Soldier Opens Fire At Fort Hood; 4 Dead Including Shooter, 16 Injured
Prayers for all involved, both the soldier who felt driven to it and his victims.
[CBS-DFW] A soldier opened fire Wednesday on fellow service members at the Fort Hood military base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide at the same post where more than a dozen people were slain in a 2009 attack, authorities said.
The shooter, who served in Iraq in 2011, had been undergoing an assessment to determine whether he had post-traumatic stress disorder, according to Lt. Gen. Mark A. Milley, the senior officer on the base. He was also undergoing psychiatric treatment for depression.
There was no indication the attack was related to terrorism, Milley said.
A Texas congressman said the shooting happened at a medical center. Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, also identified the suspect as Ivan Lopez.
The injured were taken to Darnall Army Community Hospital at Fort Hood and other local hospitals. Dr. Glen Couchman, chief medical officer at Scott and White Hospital in Temple, said the first four people admitted there had gunshots to chest, abdomen, neck and extremities and that their conditions range from stable to "quite critical." At last check, nine patients had been admitted to Scott and White.
If any additional information is reported during the day, please post in the comment thread, though it is no longer a War on Terror story.
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May I ask why the Military Police at a major base aren't allowed to have and use a 'quick reaction team' to deal with situations like this?
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Asked Wednesday about security improvements in the wake of other shootings at U.S. military bases, Hagel said, “Obviously when we have these kinds of tragedies on our bases, something’s not working.”
Fact of the matter is, crime of all types on military posts and installations is considerably lower than in the private sector.
Fort Hood is a Federal installation, but I never like to see Feds on post. Seeing them going into clothing sales stores or the PX buying tactical gear gave me a chill. And yes, you could tell who they were by the car they pulled up in, their personal apparel, or their ID cards when they checked out.
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Thanks for the response. I'm just wondering why Ft. Hood (especially now) doesn't have a quick response team -- or maybe they did yesterday which is why 4 are dead instead of 40.
I'm not mil/ex-mil so I don't know how these things work, but I would have thought that each base has personnel responsible for site security.
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"Hagel said, "Obviously when we have these kinds of tragedies on our bases, something's not working."
"Obviously," it's working exactly the way you Bambi-bastards intend. >:-(
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What about the no bid contracts to over seas drug industry for all troops and they send medicine back that is useless or poison? Who gets the kick backs from that?
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Very little information here. Circa says he was "engaged" by an officer, whereupon he shot himself. No indication whether the officer was armed, or if anyone else was.
If it's a gun free zone, then it would seem that metal detectors should be in use to be sure no unauthorized guns get in, especially after the jihad incident. It's not hard to pick up an M1911, is it.
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Little could top Morell's pitiful testimony of yesterday. Little wonder he spent his career as an analyst and not a field operator. Poorly rehearsed and sorrowfully executed. He made DNI Jim Clapper sound like honest Abe Lincoln. Little wonder our intelligence community is in trouble. I would follow Morrell only out of curiosity and a desire to provide advance warning of his coming to others.
[NYDAILYNEWS] A college student visiting Colorado for spring break fell to his death after eating marijuana cookies in what's believed to be the first publicized fatality linked to pot since its legalized sale in January.
Levy Thamba, a 19-year-old exchange student at Northwest College in Powell, Wyo., had just eaten the pot-laced treats with friends last month when he became "very agitated and upset" and ran off a fourth floor hotel balcony, according to the Denver Coroner's Office.
Three of Thamba's friends, who said it was the first time any of them had consumed marijuana, said one of them had purchased the cookies from a legal supplier. At least one of them is 21.
"The kids took this cookie, one of them took a bite and then got kind of sick," Chief Deputy Coroner Michelle Weiss-Samaras told the Daily News. "The other two obviously didn't have a problem and then this one became very agitated and upset and didn't do well."
"He got up and just started running and hits the railing," Weiss-Samaras described the autopsy report's findings. "I'm not really sure that he knew what was going on ... the kids were pretty traumatized."
The teen's autopsy found him having 7.2 nanograms of active THC per milliliter of blood. The state law in impaired driving cases sets a standard of 5 nanograms per milliliter, the Denver Post reported.
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Clearly its the Balcony's, + POTUS Bush 43's, fault!
* CYBERCAST NEWS SERVICE > [Pew Research Center] POLL: 3/4 OF US SAY POT WILL BE [fully] LEGAL, as per Sale-n-Use = Universal recreational/personal use.
* SAME > WH REPORT [via RAND Corp. + ONDCP]: CHRONIC MARIJUANA USE UP 84% IN TEN YEARS.
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I know a guy who, years ago, tried it for the first time and went manic on the spot. Well over 6'4" tall and probably about 240# of mostly muscle and bone. It took a lot to subdue him. He ended up having to go on Lithium for a while. There will always be this kind of thing, legal or not.
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EU, the Koch brothers also support legalization.
It's a matter of freedom. Will their be some that have a problem? Sure, just like alcohol causes problems for some. That doesn't mean that everyone should therefore be under the control of the Feds.
The BIG problem is that the cost of problem winds up being born mostly by society rather than just the individual. This high diver is an exception.
