FOR HOOD: The US army psychiatrist accused of a shooting rampage at a Texas military base last week will go on trial for the premeditated murder of 13 people, officials have said.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who is also accused of wounding another 29 people in the incident on the Fort Hood base, will be tried under the military's legal system, an army official said yesterday.

It has not yet been announced whether Major Hasan will be charged for the death of an unborn child of a pregnant victim. Hasan is recovering at a military hospital after being shot by police at the end of the attack.

The suspect was in a coma but has now regained consciousness and has talked to his lawyer.

Barack Obama, the US president, has ordered a review into how intelligence agencies handled information that they had gathered on Hasan before his alleged attack, the White House said yesterday.

"I directed an immediate review be initiated to determine how any such intelligence was handled, shared, and acted upon within individual departments and agencies and what intelligence was shared with others," Obama said in a statement.

The order to conduct an "immediate inventory" of all intelligence in US government files was issued on November 6, a day after the shooting incident occurred in the largest base in the US.