11-08-09

Rothschild/Rockefeller Propaganda & Lies - Louie Freeh & LHATE Manipulated Ft. Hood Shooter Connected to 911

The Ft. Hood shooter had no connect to 911. It is Rothschild/Rockefeller lies and propaganda which is saying the Ft. Hood shooter is connected to 911.

In my opinion the Rothschilds/Rockefellers are responsible for the Ft. Hood shootings. Why? Because they have the motive and the means.The motive is the Ft. Hood shootings is another dot on the road to taking US Constitutional rights from American citizens and putting the USA in a communi$t police state. The Rothschilds/Rockefellers have the means to manipulate the Ft. Hood shootings because they have the money and own Louie Freeh and Freeh has the connections to get clandestine operatives to manipulate Hasan to go on a shooting spree.

The Rothschilds/Rockefellers own our banking system, the private corporation known as The Federal Reserve, and are responsible for too many dirty deeds to come close to listing them all. The goal of the Rothschilds/Rockefellers is to dominate the planet and the solar system and place every person in the United States, every person on the planet Earth, and every form of life in the Universe as slaves in their communi$t police state. However, a small part of the list of Rothschild/Rockefeller dirty deeds include their responsibility for 911, the economic meltdown of 2008, the creation and infection of the planet with AIDS, the Holocaust, and getting Louie Freeh and his LHATE team to manipulate shootings. We know the Ft. Hood shooter, another of the latest Louie Freeh manipulated shootings, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, had nothing to do with 911 because the Arabs blamed for 911 are not responsible for September 11 and are merely patsies. Ft Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hassan had no connection to September 11 because the Rothschilds/Rockefellers are responsible for 911. How do we know Arabs are not responsible for Sept. 11? The picture to the right proves Arabs had nothing to do with it. The picture to the right is of the World Trade Building # 7 being brought down with demolition explosives and Bldg. # 7 was not even hit by a plane. The picture to the right proves planes did not bring down the World Trade Buildings. Planes are the only means Arabs had to bring down the towers. Since the planes could not and did not bring down any of the buildings Sept.11, Arabs are not responsible for Sept. 11. Who benefited from Sept. 11? The Rothschilds/Rockefellers. The Rothschilds/Rockefellers own Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sacks made trillions out of the 2008 economic meltdown. The 2008 economic meltdown is a dot on the Rothschild/Rockefeller road to putting the USA in a communi$t police state. The 2008 economic meltdown could not have happened without Sept. 11. Why? Sept. 11 lead to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that put the USA in debt to the degree necessary, along with derivatives, to cause the 2008 economic meltdown.

The last few shootings have pointed to military bases as being the location of where those who manipulated the shooters were stationed. Logic dictates Louie Freeh was a major high up responsible for implementing September 11. Freeh's connect to Saudia Arabia, Bruce Ivins, and the FBI's efforts this year to declare Arabs living in the USA terrorists, Freeh's logical connect to the DC sniper shootings, leads me to the logical connection between Louie Freeh and a cell or two within the FBI as being responsible for or at least tied in to 911 and shootings. The follow the dot path from school kid shootings and 911, to the declaration and establishment of United States citizens as terrorists who have lost their Constitutional rights and are to be tried in Military Tribunals is becoming blatant. So the following path to dictatorship ,is emerging. It starts with US citizens having full Constitutional rights which includes our right to be told what crimes we have committed, our right to an attorney to defend us, our right to a speedy trial, our right to be tried by a jury of equal US citizens, and our right to post bond and not kept in jail until we are tried for the crime charged. It ends with US citizens having lost all these Constitutional rights.

How do US citizens lose their Constitutional rights, know what they are charged, ect.? Presidential Executive Orders. President Little George, by Executive Orders, established orders which allowed him to declare that terrorists could be tortured, terrorists could be held indefinitely without being charged with crimes, and established Military Tribunals which tried terrorists without legal representation. Little George's Executive Orders defined Americans as terrorists. The FBI during the last year has been rounding up Americans, mostly Arab Americans, and charging them with terrorism. Once Americans are classified as terrorists this means the government can torture them, hold them without charges, prevent them from legal representation, and try them by Military Tribunal.

