An announcement will be made later Thursday during a press conference at Fort Hood, officials said.
The shootings took place at Fort Hood's crowded Soldiers Readiness Processing Center, where troops get medical checkups before deploying abroad.
Authorities decided to charge Hasan in a military court, officials said. Additional charges may be filed; however, the murder counts are the most serious of offenses, officials told NBC News.
Military officials can consider the death penalty, NBC News reported.
Investigators were trying to piece together how and why Hasan allegedly gunned down his comrades in one of the worst mass shootings ever on an American military base. Though his motive wasn't known, some who knew Hasan said he may have been struggling with a pending deployment to Afghanistan and faced pressure in his work with distressed soldiers.
Meanwhile, new details have begun to emerge painting Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, as a troubled man who had no place in the military.
Some who knew Hasan as a student said they saw clear warning signs before the shooting spree that left 13 dead and 29 others wounded
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33886322/ns/us_news-tragedy_at_fort_hood/
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Isn't he talking yet? Have they questioned him?
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- isnamthere
- 8 days ago
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Hey current89,
Thanks for updating this developing story!
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Shocking development! Not really...who DIDN'T see this one coming as soon as they learned he was alive?
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He didn't just snap: The Fort Hood Islamic jihadist to be charged with PREMEDITATED murder.
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You mean we aren't going to deploy 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan and kill a few hundred more babies? We're actually going to just prosecute one man?
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Wouldn't it be funny if he was like "HEY! I only premeditated 12 of those!!!" and got all pissy about the one extra count of murder. hahah
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This was a terrorist attack, plain and simple. Islam, the religion of peace.............
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''Investigators would have been "crucified" over First Amendment rights if they had launched a full-scale probe into e-mails Fort Hood massacre suspect Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly sent to a radical imam, a government investigator told Fox News.
The claim comes as the squabble grows among officials in different branches of law enforcement and the military over who knew what, and when, about Hasan's leanings toward faith-inspired violence, and amid charges that "political correctness" prevented officials from taking pre-emptive action.
Multiple investigators familiar with the FBI's review of the Fort Hood case told Fox News that they simply did not have enough evidence to launch an investigation. Though officials discovered Hasan's e-mails to the imam, one government counterterrorism investigator said the messages suggested he was seeking "spiritual and religious guidance."
"(Hasan) appeared to be at a moral impasse, a moral dilemma who was reaching out for advice," the investigator said. "Had we launched an investigation of Hasan we'd have been crucified."
Further proof how deeply we have lost our way, our sense of life. Plotting jihad, supporting jihad is not freedom of speech. It is sedition.
Watch the unholy leftist/Islamic alliance try to use this free speech issue to shut up the truth tellers and those on the right. They invoke freedom of speech to kill freedom of speech. it's an old trick of the left, the communists, the statists, all totalitarian ideologies. I am sure Rahm Emanuel won't let this "crisis go to waste" either.
They will also blame "guns". Once again in an attempt to disarm the population. An unarmed population is like sheep to slaughter. In this war, every free man and woman needs a weapon.
Jihad is treason. Period.
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Do they still have firing squads for traitors in the military?
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Should be 14 murder charges. One of the women was pregnant. Or for all the other lefties that read current, was it just another form of abortion?
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- libertyforall
- 8 days ago
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Scary all around. I read somewhere that Hasan was part of a Homeland Security Think Tank.
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It would be over-kill I guess; but how come nothing is being said/done about the wounded? Assault with intent to kill ring any bells?
On the other hand, we can only execute him once.
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- cabinettags
- 8 days ago
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The count, in this case, should be 14 since one of the soldiers was pregnant. Scott Petersen was charged with a double murder, s/b the same in this case and laws all over the books in most states have laws against killing the unborn - believe it or not, a bit of research will show it. It's called fetal homicide.
Amazing how these charges against this terrorist ave been compared to war efforts abroad. Neither compares. Unfortunately, in our world, wars will always be (and have always been) because as many want to take freedom away as want to have it.
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- nobamayomama
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So let me get this idiocy straight: They are going to save his paraplegic life so he can be executed? Only in the US.
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They should charge him with treason as well. It falls under the Constitution guidelines for him to be charged.
