1. Two days before the shooting, less than a month before he was due to deploy to Afghanistan, Nidal Hasan gave away many of his belongings to a neighbor.
65 Facts About Nidal Hasan
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Nidal Hasan is incarcerated at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, awaiting execution.
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Nidal Hasan was born on September 8,1970, at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County, Virginia.
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Nidal Hasan's parents were naturalized American citizens of Palestinian origin; they had immigrated years earlier from al-Bireh, a city in the West Bank near Jerusalem.
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Nidal Hasan's family moved to Roanoke in 1986, where his father had moved a year before set up what would become a number of successful family-owned businesses which included a market, restaurant and olive bar.
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Nidal Hasan graduated from Roanoke's William Fleming High School in 1988.
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Nidal Hasan's father died in 1998 at the age of 51; his mother died three years later at the age of 49.
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Nidal Hasan enlisted in the United States Army in 1988 after graduating from high school.
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Nidal Hasan attended college during this time, earning an associate degree in science from Virginia Western Community College in 1992.
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Nidal Hasan completed both of these programs with Latin honors.
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Nidal Hasan was commissioned as an officer in the Army Medical Department in 1997, and enrolled at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Nidal Hasan was on academic probation during much of the six years he required to complete the four-year curriculum and graduate medical school.
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Nidal Hasan completed his psychiatry training with a two-year fellowship in disaster and preventive psychiatry, earning a master's degree in public health.
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Lee told Fox News that Nidal Hasan made "outlandish" statements against the American military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, reportedly saying that "the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor", referring to American soldiers.
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Nidal Hasan expressed hope US President Barack Obama would withdraw troops.
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Nidal Hasan was frequently agitated and argumentative with other Army personnel.
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Nidal Hasan was "mortified by the idea" of deploying after he heard on a "daily basis the horrors they saw over there".
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Nidal Hasan fainted while observing childbirth, whence his choice to focus on psychiatry.
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Nidal Hasan was deeply sensitive, and mourned a pet bird for months after it died.
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Also near Ramallah, cousin Mohammed Nidal Hasan said "because he's Muslim, he didn't want to go to Afghanistan or Iraq, and he didn't want to expose himself to violence and death".
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However, David Cook, a former neighbor, stated, in 1997, Nidal Hasan had two sons living with him and attending local schools.
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Nidal Hasan received the Army Service Ribbon as a private in 1988 after completing Advanced Individual Training, the National Defense Service Medal twice for service during the time periods of the Persian Gulf War and the Global War on Terror, and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal for support service during the Global War on Terror.
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Nidal Hasan's cousin did not recall him expressing any radical or anti-American views, and his family described Hasan as a peaceful person, and a good American.
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One of his cousins said Nidal Hasan turned against the wars after hearing the stories of soldiers he treated in therapy following their return from Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Nidal Hasan's aunt said he did not tell the family he was going to Afghanistan.
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In May 2001, Nidal Hasan attended the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in the Falls Church area for the funeral of his mother and occasionally, attended a mosque in Silver Spring, Maryland, close to where he lived and worked; he was well known by the Imam for over a decade.
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Dr Val Finnell, a graduate school classmate in the Master's in Public Health program, said in a class on environmental health, Nidal Hasan's project dealt with "whether the Global War On Terror is a war on Islam" and the effect on Muslims in the military, which Finnell thought was strange.
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Al-Awlaki said Nidal Hasan first e-mailed him on December 17,2008.
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Nidal Hasan told me: 'I speak with you about issues I never speak with anyone.
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ABC News reported after the fact, anonymous government agents issued a press-release claiming they were allegedly aware Nidal Hasan attempted to contact Al Qaeda, then issued a press-release claiming Nidal Hasan had "more unexplained connections to people tracked by the FBI" than just Anwar al-Awlaki.
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Nidal Hasan expressed concern about the former actions by some of the soldiers he evaluated as a psychiatrist.