Logic dictates Rothschilds/Rockefellers/Louie Freeh chose the Ft. Hood shooter because Hasan is an American, and Hasan has Arab heritage because his parents are Palestinians and Hasan is in the military. Logic dictates Hasan will be tortured to confess and say whatever the Rothschilds/Rockefellers want him to confess. The Rothschilds/Rockefellers will use Hasan's Arab roots and the fact Hasan was in the military to get Hasan tried as a terrorist by Military Tribunal. The main goal of picking Hasan and manipulating him to go on a shooting spree is to set precedent to classify all Americans as terrorists without our Constitutional rights.

The public outcry to close Guantanamo and against Obama's Military Tribunals may also be a motive behind the bad guys manipulating an Arab American to go on a shooting spree. The bad guys chose Texas to manipulate a horrible shooting spree in hope that such a horrible deed would discourage Texans who have been working against Obama and Obama's support for Military Tribunals. The antiwar movement could also be behind the bad guys manipulating this shooting.

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Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists
Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001.

By Philip Sherwell and Alex Spillius
Published: 8:17PM GMT 07 Nov 2009
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Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas Photo: GETTY
Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year.
The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations.

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Hasan's eyes "lit up" when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki's teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday's horrific shooting spree.
As investigators look at Hasan's motives and mindset, his attendance at the mosque could be an important piece of the jigsaw. Al-Awlaki moved to Dar al-Hijrah as imam in January, 2001, from the west coast, and three months later the September 11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hamzi and Hani Hanjour began attending his services. A third hijacker attended his services in California.
Hasan was praying at Dar al-Hijrah at about the same time, and the FBI will now want to investigate whether he met the two terrorists.
Charles Allen, a former under-secretary for intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security, has described al-Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen, as an "al-Qaeda supporter, and former spiritual leader to three of the September 11 hijackers... who targets US Muslims with radical online lectures encouraging terrorist attacks from his new home in Yemen".
Last night Hasan remained in a coma under guard at a military hospital in San Antonio, Texas, and was said to be in a "stable" condition. Born in America to a Palestinian family, Hasan, 39, was an army psychiatrist who had chosen to sign up for the US military against his parents' wishes.
But he turned into an angry critic of the wars America was waging in Iraq and Afghanistan and had tried in vain to negotiate his discharge.
He counselled soldiers returning from the front line and told relatives that he was horrified at the prospect of a deployment to Afghanistan later this year – his first time in a combat zone.
Whether due to his personal convictions, his stress over his deployment or other reasons, Hasan is alleged to have snapped and gone on a murderous rampage with a powerful semi-automatic handgun after shouting "Allahu Akhbar" ("God is great"), according to survivors. He had earlier given away copies of the Koran to neighbours.
Investigators at this stage have no indication that he planned the attacks with anyone else. But they are trawling through his phone records, paperwork and computers he used before the attack during an apparently sleepless night.
Five of the 13 victims were fellow mental health professionals from three units of the army's Combat Stress Control Detachment, it was disclosed yesterday.
It is understood that Hasan had been due to be deployed with members of those units in coming months. Whether he deliberately singled out other combat stress counsellors is another key question.
What does seem clear is that the army missed an increasing number of red flags that Hasan was a troubled and brooding individual within its ranks.
"I was shocked but not surprised by news of Thursday's attack," said Dr Val Finnell, a fellow student on a public health course in 2007-08 who heard Hasan equate the war on terrorism to a war on Islam. Another student had warned military officials that Hasan was a "ticking time bomb" after he reportedly gave a presentation defending suicide bombers.
Kamran Pasha, the author of Mother of the Believers, a new novel relating the story of Islam from the perspective of Aisha, Prophet Mohammed's wife, was told of the al-Awlaki connection from a Muslim friend who is also an officer at Fort Hood. Using the name Richard, the recent convert to Islam described how he frequently prayed with Hasan at the town mosque after Hasan was deployed to Fort Hood in July. They last worshipped together at predawn prayers on the day of the massacre when Hasan "appeared relaxed and not in any way troubled or nervous".
