washingtonpost.com - 20 days ago
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Base leads Army posts in number of suicides since Iraq invasion By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 6, 2009 Fort Hood, the Texas military base that was the scene of a mass shooting Thursday, has been hard hit by the growing strain on the Army from multiple combat ...
abcnews.go.com - 19 days ago
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abcnews.go.com —
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that
Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact...
with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. It is not known ...
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Fort Hood Shooter Tried to Contact al Qaeda Terrorists, ...
foxnews.com - 20 days ago
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foxnews.com —
The Army psychiatrist authorities say killed 13 people
and wounded 29 others at the Fort Hood Army...
Base Thursday was a recent and frequent customer at a local strip club, employees of the club told FoxNews.com exclusively.
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Alleged Fort Hood Shooter Frequented Local Strip Club
abcnews.go.com - 22 days ago
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abcnews.go.com —
Fort Hood shooting suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan,
wanted out of the Army after being constantly harassed...
by others in the military and was called a "camel jockey," his family said. As Hasan was about to be deployed to Iraq , he was suffering from ...
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Nidal Malik Hasan Wanted Out of Army, Family Said
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Tomgram: Jamail and Lazare, Who Will Be Sent to Afghanistan?
TomDispatch —
... do the math yourself on those 40,000 troops and then wonder just where all that money is going to come from.)
We are, in fact, facing an ongoing disaster not just for the U.S., but for the U.S. military. Read the following piece and ask yourself: What state would a military have to be in to consider sending such men back into a war zone? A desperate military is, of course, the answer -- a military rubbed raw and, as the shocking mass murder spree at already stressed-out Fort Hood may indicate, on edge in a way that perhaps no one has quite grasped. ...
Who Will Be Sent to Afghanistan?
Antiwar.com Original —
... at already stressed-out Fort Hood may indicate, on edge in a way that perhaps no one has quite grasped. Tom Where Will They Get the Troops? Preparing undeployables for the Afghan front by Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare As the Obama administration debates whether to send tens of thousands of extra troops to Afghanistan, an already overstretched military is increasingly struggling to meet its deployment numbers. Surprisingly, one place it seems to be targeting is military personnel who go absent without leave (AWOL) and then are caught or turn themselves in. Hidden behind ...
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
TomDispatch —
... on the base in 2009 alone). Divorce rates were on the rise, as were mental health problems, drug and alcohol use, domestic abuse (up 75% since 2001), and ...
Welcome Home, War!
Antiwar.com Original —
... on the base in 2009 alone). Divorce rates were on the rise, as were mental health problems , drug and alcohol use, domestic abuse (up 75% since 2001), and ...
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The battle within
denverpost.com 20 days ago — In the weeks before Christmas last year, a brigade of battle-bruised soldiers left Colorado's Fort Carson for its third round of war in Iraq. Sgt. Colin Barton was getting Botox shots in his forehead to kill the relentless pain from a brain injury. ...
What President Obama told a wounded Fort Hood - text
latimesblogs.latimes.com 18 days ago — President Obama's prepared remarks at Fort Hood Memorial Service, as provided by the White House
We come together filled with sorrow for the thirteen Americans that we have lost; with gratitude for the lives that they led; and with a ...
Barack Obama’s Statement At The Fort Hood Memorial
liberalvaluesblog.com 18 days ago —
Above is the video of Barack Obama’s remarks at the Fort Hood memorial ceremony. The transcript is under the fold.
We come together filled with sorrow for the thirteen Americans that we have lost; with gratitude for the lives that they led; and with a determination to honor them ...
'Horrific' rampage stuns Army's Fort Hood
usatoday.com 23 days ago — Few Army posts have more experience with soldiers dealing with the strain of eight years of combat than Fort Hood . Army leaders have acknowledged the strain on soldiers from eight years of war. In July, Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, ...
Hasan a Muslim First, American Second?
outsidethebeltway.com 20 days ago — In hindsight, it appears that Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the mass murderer who killed 14 (one of the soldiers killed, Francheska Velez, was six weeks pregnant ) and wounded another 30 at Fort Hood, had long made it known that he sympathized with the ...
To the point
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com 19 days ago — Fort Hood's 9/11 By RALPH PETERS On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam. What cowards we are. Political correctness ...
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