Loading ...happened on the same anniversary DAY (NOVEMBER 5) that ARMY MAJOR MUSLIM got taken down… co -incidence ? I dont believe in Co-Incidence with a Murderous plot this BIG in such a small town !
2009 Fort Hood shooting
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Fort Hood Police SWAT responds to the shooting
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Location of the main cantonment of Fort Hood in Bell County
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| Location | Fort Hood, Texas, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 31°8′33″N 97°47′47″W |
| Date | November 5, 2009 c. 1:34 p.m. – c. 1:44 p.m. (CST) |
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Attack type
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Mass shooting |
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| Deaths | 13[1] |
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Non-fatal injuries
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33 (including the perpetrator) |
| Perpetrator | Nidal Hasan |
On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas.[1] Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others.[2][3] It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base.[4]
Hasan was shot and as a result paralyzed from the waist down.[5] Hasan was arraigned by a military court on July 20, 2011 and was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. His court-martial began on August 7, 2013. Due to the nature of the charges (more than one premeditated, or first-degree, murder case, in a single crime), Hasan faced either the death penalty or life in prison without parole upon conviction.[6][7] Hasan was found guilty on all 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder on August 23, 2013, and was sentenced to death on August 28, 2013.
Days after the shooting, reports in the media revealed that a Joint Terrorism Task Force had been aware of a series of e-mails between Hasan and the Yemen-based imam Anwar al-Awlaki, who had been monitored by the NSA as a security threat, and that Hasan’s colleagues had been aware of his increasing radicalization for several years. The failure to prevent the shootings led the Defense Department and the FBI to commission investigations, and Congress to hold hearings.
The U.S. government declined requests from survivors and family members of the slain to categorize the Fort Hood shooting as an act of terrorism, or motivated by militant Islamic religious convictions.[8] In November 2011, a group of survivors and family members filed a lawsuit against the government for negligence in preventing the attack, and to force the government to classify the shootings as terrorism. The Pentagon argued that charging Hasan with terrorism was not possible within the military justice system and that such action could harm the military prosecutors’ ability to sustain a guilty verdict against Hasan.[9]
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Shootings
Preparations
According to pretrial testimony, Hasan entered the Guns Galore store in Killeen on July 31, 2009, and purchased the FN Five-seven semi-automatic pistol that he was to use in the attack at Fort Hood. According to Army Specialist William Gilbert, a regular customer at the store, Hasan entered the store and asked for “the most technologically advanced weapon on the market and the one with the highest standard magazine capacity”. Hasan was allegedly asked how he intended to use the weapon, but simply repeated that he wanted the most advanced handgun with the largest magazine capacity.[11] The three people with Hasan—Gilbert, the store manager, and an employee—all recommended the FN Five-seven pistol.[12] As Gilbert owned one of the pistols, he spent an hour describing its operation to Hasan.[13]
Hasan left the store, saying he needed to research the weapon.[13] He returned to purchase the gun the next day, and visited the store once a week to buy extra magazines, along with over 3000 rounds of 5.7×28mm SS192 and SS197SR ammunition total.[12] In the weeks prior to the attack, Hasan visited an outdoor shooting range in Florence, where he allegedly became adept at hitting silhouette targets at distances of up to 100 yards.[11]
Soldier Readiness Processing Center shootings
At approximately 1:34 p.m. local time, November 5, 2009, Hasan entered the Soldier Readiness Processing Center, where personnel receive routine medical treatment immediately prior to and on return from deployment. He was preparing to deploy to Iraq with his unit and had been to the Center several times before. He was armed with the FN Five-seven pistol, which he had fitted with two Lasermax laser sights: one red, and one green.[14][15] A Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver (an older model) was later found on Hasan’s person, but he did not use it to shoot any of the victims.[10][16]