But Richard had previously argued with Hasan when he said that he felt the "war on terror" was really a war against Islam, expressed anti-Jewish sentiments and defended suicide bombings.
"I asked Richard whether he believed that Hasan was motivated by religious radicalism in his murderous actions," Mr Pasha said.
"Richard, with great sadness, said that he believed this was true. He also believed that psychological factors from Hasan's job as an army psychiatrist added to his pathos. The news that he would be deployed overseas, to a war that he rejected, may have pushed him over the edge.
"But Richard does not excuse Hasan. As a Muslim, he finds Hasan's religious perspectives to be fundamentally misguided. And as a soldier, he finds Hasan's actions cowardly and evil."
Fellow Muslims in the US armed forces have also been quick to denounce Hasan's actions and insist that they were the product of a lone individual rather than of Islamic teachings. Osman Danquah, the co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, said Hasan never expressed anger toward the army or indicated any plans for violence.
But he said that, at their second meeting, Hasan seemed almost incoherent.
"I told him, 'There's something wrong with you'. I didn't get the feeling he was talking for himself, but something just didn't seem right."
He was sufficiently troubled that he recommended the centre reject Hasan's request to become a lay Muslim leader at Fort Hood.
Hasan had, in fact, already come to the attention of the authorities before Thursday's massacre. He was suspected of being the author of internet postings that compared suicide bombers with soldiers who throw themselves on grenades to save others and had also reportedly been warned about proselytising to patients.
At Fort Hood, he told a colleague, Col Terry Lee, that he believed Muslims should rise up against American "aggressors". He made no attempt to hide his desire to end his military service early or his mortification at the prospect of deployment to Afghanistan. "He had people telling him on a daily basis the horrors they saw over there," said his cousin, Nader Hasan.
Yet away from his strident attacks on US foreign policy, he came across as subdued and reclusive – not hostile or threatening. Soldiers he counselled at the Walter Reed hospital in Washington praised him, while at Fort Hood, Kimberly Kesling, the deputy commander of clinical services, remarked: "Up to this point, I would consider him an asset."
Relatives said that the death of Hasan's parents, in 1998 and 2001, turned him more devout. "After he lost his parents he tried to replace their love by reading a lot of books, including the Koran," his uncle Rafiq Hamad said.
"He didn't have a girlfriend, he didn't dance, he didn't go to bars."
His failed search for a wife seemed to haunt Hasan. At the Muslim Community Centre in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring, he signed up for an Islamic matchmaking service, specifying that he wanted a bride who wore the hijab and prayed five times a day.
Adnan Haider, a retired professor of statistics, recalled how at their first meeting last year, a casual introduction after Friday prayers, Hasan immediately asked the academic if he knew "a nice Muslim girl" he could marry.
"It was a strange thing to ask someone you have met two seconds before. It was clear to me he was under pressure, you could just see it in his face," said Prof Haider, 74, who used to work at Georgetown University in Washington. "You could see he was lonely and didn't have friends.
"He is working with psychiatric people and I ask why the people around him didn't spot that something was wrong? When I heard what had happened I actually wasn't that surprised."
Indeed, many of the characteristics attributed to Hasan by acquaintances – withdrawn, unassuming, brooding, socially awkward and never known to have had a girlfriend – have also applied to other mass murderers.
Hasan was born and brought up in Virginia to parents who ran restaurants after emigrating to America from the West Bank. He graduated from Virginia Tech university – coincidentally, the scene of the worst mass shooting in US history in 2007 – with a degree in biochemistry and then joined the army, which trained him as a psychiatrist.
Relatives said that he was subjected to increasingly ugly taunts about his religion and ethnicity from other soldiers after the September 11 attacks. But his uncle insisted yesterday that Hasan would not have been driven to mass murder by revenge or religion.
Speaking in the West Bank town of al-Bireh, Mr Hamad said his nephew "loved America" and could only have been caused to snap by an as yet unexplained factor. "He always said there was no country in the world like America," he told The Sunday Telegraph. "Something big happened to him in Texas. If he did it – and until now I am in denial – it had to have been something huge because revenge was not in his nature."
•Additional reporting by Adrian Blomfield in al-Bireh

