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Thanks-—could not figure out. It was a reprint from a WaPo article. Posting excerpts below for connecting links and associations (brothers Eyad and Anas mentioned), not perp profile, but lengthy article worth reading) :
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Suspect, devout Muslim from Va., wanted Army discharge, aunt said

By Mary Pat Flaherty, William Wan, Derek Kravitz and Christian Davenport Friday, November 6, 2009 10:56 AM

He prayed every day at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, a devout Muslim who, despite asking to be discharged from the U.S. Army, was on the eve of his first deployment to war. Yesterday, authorities said Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, a 39-year-old Arlington-born psychiatrist, shot and killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex.

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.

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A longtime Walter Reed colleague who referred patients to psychiatrists said co-workers avoided sending service members to Hasan because of his unusual manner and solitary work habits.

Hasan is a 1995 graduate of Virginia Tech who earned a medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda. From 2003 through last summer, he was an intern, resident and then fellow at Walter Reed, where he worked as a liaison between wounded soldiers and the hospital’s psychiatry staff. He was also a fellow at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress at the Bethesda military medical school.

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Hasan’s father, Malik, immigrated to the United States at age 16 from a Palestinian village in the West Bank, an area controlled by Jordan until 1967 but occupied by Israel since then. There, the family tended to an olive grove, neighbors said.

Malik Hasan spent most of his life in Virginia, moving to the Roanoke area in the mid-1980s. He became a successful restaurateur in Vinton, a small railroad town of about 7,800 just east of Roanoke. His businesses included the Capitol, a well-known, blue-collar beer hall on Market Street, the Mount Olive Grill and Bar and the Community Grocery on Elm Avenue.

The Hasans lived in a quiet neighborhood of brick ramblers on Ramada Road. Many in the Roanoke Valley who knew Nidal Hasan said their lasting impression was that he was highly intelligent, and somewhat introverted. Thomas O. Sitz, an associate professor of biochemistry at Virginia Tech, where Hasan graduated in 1995, said he was “one of our better students,” if not a memorable one.

Philip Trompeter, a juvenile court judge who owned the building where the Capitol restaurant was located, said Malik Hasan was “very proud” of his book-smart son and had high hopes for him.

Charles Garlick, who lived across the street from the Hasan family in Vinton, described Nidal Hasan as quiet and reserved. “Every time I’d see him, he’d have a book bag over his shoulder,” Garlick said. Nidal Hasan’s younger brother Eyad — nicknamed “Eddie” — played football with Garlick’s son, Zachary. But Nidal was less social, Garlick.

Hasan’s mother, Hanan, who went by “Nora,” was known as the “keeper of the peace” at the Hasan family’s restaurants. She suffered from kidney problems and died in 2001 at age 49, neighbors said. Malik Hasan died in 1998, at age 52, after suffering a heart attack at his home. The couple is buried in Falls Church.

The Hasan family was large and had deep roots in Roanoke Valley, said Amer Azibidi, minister and imam of the KUFA Center of Islamic Knowledge. At Mount Olive, Malik worked with his brother, Jose. The pair cooked many of the dishes, including lamb kebabs and stuffed grape leaves. But the premature deaths of Malik and Nora Hasan had left the family scattered.

Nidal Hasan enlisted in the Army after high school over his parents’ objections, Noel Hasan said. He was a student at Barstow Community College in California and Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke before enrolling at Virginia Tech, Tech officials said.

He began his studies at Tech in the summer of 1992, eventually majoring in biochemistry with minors in biology and chemistry. He graduated with honors, officials at the university said.

Hasan was not a member of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets or any ROTC program at Tech, the university said.

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“He was a very quiet and private person. I can’t say that people knew him very well other than attending prayers,” said Arshad Qureshi, chairman of the board of trustees at the Muslim Community Center of Silver Spring. “You didn’t see him attend anything — school for children or celebrations. He did not go out of the way to engage people. We have thousands of people who come through to pray; he was just one of them.”

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Eyad Hasan, now 28, graduated from George Mason University and lives in Sterling. Another brother, Anas, also attended Virginia Tech and lived in Kensington, Md., before moving to Jerusalem to work as a lawyer.

Hasan was “like my sons,” his aunt said, spending holidays and free time at her house. At the Muslim Community Center, Hasan stood out because he would sometimes show up in Army fatigues, said Faizul Khan, the former imam there.

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Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) told reporters after a briefing on the shootings that Hasan “took a lot of advanced training in shooting.”

A woman who answered the phone at one of Hasan’s previous addresses in Bethesda — 9304 Cedar Lane — said her husband, Ajab Khan, had been interviewed Thursday night by federal agents investigating the shooting. She refused to identify herself but said Hasan lived with them “for two months, but he’s long gone,” before hanging up.

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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/06/AR2009110600907_pf.html