DUBAI - The Taliban has warned the United States of more attacks like the Fort Hood shooting rampage unless Washington ends it policies in Afghanistan and Iraq, the SITE Intelligence Group said Tuesday.


The Afghan militants also described the American army psychiatrist suspected of carrying out the shooting in Texas as a "hero," the monitoring group said, quoting a message posted on the Internet.


"The recent attack on the military base in Texas warns that if the occupation policy of the American rulers continues in this way, without them folding the carpets of occupation and transgression in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is natural then that incidents and attacks similar to Texas will spread to the Pentagon and other American military centres," the message said.


"According to media reports, the hero of the attack is a Muslim psychiatrist and major in the American army, of Palestinian origin," said the message posted on jihadist forums, SITE said.


Major Nidal Hasan, a Muslim of Palestinian origin, is suspected of killing 13 people in the shooting spree at a Texas army base last week.


Hasan was due to be deployed to Afghanistan later this month and his family has said that he complained of harassment in the military and was deeply concerned about his orders to go to Afghanistan.


He has emerged from a coma after being wounded in the Fort Hood shootings.

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