Hot Links: Fake guns can be really deadly in Dallas
Real? Fake? Hard to believe? Today’s Hot Links are about guns in Texas: 1. Dallas banned public display of real-looking toy guns in 2007. But that did not stop a couple of guys visit site to read more]
View ArticleHot Links: North Texas soldier went unwatched
There were no clear procedures for monitoring a North Texas soldier who was known to be unraveling mentally … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleWho is Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan?
Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan (right) is a Virginia-born Army psychiatrist who counseled soldiers with … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleScene at Fort Hood massacre suspect’s apartment: gun device, pill bottles,...
My fellow investigative reporter Lee Hancock and photographer Courtney Perry got a look today inside Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s apartment (right), now that criminal investigators in Killeen are … [visit...
View ArticleDC-area health officials questioned Hasan’s sanity
Was Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan insane? Officials discussed the question last year at his military medical school and the Army hospital in the Washington, D.C., area … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleFort Hood update: murder charges, Obama order and a DMN story on the Hasan...
Here are the latest developments regarding last week’s slaughter at Fort Hood: * Formal charges were filed against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan — “13 specifications of premeditated murder, in violation of...
View ArticleFort Hood massacre update: DMN has more on the Pakistan connection — and...
Here are the key links: 1. A Texas congressman says Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan, which Muslim extremist groups use as a base to raise funds and carry out terrorist attacks. 2. Hasan is...
View ArticleFort Hood update: Hasan committed “extremist terrorism,” senator says after...
Dave Michaels in The Dallas Morning News‘ Washington bureau just sent me this dispatch: The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee said Tuesday that the government’s failure to deal with...
View ArticleHot Links: Hasan reportedly skipped over civilians
Only one of the 13 people (right) killed in the Fort Hood massacre was a civilian. And that’s no accident, The Austin American-Statesman reports today. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan apparently visit site to...
View ArticleArmy asks: Is Fort Hood shooter insane?
Military prosecutors want a formal psychiatric review of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan (right) to determine whether he can stand trial for the Fort Hood massacre, we learned late last night. visit site to...
View ArticleFort Hood update: FBI seeks outside review of its pre-massacre “policies,...
The FBI announced an independent review today of its “policies, practices and actions prior to the tragic events at Fort Hood” — in other words, the Nov. 5 massacre … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleFort Hood massacre update: Military policies fail to meet ‘threat of Islamic...
Dave Michaels just sent me this dispatch from The Dallas Morning News‘ Washington bureau: FBI agents who discovered Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s extremist ties before the Fort Hood massacre may not have...
View ArticleRetired Fort Hood Capt. Shannon Meehan is speaking out again about the human...
Rarely have I talked with someone who speaks so unflinchingly as retired Army Capt. Shannon Meehan (right). First he wrote the book Beyond Duty, explaining how he accidentally killed a family in …...
View ArticleFort Hood shooter’s lawyer asks: Is Army treating Nidal Hasan differently...
John Galligan (right), the attorney for Fort Hood massacre defendant Nidal Malik Hasan (lower right), has started a blog and is poking away at the prosecution. Galligan complains, among other things,...
View ArticleLocal dad welcomes condolence letters for military suicides
Four years ago, Jeff McKinney was a 40-year-old master sergeant on his second tour in Iraq, who had survived multiple roadside bombs and had just been appointed the top enlisted soldier of his unit....
View ArticleU.S. military families struggling with role as caregivers of injured war...
On Sunday, The Dallas Morning News will publish its last installment in a two-part series on a Texas couple, Anthony and Ivonne Thompson, as they struggle with Anthony’s recovery from a severe...
View ArticleMultiple deployments strain military
The recent massacre of Afghan civilians has focused attention on the impact of multiple combat deployments on troops. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians in...
View ArticleEast Texas HOA sues deployed soldier’s wife over backyard swing set
For months, an East Texas military spouse has been battling her homeowners association to keep a swing-set and slide she bought for her four children to enjoy while their father was deployed to...
View ArticleFort Hood reflects Army’s increase in suicides
Fort Hood, one of the nation’s largest military bases, has had seven confirmed suicides through the first five months of 2012, a spokesman at the base said. Fort Hood, located in central Texas about...
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