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Washington: The US Army psychiatrist who killed 12 people in a shooting rampage on a Texas military base is a devout Muslim who opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to media reports Friday.
The shootings on Thursday at Fort Hood, Texas, shocked a military community accustomed to grieving for soldiers killed in two overseas wars but not prepared for their home base to be turned into a combat zone.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, was being held after the attack that also injured 31 others. Most of the victims were soldiers.
Hasan was shot four times while being taken into custody after the 1:30 pm shooting and was reported in stable condition at a hospital Thursday night, authorities said. All but two of the victims were soldiers, according to Army Lieutenant General Robert Cone.
Hasan was finally downed by a civilian police officer, who also suffered gunshot wounds. Investigators determined Hasan had been the lone shooter after interviewing more than 100 people on the scene, Cone said.
Much of Hasan's job had been to counsel soldiers with post-traumatic stress syndrome, a growing plague for men and women who have been repeatedly deployed to war zones and often had their combat tours of duty extended in the past eight years.
Hasan was facing his first combat deployment since joining the army in 1995, either to Iraq or Afghanistan, according to a Texas senator quoted by The New York Times.
He had been seeking a discharge for several years from the army, which put him through college and medical school, but had apparently had his request rejected, relatives said.
His cousin, Nader Hasan, told the New York Times that the major was "mortified by the idea of having to deploy. He had people telling him on a daily basis the horrors they saw over there."
His aunt in Falls Church, Virginia, told the Washington Post that Hasan had been heckled for his Muslim faith in the years since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the US.
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SURELY LESSONS MUST BE LEARNT OBJECTIVELY FROM THIS TRAGIC INCIDENCE- BUT LESSONS WONT BE LEARNT- BECAUSE OF ANGERS AND UPSETS..
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Truly tragic!!! Such events simply ends up further damaging the face of the already depreciating Islamic world. I take this
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As a soldier, to be able to kill unarmed soldiers is cowardly. Even if he felt strongly about not being
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