September 8, 1970 - Nidal Malik Hasan
A U.S. Army psychiatrist whose role was to support soldiers returning from war, Hasan turned his weapon on colleagues and fellow service members at Fort Hood in 2009, killing thirteen and wounding thirty-two in what the Senate later characterized as the worst terrorist attack on American soil since September 11, 2001. What made the case particularly troubling was the trail of warning signs — flagged communications, behavioral concerns, explicit statements — that passed through multiple federal and military channels without triggering intervention. The gap between the available intelligence and the failure to act became as scrutinized as the attack itself.
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Nidal Malik Hasan (born September 8, 1970) is an American mass murderer and physician, who previously served as a United States Army major and perpetrated the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, in which he murdered 13 people and injured 32 others.
Hasan, an Army Medical Corps psychiatrist, admitted to the shootings at his court-martial in August 2013. He said he wanted to stop U.S. soldiers from going to Afghanistan to kill Muslims. During the six years Hasan was a medical intern and resident at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, concerns were raised about his job performance and behavior, specifically comments described by colleagues as "anti-American." Hasan was described as socially isolated, stressed by his work with soldiers, and upset about their accounts of warfare. Two days before the shooting, less than a month before he was due to deploy to Afghanistan, Hasan gave away many of his belongings to a neighbor.
Prior to the shooting, an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concluded Hasan's email correspondence with the late Imam Anwar al-Awlaki was related to his authorized professional research, and he was not a threat. The FBI, Department of Defense (DoD), and United States Senate all conducted investigations after the shootings. The Senate released a report describing the shooting as "the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001." Controversially, the Army decided not to charge Hasan with terrorism.
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