Nidal Malik Hasan

Major Nidal Malik Hasan

Kim Munley, wounded in the attack, returned fire which brought Hasan down.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan (born: September 8th, 1970, age 39) is a U.S. Army psychiatrist. He was born in Arlington, Virginia, and is a Muslim of Palestinian descent. Hasan is allegedly responsible for the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. Malik graduated from Virginia Tech University ('97) before joining the military. He received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (F. Edward Herbert School Of Medicine) in Bethesda, Md., in 2001 . Malik completed a six year residency in psychiatry at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D. C., (2007), where he recieved a poor performance evaluation. He recieved his license in psychiatry on July 12, 2005.

Hasan is a suspect in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas that left 14 dead (a number that includes one unborn child) and 30 wounded. The shooting took place at 1:30 p.m. November 5, 2009 at the post's Soldier Readiness Center. Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of his Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades. Kimberley Munley, a 34 year-old civilian police officer from Killeen, Texas, stopped the Fort Hood shooter; she was outside directing traffic before the shooting. Munley was also hit by exchanged gunfire with Hasan.

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. . He also revealed that Maj. Malik was under extreme stress due to the discrimination he received for being Muslim. He also received firearms training. From his experience as a psychiatrist, he heard first-hand the accounts of the soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan:

"He had people telling him on a daily basis the horrors that they saw over there." Malik's cousin, Nader Hasan.

Malik was called "Camel Jockey" by his fellow soldiers. He was not in favor of U.S. wars in Muslim countries. Terry Lee, a retired colonel, cited an incident earlier this year as having had a big influence on Hasan – a fatal shooting at an army recruiting base in Little Rock, Arkansas. The suspect, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, faces trial for murder. Malik Hasan is reported to have stated: "In the Qu’ran, it says you are not supposed to have alliances with Jews or Christians, and if you are killed in the military fighting against Muslims, you will go to hell."

Malik is single with no children, and also had an apartment in Killeen, Texas. Since September 2009, he attended the Islamic Community mosque of Greater Killeen.

It is thought that due to the harrassment Malik endured from his fellow soldiers, he may have had strong feelings of alienation. Virginia Tech University was the scene of the 2007 massacre by a student that left 32 dead. The Virginia Tech shooter, whose family was South Korean, may also have had problems with alienation.

Fort Hood, with around 40,000 troops, had two soldiers stationed there that committed suicide in 2009—nine suicide cases since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. It was named after Confederate General John Bell Hood. It is the biggest US military base in the world.

Malik, an Arabic word, means: king

Charged with premeditated murder

On Nov. 12, 2009 Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the military's legal system, making him eligible for the death penalty. It has not been decided whether to charge Hasan with a 14th count of murder related to the death of the unborn child of a pregnant shooting victim. Hasan's family asked John P. Galligan, a retired Army colonel, to represent him.

Hasan's religious views

In a research project Hasan states: "It's getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims."

... the military should allow Muslim soldiers to be released as conscientious objectors instead of fighting in wars against other Muslims. (to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events). June 2007. Ibidem

The title of Hasan's PowerPoint presentation was "The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military." It consisted of 50 slides. In one slide, Hasan described the presentation's objectives as identifying "what the Koran inculcates in the minds of Muslims and the potential implications this may have for the U.S. military."

"If Muslim groups can convince Muslims that they are fighting for God against injustices of the 'infidels'; ie: enemies of Islam, then Muslims can become a potent adversary ie: suicide bombing, etc."... "We love death more then you love life!" Ibidem

Obama transition participant

Hasan is listed on page 29 of the document "Thinking Anew – Security Priorities for the Next Administration." Hasan was an advisor in homeland security of Barack Obama's presidential transition team. Hasan is listed as a participant, though not a member, of several meetings in the George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute's Presidential Transition Task Force.

Links to 9/11 Hijackers

Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center.

Hasan worshipped at the same mosque as two of the 9/11 terrorists. The London Sunday Telegraph reports he was at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Va. in 2001, which was led by the radical imam Anwar al-Awlaki.

Hasan's family attended the Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., where Awlaki was preaching in 2001. Hasan's mother's funeral was held at the mosque on May 31, 2001, according to her obituary in the Roanoke Times newspaper, around the same time two 9/11 hijackers worshipped at the mosque and while Awlaki was preaching.

The mosque is one of the largest on the East Coast of the USA.

Anwar al-Awlaki.

Two officials said the Washington-based task force was notified of communications between Hasan and a radical imam overseas. Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, who is now based in Yemen, preaches to US Muslims in online lectures.

Links to Al Qaeda

Reports have surfaced that Hasan's computer reveals contacts with terrorist masterminds within Al Qaeda, "Hasan had routinely visited al Qaeda and Islamic terrorist web sites in months and weeks leading to last week’s massacre at Fort Hood."

External links

• Profile of Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
• Fort Hood Massacre: Act of Terror or Horrific Crime?
• Officials: Fort Hood shootings suspect alive; 12 dead
• Nidal Malik Hasan, Suspected Fort Hood Shooter, Is Army Psychiatrist.
• Nidal Malik Hasan, MD. Practitioner Information Website. Virginia Board of Medicine.
• Who is Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan?
• Profile: Major Nidal Malik Hasan.