Fort Hood Shooter to be Charged with Murder

source: CNN.com

Maj. Nidal Hasan will face 13 preliminary charges of premeditated murder stemming from last week’s shooting at Fort Hood Army Post in Texas, U.S. military sources say.

The charges are expected to be announced at a Fort Hood news conference at noon (1 p.m. ET), the sources say.

Thirteen people were killed in the November 5 shooting at the post’s Army processing center, and dozens more were wounded.

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who also was wounded in the shooting, remains in an Army hospital in San Antonio, Texas.

The FBI has said that its investigations indicates the “alleged gunman acted alone and was not part of a broader terrorist plot.”

Hasan’s civilian attorney, retired Army Col. John Galligan, said he has spoken with his client, but that Hasan was heavily sedated.

“I think the closest thing that indicates that there’s a court-martial in the works is last night … I did receive an e-mail from the prosecutor at Fort Hood indicating to me that the pass privileges and leave privileges of Maj. Hasan had been revoked,” Galligan said.

He was mad at the concept of the war we are in and was asking the military to give Muslims and “out”

“It’s getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims,” Hasan said

“Muslims [sic] soldiers should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk to hurting/killing believers unjustly,” a Hasan slide said, though he added that individual feelings “will vary!”

Hasan is the only suspect in the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas on Thursday that left 13 people dead and 42 wounded. Twelve of the dead were soldiers.