Fort Hood Shooting Raw Video released by Military

Houston, Texas - Fort Hood shooting video released by the Army.

U.S. Army Major Nidel Hasan, firing two handguns, killed 12 people and wounded 31 others in a shooting rampage, November 15, 2009, at Fort Hood in Houston, Texas, a prime point of deployment for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Army said the gunman was shot by police. U.S. broadcast media identified him as Major Malik Nidal Hasan, and said he was a psychiatrist who was facing an upcoming deployment to Iraq.

U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas told FOX news: "I do know that he has been known to have told people that he was upset about going (to Iraq)." U.S. military officials say the shooter's motives were still unclear.

The incident at Fort Hood, the largest military installation in the world, was one of the worst killings reported on a U.S. military base. In May a U.S. soldier at a base in Baghdad shot dead five fellow soldiers.

It raised new questions about the toll that six years of continuous fighting in Iraq and nearly eight years fighting in Afghanistan have taken on the U.S. military and on individual soldiers, many of whom have been on several combat tours.

In the November 15, 2009, incident, the shooter opened fire at about 1:30 p.m. CST at the Soldiers Readiness Processing Center, where soldiers were getting medical check-ups before leaving for overseas deployments, the Army said.

The shooter was shot by police, but not before he killed one civilian police officer, Cone said.

U.S. President Barack Obama called the event a "horrific outburst of violence" and promised "answers to every single question about this horrible incident."

"It is difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas. It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an army base on American soil," Obama said during an event in Washington.

Fort Hood is home to about 50,000 troops, although Senator Hutchison said only about 35,000 were on base at this time. The fort, established in 1942, stretches across 339 square miles in central Texas and is the largest single employer in Texas.

It's the only military post in the United States capable of supporting two full armored divisions, the 1st Cavalry Division and the 4th Infantry Division.

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[MrSokitumi0007]

This is NOT your country when you idiots gonna get that threw your head its the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA the CORPORATION. You have no country look at the treaty of 1783 Specifically states the King of England as your prince. And the FED is the collector or the Kings excise on your nation. You`ve never really been free READ THE GOD DAMN TREATES your government has signed. 1776 was never about freeing one race it was about enslaving you all. ie or it would read right to property barring HUMANs)o,

[fullchoke77]

i can see why they released this video, there is nothing on it

[wandadykes]

My brother was there that day. The news never mentioned a second shooting did they? Kinda weird. He was in base housing when shooting started in his housing area.

[orodent]

@CryptoDriver

you cant have people armed on a base over here in the u.s. like that 24/7 except for people who are supervised or know what they are doing. yeah it seems kind of doubleminded because over in iraq obv people are armed. but we have dumbasses in the military and over in the us we have our wives and children here and civilians. now if you were in the desert thats a diffrent story because theres an immediate and unknown threat and our base gets mortared time to time lol.

[hyperfokus]

Dirty muslim scum!

Fight Islam!

[ImperialGuard9001]

@PsychoBurgundy2 Wasnt because of jokes that he did that.

[CryptoDriver]

It's a crying shame that the base commanders and our own government treat our Soldiers like children and prohibit them from being armed on their own installation. There is NO REASON that US Army Soldiers should have to "seek shelter" from someone like Hasan. They should have located, closed with and destroyed him by fire and maneuver. PERIOD.