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THE UNIVERSITY HAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23.2009
Nidal Hasan to be confined until trial
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FORT WORTH, Texas — The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood will be confined until his military trial, initially staying in a hospital where he is recovering from gunshot
wounds, his attorney said Saturday.
During a hearing at Mai. Nidal Hasan's hospital room in San Antonio on Saturday, a magistrate ruled that there was probable cause that Hasan committed the Nov. 5
shooting spree at Fort
hood, said his civilian attorney, John Galligan. Hasan has been at Brooke Army Medical Center since the shooting, and his attorney said Hasan has been told he has permanent paralysis.
Galligan told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that the judge also ordered Hasan to pretrial confinement, which usually means jail, until his court-martial. The military justice system does not have bail for defendants.
"I don't know what rights and privileges he had that will now be changed, such as visitors or if they'll open his mail."
The magistrate ruled that Hasan will initially remain in the hospital, where he is in intensive care, Galligan said.
JOHN GALLIGAN Defense attorney
Galligan said Hasan has no feeling from the chest down and has limited movement in his arms.
about 150 miles southwest of Fort Worth, declined to comment.
Saturday's hearing was closed to the media. Officials at Firt Hold, Hood.
Hasan was shot by civilian members of Fort Hood's police force after the shooting spree in
a crowded building where soldiers must go before they are deployed to finalize wills, update vaccinations and get vision and dental screenings.
Hasan has been under guard at the hospital, Galligan said, and military officials have not told him how the
pretrial confinement status will change anything.
"I don't know what rights and privileges he had that will now be changed, such as visitors or if they'll open his mail," Galligan said. "There are still many issues that haven't been addressed. I feel like I just wasted a day."
Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder. Authorities have not said whether they will seek the death penalty, his attorney said.
Galligan said he is concerned about where Hasan will be moved once he's released from the hospital, but he does not know when that will happen.
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Bags sit on the floor inside the apartment of Maj. Nidal Hasan Nov. 11 in Killeen, Texas. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, is accused of killing 13 people and wounding dozens more Nov. 5 at the Fort Hood military base. Authorities continue to refer to Hasan, 39, as the only suspect in the shootings.
ACTIVISM
Student protesters in California removed from occupied building
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BERKELEY, Calif. — Dozens of demonstrators who barricaded themselves inside a campus building at the University of California. Berkeley in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts were removed late Friday, bringing the daylong occupation to an end, university officials said.
The occupation of a campus building at the University of California, Santa Cruz meanwhile continued.
Forty-one people inside UC
Berkeley's Wheeler Hall were arrested on suspicion of trespassing around 5 p.m. Friday, said Claire Holmes, a spokeswoman for the university. The group, which included university students, was cited and released around 7:30 p.m to cheers from supporters outside.
"Our whole goal was to make sure this was safe," Holmes said.
The demonstrators had occupied the building 14 hours earlier to protest a 32 percent increase in student fees and job and program cuts.
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Demonstrators struggle with police with a barricade in front of a closed-off building on the University of California, Berkeley on the Berkeley, Calif., campus Friday during a demonstration against university fee hikes and layoffs.
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SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — The gunman who carried out Saipan's most violent attack in recent memory ended his life on the same rocky cliffs where numerous Japanese leapt to their deaths to avoid capture by U.S. troops during World War II.
Police and witnesses say that after the attacker went on a shooting rampage Friday that left four dead, he parked his van and walked to edge of Banzai Cliff. But instead of jumping, the gunman shot himself.
Gunman in Saipan kills four, wounds six during shooting spree
Six people were also wounded in the violence that left this usually tranquil tourist island reeling and shaken.
"The commonwealth has never experienced a tragic situation like this, and we are sadened by the appalling action of a single individual that has caused so much harm to our peaceful island community," Gov. Benigno R. Fital said.
Meanwhile, church and community
F it i al stressed the tourist haven was still a safe place and said precautions would be taken to prevent similar attacks.
"The commonwealth has never experienced a tragic situation like this, and we are saddened ..."
Besides the gunman, the violence claimed the lives of two men, a 4-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl, all residents of the U.S. commonwealth, Public Safety spokesman Jason Tarkong said. The wounded included a 4-year-old local girl and five South Korean tourists, including a boy and a girl.
groups organized a candlelight vigil, set for Sunday evening at Saipan's American Memorial Park, for the victims of the shootings.
The most seriously injured South Korean, a 39-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his back, was flown by a U.S. Air Force plane to Seoul for treatment.
Police said the attack began Friday at a shooting range in the community of Kannat Tabla, where two men in their early 20s and the two children were fatally shot. The 4-year-old girl was critically injured with a gunshot wound to the chest.
Shortly after the first attack, the suspect drove several miles and began firing a rifle from a white van at a group of South Koreans visiting a World War II attraction in nearby Marpi, wounding five.
CRIME
BENIGNO FITAL Governor
Roxanne Diaz told the Pacific Daily News about 60 people were in the area taking photos, "just like a regular tourist day."
"And next thing you know.
they hear something that sounded like fireworks," followed by the bloody chaos, Diaz said.
When officers arrived in the area, they discovered the van and found three rifles inside. The gunman's body was found along the edge off the cliff with a .22-caliber rifle strapped around his shoulder.
The suspect was last spotted driving toward Banzai Cliff, the site where numerous Japanese jumped to their deaths to avoid capture in 1944 after the Battle of Saipan.
Authorities said the suspected shooter was a contract worker in his 30s or 40s from China. His name was withheld pending notification of family, which was expected sometime Saturday. Several residents said the man was known as "Mr Lee."
Police have not said if they know of a motive, but they do not believe the shooter was targeting tourists. Tarkong termed the violence as a random drive-by shooting.
The Pacific News Center identified him as Lee Zhong Ren, an employee at the shooting range. The news station also reported that Lee left behind a suicide note that spoke of a business deal gone bad.
The telephone at the shooting range has been disconnected.
Saipan is the main island of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which has about 60,000 residents and is about 3,800 miles southwest of Hawaii. Saipan is a popular tourist destination among South Koreans, with more than 111,000 South Koreans visiting the island in 2008, according to the Marianas Visitors Authority
Saipan officials feared the violence would lead to a drop in tourism, which has already suffered because of the sagging global economy.
The South Korean tourists were sightseeing in an area known as the Last Command Post, a World War II spot featuring remnants of American tanks. A memorial in the area is dedicated to Koreans who fought in the war.
Among those injured, a 39-year-old man was critically hurt with a wound to his back. A 5-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy were treated and released from the Commonwealth Health Center.
Lt. Gov. Eloy Inos called it a sad day for the commonwealth.
"This is an unfortunate but isolated incident," he said. "It happened for reasons unbeknownst to us, but we can handle this type of situation."
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