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Obama Offers Sympathy and Urges No ‘Jump to Conclusions’

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: November 7, 2009

WASHINGTON — President Obama, extending condolences to the community at Fort Hood, Tex., reminded Americans on Saturday that people of “every race, faith and station” serve in the military — an oblique attempt to prevent a backlash against Muslims in the wake of Thursday’s shootings at the base that left 13 dead.

Many Muslims have been concerned that their faith will somehow be blamed after an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who prayed regularly at the Fort Hood mosque, was accused of being the lone gunman in the attack. Mr. Obama did not address that concern directly. But, speaking in his weekly address, he seemed to urge Americans not to dwell on the suspect’s religion by reminding the nation of the broad diversity of those who serve.

“They are Americans of every race, faith and station,” he said. “They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers. They are descendants of immigrants, and immigrants themselves. They reflect the diversity that makes this America. But what they share is a patriotism like no other. What they share is a commitment to country that has been tested and proved worthy. What they share is the same unflinching courage, unblinking compassion and uncommon camaraderie that the soldiers and civilians of Fort Hood showed America and showed the world.”

Mr. Obama has ordered flags at government buildings to fly at half-staff until Veterans Day, and he, the first lady and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates are scheduled to attend a memorial service at Fort Hood on Tuesday; Mr. Obama is planning to leave Wednesday for a weeklong trip to Asia.

Mr. Obama has made it a goal of his presidency to repair relations with Muslims around the world; in a major speech in Cairo this year, he called for a “new beginning” with the Muslim world. The shootings at Fort Hood, however, pose a different problem for the president, by shining a spotlight on the tensions Muslims can feel inside the United States.

In a Rose Garden appearance on Friday, Mr. Obama urged Americans not to “jump to conclusions” about the motives behind the shooting, a theme he echoed on Saturday.

“We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing,” he said in the Saturday address. “But what we do know is our thoughts are with every single one of the men and women who were injured at Fort Hood. Our thoughts are with all the families who’ve lost a loved one in this national tragedy.”

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Fort Hood shooting
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Fort Hood shooting
Location Fort Hood, Texas,
United States
Date November 5, 2009
ca. 1:34 p.m. (CST)
Attack type Mass shooting
Death(s) 13[1]
Injured 30[1]
Suspected perpetrator Major Nidal Malik Hasan
The Fort Hood shooting occurred on November 5, 2009, at Fort Hood, located outside of Killeen, Texas, the largest US Military base in the world.[2] A gunman opened fire in the Soldier Readiness Center, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others.[3]
The alleged gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, was shot by civilian police officers and was seriously injured. Following the incident, Hasan was hospitalized, initially on a ventilator, under heavy guard.[4]
Contents [hide]
1 Shootings
2 Victims
2.1 Fatalities
2.2 Injured
3 Suspect
3.1 Early life and education
3.2 Recent events
4 Reaction
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Shootings

