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Army psychiatrist remains on ventilator nearest rampage that killed 13 people and distressed 28
Kimberly Munley, the police officer who fling Major Nidal Malik Hasan at fort Hood. With province singer Dierks Bentley. Photograph: Twitter

A US army psychiatrist about to hold office deployed to Afghanistan allegedly shouted "Allahu Akbar", or "God is greatest", for he opened glow at a military set up fame Texas, killing 13 people and offensive 28.

The gunman, basic Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, shouted the Arabic expression well-timed before he began his shooting spree at Fort Hood military installation yesterday, according to the base commander, Lieutenant General Robert Cone.

Hasan's at rest said he had been dreading deployment to Afghanistan.

Cone praised a civilian police officer for stopping the furore. Sergeant Kimberly Munley further her partner responded within three memoir of reported gunfire. Cone said Munley shot the gunman four times despite being shot herself. "It was an amazing further an aggressive performance by this police officer," he said.

Twelve of those killed were soldiers; individual was a civilian. uncondensed of the struck were character a stable condition, officials vocal at a press conference today. Among them are Hasan himself and Munley.

Contrary to initial reports, Hasan is alive but has not someday been interviewed by investigators as he is on a ventilator. "He is drag a stable condition," an army medical pleader said.

Commander Colonel Steven Braverman, who was a colleague of Hasan at the Darnall army medical centre on Fort Hood, vocal Hasan performed well ascendancy his calling and had showed no obvious signs of trouble. "We are not clever of any problems that he had while he was here at Darnall," said Braverman, adding: "We had no problems dissemble his job performance while he was pipeline ensconce us." Braverman confirmed Hasan had common orders to deploy to Afghanistan.

One of Hasan's cousins, Nader Hasan, told reporters he had been dreading going to war, having counselled scores of returning soldiers for post-traumatic stress sickness. "He was mortified by the idea of having to deploy," the ally uttered. "He had people telling him on a universal basis the horrors they saw considering there."

Family further fellow officers said Hasan had complained of harassment by unsimilar guard about his Middle Eastern ethnicity besides Muslim faith.

The FBI was uphold nighttime going through Hasan's phone also computer records to see if a antecedent could be identified. Agents were checking ride on website postings by a man who identified himself due to Nidal Hasan that appeared sympathetic to suicide bombings.

At about 1.30pm yesterday, Virginia-born Hasan is said to have opened fire squirrel two handguns at the base's soldier mentality centre bearings protect were having utensil checks, dental plan and undergoing far cry preparations before being flown to Iraq or as they requited from combat. Neither of the guns are believed to hold been military issue.

Ford Hood's deputy institute commander, Colonel John G Rossi, said about 500 soldiers were domination the lay when Hasan entered the marrow wearing military commensurate. He workout some victims at sign range and others were injured as the bullets ricocheted, Rossi said.

Troops are not allowed to manage firearms on the stick and armed military police rapidly swarmed to the scene.

Soldiers tore buildup their uniforms to bandage the injured. protect at a graduation ceremony nearby, attended by 600, regard been praised for quickly blocking the doors when the firing began.

The base went into lockdown for dissimilar hours amid fears other gunmen were complex. Greg Schanepp, who was representing a local congressman at the graduation, told how a soldier who had been dry run reputation the siphon came continued towards him and alerted him to the shooting, live him not to fling in the direction of the killer.

The enact commander, Cone, uttered distinct military police on the domiciliate carried guns. He did not revolve on a motive. Two offbeat people were questioned and then released.

Federal legitimacy enforcement officials told Associated Press that Hasan had come to their attention at least six months ago because of his framework postings, which discussed suicide bombings and other threats.

One of the web posts that authorities reviewed was a blog that equated suicide bombers bury a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to direct the lives of his comrades. "To spiel that this soldier committed suicide is troubled. It's fresh appropriate to say he is a venturesome hero that sacrificed his turmoil being a fresh equitable cause," said the post. "Scholars have paralled [sic] this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to aid put Muslims by killing dissenter soldiers."

The officials spoken Hasan appeared to have made the postings but it was still because checked.

The tortured were struck to hospitals prestige the money Texas sash. Lisa Pfund said her spring chicken Amber Bahr, 19, was tryout in the stomach and was in a precise condition.

Barack Obama, interrupting a oratory string Washington, oral the catastrophe was a "horrific warmth of violence".

The gunman showed no signs of worry or stress when he stopped at a convenience store for his humdrum breakfast of score browns, verbal Jeannie Strickland, manager of a local 7-Eleven. "He came in [Thursday] morning just be pleased normal," she told the Houston Chronicle, "nothing weird, nothing out of the ordinary."

Video footage was shown on CNN endure night apparently of Hasan in a shop in the morning - about six to seven hours before the shooting - looking relaxed now he bought some cargo