Posted on 11/05/2009 5:39:55 PM PST by markomalley
Major Nidal Malik Hasan - Shooter and Killer at Ft. Hood Texas was just promoted in May of 2009 to Major reports US Army Times
The Army major suspected of opening fire on soldiers as they were preparing to deploy overseas at the massive Fort Hood military base in central Texas Thursday was an Army psychiatrist who recently completed training in treating traumatic stress disorder at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the nation's capital.
Virginia state medical licensing records list a Nidal Malik Hasan as a psychiatrist for the Army Medical Corps, with his primary practice at Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.
At least 12 people were killed (Including Hasan) and 31 wounded in a shooting at Fort Hood Army Base near Killeen, Texas, when at least one gunmen opened fire on soldiers who were making their final deployment preparations.
S Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas told FOX News: "I do know that he has been known to have told people that he was upset about going (to Iraq)."
Hasan is from Virginia, and was single with no children. He was 39 years old. They report he is a graduate of Virginia Tech University, where he was a member of the ROTC and earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1997.
According to Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood, the shooter used two handguns in the attacks at the Soldier Readiness Center on Thursday around 1:30 CDT. The gunman was then shot and killed by a civilian policeman.
Black Hills Today staff send their thoughts and prayers to the families and friends killed and injured in this horrible crime.
I thought he had a bad performance review...was that AFTER his promotion?
Doctors in the Army get paid very very well. One of Hussein and his bosses (Saudis) worker bees.
Yes the AP are saying that the authorities had concerns about him and they give him a promotion! WOW! The Military heads better get a clicking.....
The promotion of a military physician from Captain to Major is automatic. There is no review. If the doctor is not at Leavenworth, he is promoted.
The mooselimb must have been on some Pentagon PC bullsh!t quota in order to be promoted to major.
We have 45 soldiers attacked wounded and killed. Congress should hold immediate hearings on military policy on moslems in our military!!! they need to stop anything else!!
I wonder how much intell he has been passing to the enemy for all these years.
No doubt about it. I've seen officers and SNCOs get promoted smack-dab in the middle of an Article 32 investigation, even a court-martial a few times. Once a FITREP is submitted, it comes down purely to time-in-grade, time-in-service, MOS and demand. That's it.
His co-workers had concerns. The authorties seemed to think he was a victim.
Does anyone know when he was to be deployed?
Tomorrow? Next week? Next month?
I hope this bastard enjoys screwing his 72 goats before he burns in hell for eternity.
Thankfully, as a Army psychiatrist, the only "intel" he had access to was where the coffee machine was located and the closing hours of the local PX.
I’d like a little more profiling data than we’ve gotten so far. Hearing the first details of this hours ago, my first thought was that the ONLY profile it fit was US Soldiers committed to Islam opening fire on a roomful of victims.
It was revealed that he had two handguns and 44 rounds were fired in all, most by him but some by two possible confederates.
Then it came out he was a MAJOR, and then that he was a psychiatrist. Before those details I had made up my mind he was not some Egyptian, Saudi, Iraqi- or other- born Muslim,
but a recent convert to Islam, and was going to be shown to be, once photographs came out, an African-American. THe picture says different, and the other info states he was
“from Virginia”. So I was only partly right, but at the beginning I had NO DOUBT this was a Muslim perp.
Ironic also NOBODY has mentioned the oddball coincidence of him going to Virginia Tech, which apparently everybody’s forgotten was the site of another gruesome massacre.
Seems he had time to practice his small arms skills.
Guy was a nut, amongst nuts. With the training he had, he could cover his actions to the point where no one would suspect him of anything.
While I do not know for how long this man may have been providing psychiatric services for the Army, I’d wager to bet he had access to lists of soldiers who were getting ready to be deployed overseas - could be useful information for his masters.
Where is the damned news conference??? They are panicked!!! the Congressman — on Fox— announced another shooter arrested. We know there were several in the CELL because you can’t kill and wound that many with a pistol without HELP. 45 ?? give me a break. RIGHT? This was a terrorist cell of moslems!!! They herded captives in one room and then executed them!!!! It is MOSLEMS IN THE MILITARY!!! get them out!!!
(Please us the Arabic Muslim term, these murderous scum have nothing in common with real martyrs.)
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