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| | '''Nidal Malik Hasan''' (born: September 8th, 1970, age 39) is a U.S. Army officer who shot 43 people at [[Fort Hood]], Texas on November 5, 2009 in a [[Jihad|Jihadist attack]]. <ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575892,00.html Fox News;] Hasan E-Mail to Radical Imam: 'I Can't Wait to Join You' in the Afterlife</ref> Hasan is responsible for the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil since [[9/11]]. | | '''Nidal Malik Hasan''' (born: September 8th, 1970, age 39) is a U.S. Army officer who shot 43 people at [[Fort Hood]], Texas on November 5, 2009 in a [[Jihad|Jihadist attack]]. <ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575892,00.html Fox News;] Hasan E-Mail to Radical Imam: 'I Can't Wait to Join You' in the Afterlife</ref> Hasan is responsible for the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil since [[9/11]]. |
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| − | * Hasan "was forcefully opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was trying to elude his pending deployment to Afghanistan." [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1225627/Fort-Hood-shootings-Army-major-Nidal-Malik-Hasan-kills-12-injures-31-shootout-troops-army-base.html#ixzz0W7eue3RD] | + | According to ''The Daily Mail'' (UK), |
| − | | + | * Hasan "was forcefully opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was trying to elude his pending deployment to Afghanistan."<ref name=mail> |
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| | [[Kimberley Munley]], a 34 year-old civilian police officer from Killeen, [[Texas]] and her partner, Mark Todd, confronted the Fort Hood shooter; Munley was outside directing traffic before the shooting. She was also hit by exchanged gunfire with Hasan. In August 2009, Malik Hasan purchased the two weapons that he used in the shooting. | | [[Kimberley Munley]], a 34 year-old civilian police officer from Killeen, [[Texas]] and her partner, Mark Todd, confronted the Fort Hood shooter; Munley was outside directing traffic before the shooting. She was also hit by exchanged gunfire with Hasan. In August 2009, Malik Hasan purchased the two weapons that he used in the shooting. |
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| − | In an interview, his cousin, Nader Hasan, said that he was going to be deployed to [[Afghanistan]]. However he was not ready to be moved and had hired a military attorney to fight his case. <ref> [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1225627/Fort-Hood-shootings-Army-major-Nidal-Malik-Hasan-kills-12-injures-31-shootout-troops-army-base.html#ixzz0W7eue3RD God is great: Last words of Fort Hood gunman before being shot by police heroine.] </ref>. He also revealed that Maj. Malik was under extreme stress due to the discrimination he received for being Muslim. He also received firearms training. <ref>[http://www.makli.com/malik-nadal-hasan-0012268/ ''News Around the Globe'']</ref> From his experience as a psychiatrist, he heard first-hand the accounts of the soldiers returning from [[Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]]: | + | In an interview, his cousin, Nader Hasan, said that he was going to be deployed to [[Afghanistan]]. However he was not ready to be moved and had hired a military attorney to fight his case. <ref name=mail> [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1225627/Fort-Hood-shootings-Army-major-Nidal-Malik-Hasan-kills-12-injures-31-shootout-troops-army-base.html#ixzz0W7eue3RD God is great: Last words of Fort Hood gunman before being shot by police heroine.] </ref>. He also revealed that Maj. Malik was under extreme stress due to the discrimination he received for being Muslim. He also received firearms training. <ref>[http://www.makli.com/malik-nadal-hasan-0012268/ ''News Around the Globe'']</ref> From his experience as a psychiatrist, he heard first-hand the accounts of the soldiers returning from [[Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]]: |
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