An owner of a 7-Eleven convenience store in Fort Hood, Texas, said Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan came in for coffee and hashbrowns most mornings, including the morning he allegedly shot dozens of soldiers...
An owner of a 7-Eleven convenience store in Fort Hood, Texas, said Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan came in for coffee and hashbrowns most mornings, including the morning he allegedly shot dozens of soldiers.
Surveillance video from the store obtained by CNN shows a man who, according to the store owner, is Hasan at the cashier's counter at about 6:20 a.m. Thursday (7:20 a.m. ET) -- about seven hours before the mass shooting -- carrying a beverage and dressed in traditional Arab garb.
"He looked normal, came in had his hashbrowns and coffee as you see in the surveillance video," the owner told CNN.
Another surveillance video from the store on Tuesday showed the man believed to be Hasan in scrubs.
While the owner said he was too busy to chat with Hasan whom he knows as "Major Nidal" on Thursday, he said that through his brief talks with Hasan he learned the officer's background was Jordanian, though he didn't speak Arabic well. He added that Hasan didn't wear a wedding ring and joked several times on whether the owner knew a bride for him.
Hasan would also ask the owner whether he planned to attend Friday prayers, a mainstay of Islam, to which the owner would say that he was too busy.
Since 2001, Hasan had been telling his family that he wanted to get out of the military but was unsuccessful, said a spokeswoman for his cousin, Nader Hasan. The Army officer told his family that he had been taunted after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the spokeswoman said.
"He was mortified by the idea of having to deploy," his cousin told the New York Times. "He had people telling him on a daily basis the horrors they saw over there."
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who had been briefed by a general at the post, told CNN that Hasan was to have been deployed to Iraq and was unhappy about it.
Staff Sgt. Marc Molano, currently based at Fort Knox, Kentucky, told CNN that he was treated by Hasan for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) while at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington earlier this year.
"Dr. Hasan provided me with nothing but the best care," Molano said. "He was a very well-mannered, polite psychiatrist, and it's just a shock to know that Dr. Hasan could have done this. It's still kind of hard to believe."
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He is a militant that killed many American soliders for a cause. A solider killing soliders is not really terrorism, per se. There are many American soliders that have ambushed compounds in Afghanistan and are declared heros. He is a hero to millions of Muslims, I assure you. Just as you Americans view him in disgust, so do millions of other people view American troops in Afghanistan with equal disgust.
You have already slaughtered 2 million Iraqis, 1 million Afghans! What do you want us Muslims to do, wait for you to wipe out the entire 1.7 billion Muslims in this world? You expect us to sit back and watch you slaughter every last one of us?
That is funny coming from a peace of shit from the UK. Why are you living there? Why don't you move to the shithole desert and fight the good fight. Pussy.
All of your Muslim dipshits have no life. You cause problems in Russia, China, and the Western world. When your not doing that you are invading or destroying your own people. Just a bunch of animals.
ok well wtf was those innocent people doing to muslims. why didnt he take his idiotic ass to iraq or afghanistan instead. THEY are killing right now, not the innocent people at fort hood. Also didnt those guys attack us 1st? ever heard of 9/11? so i guess now u r gonna go kill innocent people who have nothing to do with it huh?
No we dont want all of you dead just the ones that attack us and hide like cowards behind innocent people while you shoot rockets to innocent people then cry when they shoot back. You guys expect us not to do anything, think again!!! We should probablt do what spain did in the past called the reconquista or the re conquest of spain to the whole world were muslims dont belong but honestly i dont care just radical muslims
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You have already slaughtered 2 million Iraqis, 1 million Afghans! What do you want us Muslims to do, wait for you to wipe out the entire 1.7 billion Muslims in this world? You expect us to sit back and watch you slaughter every last one of us?
All of your Muslim dipshits have no life. You cause problems in Russia, China, and the Western world. When your not doing that you are invading or destroying your own people. Just a bunch of animals.