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| [00:00.00] | The United States army |
| [00:02.21] | has formally charged the military officer |
| [00:04.14] | accused of carrying out last week's mass shooting |
| [00:06.44] | at the Fort Hood military base in Texas. |
| [00:08.93] | The officer, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, |
| [00:11.54] | an army psychiatrist, |
| [00:13.03] | has been under armed guard in a hospital |
| [00:14.90] | since being wounded in the shooting. |
| [00:16.76] | Mathew Prize reports from New York. |
| [00:18.57] | There are still many questions |
| [00:20.75] | surrounding the mass shooting |
| [00:22.36] | at the America's largest military base, |
| [00:24.29] | but one of them has now been answered. |
| [00:26.41] | Major Nidal Hasan, an army psychiatrist |
| [00:29.14] | who was due to be deployed to Afghanistan, |
| [00:31.38] | has been charged with 13 counts of murder. |
| [00:34.49] | That could rise |
| [00:36.17] | if prosecutors decide also to charge him |
| [00:38.16] | with the murder of an unborn child |
| [00:40.09] | being carried by one of his victims. |
| [00:42.39] | He will be prosecuted in a military court. |
| [00:45.13] | If convicted, he could face the death penalty, |
| [00:48.30] | although no one has actually been executed |
| [00:50.60] | under the US military justice system for almost 50 years. |