Army Tests Sole-Killer Theory as Details Emerge

CLIFFORD KRAUSS and JAMES DAO
NY Times
Saturday, Nov 7th, 2009

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The local police said that ballistics tests showed there was only one gunman and that none of the casualties had been hit by bullets fired by the police.

But the military and federal investigators pointedly refused to release further details on how the shootings happened, why there were initial reports of multiple attackers and why officials took several hours to correct news media reports that Major Hasan had been killed.

Most significant, officials were not prepared to say whether the attack was the act of a lone and troubled man or connected to terrorist groups, foreign or domestic.

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Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, said Army officials were trying to determine “if there is something more than just one deranged person involved here.”

Ms. Hutchison said in remarks at the base that while Major Hasan was the only one who had opened fire, it was still unclear whether he had planned the attack alone. “That is a question still to be asked,” Ms. Hutchison said. “That is not a question that has been resolved.”

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Whether investigators conclude that Major Hasan acted alone — so that the crime was purely military-on-military — or whether they uncover evidence of any civilian co-conspirators off the base will help determine whether he faces trial by court-martial or in federal court.

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