US Soldiers Shootings

[yeo]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6510941/Twelve-dead-as-US-soldiers-go-on-shooting-rampage-at-Fort-Hood-military-base-in-Texas.html

surely not a Taliban thing?

probably just some nutters

[yeo]

Shooter identified as Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan

Blimey, the plot thickens maybe...

[flammableBen]

Oooh. araby islam sort of name.

The US get a big school shooting every few years, army bases can't be much of a step. I wonder how the media coverage will play out.

[herthab]

The media, especially in the US, will use this as a stick to beat muslims with. Fox News will have a field day.

Originally, they said the, at the time, unknown shooter was killed, now he's in a stable condition and he's a muslim.

Great one here for the conspiracy theorists amongst us.

[Sippo]

And the killings happened in the medical centre where troops were being checked for the last time before going to Afghanistan.

[leefer]

Heard today that Fort Hood is the same the same size as Edinburgh and Leeds combined with 52,000 squaddies living on the base....that is seriously big.