11-08-2009, 02:05 AM
I am sorry don't know why I wrote that - I meant he was born and raised American, then gravitated towards his radical points of view. He is obviously American. Reports said that from the beginning. I never questioned that fact.
TV report said someone with his name posted internet info defending radical point of view. They were still checking it out. Associates said he verbally talked this way also
He had psych care at his previous post before Hood, I thought Virginia.
Today's CNN reports say he was in military 20 years. I thought he enlisted to go to medical school. 20 years ago he never considered he would go to war, and I guess things change.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125750297355533413.html speaks of Internet posting
another article
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/major-mal...10799.html
Major Malik Nadal Hasan was born and raised in Arlington, Virginia in 1968 or 1969, and was reported to have had a good childhood; he never got in to trouble either. He is considered a U.S citizen of Jordanian origin.
He completed a fellowship in Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry in 2009 at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress in Bethesda, Md. Previous to that he graduated from Virginia Tech University with a degree in Biochemistry in 1997. When he attended Virginia Tech he was a member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and earned his medial degree in 2001 from the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda.
A photo of him from William Flemming High School in 1988.
Only recently in 2007 he completed a residency in psychiatry at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington and he helped treat wounded soldiers returing from Iraq and Afghanistan. He was currently working at the Darnell Medical Center at Fort Hood with soldiers suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_...ng_suspect
But Hasan argued with fellow soldiers who supported U.S. war policy, say those who know him professionally and personally. He was a counselor who once required counseling for himself because of trouble he had dealing with some patients, said a former boss.
Authorities on Friday seized Hasan's home computer, searched his apartment and took away a Dumpster as the 39-year-old Army major lay in a coma in the hospital, attached to a ventilator.
There are many unknowns about the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base.
Most of all, his motive.
For six years before reporting for duty at Fort Hood, in July, Hasan worked at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center pursuing his career in psychiatry, as an intern, a resident and, last year, a fellow in disaster and preventive psychiatry. He received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., 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.
"He swore an oath of loyalty to the military," Grieger said. "I didn't hear anything contrary to those oaths."
But, more recently, federal agents grew suspicious.
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 confirmed Hasan is the author of the posting, and a formal investigation had not been opened before the shooting, said law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the case.
Federal authorities seized Hasan's computer Friday during a search of his apartment in Killeen, Texas, said a U.S. military official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
His anger was noted by a classmate, who said Hasan "viewed the war against terror" as a "war against Islam."
Dr. Val Finnell, a classmate of Hasan's at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, attended a master's in public health program in 2007-2008. Finnell says he got to know Hasan because the group of public health students took an environmental health class together. At the end of the class, everyone had to give a presentation. Classmates wrote on topics such as dry cleaning chemicals and mold in homes, but Finnell said Hasan chose the war against terror. Finnell described Hasan as a "vociferous opponent" of the terror war. Finnell said Hasan told classmates he was "a Muslim first and an American second."
Hasan recently was involved in a spat with another Fort Hood soldier residing in his apartment complex, apparently related to his Muslim beliefs.
Hasan earned his rank of major in April 2008, according to a July 2008 Army Times article.
He served eight years as an enlisted soldier. Military records show he also served in the ROTC as an undergraduate at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and received a bachelor's degree in biochemistry there in 1997.
But college officials said Friday that Hasan graduated with honors in biochemistry in 1995 and there was no record of him serving in any ROTC program.
He previously had attended Barstow Community College in Barstow, Calif., and Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke, Va., according to Virginia Tech records.
Even the media seems confused if he enlisted...
TV report said someone with his name posted internet info defending radical point of view. They were still checking it out. Associates said he verbally talked this way also
He had psych care at his previous post before Hood, I thought Virginia.
Today's CNN reports say he was in military 20 years. I thought he enlisted to go to medical school. 20 years ago he never considered he would go to war, and I guess things change.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125750297355533413.html speaks of Internet posting
another article
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/major-mal...10799.html
Major Malik Nadal Hasan was born and raised in Arlington, Virginia in 1968 or 1969, and was reported to have had a good childhood; he never got in to trouble either. He is considered a U.S citizen of Jordanian origin.
He completed a fellowship in Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry in 2009 at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress in Bethesda, Md. Previous to that he graduated from Virginia Tech University with a degree in Biochemistry in 1997. When he attended Virginia Tech he was a member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and earned his medial degree in 2001 from the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda.
A photo of him from William Flemming High School in 1988.
Only recently in 2007 he completed a residency in psychiatry at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington and he helped treat wounded soldiers returing from Iraq and Afghanistan. He was currently working at the Darnell Medical Center at Fort Hood with soldiers suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_...ng_suspect
But Hasan argued with fellow soldiers who supported U.S. war policy, say those who know him professionally and personally. He was a counselor who once required counseling for himself because of trouble he had dealing with some patients, said a former boss.
Authorities on Friday seized Hasan's home computer, searched his apartment and took away a Dumpster as the 39-year-old Army major lay in a coma in the hospital, attached to a ventilator.
There are many unknowns about the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base.
Most of all, his motive.
For six years before reporting for duty at Fort Hood, in July, Hasan worked at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center pursuing his career in psychiatry, as an intern, a resident and, last year, a fellow in disaster and preventive psychiatry. He received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., 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.
"He swore an oath of loyalty to the military," Grieger said. "I didn't hear anything contrary to those oaths."
But, more recently, federal agents grew suspicious.
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 confirmed Hasan is the author of the posting, and a formal investigation had not been opened before the shooting, said law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the case.
Federal authorities seized Hasan's computer Friday during a search of his apartment in Killeen, Texas, said a U.S. military official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
His anger was noted by a classmate, who said Hasan "viewed the war against terror" as a "war against Islam."
Dr. Val Finnell, a classmate of Hasan's at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, attended a master's in public health program in 2007-2008. Finnell says he got to know Hasan because the group of public health students took an environmental health class together. At the end of the class, everyone had to give a presentation. Classmates wrote on topics such as dry cleaning chemicals and mold in homes, but Finnell said Hasan chose the war against terror. Finnell described Hasan as a "vociferous opponent" of the terror war. Finnell said Hasan told classmates he was "a Muslim first and an American second."
Hasan recently was involved in a spat with another Fort Hood soldier residing in his apartment complex, apparently related to his Muslim beliefs.
Hasan earned his rank of major in April 2008, according to a July 2008 Army Times article.
He served eight years as an enlisted soldier. Military records show he also served in the ROTC as an undergraduate at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and received a bachelor's degree in biochemistry there in 1997.
But college officials said Friday that Hasan graduated with honors in biochemistry in 1995 and there was no record of him serving in any ROTC program.
He previously had attended Barstow Community College in Barstow, Calif., and Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke, Va., according to Virginia Tech records.
Even the media seems confused if he enlisted...