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Fort Hood: The latest

Last update: November 7, 2009 - 11:26 PM

THE LATEST

INITIAL INQUIRY FINDS NO LINK TO TERRORISM

Investigators have tentatively concluded that the Fort Hooding shooting rampage was not part of a terrorist plot. Rather, they have come to believe that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan acted out under a welter of emotional, ideological and religious pressures, according to New York Times interviews with federal officials who have been briefed on the inquiry.

The investigators, working with behavioral experts, suggested that he may have long suffered from emotional problems that were exacerbated by the tensions of his work with veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who returned home with serious psychiatric problems. Investigators have gleaned most of their findings from Hasan's computer use and more than 120 interviews with his family members, co-workers and neighbors.

The officials emphasized that the findings are preliminary.

THE SUSPECT

Hasan, who was shot four times, is hospitalized at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. On Saturday, he was taken off a ventilator but remained in intensive care.

THE VICTIMS

About half of the 29 wounded remained hospitalized Saturday; two were in the surgical critical unit.

Those killed have been identified as:

• Michael Grant Cahill, 62, of Cameron, Texas.

• Maj. Libardo Eduardo Caraveo, 52, of Woodbridge, Va.

• Staff Sgt. Justin DeCrow, 32, of Evans, Ga.

• Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, of San Diego, Calif.

• Specialist Frederick Greene, 29, of Mountain City, Tenn.

• Specialist Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Tipton, Okla.

• Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis.

•Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah.

• Pfc. Michael Pearson, 22, of Bolingbrook, Ill.

• Capt. Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wis.

• Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago.

• Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, of Havre De Grace, Md.

• Pfc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul.

The bodies of the victims arrived at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base on Friday night, and autopsies are being performed.

THE REACTION

President Obama plans to attend a memorial service Tuesday at Fort Hood. In his weekly address, Obama said the training designed to keep U.S. forces safe abroad prevented further deaths and ended the rampage at Fort Hood.

Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, visited wounded soldiers Friday night at the Fort Hood hospital.

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