Saturday's papers

The Times, as does many of the papers, reports on the killing of 13 people at a Texas army base

Investigators have begun piecing together a harrowing story of missed clues and sudden carnage left by an army psychiatrist who gunned down more than 40 people on a Texas army base, killing 13, when faced with the prospect of deploying to a war he wished President Obama had ended.

says the paper

Whilst the Independent tries to get inside the mind of the army killer

For a few hours late on Thursday, it seemed this would follow the usual sad script of shooting tragedies in America. The "monster" assailant would turn the weapon on himself or be instantly gunned down by others. But Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist with the rank of major, survived. Felled on the scene by bullets fired by a civilian police officer, he was last night in a stable condition and on a respirator.

Meanwhile the Guardian reports that President Obama has sought to stop people jumping to the wrong conclusions over the shooting

"I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we get all the facts," Obama said. The risk of a witchhunt rose today when the commander at the Fort Hood base, Lieutenant-General Robert Cone, disclosed that wounded soldiers said Hasan had shouted "Allahu Akbar" before opening fire on unarmed soldiers at the Texas base.

According to the Telegraph though,he had come to the attention of the FBI six months earlier over possible links to extremist comments posted on the internet.

Meanwhile in this Gordon Brown gives a speech in which he says the Independent

issued a stark warning to the Afghan President Hamid Karzai that Britain will not continue to put its forces "in harm's way" in his country unless he is prepared to root out corruption.

Mr Brown defended Britain's military mission in Afghanistan, saying that the 9,000-strong UK force forms "our first line of defence" against terror attacks at home and insisting "we cannot, must not and will not walk away". says the Telegraph

The Times has come across an internal document which warns that the long-term future and reputation of Britain’s Armed Forces is at risk unless progress is made in Afghanistan.

The pronouncement by Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, the Chief of the Defence Staff, and Sir Bill Jeffrey, the Permanent Secretary, leaves no room for the possibility of early withdrawal from Afghanistan. “Planning within Defence should be based on the assumption of a rolling three-year military commitment to Afghanistan, reviewed annually,” they say in a jointly signed document circulated as guidance to MoD staff preparing for next year’s defence review.

The Guardian leads with news that

Scotland Yard faced calls for an "ethical audit" of all officers in its controversial riot squad tonight after figures revealed that they had received more than 5,000 complaint allegations, mostly for "oppressive behaviour".

The Telegraph reports that Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, the head of the independent watchdog charged with reforming MPs’ expenses and restoring public trust in Parliament, is a close friend of Alastair Campbell.

Whilst according to the Guardian he will not necessarily implement the proposals published by Sir Christopher Kelly, but will instead conduct a wide-ranging review of his own.

The Mail leads with the terrible story of the Mother who died whilst trying to save herbullied son from a blaze after a firework is pushed through their letterbox

Mary Fox pushed her teenage son through a window to safety as a blaze tore through their house.
But she was overcome by smoke and flames before she could escape herself.

The Times reports that the parents of the two French students murdered by an offender under probation supervision began a claim yesterday for “substantial damages” against the police and Ministry of Justice.

The families are seeking compensation over systematic failures and negligence in the justice system that contributed to the deaths of their sons, Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez.

Finally The Independent reports how Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, paid a secret visit to a First World War memorial in Belgium ,only to become embroiled in an angry confrontation with a 13-year-old schoolboy

William Robey, was in Ypres visiting the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing as part of a school trip when he spotted Nick Griffin surrounded by some of his supporters.