Army base gunman remains in coma
The army psychiatrist behind a shooting spree in the US which left 13 people dead remains in a coma, frustrating efforts to work out what motivated him to kill.
Medics describe Major Nidal Malik Hasan as being in a critical but stable condition, while many of his victims continue to fight for their lives in hospital.
Witnesses are said to have heard the 39-year-old cry "Allahu Akbar" - Arabic for "God is great" - before opening fire at the sprawling Fort Hood military base in Texas.
US authorities are examining his alleged links to extremist Islamic websites.
Hasan, a devout American-born Muslim, was shot several times in the aftermath of the rampage by a female civilian police officer, who has been hailed a hero by military chiefs.
Lieutenant General Bob Cone said Sgt Kimberly Munley and her partner responded rapidly to reports of gunfire, disabling the suspect despite being shot herself in the process.
"It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer," the military spokesman said.
Shortly before her arrival, Hasan - armed with two pistols - entered an area used to prepare soldiers for deployment overseas and started firing.
Within minutes, 12 soldiers and a civilian at the base were dead or dying and at least 30 others were injured.
President Obama has urged Americans to wait to hear the full facts, saying: "We don't know all the answers yet, and I would caution against jumping to conclusions."
This is what happens when you lay all your problems on one psychiatrist!!
They are people too and judging from how friendly and caring everyone says Nidal Malik Hasan seems to be....its clear that this poor man had lots of problems and was not in a proper mental state of mind.
But people in the USA are so selfish and full of themselves they fail to notice when some-one is ill.
Explain to me exactly how through the actions of one man can over 1.2 BILLION people be judged? 1/5th of humankind are not to be trusted because of one man? I think that you might need to see a psychiatrist for help.
Maybe we should just judge Americans to be Anti-Islamic due to your fascist ignorant attitudes, does that make sense?
Arabs and other Muslims have never travelled to the U.S. for their economic benefit, in fact learn a little and you will find that the U.S. has huge economic benefits coming from the Middle East...reading is good for you.
I'm British and my son is American my wife Californian through and through, my loyalty lies with my creator who taught me to deal justly with people no matter what race of religion they surrender to. Justice in my eyes perceives the defendant innocent until proven guilty and not the other way round.
Maybe I should take your approach and label every Christian a sick violent terrorist because of the many examples of sick immoral behaviour that we see on a daily basis occurring in the U.S. and Europe?
Grow up, gain an education and travel some more...What a cretin! People like you took our countries to war and people like you keep it so...if you're going to cause so much internal damage to our countries, get out, you're not wanted.