Location of the main cantonment of Fort Hood in Bell County, Texas
Hasan entered his workplace, the Soldier Readiness Center—where personnel receive routine medical treatment immediately prior to and on return from deployment—at approximately 1:34 pm (CST). According to eyewitnesses he opened fire with two handguns: an FN Five-seven semi-automatic pistol and a .357 Magnum Smith & Wesson revolver,[5] at soldiers processing through cubicles in the center and on a crowd gathered 30 minutes before a scheduled college graduation ceremony in a nearby theater.[6] At the start of the attack, Hasan reportedly jumped up on a desk and shouted "Allahu Akbar!"[4][7][8][9] before allegedly firing more than 100 rounds in the soldier processing center.[10] A medic who treated Hasan said the pockets of his combat fatigues were full of pistol magazines.[11]
Thirteen people (eleven soldiers and two civilians) were killed, of whom, eleven died at the scene, two later in hospital.[12][13] and thirty others were wounded before Hasan was shot at least four times by a local police officers, including Sergeant Kimberly Munley, who was herself shot by Hasan.[4]
Munley, who was doing maintenance on her patrol car nearby, arrived on the scene within three minutes of receiving the report of an emergency at the center. Upon arrival, she encountered the shooter exiting the building in pursuit of a wounded soldier. Munley and Hasan exchanged shots. Munley was hit three times; twice through the left leg and once in her right wrist which knocked her to the ground. Hasan charged at the prone officer as the two continued to exchange shots. In the meantime, civilian police officer Mark Todd arrived and began to fire at Hasan. Hasan was hit and felled by shots from both Todd and Munley, ending the shooting spree.[14][15]
The incident lasted for about 10 minutes with the shooter reportedly firing about 100 shots.[16] Contrary to initial reports, the shooter was not killed in the incident, rather he was hospitalized in stable condition.[1] Initially, three soldiers were believed to have been involved in the shooting; two soldiers were detained but subsequently released. The Fort Hood website posted a notice that indicated that the shooting was not a drill. Immediately after the shooting, the base and surrounding areas, including a number of local schools, were locked down with military police and SWAT teams. The lockdown lasted about five hours and by 7 p.m. local time was lifted.[17] In addition, FBI agents were called in from Austin and Waco,[18] and Texas Rangers were dispatched.[19] United States President Barack Obama was briefed on the incident, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters. Obama later held a press conference about the shooting.[1]
Victims

By the evening of November 6, 2009, the 43 casualties comprised 13 dead (11 soldiers and two army civilian employees), and 30 wounded.[1][3] Ten of the survivors—all with gunshot wounds—were treated at Scott & White Memorial Hospital, a Level 1 trauma center in Temple, Texas.[20] Seven more wounded victims were taken to Metroplex Adventist Hospital in Killeen.[20]
Fatalities
The thirteen killed are:
Rank Name Age Hometown
Civilian Michael Grant Cahill[21] 62 Spokane, Washington
Major L. Eduardo Caraveo[22] 52 Woodbridge, Virginia
Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow[23] 32 Plymouth, Indiana
Captain[24] John Gaffaney[25] 56 Serra Mesa, California
SPC Frederick Greene[21] 29 Mountain City, Tennessee
SPC Jason Dean Hunt[21] 22 Tipton, Oklahoma
SGT Amy Krueger[21] 29 Kiel, Wisconsin
PFC Aaron Thomas Nemelka[21] 19 West Jordan, Utah
PFC Michael Pearson[26] 22 Bolingbrook, Illinois
Civilian Russell Seager[27] 51 Racine, Wisconsin
PFC Francheska Velez[28] 21 Chicago, Illinois
Military PA Juanita Warman[27] 55 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
PFC Kham Xiong[21] 23 St. Paul, Minnesota
Injured
Those names and home towns so far released of those wounded in the attack are:[27]
Name Age (at time of attack) Hometown
Amber Bahr 19 Random Lake, Wisconsin
Alan Carroll 20 Bridgewater, New Jersey
Dorothy "Dorrie" Carskadon unspecified Rockford, Illinois
Joy Clark 27 Des Moines, Iowa
Matthew Cook 30 Binghamton, New York
Chad Davis unspecified Eufaula, Alabama
Joey Foster 21 Ogden, Utah
Nathan Hewitt 26 West Lafayette, Indiana
Justin Johnson 21 Punta Gorda, Florida
Alonzo Lunsford unspecified Richmond County, North Carolina
Shawn Manning 33 Redmond, Oregon
Brandy Mason 32 Monessen, Pennsylvania
Grant Moxon 23 Lodi, Wisconsin
Kimberly Munley 34 Killeen, Texas ‡
Christopher Royal unspecified Elmore County, Alabama
Randy Royer unspecified Dothan, Alabama
Raymondo "Ray" Saucedo 26 Greenville, Michigan
George Stratton III 18 Post Falls, Idaho
Keara Bono Torkelson 21 Otsego, Minnesota
Patrick Zeigler 28 Orange County, Florida
‡ One of the Fort Hood civilian police officers who shot Hasan.
Suspect

