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President Obama says "we cannot fully know" what led Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan to kill 13 people and wound 38 others at Fort Hood, Texas Thursday. Hasan reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before the killings, wrote Internet postings justifying Muslim suicide bombings, considered U.S. forces the enemy, and opposed American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as wars on Islam. His rampage at Ft. Hood has the markings of an act of Islamic terrorism. But in his weekly address, Obama says, "We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing."

WASHINGTON — Military officials say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspected shooter at Fort Hood, was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six years before being transferred to the Texas base in July. They said he received a poor performance evaluation while at Walter Reed. The Virginia-born soldier is single with no children. He is 39 years old. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech, where he was a member of the ROTC and earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1997. At Walter Reed, he did an internship, residency and a fellowship.

Contrary to all prior reports, the Ft. Hood shooter is not dead. He was shot, but remains alive... The news was announced at an army press conference. The AP just ran: FORT HOOD, Texas — Army: Fort Hood shootings suspect is alive; death toll from attack remains 12. ------ Meanwhile, attention is being drawn to Hasan's internet postings. Here's a comment he left on Scribd next to a document about suicide bombings.

Military officials say the suspected shooter at Fort Hood was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six years before being transferred to the Texas base in July. The officials had access to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's military record. They said he received a poor performance evaluation while at Walter Reed. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because military records are confidential. The Virginia-born soldier was single with no children. He was 39 years old. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech University, where he was a member of the ROTC and earned a bachelor's degree in...

7 Victims In One Attack; Total Of 14 Hurt Over Four Hours ### At least 14 people were shot and wounded in Chicago overnight, seven of them in a single incident on the city's West Side. In that incident, police were called to the scene of a shooting at Walnut Street and Homan Boulevard at 10:43 p.m. Seven people were shot, according to Fire Media Affairs Dir. Larry Langford, who said six people were initially hospitalized in critical condition and one person, an adult man, was taken in stable condition after suffering a graze wound. One person was found shot...

DETROIT – Detroit police say at least seven teenagers have been shot near a high school and two are in critical condition. Detroit Police spokesman Rod Liggons tells WXYZ-TV the victims were shot Tuesday afternoon at a bus stop by gunmen who emerged from a green minivan. Detroit Public Schools Police Chief Roderick Grimes says at least five students attending classes at Cody High School were shot. He says two are in critical condition...

Shootings claimed the lives of six men in the city over the weekend. The first shooting happened around 8:20 p.m. Friday, when Tijuan Edwards, 18, was talking to a 25-year-old man in the street at 1916 S. Trumbull Ave. when multiple gunmen approached on foot and shot both men. Edwards was dead on the scene, and the 25-year-old was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with gunshot wounds to the left arm, chin and thigh, police said.

SNIPPET: "Then, at 1 a.m., police said two men opened fire in the parking lot of a Denny's in the 600 block of Hegenberger Road near the Oakland Coliseum. One of the wounded men reportedly went into the restaurant seeking help. He and the second victim were sent to the hospital, where they are listed in stable condition."

SAN DIEGO — Hope is the political message of the moment, courtesy of President Barack Obama. Tell that to Lincoln High School students Jennifer Astudillo, Sakeenah Shabazz and Alex Velarde, a trio of increasingly polished political activists. Sakeenah, 16, said hope isn't part of her political equation. “Always go in prepared for the worst, not with your hopes up,” she said. What they've displayed instead is persistence, as they've led a group of high school students in persuading the San Diego Unified School District board to shelve campus air-rifle marksmanship programs. The board confirmed the decision Tuesday, although members eased...

Shep Smith just broke in with a new shooting massacre. In northern Alabama, police are looking for the father of four, Kevin Garner. Garner is reported in the middle of a divorce proceeding from his wife. Authorities will not identify those four (4) people found dead in his former home.

SAN FRANCISCO – The parolee who killed three Oakland police officers and left a fourth brain-dead over the weekend had been tentatively linked by DNA evidence to a rape the day before the shootings, authorities said. Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason confirmed a report on the San Francisco Chronicle's Web site on Monday night that DNA from an unsolved rape in Oakland in February was a probable match to that of 26-year-old Lovelle Mixon. Investigators got that information Friday, the day before Mixon opened fire on the officers following a routine traffic stop. Mixon is the primary suspect in the...

