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To: rurgan
From www.theleafchronicle.com:
...Lt. Gen Bob Cone said at a news conference said two other suspects were apprehended on Thursday. He says they are all U.S. soldiers.

The shooting began around 1:30 p.m. Cone says that all the casualties took place at the base's Soldier Readiness Center where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening.

He says the primary shooter used two handguns in the attack.

A senior administration official told NBC News analyst Roger Cressey that the suspect who was in custody was an Army major with an Arabic-sounding name. The official said the shootings could have been a criminal matter rather than a terrorism-related attack and that there was no intelligence to suggest a plot against Fort Hood, according to MSNBC.

Four SWAT officers were wounded, NBC News and KCEN, based in Waco, Texas, reported. The station had earlier said that one of the shooters had been holed up in a building on the base and had opened fire on SWAT team members...

1,295 posted on 11/05/2009 2:32:03 PM PST by RonDog
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To: RonDog

He was going to be deployed to Iraq


1,315 posted on 11/05/2009 2:33:46 PM PST by navysealdad (http://drdavehouseoffun.com/)
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