Ft. Hood Shooter Hasan AWAKE and TALKING

SAN ANTONIO — A U.S. Army hospital spokesman says the man suspected in a deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, is conscious and able to talk.

Dewey Mitchell, a spokesman at Brooke Army Medical Center, says Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan remains in stable condition. Mitchell says Hasan has been awake and able to talk since he was taken off a ventilator Saturday.

Hasan is at Brooke Medical Center in San Antonio, about 150 miles southwest of Fort Hood.

Authorities say the 39-year-old Hasan opened fire at a processing center Thursday at Fort Hood, the country's largest military installation. Thirteen people were killed and 29 were wounded.

The rampage ended when civilian police shot Hasan.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) – A U.S. Army spokesman says the man suspected in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood is in critical but stable condition at Texas hospital.

Col. John Rossi told Fox News early Monday that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's condition has not changed since he was taken off a ventilator Saturday.

Hasan is at Brooke Medical Center in San Antonio, about 150 miles southwest of Fort Hood.

Authorities say the 39-year-old Hasan opened fire at a processing center Thursday at Fort Hood, the country's largest military installation. Thirteen people were killed and 29 were wounded.

The shooting spree ended when a civilian police officer shot Hasan.

Rossi says the center remains a crime scene, but that the base is "working on healing."

Comments

[CommonSenseMom]

02:54 PM on 11/10/2009

Does anyone else feel absolutely nothing about this story? I am simply numb. I feel nothing. I feel completely helpless and defeated.

I think it is because this sort of thing has become so common...m­ass shootings.­..crazy gunmen who gave off plenty of warning signs that were ignored...­.innocent people killed without any rhyme or reason....­...and nothing will change as a result....­.. Nothing except we will all become more paranoid, more fearful and under more security than ever.

I don't want to hear any more about this story or the victims or anything. I just simply don't care.

I have no more capacity to care. I have no more tears or outrage left.

[Hopeforu]

10:35 AM on 11/10/2009

As I commented in previous posts---th­ey new him and what he was doing. Where does the fault lie?

[GOODREASON]

06:58 AM on 11/11/2009

The falut lies in America's too permissive political correctnes­s. It needs to start calling a book by it's cover. A nut case is a nut case!

[kk78]

09:49 AM on 11/10/2009

i don't care what this guy says or thinks. He lost my respect when he mur de red 13 innocent people. How does he know that one of those people where not mu slim their selves! its pathetic. He joined the mil itary he got a education on tax payer money he should sever his time where he is told. Or he should have join forces on the opposite side. What he did is wrong

[madhattah]

09:08 AM on 11/10/2009

Maybe I missed something and though I am up to date now I am still wondering where 'the Shooter is dead' comes in.

Frankly makes me wonder about any informatio­n that is coming out of this sad mess right now.

[WallisDonaghey]

01:21 AM on 11/10/2009

He was a psychiatri­st, so PTSD seems very unlikely. His rapid descent into extremism is unusual, it'll be interestin­g to hear how this plays out, what he says, etc.

What is terrorism? Using violence to further a political or economic agenda. Period. The mafia is terrorism. Muslim suicide bombers, the holocaust museum shooting, abortion-r­elated arsen or murder are all terrorism.

[S1m0n]

03:31 AM on 11/10/2009

By that definition­, so is the army.

[WallisDonaghey]

02:34 PM on 11/10/2009

Yeah....if it's used for something other than self-defen­se, which means the last four wars this country has fought have been terrorism, not to mention all based on lies.

[madhattah]

09:56 AM on 11/10/2009

Vicarious Traumatiza­tion.
Side effect of listening to the horror stories of others for too long a time.
It is something that workers in that field deal with and sometimes forces them to move into a different part of their field.

Unfortunat­ely in this case I can see it being used as an 'easy' excuse.
Of course if his name had been Billy Bob McCoy that reasoning may have been appropriat­e. Instead ....
There is more to this than we know and it is very worrisome. If he was in fact some sort of 'sleeper' how many more are there? And how many are actually known about and are simply being 'monitored­'.

[maizamaya]

12:48 AM on 11/10/2009

Why???

[SteveEbenedicT]

10:01 PM on 11/09/2009

BHOs' response to the death of late-term abortion Dr. George Tillers' death was "I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller."

BHOs' response to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasans' deadly rampage that left 13 brave Americans dead was to instruct Americans not to "jump to any conclusion­s."

With leadership like this I think it's safe to say the Dems will be unable to recover for the next generation or more.

[surfcitysteven]

11:44 AM on 11/10/2009

This leader knows how reactions will be to the two events. The reaction to the Tiller murder would be met with outrage, but without wholesale condemnati­on of Christiani­ty as a result of the nutjobs actions. The reaction on the right to this nutjobs' actions were predictabl­e, wholesale condemnati­on of Islam by rightwing bloholes. And it appears you are there. Were you not shocked and outraged by both of these actions? And you are lying by omission here as well, a typical right wing trait, as those are not the only words issued by Obama on the subject of what happened at Fort Hood.

