He said an MP told him that authorities considered the man to be a suspect in the shootings after having overheard the man say he was with the shooter.The base's main postal exchange and commissary are located next to each other on Clear Creek Road. It's around a mile (1.5 km) by road south of the SRC, as you can see by clicking on this map:
The man was surrounded for 25 to 30 minutes, until a convoy of vehicles arrived, led by a Ford Crown Victoria and carrying men in suits, and he was taken away, the senior officer said.
The golf course is about 2.5 miles from Fort Hood, the officer told CNN.
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The senior commander of the base Lt. Gen. Bob Cone briefed press later that afternoon:
Note how he stresses that the shooter, confirmed to be a soldier, was killed and that "we since then have apprehended two additional soldiers that are suspects." Note how he also says that, "all the casualties took place in the initial incident which took place at 13:30" in one location, the Soldier Readiness Center (SRC).
According to this version of events, only 4 minutes elapsed from the time the alarm was raised until officer Kimberley Munley arrived on scene and heroically ended the carnage. But US army bases have their own security in the form of Military Police. Why were they only involved in the pursuit of the 'mystery suspects', while the incident at the SRC - which after all, has become the sole incident - was left to civilian law enforcement?
The lone assassin is credited with firing over 100 rounds inside 5 minutes. From 2 handguns. 43 dead and wounded within 5 minutes? And no one in the crowded hall could stop him before he presumeably reloaded and that much carnage had ensued? As many have pointed out, these weren't school children or students cowed under desks. They were trained killers who could surely have effected some kind of defensive response, even without firearms. General Cone claimed that bullets were richocheting off the center's walls, hence the high hit rate. Hmm, magic bullets! "Friendly fire" was also suggested to cover the high number of shots fired:
Officials are not ruling out the possibility that some of the casualties may have been victims of "friendly fire," that in the mayhem and confusion at the shooting scene some of the responding military officials may have shot some of the victims.But this was retracted once the three shooters became one dead gunman and two suspects. The cover story went into overdrive at this point: ABC News reported that these two other soldiers had been "released " and the dead gunman was revivified to play the role of patsy. There was no "friendly fire", no second or third shooter, just the solitary killer being kept alive in a hospital "somewhere in central Texas."
"Sir, they are opening fire over there!" the man told him. At first, he thought it was a training exercise - then heard three volleys and saw people running.
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Hasan then earned a doctorate in psychiatry from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. From 2003 through this summer, he was an intern, a resident and then a fellow at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C.. He worked as a psychiatrist there treating returning soldiers and veterans for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Hasan was commissioned as a captain, but was promoted to major in May this year. He showed no sign of physical or mental problems in medical examinations as recently as September.
He was posted to Fort Hood in either April or July (reports conflict), trying to avoid deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan by asking a lawyer to invesigate the possibility of exemption. This failed and he seems to have accepted the decision.
The only image of Nidal Malik Hasan initially broadcast was this one taken from the website of an organization called the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress:
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He was listed there as a fellow in 'disaster and preventive psychology.' The website was taken offline on November 6, and using the 'wayback machine' we could see why it was considered a good idea not to advertise who Hasan was connected with and what their research activity was. The organization's director Robert J Ursano writes that the focus of its research is "to better understand the human trauma response and its mechanisms of disease and recovery." There used to be a page about Dr Nidal Malik Hasan MD on the CSTS website but if you look under 'center members - disaster fellows', his profile is no longer listed.
The website is now back online and has been given a new look. Most importantly though, Hasan's profile has been scrubbed. In fact, they seem to be in the process of scrubbing the web archive of Hasan's profile also. So the page detailing his position and achievements with this organization were taken down. What is it they did not want us to see?
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