'Seven shot dead' at US army base

GSBot · Nov 5th, 2009, 03:58 PM

At least seven people have been killed and 12 others injured in a shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, according to US media reports.One person has been arrested and a second is on the run, ABC news reports. It said the base had been locked down.

NBC News network said the two suspects were in military uniform and that the shooter-at-large was believed to have a high-powered sniper rifle.

Fort Hood, located near the town of Killeen, is a large US military base.

It is not yet clear whether those reported killed and injured are civilians or military personnel.

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zxcvb · Nov 5th, 2009, 04:09 PM

Let's hope they do not have arabic names.

zafar2002 · Nov 5th, 2009, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by zxcvb

Let's hope they do not have arabic names.

You guessed it right.....his name they saying is Major Malik Nadal Hassan.....

haania06 · Nov 5th, 2009, 06:30 PM

The no is now 12 dead and 31 injured. one of the shooter killed was supposedly Jordanian who did medicine from Virginia and was a psychiatrist in army, n he was too be soon deployed to Iraq.

coOoLBreeze · Nov 5th, 2009, 07:15 PM

Nidal Malik Hasaan.
definitely seems Pakistani

.... this goes another major blow to Pakistani and Muslim physicians from Paksitan.

haania06 · Nov 5th, 2009, 07:26 PM

he is not pakistani

mercenary2k · Nov 5th, 2009, 07:46 PM

he is from Jordan

PyariCgudia · Nov 5th, 2009, 09:51 PM

Family is Jordanian.

Jesus. What the heck are these idiots thinking? *waiting to see how the muslims have to suffer now on account of this RETARD.

coOoLBreeze · Nov 6th, 2009, 06:39 AM

Crap...now all the Muslims in US Army would be treated differently cause of this particular incident.

Lady Melancholy · Nov 6th, 2009, 07:19 AM

Apparently some Army Psychiatrist was the culprit of the shootings. His name is a Muslim name, not too sure if he was a Muslim. Do you think the USA are going to pin this on the Islamic world? Any increased security at airports etc?

Hashmat Usmani · Nov 6th, 2009, 07:39 AM

his name is Malik Nidal Hassan. he is a Jordanian. i saw a video clip on the news. he's wearing white shalwar qameez and malik isn't a jordanian name. lets see who he really is.

Lady Melancholy · Nov 6th, 2009, 07:44 AM

Oh so do you think the actual nationality is something else?

a1kashur · Nov 6th, 2009, 07:49 AM

Hashmat Usmani · Nov 6th, 2009, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Lady Melancholy

Oh so do you think the actual nationality is something else?

i think so...yes!

a1kashur · Nov 6th, 2009, 08:13 AM

^ Why would the army hide his nationality? CNN was showing a video him wearing traditional arab clothes.

Aisha Dubaiwali · Nov 6th, 2009, 08:19 AM

Exactly that is what I am wondering.

Hashmat Usmani · Nov 6th, 2009, 08:24 AM

to me he looks like indian or pakistani coz of shalwar qameez and Malik as one of the names...i dunno...i amy be totally wrong...its was just my feeling at the time...besides, i didn't say the military is hiding his identity...when i heard the news and saw the video clip the investigation was in its infancy...they didn't know much about him.

Aisha Dubaiwali · Nov 6th, 2009, 08:31 AM

How can the army don't know much about him? It is not like he is a young cadet or something he is a Major and of 39 years of age. Been in Fort Hood from some time and under army's surveillance after he posted some stuff about suicide attacks on the internet 6 months ago.

Mostar95 · Nov 6th, 2009, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by PyariCgudia

Family is Jordanian.

Jesus. What the heck are these idiots thinking? *waiting to see how the muslims have to suffer now on account of this RETARD.

Exactly! What this idoit has achieved?

ravage · Nov 6th, 2009, 09:49 AM

Latest Updates on Shootings at Fort Hood - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com

Update | 9:42 a.m. In this video interview with CBS News on Friday morning, Gen. Robert Cone gave more details of how the shootings unfolded on Thursday — he also said that there were what he called “unconfirmed reports” that Major Nidal Hasan was shouting “Allahu akbar” (Arabic for “God is great”) during the shooting: