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Hasan Felt Discriminated Against, Wanted Out of Army

Suspect moved to
San Antonio hospital

Nov 6, 09 5:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Nidal Malik Hasan considered himself a victim of anti-Muslim bias and had been trying for 6 months to quit the Army, his cousin says. "I think because he’s a Muslim he didn’t want to go to Afghanistan or Iraq, and he didn’t want to expose himself... More »

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Islam • Muslim Americans • Muslim • San Antonio • massacre • US Army • American Muslims • mass shootings • Fort Hood • Fort Hood shooting • Nidal Malik Hasan • Brooke Army Medical Center

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 12 Dead, 31 Wounded 
 in Fort Hood Shootings 

Soldier gunman is dead; two other suspects are in custody

Nov 5, 09 4:09 PM CST
(AP) - Twelve people are dead and 31 wounded after a shooting spree at Fort Hood, the Texas Army base. One shooter is among the dead and two more suspects are in custody. All are US soldiers, said an Army official. All the casualties took place at the base's Soldier Readiness Center,... More »

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(Newser) - Hooded gunmen killed 17 people after storming a Mexican drug and alcohol rehab center in Ciudad Juarez yesterday, Sky News reports. The men, believed to be hitmen from a drug cartel, forced the patients to line up in a corrider before gunning them down. Gangs have targeted rehab clinics in... More »

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Mexico • rehabilitation center • massacre • Mexican drug war • drug cartel • shooting • Mexican drug cartel

 Turkey, Armenia Move 
 Toward Diplomatic Ties 

Talks won't touch WWI-era massacre at root of ill feelings, however

Aug 31, 09 9:13 PM CDT
(AP) - Armenia and Turkey, bitter foes for a century, took a step toward reconciliation today by announcing they would launch final talks aimed at establishing diplomatic ties. But they won't discuss the deepest source of their enmity: the World War I-era massacres of Armenians under Ottoman rule. The sides say they... More »

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Turkey • massacre • nationalism • Armenia • Ottoman Empire • diplomatic ties • President Obama

(Newser) - A former commander in Adolf  Hitler's army has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a massacre in Italy he ordered 65 years ago, the BBC reports. In what is expected to be one of the very last Nazi trials, a Munich court found Joseph Scheungraber guilty of murder in the... More »

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OPINION

 How China Rewrote 
 Tiananmen History 

Recalling Tiananmen 20 years later

May 27, 09 2:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Tiananmen Square massacre isn’t something the Chinese government wants the world to remember, and it's doing a good job keeping the matter quiet, writes Terrence Cheng in the Chronicle of Higher Education. In China, “those who dare to speak about it are swiftly silenced,” he writes.... More »

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China • Tiananmen Square • 2008 Beijing Olympics • protests • massacre • history • Opening Ceremony • killings

 20 Years On, 
 Chinese Youth 
 Forget Tiananmen 

Democracy recedes for today's student generation

May 22, 09 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's now been 20 years since the Chinese army rolled into Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds of students in the final push to put down a growing democracy movement. Beijing is anxious as the June 4 anniversary of the massacre approaches; Google "Tiananmen" in Beijing and you'll likely find pages... More »

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China • censorship • Beijing • Tiananmen Square • massacre • Great Firewall of China • apathy • Jay-ZTV

Royal Murders Continue to Haunt Nepal

New regime reopens probe into 8-year-old palace massacre

Apr 8, 09 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - In an effort to cover up their own difficulties, the Maoist rebels-turned-rulers who govern Nepal have relaunched a probe into the royal massacre that helped bring them to power, Time reports. The incident 8 years ago—the crown prince killed the king and nine other relatives before taking his own... More »

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Letter Indeed From NY Gunman: Police

Message's authenticity backed up by photos, driver's license

Apr 7, 09 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - A letter allegedly from the gunman who killed 14 last week in Binghamton, NY, is likely authentic, the Press & Sun-Bulletin reports. Police said today they had “no reason” to doubt the letter’s authorship despite a claim from the gunman’s sister he lacked the vocabulary to write... More »

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massacre • illegal immigration • firearms • guns • immigration services • Jiverly Wong

Binghamton Victims 'Died Seeking Better Lives'

