Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families and all military personnel.

Horrible news. The one who was supposed to be helping the soldiers returning from war ends up being the very one to take their lives.

Was listening to Fox news tonight, and they say this guy went to college at Va. Tech. Dang, if that school isn't in the news enough already, and all for the wrong reasons :(

all roads lead back to one person ----> George Bush
If it wasnt for his hellacious lies which started the Iraq occupation in the first place, so many lives would not have be wasted and lost via war and trajic situations like this.. Yet he sits unscathed in texas as the world falls apart around him.. sickning

God bless each and every soldier there..I have a brother there and is thanking god that he is ok..I feel for the families that have lost someone to day. My heart goes out to each and every one of them....God please protect them all...

Cnn has reported that the shooter Major Malik Nadal Hasan, is not DEAD:

CNN- A solider suspected of fatally shooting 12 and wounding 31 at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday is not dead as previously reported by the military, the base's commander said Thursday evening.

A civilian officer who was wounded in the incident shot the suspect, who is "in custody and in stable condition," Army Lt. Gen. Robert Cone told reporters.

"Preliminary reports indicate there was a single shooter that was shot multiple times at the scene," Cone said at a news conference. "However, he was not killed as previously reported."

The suspect, identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, opened fire at a military processing center at Fort Hood around 1:30 p.m., Cone said.

Three others initially taken into custody for interviews have been released, Cone said.

Hasan, 39, is a graduate of Virginia Tech and a psychiatrist licensed in Virginia who was practicing at Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood, according to military and professional records. Previously, he worked at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

A federal official said Hasan is a U.S. citizen of Jordanian descent. Military documents show that Hasan was born in Virginia and was never deployed outside the United States.

In a statement released Thursday, Hasan's cousin, Nader Hasan, said his family is "filled with grief for the families of today's victims."

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"Our family loves America. We are proud of our country, and saddened by today's tragedy," the statement said. "Because this situation is still unfolding, we have nothing else that we are able to share with you at this time."

Hasan was scheduled to be deployed to Iraq "and appeared to be upset about that," Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said.

"I think that there is a lot of investigation going on now into his background and what he was doing that was not known before," Hutchison said.

Hutchison said she was told that the soldiers at the readiness facility "were filling out paper processing to go to Iraq or Afghanistan," according to CNN affiliate KXAN in Austin, Texas.

The readiness center is one of the last stops before soldiers deploy. It is also one of the first places a soldier goes upon returning to the United States.

The base reopened Thursday night after being under lockdown for more than five hours.

At a news conference earlier in the day, Cone said at least 10 of the dead were soldiers.

The shooter had two weapons, both handguns, Cone said.

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A witness in a building adjacent to where the shooting happened said soldiers were cutting up their uniforms into homemade bandages as the wounded were brought into the building.

"It was total chaos," the witness said.

Cone said a graduation ceremony was being held in an auditorium just 50 meters from where the shooting took place.

"Thanks to the quick reaction of several soldiers, they were able to close off the doors to that auditorium where there were some 600 people inside," he said.

Peggy McCarty of Missouri told CNN affiliate KSHB that her daughter, Keara Bono, was among Thursday's wounded. She said she briefly spoke to Bono, who told her she had been shot in her left shoulder but was doing well.

"She's being deployed to Iraq on December 7," McCarty said. "I thought I was more worried about her going over to Iraq than here, just doing training in Texas. She just got there yesterday."

A woman who lives on base, about eight blocks from the shooting, said she and her daughter were at home when her husband called and told them to stay inside.

"And I asked him why, what was going on. He said that there was a shooting," said the woman, Nicole, who asked that her last name not be used. She said her husband called her back about 20 minutes later and told her to go upstairs, stay away from doors and windows and keep the doors locked.

"It's just been crazy," she said. "Sirens everywhere."

A soldier who asked not to be identified told CNN that an e-mail went out to all base personnel instructing them not to speak to the media.

President Obama called the shootings "tragic" and "a horrific outburst of violence." He expressed his condolences for the shooting victims.

"These are men and women who have made the selfless and courageous decision to risk, and at times give, their lives to protect the rest of us on a daily basis," Obama said. "It's 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."

Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas, posted an online appeal for blood as it began receving victims. "Due to the recent events on Fort Hood, we are in URGENT need of ALL blood types," it said.

Fort Hood, with about 40,000 troops, is home to the Army's 1st Cavalry Division and elements of the 4th Infantry Division, as well as the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 13th Corps Support Command. It is located near Killeen, Texas.

