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Suspect in Fort Hood massacre: 'I am the shooter'
Source: USA Today
Suspect in Fort Hood massacre: 'I am the shooter'
Rick Jervis, USA TODAY 12:50 p.m. EDT August 6, 2013
FORT HOOD, Texas -- Opening statements began Tuesday in the court-martial of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, accused of fatally shooting 13 people and wounding 30 more at Fort Hood in 2009.
Hasan, speaking in a heavily fortified courtroom in Fort Hood, took less than two minutes to present his own opening statement -- and did not deny that he was the killer.
"The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter," said Hasan, who was shot by officers responding to the attack and is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair.
Hasan voiced his allegiance to the mujahideen – the name given to those waging holy war in Muslim countries. Hasan was scheduled to be deploy to Afghanistan the month of the shooting.
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Rick Jervis, USA TODAY 12:50 p.m. EDT August 6, 2013
FORT HOOD, Texas -- Opening statements began Tuesday in the court-martial of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, accused of fatally shooting 13 people and wounding 30 more at Fort Hood in 2009.
Hasan, speaking in a heavily fortified courtroom in Fort Hood, took less than two minutes to present his own opening statement -- and did not deny that he was the killer.
"The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter," said Hasan, who was shot by officers responding to the attack and is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair.
Hasan voiced his allegiance to the mujahideen – the name given to those waging holy war in Muslim countries. Hasan was scheduled to be deploy to Afghanistan the month of the shooting.
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Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/06/fort-hood-trial/2622503/
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