Nidal Malik Hasan
Born September 6, 1970 (age 39)

Hasan in 2007
Place of birth Arlington, Virginia
Service/branch United States Army
Medical Corps
Years of service 1988–present
Rank Major
Unit
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Walter Reed Medical Center
Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center
Major Nidal Malik Hasan was a 39-year-old U.S. Army psychiatrist at the time of the shooting. In July 2009 he had been transferred to Fort Hood from Washington's Walter Reed Medical Center.[1] He is currently the sole suspect in the shooting. Hasan had come to the attention of federal authorities at least six months before the attacks because of Internet postings he may have made discussing suicide bombings[29] and other threats.[30]
Early life and education
Hasan described himself as being of Palestinian descent.[31] His parents emigrated to the United States from al-Bireh, a city in the West Bank territory north of Jerusalem.[32][33] He was born in Arlington, Virginia[34] and raised in Virginia.
Hasan attended William Fleming High School in Roanoke, Virginia.[35] He joined the army immediately after high school and served 8 years as an enlisted soldier while attending college. Hasan graduated from Virginia Tech with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and went on to medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.[36] After earning his medical degree (M.D.) in 2001, he completed his residency in psychiatry at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.[37] In 2009, he completed a fellowship in Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry at the Center for Traumatic Stress.[38]
According to some sources, Hasan is single with no children.[39][40] David Cook, a former neighbor, said two sons were living with Hasan around 1997 and they attended local schools. Cook said of him, "As far as I know, he was a single father. I never saw a wife."[31] According to military records, Hasan was unmarried.[41]
Hasan's parents died in 1998 and 2001. According to his cousin, these deaths caused him to become more religiously devout.[33]
Recent events
Hasan was promoted from Captain to Major in May 2009.[38][42] Before being transferred to Fort Hood in July 2009, Hasan had received a poor performance evaluation.[30] While an intern at Walter Reed, Hasan received counseling and extra supervision.[43]
According to Hasan's aunt, Noel Hasan of Falls Church, Virginia, he had sought for several years to receive a discharge, because of harassment relating to his Islamic faith.[44] An army spokesman could not confirm the aunt's statement,[45] and the deputy director of American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs released a statement calling the report "inconsistent" with their records.[46]
Hasan had come to the attention of federal authorities at least six months before the attacks because of internet postings he may have made discussing suicide bombings[29] and other threats. However, it remains unclear whether he was the author of the posts, and no official investigation was opened.[30] The postings, made in the name "NidalHasan," likened a suicide bomber to a soldier who throws himself on a grenade to save his colleagues and sacrificing his life for a "more noble cause."[29]
According to retired Colonel Terry Lee, "He said maybe Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor. At first we thought he meant help the armed forces, but apparently that wasn't the case. Other times he would make comments we shouldn't be in the war in the first place."[47]
During a psychiatry fellowship at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Hasan told students "I'm a Muslim first and an American second," according to a fellow student interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Lt. Col. Val Finnell. Finnell said that while other students' projects focused on topics such as water contamination, Hasan's project dealt with the "whether the war on terror is a war against Islam."[29]
Hasan was to be deployed to Afghanistan, contrary to earlier reports that he was to go to Iraq,[48] on November 28. According to Jeff Sadoski, spokesperson of U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, "Hasan was upset about his deployment".[49] Hasan's cousin, Nader Hasan, a lawyer in Virginia, said that Nidal Hasan turned against the wars after hearing the stories of those who came back from Afghanistan and Iraq.[50] Noel Hamad said, however, that the family did not know he was being sent to Afghanistan. "He didn't tell us he was going to deploy," she said.[51]
Faizul Khan, the former imam of a mosque in Silver Spring, Maryland, where Hasan prayed several times a week, said he was "a reserved guy with a nice personality. We discussed religious matters. He was a fairly devout Muslim."[31]
According to his cousin, Nidal Hasan was a practicing Muslim who had become more devout after the deaths of his parents in 1998 and 2001.[33] However, his cousin did not recall him ever expressing any radical or anti-American views.[33] The cousin claimed that Hasan had been harassed by his army colleagues because of his Middle Eastern ethnicity. Said the cousin, "He was dealing with some harassment from his military colleagues. I don’t think he’s ever been disenchanted with the military. It was the harassment. He hired a military attorney to try to have the issue resolved, pay back the government, to get out of the military. He was at the end of trying everything."[52]
A convenience store security video reportedly showed Hasan wearing a salwar kameez, a traditional South Asian outfit.[53][54] Additionally, Hasan gave away furniture from his home on the morning of the shooting, saying he was going to be deployed on Friday. He also was handing out copies of the Quran.[55]
Hassan was placed under guard in Brooke Army Medical Center's intensive care unit and his condition was described as "stable".[56] News reports on the morning of November 7, 2009, indicated that Nidal Hasan was in a coma, but it is not clear if the coma was medically induced or not.[57]
Reaction

