2009 Fort Hood shooting
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On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas, United States. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others
First responders prepare the wounded for transport in waiting ambulances near Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Processing Center
An FN Five-seven pistol similar to that used by Hasan
Bystanders take cover as shots ring out from the Soldier Readiness Processing Center.
A shooting victim being transported to a waiting ambulance
Anwar al-Awlaki
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Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki was an American-Yemeni Islamic cleric, lecturer, and propagandist. He was assassinated in Yemen in 2011 by a U.S. drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awla
2009 Fort Hood shooting
…shooting, reports in the media revealed that a Joint Terrorism Task Force had been aware of a series of e-mails between Hasan and the Yemen-based Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, who had been monitored by the NSA as a security threat, and that Hasan's colleagues had been aware of his increasing Islamic radicalization for several…
Al-Awlaki in 2008
Convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
The Department of Justice's memo justifying the rationale for the drone strike on al-Awlaki