Fort Hood Shooting suspect

Fort Hood is a United States Army post located outside of Killeen, Texas. Fort Hood is Geographically located at 31°7′48″ North, 97°46′49″ West (31.130072, -97.780260). The Fort Hood shooting was a spree killing that occurred on Thursday, November 5, 2009, at Fort Hood.

Accroding to wikipedia.org, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, age 39, was a U.S. Army psychiatrist at the time of the shooting. In July 2009 he had been transferred to Fort Hood from Washington’s Walter Reed Medical Center.Hasan described himself as being of Palestinian descent as his mother was born in Palestine.His parents immigrated to the U.S. from a small Palestinian town near Jerusalem.He was born in Virginia, where he grew up. He joined the army immediately after high school, and in exchange the army paid for him to go to college and subsequently to medical school. Hasan graduated in 1997 from Virginia Tech, where he was a member of ROTC,with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and in 2003 from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences with a medical degree (M.D.), and later finished his residency as a psychiatrist.In 2009, he completed a fellowship in Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry at the Center for Traumatic Stress.Hasan was promoted from Captain to Major in May 2009.Before being transferred to Fort Hood in July 2009, Hasan had received a poor performance evaluation.According to Hasan’s aunt, Noel Hasan of Falls Church, Virginia, he had sought for several years to receive a discharge, due to harassment relating to his religion, Islam. An Army spokesman could not confirm the aunt’s statement.Hasan had come to the attention of federal authorities at least six months before the attacks because of internet postings he may have made discussing suicide bombings[4] and other threats. However, it remains unclear whether he was the author of the posts, and no official investigation was opened.According to retired Colonel Terry Lee, “He said maybe Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor. At first we thought he meant help the armed forces, but apparently that wasn’t the case. Other times he would make comments we shouldn’t be in the war in the first place.”Hasan was about to be deployed, whether to Iraq or Afghanistan is unclear,on November 28. According to Jeff Sadoski, spokesperson of U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, “Hasan was upset about his deployment”.Hasan’s cousin, Nader Hasan, a lawyer in Virginia, said that Nidal Hasan turned against the wars after hearing the stories of those who came back from Afghanistan and Iraq.Noel Hamad said, however, that the family did not know he was being sent to Iraq. “He didn’t tell us he was going to deploy,” she said.Faizul Khan, the former imam of a mosque in Silver Spring, Maryland, where Hasan prayed several times a week, said he was “a reserved guy with a nice personality. We discussed religious matters. He was a fairly devout Muslim.”According to his cousin, Nidal Hasan was a practicing Muslim who had become more devout after the deaths of his parents in 1998 and 2001.However, his cousin does not recall him ever expressing any radical or anti-American views.The cousin added that Hasan had been harassed by his Army colleagues because of his Middle Eastern ethnicity. Said the cousin, “He was dealing with some harassment from his military colleagues. I don’t think he’s ever been disenchanted with the military. It was the harassment. He hired a military attorney to try to have the issue resolved, pay back the government, to get out of the military. He was at the end of trying everything.”h

been harassed by his Army colleagues because of his Middle Eastern ethnicity. Said the cousin, “He was dealing with some harassment from his military colleagues. I don’t think he’s ever been disenchanted with the military. It was the harassment. He hired a military attorney to try to have the issue resolved, pay back the government, to get out of the military. He was at the end of trying everything.”

According to some sources, Hasan is single with no children.However, a former neighbor of Hasan, David Cook, said two sons were living with Hasan at that time, around 1997, and they attended local schools. Cook said of him, “As far as I know, he was a single father. I never saw a wife.”

Fort Hood Shooting suspect

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