Nidal Hasan

Legendary card · No. 10

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...

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