Video from FOXNEWS with siren alert tones from Fort Hood and medical evacuation operations.

UPDATE: The shooting suspect at Fort Hood has been identified as Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan. Hasan, believed to be in his late 30s, was killed after opening fire at the base.

‘Effective immediately Fort Hood is closed.’ (The lockdown was lifted just before 7 p.m. local time)

That is the message at Ford Hood in Killeen, Texas after a gunman fired shots inside Fort Hood US Army Base. The offender is reported to be in stable condition. Fort Hood, the largest US military installation in the world, is in full lockdown.

The attack is also known to have happened at Ft. Hood’s Soldier Readiness Center. The shootings began about 1:30 p.m. Thursday at an Army Post — a personnel and medical processing center at Fort Hood.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is en route with top priority to stop any further killing.

Fort Hood is the largest United States military installation in the world and the only two-division post in the United States, and is the home of III Corps. The III Corps (Third Corps) —nicknamed the Phantom Corps, America’s Hammer, and the Counterattack Corps— is a corps of the United States Army. The III Corps is the official counteroffensive force of the U.S. Army, and it is currently headquartered at Fort Hood, Texas. The formation was originally dubbed the III Armored Corps until 1943, when it was changed to simply III Corps. To this day it is still unofficially known as the “Armored Corps”.

The two divisions on the base are the 1st Cavalry Division and the First Army Division West. Division West recently moved from Fort Carson, Colorado, switching places with 4th Infantry Division. 3d ACR has moved from Ft. Carson Colorado to Ft. Hood TX.

Fort Hood has served as a hub for anti-war activity during both the Vietnam War and the current War on Terror.

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At least 90 people killed and at least 200 injured by a large blast from a car bomb in a market in Peshawar, Pakistan. The blast comes as the latest of a wave attacks retaliating against Pakistan for its role in attacks against Taliban militants in South Waziristan.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was about three hours away from the blast during a visit of Islamabad, Pakistan. Clinton is meeting with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.

Arrest of protesters near Baum Avenue and South Millvale Avenue in Pittsburgh during G20 protests September 24, 2009 [GRAPHIC LANGUAGE].

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Verified Google Street View with YouTube video (second from top). Police at the end of the video are transporting arrested subject northbound Enfield St. toward Baum Blvd with Pizza Hut on the left and Mercedes Benz of Pittsburgh ahead on left.

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Demonstrator chants near a Pizza Hut:
No cops, no KKK, no fascist USA

Let him go, let him go.

With many comments on YouTube claiming the action was staged and fake, The Raw Story (rawstory.com) is claiming to have obtained an official release from G20 security officials that explains the action:

“Military members supporting the G20 Summit work with local law enforcement authorities but do not have the authority to make arrests. The individuals involved in the 9/24/09 arrest which has appeared online are law enforcement officers from a multi-agency tactical response team assigned to the security operations for the G20. It is not unusual for tactical team members to wear camouflaged fatigues. The type of fatigues the officers wear designates their unit affiliation.

Prior to the arrest, the officers observed this subject vandalizing a local business. Due to the hostile nature of the crowd, officer safety and the safety of the person under arrest, the subject was immediately removed from the area.”

– Exact source unspecified from The Raw Story

Video published by youtube.com/g20media

See also …
pittsburghsummit.gov
g20media.org (this site links to the YouTube account)

Supporters for Iranian civil rights protesters in New York City hold “Democracy for Iran” posters on June 20, 2009.

Iranian Friends: “This a civil rights movement, don’t turn it into a revolution.” Only one will succeed.

– twitter.com/changcommaalex

Foreign journalists banned — world news relying on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook

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June 21, 2009 video showing protesters chanting “Don’t be scared, don’t be scare. We are all together … Death to the Dictator.”

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Personal photos and video of Neda Agha-Soltan surfaced on media outlets within two days after her death by gunshot on a Tehran street on June 20, 2009. Her music teacher is just to her right.

HEARTBREAKING: Iranian citizens and a doctor help a woman (so far identified as NEDA) to the ground after she was shot by Basij — a gunman hiding on the rooftop of a house. An initial report incorrectly stated that the man in the blue and white-striped shirt was Neda’s father. In fact, it was Neda’s music teacher Hamid Panahi.

Iranian citizens and protesters come to the aid of a woman in her 20’s who appears to have been fatally shot in the upper chest. Video shows blood obstructing airway as citizens desperately attempt to apply pressure to a gunshot wound in the upper chest. The innocent woman was shot at 19:05 June 20th, 2009 at Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi Street and Salehi Street. Ironically, the woman was shot about 500 feet from the Tehran Heart Center.

A report from the original YouTube Channel poster (hamedfrt) states the following report. The YouTube user “havedfrt” asks viewers to tell the world …

“A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim’s chest, and she died in less than 2 minutes.

The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St.
The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me.
Please let the world know”

According to Hamid Panahi, Neda’s music teacher and good friend who was with Neda when she died, a driver in a car coming from the other direction on the street urged the crowd to put her into his car.

A frantic search for the nearest hospital began. The car took a wrong turn down a dead end. Neda’s aids switched her mortally wounded body to another car.

Protesters and bystanders screamed at drivers to clear a path in the congested traffic as the car made its way to Shariati Hospital.

The medical staff of Shariati Hospital rush her into surgery, but it was too late. She had died before she arrived at the emergency room.

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Map of location where Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed by Basij gunman.

Iran’s state TV is claiming the Neda death was an act that was planned and staged. Iran also prohibited the display of memorial banners and did not permit a proper burial of Neda. Services were not allowed in any Mosque.

YouTube tributes …
brandokelly …
Mobius1ac …

Search = Neda tribute …

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Al Jazeera English has described the situation as the “biggest unrest since the 1979 revolution.”
Following the 2009 Iranian presidential election held on 12 June 2009 in Iran, protests against alleged electoral fraud, in support of candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, broke out in Tehran and other major cities in Iran. In response, tens of thousands of people rallied in Tehran to support the victory of incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the unrest as little more than “passions after a soccer match”

By June 14 the protests had grown considerably and took a more violent turn. Cars were being parked in the middle of the streets and highways in Tehran, and the highways leading to the city, blocking traffic heavily along with burning buses and trash cans.

As hundreds of thousands of opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad massed in central Tehran to cheer their pro-reform leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi on Monday, June 15, 2009, at least one protester was killed by pro-government militia. Shots have been fired at a rally in Tehran on June 15th, 2009, where hundreds of thousands of people were demonstrating against last week’s questionable presidential election results.

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