Victim of civic center massacre hailed from 8 different countires

Apr 6, 09 8:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - The immigrants gunned down in Binghamton on Friday were from all corners of the world, the New York Times reports; they came together in the classroom where they, along with the killer, had been studying English. Two Americans—a teacher and a receptionist—were killed in the rampage. Four of... More »

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(Newser) - The gunman burst into Binghamton's American Civic Association community center, and before the receptionists really had time to react, he’d shot them both. He probably believed he’d killed them both, too. But one of them was only playing dead, and she was the one to call 911, MSNBC... More »

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 NY Gunman Called 
 'Angry Loner' 

Investigators believe killer of 13 may have been recently laid off

Apr 4, 09 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Investigators trying to piece together a motive for the massacre at a Binghamton, New York, immigration center believe gunman Jiverly Voong may have been recently laid off, the Press & Sun-Bulletin reports. The Vietnamese-American, 41, worked at an assembly plant in the town until November, where colleagues described him as... More »

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 NY Survivor: 
 'I Thought My Life Was Finished' 

Students hid in storage rooms as Binghamton gunman killed 13

Apr 4, 09 2:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Students hid in storage closets when the shooting began at an immigration services center in Binghamton yesterday, a survivor tells CNN. "I heard shootings, very long time, about five minutes, and I was thinking when it will be stopped, but it was continued," she said. "No screaming,... More »

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(Newser) - Today’s shooting at an immigration center in Binghamton, NY, “was obviously premeditated,” the city’s police chief said during an evening press conference, confirming that 14 were dead. He said he “was not 100% sure” the shooter was among them, the New York Times reports, and... More »

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massacre • mass shootings • Binghamton, NY • immigration services • Joseph Zikuski • Jiverly Wong

German Gunman 'Totally Normal Teen'

Classmates say school shooter was shy but never seemed strange

Mar 14, 09 2:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The 17-year-old who calmly gunned down his former classmates and teachers in Germany this week before taking his own life seemed like a normal teenager, Der Spiegel reports. Tim Kretschmer was inconspicuous and shy, schoolmates say, but he wasn't a loner and wasn't considered strange. Police say they have searched... More »

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(Newser) - German police are still seeking some twisted motive for a suicidal teen gunman who shot dead 14 people at his former high school, but he clearly appears to have targeted girls, reports the Telegraph. Tim Kretschmer, 17, killed nine former schoolmates, eight of them girls, as well as three female... More »

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 German Gunman Was 
 Calm, Ruthless: Witnesses 

Witnesses describe student's rampage

Mar 11, 09 3:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tim Kretschmer was calm and silent as he gunned down his former classmates today in southern Germany, witnesses tell the Telegraph. Kretschmer, 17, moved between classrooms dispatching his victims—mainly girls—with a weapon he’d brought from home. The only words survivors heard him say were “Aren’t... More »

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Germany • murder • school shooting • massacre • shooting • automatic weapons • shootout • Tim Kretschmer

 10 Dead in Alabama Shootings 

Rampaging gunman kills 9 before turning the gun on himself

Mar 10, 09 10:05 PM CDT
(AP) - A gunman went on a shooting spree in two neighboring south Alabama towns today, killing nine people before he shot himself, authorities said. Police are investigating at least four separate shootings in the towns of Samson and Geneva, all believed to have been done by the same man, whose name... More »

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WWII Mass Grave of German Civilians Unearthed

Corpses found near Polish castle believed to have been killed as Soviets advanced

Jan 9, 09 2:41 AM CST
(Newser) - The corpses of 1,800 men, women and children believed to be German civilians have been found in a mass grave near the Polish city of Malbork, Der Speigel reports. The city was German until the end of World War II. Officials believe many of its former residents were massacred... More »

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Germany • Poland • Soviet Union • massacre • World War II • mass graves

 'Santa' Gunman Hid Son 
 From Ex-Wife: Cops 

Revelation of child from previous relationship stressed the Pardo's marriage

Dec 26, 08 5:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who police say killed nine others in a Christmas Eve rampage in California, kept a child from a previous relationship secret from his ex-wife, the Los Angeles Times reports. Pardo did not support his physically handicapped 9-year-old son financially, but claimed him as a dependent for 7... More »

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California • murder • massacre • Christmas • shooting rampage • Santa Claus • guns • Bruce Jeffrey Pardo

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