The socialization of the cost gives society (at least in the eyes of liberals) the right to contrain the individual.
To me it is a conundrum wrapped in an ambiguity so I vacillate.
[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... has formally divorced his wife Lyudmila after more than 30 years of marriage, Kremlin front man said on Wednesday, following a surprise breakup announcement last year.
"The divorce has taken place," Dmitry Peskov said, without giving any further details.
Putin and his wife announced that their marriage was over last June in a live broadcast on Russian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, confirming longstanding speculation that they had separated.
The Kremlin made clear at the time that their breakup had yet to be formalised.
The ex-KGB spy, 61, keeps his personal life private and little is known about his wife and two daughters, both in their 20s.
In 2008, Putin said there was no truth to a newspaper report that he was preparing to marry Olympic rhythmic gymnast Alina Kabayeva, who was born in 1983, the same year he married Lyudmila.
Putin told journalists to keep their "snotty noses" out of his private affairs and the newspaper, Moskovsky Korrespondent, folded shortly afterwards.
Kabayeva, who was one of the torch bearers at the Sochi Olympics opening ceremony in February, also denied any relationship with Putin.
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Best get in the next selfie Moo, before Zero gets any ideas.
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Some Tsars were reputed monastics,
Cheek by jowl with their ecclesiastics,
And some prefer ladies
Who were born in the '80s,
Specializing in rhythmic gymnastics.
[Daily Caller] The Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting dangerous experiments on humans over the past few years in order to justify more onerous clean air regulations. The EPA is itself, a "dangerous experiment."
The agency conducted tests on people with health issues and the elderly, exposing them to high levels of potentially lethal pollutants, without disclosing the risks of cancer and death, according to a newly released government report. I hope you don't mind me wearing this Biosafety Level 3 suit during our visits. We're part of an ongoing test here at the EPA.
These experiments exposed people, including those with asthma and heart problems, to dangerously high levels of toxic pollutants, including diesel fumes, reads a EPA inspector general report obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The EPA also exposed people with health issues to levels of pollutants up to 50 times greater than the agency says is safe for humans. What good are 'Death Panels' if everyone is healthy or progressing satisfactorily under treatment ?
Did the EPA run these experiments past an Institutional Review Board? If not why not, and if so what did the IRB say?
Did the EPA constitute a Data Safety Monitoring Board for each set of protocols? If so what did the DSMB say?
I ask because as an NIH-funded investigator doing human trials I have to have IRB permission and need a DSMB to monitor what I do. If it's good enough for NIH it's good enough for EPA.
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Ah yes. Just like PETA. Claim to be saving animals when in reality they kill 80 percent of the animals that they come in contact with. This regimes EPA is "here to protect you and the environment", but in reality, secretly targeting Americas elderly and the ill as Obama's demons continue their "experimental" dances with death.
[Dhaka Tribune] Around 50 people sustained injuries yesterday evening in a clash between the students of a local madrasa in the capital's Tajmahal Road and the followers of "Haider Baba" alias "Haata Baba," who recently passed away.
Hundreds of people from both the groups locked into clash which suspended vehicular movements on all roads in and around the area. This resulted in severe traffic congestion.
Police fired shots and charged batons to disperse the crowd and bring the situation under control. Additional police were deployed in the area to avert further festivities, though a tense situation prevailed among people of both groups.
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[DAWN] NOWSHERA: The Nowshera police have recovered a 12-year-old girl ... but she has the body of a nine-year-old...
and tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! her alleged kidnapper. Police said on Wednesday that the kidnapper, Kamran Khan alias Kamrani, resident of Khat Kalay Nowshera, had kidnapped the girl from Risalpur four months ago and taken her to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Father of the kidnapped girl had registered FIR in Risalpur cop shoppe against Kamran and his friends, Ameen ur Rehman, Alamgeer, Amir and Kabeer. He said Kamran had kidnapped his daughter on November 10, 2013, to marry her by force.
The sources said Nowshera DPO Rab Nawaz Khan had formed an investigation team comprising DSP Tahir Iqbal Jadoon and Inspector Gulzar Khan under the supervision of SP investigation Israr Bacha. They said the team was informed by some informers that Kamran Khan was living in Karachi after which a police party, including women constables, raided a house in Pakhtunabad, Karachi, and arrested Kamran and recovered the kidnapped girl from his captivity.
Police said they would arrest the remaining accomplices of Kamran as search for them had been intensified.
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..and the A-10 is retired and cut before its fighter jockey replacement is on hand. .... and at the new highly inflated unit cost it is doubtful that the 'fighter jockey replacement' will ever be used as a CAS machine, but rather held back as a 'silver bullet,' ala B2. Expect more boots on the ground to die as a result of this lash-up.
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[NYDAILYNEWS] A college student visiting Colorado for spring break fell to his death after eating marijuana cookies in what's believed to be the first publicized fatality linked to pot since its legalized sale in January.
In 2008, Putin said there was no truth to a newspaper report that he was preparing to marry Olympic rhythmic gymnast Alina Kabayeva, who was born in 1983, the same year he married Lyudmila.
Snugly infused no doubt. 
[DAWN] NOWSHERA: The Nowshera police have recovered a 12-year-old girl 
