CNN interviews Pvt Joseph Foster, a soldier who was wounded at Fort Hood. Here’s part of the transcript:

I was sitting in about the second row back when the assailant stood up, screamed and yelled Allah Akbar (ph) in Arabic and he opened fire.

A couple of minutes later, the interviewer wonders at the fact that Foster, kept soldiering on, not even realizing that he had been shot in the hip. Foster responds:

I had realized it at first, but with that much adrenaline, you tend to forget things.

Here is how CNN wrote up its own interview:

He said he “was sitting in about the second row back when the assailant stood up and yelled ‘Allahu akbar’ in Arabic and he opened fire,” Foster said Monday on CNN’s “American Morning.”

Foster, 21, said he wasn’t clear about whether the gunman said those exact words, noting that “with that much adrenaline, you tend to forget things.”

ABC has Keara Bono, also wounded in the attack, also saying that Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire. There seems to be no dispute. Anyone who says it’s unconfirmed is either misinformed or lying.

That includes CNN, even if they are considered a real news orgainization.

Got this insightful comment over at GunPundit on a post about guns on Fort Hood:

I would maybe be one of the first to jump to the conclusion that this was a “jihad” attack by a Mujahadeen, but this dude was a 15+ year veteran of the army, and a Major at that. I doubt he spent that long merely waiting for a chance to let off a few rounds at an army base. I could be wrong (and would be the first to admit), but i suspect this was just an army psychiatrist who finally had enough. Soldiers come home everyday not being able to process what they saw, and Major Hasan was there, everyday, listening to their stories, for him it would be like having PTSD 100x. [emphasis Murdoc's]

Ah, not only the Transferred PTSD excuse, but at 100x. Not only did this guy ‘catch’ PTSD, it was way worser than ever.

Hundreds and thousands of specialists have been dealing with troops coming home from the war zone for 8 years. Exactly one of them “finally had enough” and shot up a bunch of fellow soldiers. He’s the one who was shouting “Allahu Akbar” before he did it.

So this “transferred PTSD” theory is basically a bullshit excuse for a mass murderer. If you’re comfortable being an apologist for that sort of thing, go right ahead.

Staff Sgt. Justin Schramm, an aerial gunner on an HH-60G Pave Hawk scans the countryside while on a mission here. The Pave Hawks are used for Combat Search and Rescue, and have been operated by the U.S. Air Force since 1991. Sgt. Schramm is from Eugene, Ore., and is currently stationed at Kadena Air Base, Japan. Here Schramm is working in the 33rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron. Photo by Senior Airman Susan Tracy

Is that tube below the machine gun for brass and links?

Witnesses say that Nidal Malik Hasan, apparently a lifelong Muslim and not a recent convert as initially reported, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” before opening fire yesterday. Although reportedly killed, he survived and is in custody.

Guess he was just giving a “shout-out” before getting things going.

Fort Hood commander Lt. Gen. Robert Cone said that they have not officially confirmed that Hasan made the opening remarks.

Cone said Hasan was hospitalized in stable condition and that investigators hope to interrogate him as soon as possible.

I’ll bet they do. They’re probably lined up around the block hoping for a chance to interrogate this guy.

The C-130 gunship lab at Robins AFB is updating fire control systems to allow targeting two weapons simultaneously:

“The way they described it is ‘We want to be able to shoot the ant hill, and then kill all the ants as they leave the ant hill,’” said Steve Pollard, the lead C-130 gunship test engineer.

After months of work and close contact with combat flight crews about how they wanted it to work, software engineers in the 402nd Software Maintenance Group did just that. After testing it successfully in the lab, the new capability was put to use.

I didn’t realize that only one gun could be targeted at a time. It’s also unclear whether this upgrade is for the AC-130H, the AC-130U, or both.

Reports of 7 dead and 20 wounded. Reports of at least one suspect in custody.

Reports that were another couple of shooters. So not some guy who “just lost it.”

UPDATE: Still developing, but it sounds like two shooters, not three. They were reportedly dressed as soldiers, but it’s Fort Hood. Could be a couple of soldiers who “went nuts.” Could be a couple of civilians with axes to grind. Could be enemy fighters like those guys who wanted to attack Ft. Dix.

Could be just about anything at this point.

UPDATE 2: Now I heard 9 or 12 dead. And that one shooter is dead plus two more in custody, all soldiers.

Gang-related?

UPDATE 3: The dead shooter was a major (!) named Malik Nadal Hasan. It’s currently unclear whether he was the only shooter, as some witnesses said that there was more than one. Maybe they were confused by guys shooting back?

Two others are in custody.

UPDATE 4: Incidentally, I was trying to watch some live coverage online of Obama’s press conference on the incident but all I saw was him giving a “shout-out” to some people in the crowd and talking about some conference. I figured it was taped from earlier so I turned it off. Now what I’m reading makes me think that that was live. What was that all about? Didn’t he know the cameras were on? Shout outs to supporters? [Update: He gave the shout out to Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom recently, not "a supporter."]

Or was that not actually live at the time? It was close to 5:00 PM eastern.

UPDATE 5: The shooter is still alive.

Soldiers fight 4-hour battle at Afghan village

AP story by David Guttenfelder:

The villagers said they just wanted to be left alone. They claimed they had asked the Taliban to stay away, and wished the Americans would do the same.

But now the Americans were back, determined to stop the Taliban from passing through the village to attack U.S. targets. And shortly afterward the gunfire from the hills above served notice that the Taliban had no intention of leaving.

Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division return fire after their patrol in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province was ambushed by Taliban fighters Nov. 3. David Guttenfelder/AP photo

Go read the whole thing at Army Times.

Last week I pointed out a story which claimed that the Prince of Wales, the second of two new British aircraft carriers, could be switched to a helicopter-only commando carrier.

British defence equipment and support minister Quentin Davies called the report “complete rubbish.”

He also noted that the British have no intention to cut back on the number of F-35s they plan to purchase. This had been the reason cited for the downgrading of the carrier.