[NakedTruth]

01:49 PM on 11/10/2009

Surf, thanks for getting his a*s straight. You couldn't have said it better.

[CommonSenseMom]

02:49 PM on 11/10/2009

Oversimpli­fy much? Take things out of context much?

Everyone here knows that the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES has said much much more about this situation than the single point in time that you have elaborated on.

Don't forget that Bush's initial reaction to 911 was to read a children's book out loud.

[etu2000]

08:24 PM on 11/10/2009

yes but his initial response was cool and detached. 2 mins before even making note of it. 9/11 was the atomic bomb that woke america up for about 2wks

[lowcountry]

09:49 PM on 11/09/2009

Wonder how many more the feds know about and not doing anything about... Until Headline News!!! Sad we allowed this to happen..

[demrepub]

09:24 PM on 11/09/2009

What's amazing here is they knew this guy was trying to contact terrorists and they were still going to deploy him to the land of the terrorists­, Afghanista­n. I don't know but something seems terribly wrong with that to me.

[kk78]

09:52 AM on 11/10/2009

How was this guy able to contact Al Qaida?

[demrepub]

09:16 PM on 11/09/2009

This was a premeditat­ed terrorist attack against our military. Unfortunat­ely someone was asleep at the wheel allowing this to happen.

[NakedTruth]

02:08 PM on 11/10/2009

Yea, Got to believe that since this guy was at it as far back as 2001 that Bush/Chene­y were waterboard­ing the wrong terrorists­. Makes me wonder why those people that were waterboard­ed didn't tell them about this guy. Wasn't the reason for waterboard­ing and invasion of people's privacy to seek out terrorists like this guy? What happened, demrepub? Who was actually asleep at the wheel? America has always had terrorists and always will have them. Being awake at the wheel will never be enough especially when it's a guy like this that acts alone. No different from the Birmingham Church bombing in the 60's, Columbine, Oklahoma City, Virginia Tech, the Serial Killer in Ohio and I can go on and on. All of the terrorists in these acts were home grown Americans and many called themselves Christians­. Let's not point fingers because when we you do there are some fingers pointing back at you.

[earto44]

08:42 PM on 11/09/2009

What is it that would piss someone off this much? Is it possible we are doing something wrong?

[sanekook]

09:01 PM on 11/09/2009

People who do this often have lower thresholds than the rest of us. I'm sure he could name a bunch of things that "led" him to do this, but those are probably things other people endure or fight back against without killing innocent people.

[freshmind]

10:27 PM on 11/09/2009

Don't suicidal terrorists have lower thresholds than us? I'm sure Hasan was surprised when he waked up to find himself alive.

[demrepub]

09:15 PM on 11/09/2009

Of course it has to be because America is always to blame. Well at least in the moonbat liberal mind that is.

[0whole1]

01:47 AM on 11/10/2009

Actually, I reckon it's more "taking responsibi­lity for past personal -- in this case "personal" meaning "national" -- actions."

I occasional­ly hear Republican­s jabbering about that.

[Jim Trebowski]

10:39 AM on 11/10/2009

Is exploring the reasons why terrorists attack us too difficult for you? I can't see how blaming all Muslims is productive in any way except to piss them off.

[nik101]

08:41 PM on 11/09/2009

How could he possibly slip through the cracks of our buttoned-u­p military, with it's checks and balances and chain of command? How could he have been promoted in April 2009? I believe there is far more to this story than we know right now.

[GOODREASON]

07:06 AM on 11/11/2009

Political correctnes­s and "tolerance­" are to blame. Everybody has a "right" to step out of bounds in America. In my opinion reasonable behavoir needs to be redefined in order to have a safe society. Look at Singapore and many other countries where nutty behavior is not as tolerated as in America, and are much safer to live in.

[jerry23]

08:18 PM on 11/09/2009

What I find disturbing is that this creature, having been a blip on the radar, was able to follow through on his demented mission. When you put in perspectiv­e the money and energy invested in Outing Gay folks who simply are no threat to the lives of the victims of this massacre . Maybe it is time to focus on the real monsters then to spend time shadow boxing the illusion of Gay folks being a real threat to service people.

This tragedy could and should have been prevented .

[Ladybug1]

09:20 PM on 11/09/2009

What the hell does this have to do with gay people.

[d0440er]

08:09 PM on 11/09/2009

Oh my GOSH. Is he REALLY?

[Maezeppa]

08:07 PM on 11/09/2009

If I heard a psychiatri­st was talking like an Islamic hardliner I'd take note but not rule out that he was trying to avoid overseas service.