The headquarters unit and three brigades of the 1st Cavalry are currently deployed in Iraq.

At least 25,000 people are at Fort Hood on any given day, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon said.

Fort Hood is home to the Warrior Combat Stress Reset Program, which is designed to help soldiers overcome combat stress issues.

In June, Fort Hood's commander, Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch, told CNN that he was trying to ease the kind of stresses soldiers face. He has pushed for soldiers working a day schedule to return home for dinner by 6 p.m., and required his personal authorization for anyone working weekends. At the time, two soldiers stationed there had committed suicide in 2009 -- a rate well below those of other posts.

Nearby Killeen was the scene of one of the most deadly shootings in American history 18 years ago when George Hennard crashed his truck into a Luby's Cafeteria and began shooting, killing 23 people and wounding 20.

FOX is not a news network....

Duh, look at his name! He's a terrorist!! My prayers are with the families of those lost and wounded!

Kwumey,

You are insensate and depraved.

How could one man with a revolver and an automatic pistol
shoot 43 people, especially soldiers trained for combat?
There's something more to this story than we've been told.
If he had a 6-shot revolver and a magazine in the automatic
pistol, which probably held 10 to 12 bullets, how with just
the ability to shoot 18 bullets could he hit 43 people.
He would have had to reload the automatic with another
magazine to have any chance to shoot any more soldiers,
with no time to reload the revolver, and then he could have
only shot another 12. On top of that, those soldiers would
have disarmed him while trying to reload. Something is
not being told to the public.

It is a known fact that the number of Muslims are increasing in North america by birth rate alone within their community....soon this will be a Muslim continent.... And to think that the USA was caught up building a wall between them and Mexico due to financial reasons. At least your freedom isn't challenged by Hispanics.....

It is all so very upsetting. My Prayers to all. I am with the person who said all roads lead back to George Bush. He does not need to write a book on his Legacy we all all all live with it daily. While I am at it a COUNTRY DEVIDED SHALL FALL this is for the Republicans thwarting President Obama efforts to make right all the mess he inherited. JMG ps fox news can jump into the same bag

Great... What next? O... I can see it More of our Freedoms Taken away now. Thank you, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Then again he didn't want to Go to Iraq again I guess. But could he not of Kill loads of people and shot his self in the foot?

Isn't the whole thing about being in the Military is based on being willing to fight for your Country, even if you don't want to? Isn't that your job, to go where your bosses tell you? Why didn't he quit if he felt so strongly? Yes these are rhetorical questions. But seriously, why join if you don't want to go to war? Stupid.

horrible news

Okay, first of all, for all of you that "think" you know everything there is to know about the weapons the guy used, go recheck your resources, the SAW he was carrying could hold up to twenty rounds at one time....the smaller pistol was not fired inside the building once, all bullets came from the semi-automatic, second, it plainly states in many many witness acounts that they guy stopped to reload the weapon, during which time, people that were able to walk, run, or even crawl, grabbed what wounded they could and got out of the building. Please don't try to make more of this tragic event than what it is....don't you think families, friends and the surviving victims have enough to deal with. My husband and I recently moved away from Fort Hood, we were down there for a while and to have a place that felt so safe go through such peril, is unthinkable....What this man did was heartless, thoughtless, and selfish....He of all people should have known what kind of consequences something like this would have.....A Major of our US Military was willing to turn on his comrades and gun them down as if they were the enemy we're fighting overseas.....Noone can possibly describe the feeling you get when one of your own turns on you as he did. These men and women aren't on your regular nine to five, this military base is like there spouse....their family is their mistress.....believe me I know this truth about as well as anybody....the commitment, time and hard work these soldiers put into their job and training is outstanding. If you're in the military or even a family member, you know the feeling of a tight knit family, because the men and women you may work beside or your family members may work with are like brothers and sisters, there's a bond there that can't be broken.....But Hasan found a way.....he not only tore apart many families and gave many people a reason to worry about the person working right beside them....the entire base and probably the majority of the surrounding city, Killeen, is torn to shreds too. I just want people to understand what a toll this kind of thing actually takes on the people that are there, and have been there.....It's not an easy thing to deal with, not at all....but my thoughts and prayers are with everyone involved and all those effected by Thursday's rampage.....

kwumey, the way you speak about G.W. Bush shows how much you knw about gov. youre an idiot.

ill pray for all those soilders. god will help those families. theyre will be justice