Nov 5 2009

Tuesday marks the year anniversary of the attack at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 people dead and more than 30 wounded. On Nov. Nidal Hasan, nov 5 2009, 39, entered a readiness processing center on post and opened fire using a handgun fitted with a laser sight on unarmed soldiers and civilians preparing for deployments.

Army major and psychiatrist , fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. Hasan was shot and as a result paralyzed from the waist down. His court-martial began on August 7, 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. 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 Islamic radicalization for several years. The failure to prevent the shooting led the Defense Department and the FBI to commission investigations, and Congress to hold hearings.

Nov 5 2009

Steven Braverman, Commander of Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, address members of the media during a morning press conference following the largest mass shooting at a military installation, in Fort Hood, Texas on Friday Nov. On Nov. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was later convicted of murder and sentenced to death. He has not yet been executed. In , suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by attempting to cast a vote for President Ulysses S. In , President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office as he defeated Republican challenger Wendell L. In , NASA launched Mariner 3, which was supposed to fly by Mars, but the spacecraft failed to reach its destination. In , Republican Richard M. Humphrey and American Independent candidate George C. In , Democrat Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.

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The Associated Press. On Nov. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was later convicted of murder and sentenced to death. He has not yet been executed. In , suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by attempting to cast a vote for President Ulysses S. In , President Franklin D.

Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who admitted to the shooting rampage at the military base here, was convicted Friday of 13 counts of premeditated murder — and could become the first American soldier to be put to death in half a century. Hasan was also convicted, by a military jury, of 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the attack, the deadliest mass murder on a base in American military history. Under military law, a conviction on at least two counts of premeditated murder makes Hasan eligible for the death penalty. The penalty phase of the court-martial is to begin Monday. Hasan, 42, who acted as his own lawyer during the trial, said he had changed sides in what he called an American war against Islam.

Nov 5 2009

Army major and psychiatrist , fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. Hasan was shot and as a result paralyzed from the waist down. His court-martial began on August 7, 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. 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 Islamic radicalization for several years. The failure to prevent the shooting led the Defense Department and the FBI to commission investigations, and Congress to hold hearings. The U. 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. According to pretrial testimony, Hasan entered the Guns Galore store in Killeen on July 31, , and purchased the FN Five-seven semi-automatic pistol that he would 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".

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Alan Carroll, shot in the upper right arm, right bicep, left side of back, and left leg; Capt. Military Death Penalty". They included a posthumous award pf the Soldier's Medal to Capt. The son of Palestinian immigrants who ran a Roanoke restaurant and convenience store Hasan was born in Virginia, graduated from Virginia Tech completed his psychiatry training at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. Archived from the original on December 4, Gaffaney, who worked with Richter, was killed in the attack. George Tiller, who practiced abortion. Alan Carroll [92]. Tradewell Sr. McCaul wrote, "Based on all the facts, it is inconceivable to us that the DOD and the Army continue to label this attack 'workplace violence' in spite of all the evidence that clearly proves the Fort Hood shooting was an act of terror. Retrieved January 26, October 19,

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Most of the documents included the acronym "SoA", which is considered shorthand for "Soldier of Allah". Archived from the original on November 17, Webster Commission on Fort Hood shooting. Share on Facebook. Archived from the original on November 18, Attorney General Michael Mukasey [] have called the event a terrorist attack, [] as has the terrorism expert Walid Phares. Agence France-Presse. Staff Sergeant. Archived from the original on May 11, Your Army. John P.