If Donald Grady had his way, the Northern Illinois University police chief would never again hear the name of the gunman who opened fire from a lecture hall stage one year ago Saturday, fatally shooting five students in a geology class before killing himself. "Why give the guy the notoriety he sought?" says Grady, the lead investigator charged with issuing a final police report on the Feb. 14, 2008 attack. "That might only encourage someone else with mental issues to try and do the same thing one day." But with a full year passed and no sign of the investigative...

<p>Two drivers were shot to death and a third injured on roads in northeast Dallas and Garland during rush hour Monday evening.</p> <p>Police were investigating four incidents Monday after the first fatal shooting was reported about 5:40 p.m. in Garland just north of LBJ Freeway. Police are working to establish whether the three shootings in Dallas are related to the Garland one.</p>

Two drivers were shot dead and third injured on roads in northeast Dallas and Garland during Monday’s evening rush hour. Police were investigating four incidents Monday after the first shooting was reported about 5:40 p.m. in Garland on LBJ Freeway near Plano Road. Police are working to establish whether three of the shootings in Dallas are related to a Garland shooting that was the first reported fatality. “For whatever reason, this person is upset with something or someone and he’s taking it out on innocent victims going down the road and that’s very scary,” said Dallas police Sgt. Gil Cerda....

The FBI’s 2007 Hate Crimes Statistics list 3,870 race-based hate crimes, 1,400 religion-based, 1,265 crimes based on sexual orientation and 1,007 based on ethnicity or national origin. Broken down by anti-religious bias, 969 reported crimes were anti-Jewish, 130 were anti-Other religion, 115 were anti-Muslim, 61 were anti-Catholic, and 57 were anti-Protestant.

TIJUANA, Mexico – Two people were shot to death at a taco restaurant in the border city of Tijuana on Saturday, hours after a man's decapitated head was found wrapped in duct tape. Prosecutors in Baja California state, where Tijuana is located, said two other people were wounded in the restaurant shooting, which apparently involved assault rifles. Another man was shot to death at a pool hall, and two men were found shot to death on a street. On Friday, gunmen attacked a state police convoy on a main boulevard in Tijuana, across the U.S. border from San Diego, but...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 20-year-old man suspected of firing at a vehicle in an alleged road rage incident was arrested, California Highway Patrol officials said Thursday. Juan Peralta fired a revolver, striking a truck twice, the CHP said. The Dec. 11 shooting allegedly occurred in Lynwood on the transition road from the Glenn Anderson Freeway (105) to the southbound Long Beach Freeway (710). Peralta was arrested Tuesday and booked for investigation of attempted murder. He was held on $500,000 bail. It was not immediately clear whether anyone was injured in the shooting or whether Peralta was involved in other...

On Sunday, July 27, 2008 a man named Jim David Adkisson walked into the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, killed two worshipers, and wounded seven before being subdued by church-goers. At first, the story seemed like another case of a disturbed individual wanting to create mayhem for no particular rhyme or reason. These types of occurrences have almost become commonplace in our society. From attacks in schools, churches, and the workplace, it is evident in today's culture that no place is safe from those who seek fame by killing their fellow man. However, the Knoxville, Tennessee shooting, from...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- An armed man was shot to death early Monday by an Inglewood police officer, authorities said. The shooting occurred at Hillcrest Boulevard near Regent Street at about 12:30 a.m., an Inglewood police officer said. Authorities withheld the name of the dead man, pending notification of relatives. Police said officers went to the apartment building in response to a report of a family dispute. "The door was opened by an individual," Inglewood police Lt. Mike McBride said. "He was armed with a handgun, and he immediately raised the handgun toward the officers, and at that point, the officers...

Refugees shot fleeing North Korea Michael Sheridan in Hunchun, China North Korean guards, newly armed with Russian Dragunov sniper rifles, have shot dead refugees attempting to ford the river that divides their hungry homeland from China, according to human rights campaigners. On the Chinese shore alone, two bodies, marked by several bullet holes, were found by a local activist, said Tim Peters, an American pastor who runs a Christian group supporting the fugitives. The shootings indicate a coordinated change in tactics by North Korea and China to deter refugees from crossing. They want to stamp out bribery among border guards...

