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Have increased during the muslim holy month of ramadan. the state department condemned the latest attacks, saying in a statement that terrorists who committed that he i these acts s of islam and a shared enemy of the united states, iraq, and the international community. lawyers assigned to advise the accused fort hood shooter are preparing an appeal, arguing that major hasan is trying to get himself a death sentence. hasan, who is representing himself in the trial, is charged with killing 13 p...

Welcome back to the second half of "outfront" where we focus on reporting from the front lines. i want to begin with a judge in the major nadal hasan case. hes rejected a request for attorneys asking to drop out. but they were told they had to represent him. the attorney says it is the attorneys ethical duty to assist hasan, but he is leading his own defense. hes cross examining people himself. had they been representing him from the start, the defense would be much more vigorous. two friends ...

Welcome back to the second half of "outfront" where we focus on reporting from the front lines. i want to begin with a judge in the major nadal hasan case. hes rejected a request for attorneys asking to drop out. but they were told they had to represent him. the attorney says it is the attorneys ethical duty to assist hasan, but he is leading his own defense. hes cross examining people himself. had they been representing him from the start, the defense would be much more vigorous. two friends ...

-- advocate. mr. king, let me start with you because of your background. the judge made the right decision here. correct? these standby lawyers are just that. they stand by and they offer answers to hasan whenever he wants them. otherwise theyre really not involved. >> right. the judge made the order a while ago when she agreed to allow hasan to defend himself. but she said if youre going to do this, im going to have your defense team standing by, on the sidelines, watching everything, hearing e...

Court-martial of the ft. hood gunman. this is day three of the trial. about 30 prosecution witnesses have taken the stand in the past two days. many of them are survivors of the shooting. testimony is moving quickly in part because hasan is not cross examining the witnesses. hes acting as his own attorney. hasan is charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in the 2009 shooting rampage. he declared i am the shooter. a new terror threat causes the u.s. to now pull most of its diploma...

Center in the case in the case that i represented the defendant was evaluated extensively on the question of competency as well as sanity and much like the case with mr. hasan, the ft. hood case, where competency and insanity also were important issues in the case. in both cases, ultimately the trial court and then obviously in mr. hasans case, the military tribunal has found that he has the ability to understand their proceedings, hes got a rational understanding of the case and therefore he me...

Day. >> one witness referring to hasan with profanity which was stricken from the record. >> we have a chilling facebook update on the man who is accused of killing his wife and posted a picture of her on line after the crime. >> 15 minutes can save you. was a really bad speller? your word is...cow. cow. cow. c...o...w... ...e...i...e...i...o. [buzzer] dangnabbit. geico. fifteen minutes could save you...well, you know.

Millions of americans are still out of work. as congress heads home for summer break, a new poll reveals a majority of folks dont think theyve done enough to deserve this time off. just 14% have responded to the new poll think the lawmakers deserve some r and r. while a whopping 82% think otherwise. when congress finally does come back to work, theyll have just a few weeks to pass spending bills or risk a complete government shutdown by october 1st. and there are stunning new developments from...

Hasan has quote, a death wish. that he is trying to get himself executed. former army psychiatrist accused killing 13 people when he opened fire inside a army processing center in fort hood. that is where casey stiegel is. the trial is expected to resume today. why do the lawyers want off the case and will they get it? >> reporter: well wait and see in about an hours time when this starts. were minutes away from major hasansy rifing. then all the media is asked to go inside. its a blackout perio...

With the judge saying that her order this morning violates their professional rules of conduct and that its basically, hasan is eliminating obstacles to the death penalty and that it would be, quote, morally repugnant for them to help hasan achieve his death sentence. judge osborn looked very annoyed, she looked very agitated. she went into a little bit of a back and forth with them and said that she was asking for something in writing from their state bar association saying that this violated t...