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From The Times November 7, 2009

Investigators try to understand reasons behind Major Hasan’s rampage

Major Malik Nidal Hassan: signs that he was close to breaking point went unnoticed
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Giles Whittell in Washington
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Investigators have begun piecing together a harrowing story of missed clues and sudden carnage left by an army psychiatrist who gunned down more than 40 people on a Texas army base, killing 13, when faced with the prospect of deploying to a war he wished President Obama had ended.

At the time, the signs that Major Nidal Malik Hasan was close to breaking point went unnoticed. Hours later they were being logged as evidence in a case that is likely to end in the death penalty for the sole suspect in the worst mass shooting on a US military post in recent history.

The day before Major Hasan smuggled two registered handguns into the Soldier Readiness Processing Centre at Fort Hood and started firing, he had knocked on neighbours’ doors and offered shelves, a lamp and frozen broccoli from a flat to which he did not expect to return.

He also distributed several copies of the Koran, telling one confused recipient that he was moving to Oklahoma and another that he was deploying to Iraq.

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The truth was infinitely more troubling. First, he drove on to the sprawling base in central Texas to which he had been assigned in July after a six-year stint at America’s largest hospital for wounded veterans, in Washington.

Wearing a white salmar kameez and cap, he stopped as usual at a convenience store for a breakfast of hash browns and coffee. Closed-circuit television footage aired repeatedly on US news networks yesterday showed Major Hasan’s incongruous and somewhat chubby figure smiling as he pocketed his change and headed for the door.

His workplace was the Darnall Hospital near the southern entrance to Fort Hood, a short drive from his home in neighbouring Killeen.

How much time he spent there was unclear but some time before 1.30pm he made the short journey, a few blocks west, to the building where 300 uniformed personnel were receiving final vaccinations and eyesight checks before being sent overseas.

When he began shooting, the orderly lines of soldiers queuing for treatment dissolved in seconds into bloody chaos.

Witnesses described soldiers tearing off their shirts to staunch the bleeding of those hit in a ten-minute rampage during which Major Hasan may have had time to reload his weapons, and friendly fire may have added to the casualties.

One soldier who was hit in the initial fusillade said: “I made the mistake of moving and I was shot again.”

A female civilian police officer on contract to the US Army, Kimberly Munley, shot Major Hasan four times and was being described as a hero without whom the death toll could have been far higher.

But by the time the gunman was brought down she and more than 40 others had been hit. She and Major Hasan were among the 30 people wounded but in stable condition being treated in military and civilian hospitals throughout the region.

JUSTIFICAR UM TERRORISTA E ASSASSINO?COMO JUSTIFICAM OS MULTICULTURALISTAS DE CÁ OS PERIGOS DESNECESSÁRIOS(PARA ALÉM DA DESPESA)COM QUE ANDAM A PRESENTEAR O POVO PORTUGUÊS?OS TRAIDORES JACOBINOS QUE ATACAM OS CATÓLICOS E NÃO ATACAM OS ISLÂMICOS PORQUÊ?
UM ASSASSINO TERRORISTA SER ABATIDO POR UMA MULHER...