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To: penelopesire; MestaMachine; 444Flyer; LucyT

See also Post #131
(Note: “Anas a lawyer in Jerusalem”)

In an interview, his aunt, Noel Hasan of Falls Church, said he had endured name-calling and harassment about his Muslim faith for years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and had sought for several years to be discharged from the military.

(snip)

He had joined the military over their objections, Noel Hasan said. She said he has two brothers, Eyad, a businessman in Sterling, and Anas, a lawyer in Jerusalem.

When Army officials called Eyad Hasan to relay the news from Fort Hood on Thursday, Noel Hasan said, the brother “fainted when he heard it.” Initially, she said, Eyad was told his brother was injured and in surgery and later was erroneously told he had died.

http://www.justastory.co.uk/


132 posted on 11/06/2009 9:56:39 AM PST by thouworm
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To: penelopesire; MestaMachine; 444Flyer

same Nadar Hasan writing for Harvard International Review

China’s Forgotten Dissenters
The Long Fuse of Xinjiang by Nader Hasan
Making Foreign Policy, Vol. 22 (3) - Fall 2000 Issue

http://hir.harvard.edu/index.php?page=article&id=855&p=


134 posted on 11/06/2009 10:00:35 AM PST by thouworm
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