In the hours immediately after the shooting, other American military bases stepped up their security measures.[58][59][60]
Lieutenant General Robert W. Cone, commander of III Corps at Fort Hood, called the attack "a terrible tragedy, stunning", saying the base community was "absolutely devastated."[61] However, he said that the evidence did not suggest the shooting was terrorism.[62] A spokesman for the Defense Department called the shooting an "isolated and tragic case"[63] and Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, "I can pledge that the Department of Defense will do everything in its power to help the Fort Hood community get through these difficult times."[64] The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin, said "Our hearts go out to the families of the brave Americans who lost their lives in today's senseless violence at Fort Hood, Texas, and to those who were injured."[64]
President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and former President George W. Bush (who also once served as governor of Texas) all issued statements of support and sympathy for the victims, as did other prominent American politicians. Obama described the incident as "tragic" and "a horrific outburst of violence" while noting that it was "difficult enough when we lose these brave men and women abroad, but it is horrifying that they should come under fire at an army base on U.S. soil."[1] His statement was preceded by one from Vice-President Joe Biden who said "Jill and I join the President and Michelle in expressing our sympathies to the families of the brave soldiers who fell today. We are all praying for those who were wounded and hoping for their full and speedy recovery."[65] Former President Bush said he "was saddened to learn of the tragic incident at Fort Hood. Laura and I are keeping the victims and their families in our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time."[66] Texas Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn each issued messages expressing their shock and sympathy at the shooting.[18][67]
The Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned the shooting, expressing prayers for the victims and condolences for their families.[68][69]
The investigating authorities say the evidence suggests that the shooting was not terrorism.[70]
An analyst of terror investigations, Carl Tobias, said that the attack did not fit the profile of terrorism, and was more reminiscent of the Virginia Tech shooting: "Terrorist attacks are undertaken by people who typically ... have some agenda they want to forward politically, and ... this is just a person acting individually because he doesn't want to deploy overseas. ... It looks more like the other shootings where one person seems mentally deranged."[70] Michael Scheuer, the retired former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden Issue Station, has called the event a terrorist attack. Walid Phares described it as "the largest single terror act in America since 9/11." [70] On November 6, 2009, retired General Barry McCaffrey stated on Anderson Cooper 360° that "... it's starting to appear as if this was a domestic terrorist attack on fellow soldiers by a major in the Army who we educated for six years while he was giving off these vibes of disloyalty to his own force."[71]
President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Paul Helmke claimed that "This latest tragedy, at a heavily fortified army base, ought to convince more Americans to reject the argument that the solution to gun violence is to arm more people with more guns in more places."[72]