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Days before his attacks on Fort Hood in 2009, Nidal Hasan asked his supervisors and Army legal advisers how to handle reports of soldiers' deeds in Afghanistan and Iraq that disturbed him.
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Nidal Hasan told a local store owner he was stressed about his imminent deployment to Afghanistan since his work as a psychiatrist might require him to fight or kill fellow Muslims.
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Nidal Hasan gave away furniture from his home on the morning of the shooting, saying he was going to be deployed on Friday.
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Department of the Army police officer Kimberly D Munley encountered Hasan leaving the building.
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Munley and Nidal Hasan exchanged shots before Munley was shot in the leg twice.
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On November 7,2009, while Nidal Hasan was communicative, he refused to talk to law enforcement officials.
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Nidal Hasan remained in intensive care in accordance with the magistrate's dictate.
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The Army dictated Nidal Hasan speak only in English on the phone or with visitors unless an interpreter was present.
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Nidal Hasan was moved from Brooke Army Medical Center to the Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas, on April 9,2010.
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On October 12,2010, Nidal Hasan was due to appear for his first broad military hearing into the attack.
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Hood determine whether there was enough evidence to court-martial Nidal Hasan, was scheduled to begin calling witnesses, but was delayed by technicality disputes.
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Nidal Hasan's recommendation was forwarded to another US Army colonel at Fort Hood, who, after filing his report, presented his recommendation to the post commander.
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Nidal Hasan declined to enter any plea, and Judge Gross granted a request by Nidal Hasan's attorneys to defer the plea.
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Nidal Hasan notified Gross he had released John Galligan, his civilian attorney during previous court appearances, choosing to be represented by three military lawyers.
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In July 2012, after directing Nidal Hasan to shave his beard, the judge found Nidal Hasan in contempt of court and fined him.
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Nidal Hasan was fined once more for retaining his beard, and was warned by Judge Colonel Gregory Gross he could be force-shaved prior to his court-martial.
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The prosecutors argued Nidal Hasan was simply trying to delay his trial.
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The Appeals Court rejected attempts by Nidal Hasan to receive "religious accommodation" to grow a beard.
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On September 6, Colonel Gross ruled Nidal Hasan be force-shaved after he determined the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act did not apply to this case; however, the force-shave will not be enforced until Nidal Hasan's appeals are exhausted.
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On June 3,2013, a military judge allowed Nidal Hasan to represent himself.
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Nidal Hasan's attorneys were to remain on the case, but only if he asked for their help.
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Court proceedings were speedy because Nidal Hasan raised few objections and declined to cross-examine most witnesses.
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Nidal Hasan, acting as his defense lawyer, offered to share the report with prosecutors during his court-martial.
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Nidal Hasan formally declined to argue prosecutors failed to prove their case.
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Nidal Hasan did not call any witnesses or testify in his defense; he rested his defense on August 21,2013.
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Nidal Hasan did not provide any material explaining his decision to not mount a defense throughout the trial and sentencing.
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The panel recommended Nidal Hasan forfeit his military pay and be dismissed from the Army, a separation for officers carrying the same consequences as a dishonorable discharge.
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In March 2010, Al Qaeda spokesman Adam Yahiye Gadahn praised Nidal Hasan, saying, although he was not a member of Al Qaeda, the.
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Nidal Hasan's perceived beliefs were a cause for concern among some of his peers.
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Dallas attorney Patrick McLain, a former Marine, opined that Nidal Hasan was lawfully justified in sharing privileged information from his patients, but it was impossible to be sure without knowing that information.
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The Christian Science Monitor questioned whether Nidal Hasan was a terrorist.
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Fort Leavenworth authorities justified their decision by citing Nidal Hasan would be subject to Army regulations although he was dismissed from the Army and forfeited all pay and allowances.
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Galligan argued a military council in 2012 allowed Nidal Hasan to keep his beard for the duration of the trial, and dismissed the Army's actions as vindictive.
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In January 2015, it was reported that despite the lengthy appeals process, Nidal Hasan was "eager to follow his path to martyrdom" as soon as possible.