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Suspect in Fort Hood massacre: 'I am the shooter'
Source: USA Today
Suspect in Fort Hood massacre: 'I am the shooter'
Rick Jervis, USA TODAY 12:50 p.m. EDT August 6, 2013
FORT HOOD, Texas -- Opening statements began Tuesday in the court-martial of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, accused of fatally shooting 13 people and wounding 30 more at Fort Hood in 2009.
Hasan, speaking in a heavily fortified courtroom in Fort Hood, took less than two minutes to present his own opening statement -- and did not deny that he was the killer.
"The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter," said Hasan, who was shot by officers responding to the attack and is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair.
Hasan voiced his allegiance to the mujahideen the name given to those waging holy war in Muslim countries. Hasan was scheduled to be deploy to Afghanistan the month of the shooting.
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Rick Jervis, USA TODAY 12:50 p.m. EDT August 6, 2013
FORT HOOD, Texas -- Opening statements began Tuesday in the court-martial of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, accused of fatally shooting 13 people and wounding 30 more at Fort Hood in 2009.
Hasan, speaking in a heavily fortified courtroom in Fort Hood, took less than two minutes to present his own opening statement -- and did not deny that he was the killer.
"The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter," said Hasan, who was shot by officers responding to the attack and is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair.
Hasan voiced his allegiance to the mujahideen the name given to those waging holy war in Muslim countries. Hasan was scheduled to be deploy to Afghanistan the month of the shooting.
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Suspect in Fort Hood massacre: 'I am the shooter' (Original Post)
Eugene
Aug 2013
OP
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)1. This moron is going to represent himself. Good luck with that.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)2. He's going downnnnnnnnnnn.............
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)3. How does the sentence go on after the comma ?
"The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter,"
Whole story?
Acting as his own attorney, Hasan told jurors the evidence would "clearly show" he was the gunman. But the American-born Muslim said the whole story wouldn't be revealed during the trial, which is under heavy security including armed guards and 15-foot-tall stacks of shock-absorbing barriers on the sprawling Texas military base.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fort-hood-trial-brings-attacker-victims-19878701
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fort-hood-trial-brings-attacker-victims-19878701
Why was stuff send to FOX News ?
Hasan sends writings to Fox News ahead of Fort Hood shooting trial
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/01/hasan-sends-writings-ahead-fort-hood-shooting-trial/
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/01/hasan-sends-writings-ahead-fort-hood-shooting-trial/