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DOD worker assessed Fort Hood suspect months ago

WASHINGTON – A Defense Department investigator on a terrorism task force looked into Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan's background months ago, officials said Tuesday — providing fresh evidence the military knew worrisome details about the Army psychiatrist before last week's deadly rampage. Two officials speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case on the record said the Washington-based joint terrorism task force overseen by the FBI was notified of communications between Hasan and a radical imam overseas, and the information was turned over to a Defense Criminal Investigative Service employee assigned to the task force. That worker wrote up an assessment of Hasan after reviewing the Army major's personnel file and the communications

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Obama mourns victims of Fort Hood shootings

FORT HOOD, Tex. — President Obama took on the role of national eulogist in a moment of tragedy on Tuesday for the first time since taking office as he led the country in mourning 13 current or retired soldiers gunned down not on a foreign battlefield but here on their home base by one of their own

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Fort Hood suspect asked military to give Muslims an out

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/10/fort.hood.shooting/ The suspect in the Fort Hood shootings gave a presentation in 2007 saying the military should allow Muslim soldiers to opt out of fighting Muslim enemies, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Maj

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US sniper execution appeal denied

The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal for a stay of execution from lawyers for the man behind the 2002 sniper attacks in Washington DC.

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Ft. Hood shooter was mistreated

“Everyone else just sat down there and drunk their beer and looked at him and giggled at him,” the woman said, starting to cry. “They just would laugh at him when he walked down with his Muslim clothes. . .

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Ft. Hood Shoot-Out Proves Women Should Be Allowed in Combat, Already

A deranged murderer attacked an Army base packed with combat-ready soldiers trained to kill. The only person who could stop him? A female civilian

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Fort Hood Shoot-Out Proves Women Should Be Allowed in Combat, Already

A deranged murderer attacked an Army base packed with combat-ready soldiers trained to kill.

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Fort Hood Shoot-Out Proves Women Should Be Allowed in Combat, Already

Marisa Miller’s Sweet Booty On A Harley

Here’s supermodel Marisa Miller all tarted up as a classic pin-up girl posing on a motorcycle for Harley-Davidson’s ‘Military Appreciation Month’ campaign. I’m sure the troops are going to really appreciate these pictures.

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Abu Ghraby Halloween Costume

Torture: It's not just for the military-trained anymore! This is cute, but it seems like carrying around the box and wires would be a real pain in the ass. Consider this my addition to the list of politically incorrect Halloween cosutmes .

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Cost to get one gallon of gas to combat vehicles in Afganistan: $400

The Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan. The statistic is likely to play into the escalating debate in Congress over the cost of a war that entered its ninth year last week. Pentagon officials have told the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee a gallon of fuel costs the military about $400 by the time it arrives in the remote locations in Afghanistan where U.S

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