Rampage: Video footage shows Major Nidal Malik Hasan shopping at a 7-11 store just outside Fort Hood, Texas, hours before he shot 13 people
...He received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2001.
While an intern at Walter Reed, Hasan had some 'difficulties' that required counseling and extra supervision, said Dr. Thomas Grieger, who was the training director at the time.
Grieger said privacy laws prevented him from going into details but noted that the problems had to do with Hasan's interactions with patients.
He recalled Hasan as a 'mostly very quiet' person who never spoke ill of the military or his country....
There were reasons for the harassment. He scared people. He scared military people that saw him as a threat. And he had PRACTICE issues. What did his superiors think, to put him in a war environment would straighten him out? I mean for real here.
...At least six months ago, Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of 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.
They had not determined for certain whether Hasan is the author of the posting, and a formal investigation had not been opened before the shooting, said law enforcement officials....
He had identity issues? He should not have been where he was doing what he was doing. He was sending out sparks in a powder keg, BUT, he was really nice guy, 'ya know.'
...On a form filled out by those seeking spouses through a programme at the mosque, Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Virginia, but his nationality as Palestinian, Khan said.
'I don't know why he listed Palestinian,' Khan said, 'He was not born in Palestine....
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan
He was a CO. Conscientious objector. How did a CO ever get to be a Major in the military deploying to Iraq? He shouldn't have had guns in his hands. What the heck happened here?
He is a devout Muslim and he was being harassed by some military bozos. He convinced himself he was going to die in Iraq, possibly by the hand of his own peers. He was paranoid as hell.