CALEXICO — Two street gangs vying for control of a human-smuggling operation here has resulted in two shootings in a dense neighborhood near the border fence, police said. A man is recovering from a bullet wound after being shot by masked gunmen. Two other men are in Imperial County jail for their suspected involvement of an attempt to murder a rival. “We be-lieve it involves illegal alien smuggling and their attempts to cut into each other’s area and operations,” Calexico police Sgt. Gonzalo Gerardo said. Human smuggling in Calexico is lucrative: smugglers could receive as much as $1,500 per head...

The horrible violence which occurred at Northern Illinois University is a part of what Barrack Obama rightly labeled an "epidemic of violence." Where does it begin? How can we end its growing impact?

Man of the Year: John Sanford Progressive Farmer, January 2001 http://www.progressivefarmer.com/issue/0101/sanford/default.asp (thanks to HANU PAPPU for this alert to Agbioview) From a simple BB gun, this scientist fired the shot heard around the world-the promise of biotechnology to feed the hungry. The revolution of agricultural biotechnology came to be through the business end of a Crossman BB gun-a dime-store toy wielded by many a rambunctious youth. This is the pistol that powered the first gene gun, a low-tech, "laughable" idea, mocked in the scientific community. It will never work, they said. But it did. And it transformed agriculture in a...

PHILADELPHIA - For the second year in a row, city officials are being asked how police officers responding to celebratory New Year's Eve gunfire ended up shooting innocent bystanders. This year, police chasing an armed reveler shot into a house filled with partygoers, leaving one man in a coma, a second wounded and a 9-year-old boy with a graze wound to the chest. A year ago, police fatally shot a man in the back of the head as he tried to flee when neighbors started shooting guns into the air. The latest shootings came as Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson ends...

Since the tragic shootings yesterday at the two churches in Colorado I have been intrigued by the story of Jeanne Assam, the volunteer civilian security guard who took down the shooter at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs. I watched an online interview with her – her first since the shootings – this afternoon, and came away with the knowledge that standing before me was a genuine modern American hero ... and a true soldier of God. Many in the media will downplay her heroism, for reasons that are obvious to those of us who are school in...

The New Life Church shooting tore apart a close-knit and deeply religious family, killing two of four teenage children and wounding the father, relatives said today. The dead are 18-year-old Stephanie Works and her sister, 16-year-old Rachael Works. They were described by their uncle, Mark Schaepe of Lincoln, Neb, as outgoing cheerful, faithful and smart. “It teaches you that life is precious,” he said. The Works sisters are survived by their parents, David Works, who was shot twice in the attack and remained hospitalized in fair condition; and Marie Works, along with two sisters. The other victims of Sunday’s shootings...

Yesterday (Friday) Charles Gibson featured as “Person of the Week” a young lady who stayed on the phone for half an hour, reporting to police what she saw in the mass shooting in an Omaha shopping mall. Did she display heroism, “grace under pressure” as Gibson said, quoting Hemingway? Yes, she did. But the deeper question from the reporting on this latest public killing is whether Charles Gibson wants you to get shot. Here’s the evidence. These shootings took place at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska. Six of the eight people killed by an angry teenager who’d been fired by...

All it took were a couple of pictures posted on the Internet. Mere hours after a Virginia television station reported that Penn State students had uploaded pictures of Halloween partygoers dressing as Virginia Tech shooting victims, criticism exploded from both campuses, with one Facebook.com group denouncing the costumes reaching 4,100 members as of 2 a.m. this morning. The only publicly accessible picture, uploaded after Halloween, shows a woman wearing an orange Virginia Tech T-shirt smeared with blood and a bullet wound, posing jauntily. According to television station WSLS in Roanoke, Va., several other pictures showed a similarly attired man. For...

Virginia Tech officials might have saved lives if they had notified faculty and students sooner about the first two shootings on campus, a panel concluded in its investigation of the April rampage that left 33 dead. "Warning the students, faculty and staff might have made a difference. ... So the earlier and clearer the warning, the more chance an individual had of surviving," said the report, which was released late Wednesday night.

GEORGETOWN, Ind. - A 15-year-old boy used a World War II-era sniper rifle to fatally shoot a deputy and critically wound another outside his southern Indiana home, authorities said Tuesday. The teen, Tyler Dumstorf, had shot the deputies Monday evening and was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot early Tuesday inside the home about 13 miles outside Louisville, Ky., authorities said. Prosecutor Keith Henderson said the boy's father bought the M1 Garand some time ago and that he and his son shot it during target practice. The gun is a showpiece, and possessing one is not illegal, the prosecutor said....

