2009 Fort Hood shooting
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Shootings
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Soldier Readiness Processing Center shootings
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Aftermath
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The 13 killed were:
Wounded
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The following people suffered gunshot wounds and survived:
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Hasan’s description of motives
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In another document, Hasan wrote that there is a fundamental and irreconcilable conflict between American democracy and Islamic governance. Specifically:
… in an American democracy, ‘we the people’ govern according to what ‘we the people’ think is right or wrong, even if it specifically goes against what All-Mighty God commands.
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President Obama
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Fort Hood personnel
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US Government
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Veteran groups
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Military policy on bases
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Hasan’s family
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American Muslim groups
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…undoubtedly this man might have a psychological problem; he may be a psychiatrist but he [also] might have had psychological distress, as he was being commissioned to go to Iraq or Afghanistan, and he was capable of refusing to work whatever the consequences were.” The senior analyst at the NEFA Foundation described Ouda’s comments as “a good indication of how far on a tangent
Anwar al-Awlaki
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Until this moment the administration is refusing to release the e-mails exchanged between myself and Nidal. And after the operation of our brother Umar Farouk the initial comments coming from the administration were looking the same – another attempt at covering up the truth. But
(Catatan: Investigasi AS tidak menemukan bukti yang menghubungkan Hasan dengan al-Qaeda. Lihat bagian di bawah.)
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Pada tahun 2012, Departemen Pertahanan mengklasifikasikan kasus ini sebagai salah satu kasus kekerasan di tempat kerja. Juru bicara Departemen menyatakan,
Departemen Pertahanan berkomitmen terhadap integritas proses pengadilan militer yang sedang berlangsung terhadap Mayor Nadal Hasan dan oleh karena itu tidak akan menjelaskan lebih lanjut, saat ini, insiden yang terjadi di Fort Hood pada tanggal 5 November 2009. Mayor Hassan telah didakwa dengan 13 dakwaan pembunuhan berencana, dan 32 dakwaan percobaan pembunuhan. Seperti semua perkara UCMJ yang menunggu keputusan, terdakwa tidak bersalah sampai terbukti bersalah.
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References
[^ Captain Isaac Taylor, a spokesman at Fort Hood, confirmed to CBS News early Friday morning that one additional victim had died of wounds sustained in the attack after hospitalization, raising the death toll to 13. At least 30 others were wounded, according to Taylor.^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ At that ceremony on the one-year anniversary of the rampage, 50 other medals were presented to soldiers and emergency responders who helped that day, but Capt. John Gaffaney was the only victim awarded a medal posthumously. Gaffaney, who had thrown a chair at the gunman, was awarded the Soldier’s Medal.Richter and six other Soldiers received the Soldier’s Medal from Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh and Maj. Gen. William Grimsley, Fort Hood’s commanding general. An eighth Soldier’s Medal was presented to Capt. John P. Gaffaney’s family. Gaffaney, who worked with Richter, was killed in the attack.^ He led the memorial at the Fort Hood, Texas, Army post in November 2009, trying to help a shaken nation cope with a mass shooting there that left 13 people dead and 29 wounded.^ The following is a list of the victims in Thursday’s Fort Hood shooting rampage that left 13 dead and 38 injured, of which 30 needed to be hospitalized.^ An Army psychiatrist who reportedly feared an impending war deployment is in custody as the sole suspect in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas that left 12 dead and 31 wounded, an Army official said Thursday night.Thirteen people were killed, including a pregnant soldier, and 32 others wounded in the Nov. 5, 2009 rampage by the accused shooter, Major Nidal Hasan, at the Army base in Killeen, Texas.The November 5, 2009, attack left 13 dead and 32 people wounded in what has been described as the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military instillation.Todd has been credited with shooting Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who still faces military trial on charges of killing 13 people and wounding 32 more.^ ^ ^ ^ {{: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (^ ^ Private Francheska Velez, 21, was heard screaming ‘my baby, my baby’ in a futile plea to save her unborn child.The female soldier that was sitting next to me was in the fetal position. She was screaming: ‘My baby! My baby!’^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ This photograph taken on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 in Killeen, Texas, shows a copy of the Quran and a briefcase holding this business card that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan gave to his neighbor a day before going on a shooting spree at the Fort Hood Army Base.^ ^ ^ ^ In Washington, an investigative official and a Republican lawmaker said Hasan had communicated 10 to 20 times with Anwar al-Awlaki, an imam released from a Yemeni jail last year who has used his personal Web site to encourage Muslims across the world to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. Despite that, no formal investigation was opened into Hasan, they said.^ ^ The authorities have not ruled out terrorism in the shooting, but they said the preliminary evidence suggests that it wasn’t.^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ A senior administration official, briefing reporters in a telephone conference call after the release of the report, described the shooting rampage as “an act of terrorism”, although the official provided no details and stopped short of saying that Major Hasan had been directed or inspired to act by any overseas militant groups.{{: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (U.S. intelligence officials had intercepted e-mails between Hasan and a militant Muslim cleric called Anwar al-Awlaki.^ ^ ^ ^
Further reading
[Kenneth T. MacLeish (February 21, 2013).
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