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Major Hasan

Inside the mind of the army killer

David Usborne on Nidal Hasan's path from hospital psychiatrist to global notoriety

Inside Americas

Sgt Munley: 'one of our most impressive young policemen'

Heroine whose shots ended the slaughter

Saturday, 7 November 2009

Schools were closed, streets deserted, and checkpoints set up at entrances to Fort Hood last night, as investigators tried to establish how a lone gunman was able to plan and carry out one of the most deadly killing sprees in US military history.

Mark Hughes

The Crime Exchange

Saturday, 7 November 2009

Our correspondent swaps places with his Baltimore Sun counterpart. Minutes after I arrived, writes Mark Hughes, I was at the scene of a shooting...

Sacked ex-employee goes on shooting spree

Saturday, 7 November 2009

A sacked employee went on a shooting spree in a US office complex, killing one person and injuring five others before being caught by police.

Military base gunman remains in critical coma

Saturday, 7 November 2009

The military psychiatrist responsible for a shooting spree that left 13 dead remained in a coma today, frustrating attempts to work out what made him kill.

Sergeant Anthony Sills

'People were off guard in the base'

Saturday, 7 November 2009

It is in the heart of Texas gun country, but Ford Hood is the last place one would expect a massacre to take place, said a former British Army officer who served in the vast military base.

Honduran 'unity' cabinet collapses

Saturday, 7 November 2009

An agreement to end a four-month political crisis in Honduras collapsed early yesterday after the two rival leaders failed to form a unity cabinet to heal the damage from a coup in June.

Soldiers move into the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood as they secure the area where Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot and killed at least 13 soldiers

Officer 'shouted Allahu Akbar' before rampage

Friday, 6 November 2009

The military psychiatrist was today being investigated for alleged links to extremist websites as he remained on a life-support machine.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan was shot and seriously wounded by military police at the scene

Troubling portrait emerges of Fort Hood suspect

Friday, 6 November 2009

His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported US wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.

A shocked relative is comforted by a US sergeant outside Fort Hood, Texas, yesterday after news of the shootings was revealed to a stunned US public

US gun rampage search leads to web extremists

Friday, 6 November 2009

A US officer who killed 13 soldiers in a gun rampage at a Texas army base was being investigated for links to extremist websites.

Gunman kills one in Orlando shooting

Friday, 6 November 2009

A gunman opened fire in the offices of his former workplace, killing one person and injuring five others.

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