There’s an old story about a couple who moved into a new neighborhood. When their next door neighbor invited them to dinner, they gladly accepted. When the big evening arrived, they donned their best social attire, grabbed a little gift for the host and hostess, and presented themselves at the neighbor’s front door at the appointed time, hungry, and ready to cement their new friendship. Once inside, they immediately became aware that there was a dead horse on the living room floor! The hosts made no mention, indeed they quietly stepped over it in offering hors doevres, wine and small...

MOSCOW, Idaho - An officer who was shot responding to a gunman spraying bullets at a courthouse died of his injuries Sunday, police said. Law enforcement officers stormed the church Sunday where the gunman hid after shooting three people, including the officer, in an ambush late Saturday, police said. They found the body of the likely gunman and another man, police said. The shooting also wounded another officer and a civilian, said David Duke, Moscow's assistant police chief. The name of the officer killed was not immediately released. Duke said the attack was apparently an ambush, with the shooter firing...

It's rare that the liberal media would run a report like this. Send this to EVERYONE.

Fox News just reported that two people are dead after an early morning sniping of two different cars on the Southbound lanes of an Indiana Highway. This was per Indiana State police. Didn't catch the Highway name....Any Indiana freepers?

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of April 21st and 22nd, 2007 Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: NBC's "Meet the Press" Ex-Virginia Police Super. Gerald MassengillEx-DHS Secretary Tom RidgeDoris Kearns GoodwinNBC's David GregoryNewsweek's Jon MeachamNBC's Pete Williams CBS's "Face the Nation" Sen. Patrick LeahyJim and Sarah BradyCriminal profiler Gregg McCray Fox News Sunday" VA Lieutenant Governor Bill BollingGWU Pres. Stephen TrachtenbergSen. Arlen SpecterSen. Chuck Schumer CNN "Late Edition" Sen. Sam BrownbackVA. AG Bob McDonnellNew York Times' Thomas FriedmanEx-Clinton counsel Lanny DavisCNN's Bill SchneiderCNN's Jeanne Meserve ABC's "This Week" Newt GingrichSen. Chris Dodd and Jackie DoddSam DonaldsonCokie RobertsGeorge Will...

BLACKSBURG, Va. - The family of Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho told The Associated Press on Friday that they feel "hopeless, helpless and lost," and "never could have envisioned that he was capable of so much violence." "Our family is so very sorry for my brother's unspeakable actions. It is a terrible tragedy for all of us," the family said. The statement was issued by Cho's sister, Sun-Kyung Cho, on her behalf and that of her family. She works as a contractor for a State Department office that oversees billions of dollars in American aid for Iraq. "We pray for...

Crime And Culture: When the Virginia Tech shooter's identity was first revealed, he came across as a tragic, almost sympathetic, figure — the nerdy foreign student who couldn't fit in. But the videos Cho Seung-Hui made of himself in paramilitary gear and launching into hateful rants show he was really an arrogant and narcissistic bully who didn't want to fit in. We learned at the same time that he was not only stalking coeds on campus, but also taking up-skirt shots of them under desks with his cell phone camera during his English classes. The shy loner really was a...

"We never had any plans to go to the US. Our brother has been there for the last 30 years but we never found it necessary to visit him. It was he who visited us and our parents, not the other way around. But it is so unfortunate that we are going to his house for the first time -- after his death, and to see his dead body and..." murdered Professor G V Loganathan's brother Senguttavelvan said, trying to control his emotions. Professor Loganathan was killed on Monday at the Virginia Tech campus, along with 32 others, when a...

Nearly two years earlier,( Nikki ) Giovanni had stood up to Cho Seung-Hui ... He wore sunglasses to class and pulled his maroon knit cap down low over his forehead. When she tried to get him to participate in class discussion, his answer was silence. "Sometimes, students try to intimidate you," ... "And I just assumed that he was trying to assert himself." But then female students began complaining about Cho. About five weeks into the semester, students told Giovanni that Cho was taking photographs of their legs and knees under the desks with his cell phone. She told him...

