeland Security adviser to president George W. Bush told US lawmakers she was worried that the chief suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was not properly investigated despite warnings he may have been dangerous.Hasan has been charged in the deadly shootings in the Fort Hood army base that killed 13 and wounded 42 on November 5.

A former White House security adviser has alleged that the Muslim army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 at a Texas military base may not have been investigated because of "political correctness."Frances Fragos Townsend, a Homeland Security adviser to president George W. Bush told US lawmakers she was worried that the chief suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was not properly investigated despite warnings he may have been dangerous.Hasan has been charged in the deadly shootings in the Fort Hood army base that killed 13 and wounded 42 on November 5.

US investigators believe the army doctor accused of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage at a Texas military base acted alone, but his motive for the massacre was unclear, officials said.President Barack Obama will Tuesday attend a memorial service here to honor victims of the rampage at Fort Hood attributed to Muslim US army doctor Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who is also suspected of wounding 30 people.

An American army major went on a shooting rampage at a Texas military base killing 11 people and wounding 31 others before being gunned down, army officials said.Two other soldiers were arrested after the shooting spree and were being held as suspects, said Lieutenant General Bob Cone, commander at Fort Hood, the largest US military base in the world.The major was identified by US officials as a military psychiatrist named either Malik Nadal Hasan or Nidal Malik Hasan. He was about to be deployed to Iraq.

A Muslim army officer about to be deployed to Iraq shot dead 12 people and wounded 31 others at a sprawling Texas military base before being gunned down himself and captured.Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a US army psychiatrist, opened fire with two handguns at a processing center at Fort Hood for troops being deployed on missions to Iraq and Afghanistan."There was a single shooter that was shot multiple times at the scene," said Lieutenant General Bob Cone, commander of the base. "He was not killed as previously reported. He is currently in custody and in stable condition."

The US Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people in a shooting spree on a Texas army base has been ruled sane and thus fit for trial, a source familiar with the case said.The ruling by a group of medical experts, called a sanity board, opens the door for a court martial that could end in the execution of Major Nidal Hasan, who was paralyzed from the neck down during the November 5, 2009 massacre.Neither prosecutors nor retired Army Colonel John Galligan, a veteran military lawyer representing Hasan, 40, would confirm the board's decision.

A distant West Bank cousin of the army psychiatrist accused of a deadly shooting spree in Texas said on Saturday he was bewildered by the incident."We are an ordinary family that has not known violence or religious intolerance," said Mohammed Hasan, who does not know his cousin and alleged shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.Nidal Hasan was born in the United States to parents who emigrated from a village outside Jerusalem and still has distant family in the area.