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He shouted, 'Allahu Akbar!' And your point is ... ?

Manya Brachear, religion writer for the Chicago Tribune, asks an interesting question: If a Christian soldier shouted "God is great" before opening fire on his fellows, would we assume that the shooting was religiously motivated? That the gunman acted because...


Wounded soldier knew Hasan, said he seemed 'down to earth,' Austin American-Statesman reports

In this interview with the Austin paper, the soldier, Alonzo Lunsford, also said that just before the shooting broke out, he saw Maj. Nidal Hasan get up suddenly from a chair and shout, "Allahu Akhbar," which is Arabic for "God...


Brother says shooting suspect is peaceful and compassionate

Eyad Hasan of Sterling, Va., also said in a statement released Saturday that he hopes his brother, Maj. Nidal Hasan, will be treated fairly. Here's an Associated Press story....


Fort Hood private who was shot three times describes ordeal

From staff writer Matthew Haag, details about the dramatic experience of one of the surviving victims in Thursday's shootings at Fort Hood emerged this morning. Army Pfc. Najee Hull, 21, of Chicago was waiting in line at the Military Personnel...


How common is post-traumatic stress among caregivers?

No one knows what role, if any, post-traumatic stress disorder played in the apparent unraveling of Maj. Nidal Hasan. That of course hasn't stopped speculation by journalists, bloggers, TV commentators and other armchair diagnosticians. Certainly, as an Army psychiatrist who...


Killeen police report: Hasan had trouble with a neighbor

The Dallas Morning News has obtained two Killeen Police Department reports concerning Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings. The first police report (below), from August of this year, involves a complaint Hasan made about someone...


Hasan's former home in Bethesda, Maryland

Washington Bureau Chief Todd J. Gillman took this photo of the home in Bethesda, Md., (just outside Washignton, D.C.) where Nidal Malik Hasan is believed to have lived in the late 1990s. None of the neighbors that Todd talked...


Jacquielynn Floyd: 'A nut with a gun'

Metro columnist Jacquielynn Floyd says don't dig too deep in searching for motives behind the Fort Hood shootings....


A short profile of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan

From Associated Press Writer Brett J. Blackledge, here's a quick profile of Nidal Hasan, the suspect in the Fort Hood shooting. It begins: "His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq...

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