Evangelist Franklin Graham said Cho Seung-Hui, the killer at Virginia Tech University, was "filled with evil,” and that Satan is responsible for Monday’s mass killings of 32 people at the Blacksburg, Va., campus. Appearing as a guest Wednesday on Fox News Channel, Graham said the need for healing is great in a community shattered by a madman’s shooting rampage. "There is a big spiritual need here,” Graham said. "Kids are questioning, ‘Did God abandon us? Why did God allow this to happen?’ . . . They need love, they need our prayers . . . They need a touch from...

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. William H. King, Lutheran campus pastor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, Va., and staff of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), delivered the Christian message April 17 at the Virginia Tech Convocation where students, faculty and others of the community gathered to remember the victims of yesterday's shooting on campus. According to the Virginia Tech Web site, at least 33 people died including the gunman. "We're gathered this afternoon for many purposes. To weep for lost friends and families, to mourn our lost innocence, to walk forward in the...

BLACKSBURG: Before a berserk killer's bullet found her in a classroom at Virginia Tech, Mumbai girl Minal Panchal looked forward to following her father's footsteps in the world of architecture. The Harry Potter fan, who loved cricket as well as Indian and Chinese cuisines, was confirmed dead a full 24 hours after the shooting spree by South Korean Cho Seung-Hui that killed 32 people on Monday. Her profile describes her as a fan of dry, sarcastic humour, sketching and cricket in the social networking site Orkut. The body of the 26-year-old is likely to be handed over to her family...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Families in India and Israel are mourning two professors among the 32 people killed in a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech. The son of 76-yar-old Liviu Librescu , an engineering science and mathematics lecturer, says his father tried to stop the gunman from entering his classroom by blocking the door before he was fatally shot. Joe Librescu said in a telephone interview from Tel Aviv, Israel, that his father immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1978 and then moved to Virginia in 1985 for his sabbatical, but had stayed since then. Joe Librescu himself studied at...

“Who is this Asian man? Why is he being cuffed?” “Who is this man? Why is he being constrained? Is he still alive?”

_____________________________________________________________ This visitation of death against Virginia Tech University this week is a direct result of gun laws banning weapons within 1,000 feet of a school -- the victim disarmament zone is as advertised once more. Sure the shooter is to blame, but Congress shares the blame not only for shootings, but for any instance of disarming citizens who could have resisted with all legal authority and use of force. Why obfuscate or discourage this legal authority? We’ll never keep weapons – knifes, bare hands, brute force and guns – out of the hands of the criminal, but we sure...

What is the most effective way to stop mass murders like the shootings at Virginia Tech? Increase gun control Increase police presence Metal detectors and guards Reduce media violence Train and arm civilians

Well, I'm listening to all the calls for some sort of gun-control that will save us from the next VaTech style shooting and my mind drifted to Israel. The Israelis suffer a lot more suicide bombings that we do VaTech type massacres; and they're a lot smaller country too. So they've obviously got a big problem on their hands. And the solution hit me. All they have to do is ban suicide bomb belts. ML/NJ

LAREDO, Texas (AP) - Sen. John McCain says the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech does not change his view that the Constitution guarantees everyone the right to carry a weapon. "We have to look at what happened here, but it doesn't change my views on the Second Amendment, except to make sure that these kinds of weapons don't fall into the hands of bad people," McCain said Monday in response to a question. The Arizona Republican, who was campaigning in this Texas-Mexico border city, said he didn't know the details of the attacks at Virginia Tech. "I do believe in...

VIRGINIA: A gunman massacred 33 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history before the university could figure out what was going on and get the warning out to students. The bloodbath on Monday ended with the gunman committing suicide, bringing the death toll to 33 and stamping the campus in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with tragedy, perhaps forever. G V Loganathan, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who graduated from IIT Kanpur and completed his PhD from Purdue University, was killed in the shootout. An Indian student, Minal Panchal, was also allegedly...

Shocking details were revealed Thursday in the investigation of Anthony LaCalamita, a man who police say went to his former employer's office on Monday and shot three people, killing one of them. Experts close to the investigation told Local 4 that LaCalamita, 38, was fired from his job because a pimp showed up at his office at Gordon Advisors. Local 4 sources said a so-called pimp allegedly came to LaCalamita's office to collect a debt he owed on a prostitute.