Levin: Fort Hood probe may reveal more e-mails

Categories: Top Stories, U.S.| Nov 21, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military ...Read More

Levin: could be more e-mails from Ft. Hood suspect

Categories: Top Stories, U.S.| Nov 21, 2009

-WASHINGTON — The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials. Federal ...Read More

Texas: Hearing in Fort Hood Case

Categories: Top Stories, U.S.| Nov 20, 2009

An Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood will have a hearing on Saturday in his hospital room in San Antonio on whether he should be jailed before trail. The psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was wounded ...Read More

Hospital hearing requested for suspect in Fort Hood shootings

Categories: Most Viewed, Top Stories| Nov 20, 2009

Hospital hearing requested for suspect in Fort Hood shootings Killeen, Texas (CNN) -- Prosecutors have requested a pretrial confinement hearing for accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan in his hospital room on Saturday, Hasan's attorney told CNN on Friday. Hasan's civilian attorney, retired Army Col. John Galligan, said ...Read More

Fort Hood Senate hearings risk politicizing Hasan investigation

Categories: U.S.| Nov 19, 2009

Atlanta - The Senate Homeland Security Committee Thursday began hearings "as serious and consequential as any it's ever undertaken," in the words of its chairman Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I) of Connecticut, into whether and how the Army missed the red ...Read More

Pentagon: Wide probe likely after Fort Hood

Categories: U.S.| Nov 17, 2009

Pentagon: Wide probe likely after Fort Hood WASHINGTON—Worried that the Army may have missed red flags about the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood massacre, the Pentagon probably will open an inquiry into how all the military services keep watch on other volatile soldiers hidden in their ...Read More

Army suicides expected to rise for 5th year, setting record

Categories: Top Stories, U.S.| Nov 17, 2009

Suicides in the Army are expected to reach a new high this year, with 140 suspected cases among active-duty soldiers so far, Army officials said Tuesday. This will be the fifth year in a row that grim statistic rose despite an ...Read More

Fort Hood Suspect Likely Acted Alone

Categories: Top Stories, U.S.| Nov 17, 2009

WASHINGTON -- U.S. authorities believe suspected Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was most likely a self-radicalized extremist who acted alone, according to officials who were briefed on the case Tuesday. The briefing for select members of Congress came as ...Read More

Lawrence J. Siegel: Could Fort Hood Tragedy Been Avoided?

Categories: Politics, Top Stories, World| Nov 17, 2009

An important issue that has not yet been addressed in reports of the Fort Hood shootings is an apparent but serious failure to ensure that the perpetrator of the attacks, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was himself engaged in self-care activities ...Read More

Imam: Fort Hood suspect asked help finding wife

Categories: Top Stories, U.S.| Nov 17, 2009

Washington (CNN) -- A Washington-based imam told CNN on Monday that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan approached him for help finding a wife. Imam Yahya Hendi, the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University, said Hasan came to him at least ...Read More