Details of Fort Hood attack

Independent on Sunday:

Army investigators working to reconstruct in second-by-second detail the one-man rampage inside a soldier processing facility at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, are asking how the assailant had time to fire at least 100 rounds from a single handgun. The incident left 13 dead and more than 30 wounded.

Some survivors of the carnage, made even more deadly by ricochet bullets bouncing from walls, furniture and floor tiling, have told investigators that the suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist who faced imminent deployment to Afghanistan, was almost methodical in his slaughter. In some instances, he fired a second time at soldiers who were wounded but not yet dead.

Officials said Hasan bore two non-military handguns on entering the building. But after climbing first on to a desk and shouting "Allahu Akbar!", or "God is great!", he used only one, a Belgian semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine that holds 20 bullets. This implies that Hasan reloaded as many as five times before he was brought down by two civilian police officers.

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It is unclear what happened to the second weapon. It would be very difficult to change magazines with weapons in both hands. The size of the magazines suggest he bought them to engage in his mass murder for Allah operation.