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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW - November 12, 2009
Fort Hood Rampage: Shooter Acted Alone,
Officials Say. But Why?
by: Patrik Jonsson
The Christian Science Monitor
Dozens of investigators at Fort Hood are building a psycho-
logical profile of the suspect, Nidal Malik Hasan, as they
try to understand the motive. Belligerent fanaticism, deep-
ening anger over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and fear
about deployment may have played a role.
Fort Hood, Texas - Army investigators have ruled out a
terror plot in the gruesome rampage at Fort Hood, saying
that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a veteran psychiatrist,
acted alone in the shooting spree last Thursday.
If a larger plot wasn't being carried out, then what was
the motive?
Military officials have not yet declared an intent or
motivation. But even though the investigation is still
in the early stages, a more focused portrait is emerging
of Hasan, who is recovering in a San Antonio hospital.
Security and criminal analysts are hinting that belligerent
fanaticism, deepening anger over the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, and fear about his own impending deployment
to Afghanistan may have played a role in the rampage.
Dozens of investigators are building a psychological
profile of Hasan as they try to understand the motive.
This profile probably won't be completed until Hasan
is able to, and agrees to, talk. (He is now in stable
condition, according to a US Army spokesman, and is
breathing on his own.)
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On Sunday, the US Army's chief of staff cautioned against
drawing hasty conclusions about Hasan's faith. Focusing
on the Islamic roots of Hasan could "heighten the backlash"
against all Muslims in the military, said Gen. George
Casey, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Hasan grew up as a US-born son of Palestinian parents.
He had sought deeper sanctuary in his Muslim faith since
the death of his parents, his cousins have reported.
His psychological work with traumatized US soldiers had
disturbed him.
Without an immediate family and increasingly disenchanted
with the Army, Hasan turned to religion, where he could
direct his increasing fear and frustration, says Brian
Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate &
Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
"The spark was his personal situation and his psychological
distress, but what directed his anger and frustration
was... increasing self-radicalization," Mr. Levin says.
"It's important to understand the extent to which the
tangled interplay of personal disappointment and ideology
can have on someone like Hasan."
After arriving earlier this year at the base city of
Killeen, Texas, Hasan asked the local imam about the moral
quandary he struggled with ? as a Muslim going off to war
in an army that is fighting Muslims.
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Hasan had complained about being the target of religious
and ethnic slurs, his family and colleagues said, but he
never made an official complaint with the Army.
According to a Washington Post account, he once called the
police on a neighbor for allegedly keying his car and
removing a bumper sticker that said in Arabic, "Allah is
love."
Colleagues reported that Hasan had become increasingly
agitated, sometimes belligerent, about America's role in
the Muslim world. A former colleague told Fox News that
Hasan had praised the shooting of two Army recruiters by
a "lone wolf jihadist" earlier this year in Little Rock,
Ark. His online writings had gotten the attention of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, which investigated but
took no action against Hasan.
Last Thursday, Hasan reportedly yelled "Allahu Akbar" ?
"God is great" in Arabic ? before allegedly opening fire
on soldiers in various stages of deployment and return
at Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Processing Center.
That the Army had not picked up on clues from Hasan ? in
fact, it even promoted him to major last year despite some
negative marks on his record ? is likely to become a second-
ary line of inquiry in the Hasan case.
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On Sunday, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I) of Connecticut
announced that he wants to lead a congressional investig-
ation into the Fort Hood shootings. He wants to find out
"whether the Army missed warning signs" about Hasan, he
said on "Fox News Sunday."
One potential issue: Did political correctness around
religious issues prevent Army officials from investigating
Hasan's issues more deeply?
"His faith may have exposed him to verbal abuse, but did
it also protect him from being identified as someone with
troubling emotional problems?" asks the columnist Joan
Smith in Britain's Independent newspaper.] "[I]t is reason-
able to ask whether secular authorities have the confidence
to tell the difference between religious fervour of a
kind they're not familiar with and genuinely disturbed
behaviour."
As of now, it appears to many that Hasan may have been
unable to reconcile two identities ? US soldier and a
Muslim ? and that the two identities clashed in violent
opposition as he approached a major personal landmark ?
his own deployment to a war zone that he had seen create
challenges for so many young people.
For many at Fort Hood, though, those are just psychobabble
excuses. "To be honest, I don't care about that guy right
now," says Third Corps Sgt. Christopher Gray.
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