Texas: Hearing in Fort Hood Case

An Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood will have a hearing on Saturday in his hospital room in San Antonio on whether he should be jailed before trail. The psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was wounded in the attack on Nov. 5 and has been placed in pretrial confinement by his commanding officer. If the order stands, the Army could move Major Hasan to a jail as soon as he is discharged from the hospital, his lawyer said. Major Hasan is paralyzed from the waist down and cannot flee, the lawyer said. Christopher Haug, a spokesman for Fort Hood, did not return calls from a reporter. Bloomberg News has reported that Gen. Carter Ham, the Army’s top commander in Europe, will lead the service’s investigation into what might have been done to prevent the shootings.