Fort Hood shooting
On 5 November 2009, US Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan opened fire in a medical building at Fort Hood, Texas, where soldiers were getting checkups before deploying. AP reported that he shouted "Allahu akbar" before shooting, that thirteen people were killed and that "All but one of the dead were soldiers." The shooting ended when Hasan was shot by a civilian police officer, leaving him paralysed from the waist down.
In August 2013 a court-martial panel found Hasan guilty of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder, and on 28 August 2013 it sentenced him to death. The BBC reported that Hasan, a Virginia-born Muslim, said he opened fire to protect Taliban insurgents from troops about to deploy to Afghanistan. Under military law the case is automatically appealed, and the BBC noted that the president must eventually authorise any execution.
In February 2011 the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released a report on what it called the "November 5, 2009, terrorist attack". The report said the Defense Department and FBI "collectively had sufficient information necessary to have detected Hasan's radicalization to violent Islamist extremism but failed both to understand and to act on it."
The shooting was reported in Australia by the ABC and SMH.
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