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Who is Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan?
Officials say Hasan is shooter in Ft. Hood attacks

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Associated Press is reporting that a source has told them the shooting suspect in Thursday’s attacks on the Fort Hood Army Post in Texas is Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan, an Army mental health professional.

The attacks on Ft. Hood left 12 people dead and 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman, who is said to be Hasan, and apprehended two other soldiers suspected in the attack.

According to the AP, a defense official said Hasan was a mental health professional—either an Army psychologist or psychiatrist. It’s not known if he was treating people at the post.

The AP said that officials are trying to determine if Hasan was his birth name, or if he converted to the Islamic faith at some point in his life. He was believed to have been in his late 30s......

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/major-malik-nadal-hasan-fort-hood-shootings-110509

http://www.vahealthprovider.com/results_generalinfo.asp?License_No=0101238630

Nidal Hasan Malik, MD

LICENSE # 0101238630

Issue Date: 7/12/2005
Expiration Date: 9/30/2010
Status: Current Active

Medical, Osteopathic, or Podiatric School

Last Updated 10/13/2009Grad School: Uniformed Services University Of The Health Sciences F. Edward Herbert School Of Medicine - Bethesda MD
Year Completed: 2003 Medical, Osteopathic, or Podiatric Post Grad School

Last Updated 10/13/2009Psychiatry
WRAMC
Washington, DC USA
Year Residency Completed: 2007

Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry
USUHS/WRAMC
Bethesda, MD USA
Year Fellowship Completed: 2009

Self-Designated Practice Areas
Last Updated 10/13/2009Psychiatry

"An army mental health professional" -- a full fledged psychiatrist, an m.d. no less, and last night NBC showed old video footage of him in army fatigues sitting in an audience at a counter terrorism symposium in Washington, D.C.

A COUNTER-TERRORISM GEEK??

A MEDICAL DOCTOR?

AN ARMY MAJOR??

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