JUST IN: U.S Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan To Be Execυted — The Army Knew, The FBI Knew, But 13 D*ed… A military jury at Fort Hood, Texas, today sentenced Army Major Nadal Hassan to death for killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 in a 2009 attack. He could become the first American soldier to be executed since 1961. The American-born Muslim has said he acted to protect Islamic insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. He represented himself at his court marshal, but offered no defense. The man holding the gun had metals on his chest, a medical degree on his wall, and the trust of every soldier in that room. He used all three to get close enough to kill them. In December 2008, an email landed in an FBI inbox. The sender was a United States Army officer, a commission psychiatrist with full security clearance trusted with the mental health of American soldiers returning from war. The question he was directing at a man already under federal surveillance was whether it was religiously permissible to take the lives of American military personnel. The FBI read it. They read the next one and the one after that. 18 emails in total. Each one reviewed, each one assessed. Their official conclusion consistent with authorized research. File closed. 11 months later, 13 people were dead inside the soldier readiness processing center at Fort Hood, Texas. At the time, the largest active duty military installation in the United States. The man who sent those emails was not a foreign operative. He held no place on a watch list. He was Major Nidal Malik Hassan, a United States Army psychiatrist whose entire career was built on the promise of protecting the soldiers around him. This is not a story about one act of violence. It is a documented record of warnings issued, evidence gathered, and decisions made and not made by the institutions responsible for preventing exactly what happened on November 5th, 2009. What you are about to hear is accurate. It is verified. And every layer of it is more disturbing than the last. If this is your first time on this channel, we go further than the headline. We cover the evidence, the failures, and the courtroom details that most coverage never reaches. Subscribe and hit the bell. This story has layers most people have never heard, and we are just getting started. Nadal Malik Hassan was born on September 8th, 1970 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virginia. To anyone looking in from the outside, this was a family building something real in America. His parents were Palestinian immigrants, naturalized American citizens who had made their way from Albire, a city in the West Bank near Jerusalem. They did not arrive with much, but they worked. His father established multiple businesses in Rowan Oak, Virginia, a market, a restaurant, and an olive bar. His mother, Nora, ran the Capital Restaurant, a place known in the local community not just for its food, but for her willingness to provide a warm meal to anyone who could not afford one. By every measure, they were a family that believed in contribution. Growing up, Nadal went by a different name entirely. His childhood nickname was Michael, a name as American as the country his parents had chosen to build their lives in. He attended Wakefield High School in Arlington. When the family relocated to Rowan Oak in 1986, he transferred to William Fleming High School where he graduated in 1988. What happened next surprised his parents. Against their wishes, Nadal Hassan enlisted in the United States Army. He did not walk away from education. For the next 8 years, he served as an enlisted soldier while simultaneously working his way through college. He started at Barstow Community College in California, transferred to Virginia Western Community College where he earned his associate degree in 1992 and then moved on to Virginia Tech where he graduated with a degree in biochemistry with honors in 1995. The United States Army then funded his place at the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, one of the most competitive military medical programs in the country. He later added a master’s degree in public health. By 2003, Nadal Hassan had earned his medical degree. He went on to complete his psychiatry specialization at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. On paper, this was a story of discipline, sacrifice, and achievement. But during those years of training, something was quietly shifting. In 1997, Hassan visited relatives in the West Bank for the first time. It was his first direct connection to the land his parents had left behind. And by multiple accounts, it deepened his sense of religious and cultural identity in ways that those around him began to notice in the years that followed. Then came two losses that by several accounts left a permanent mark. His father passed away in 1998 at just 51 years old. His mother, Nora, the woman who had fed strangers without asking anything in return, died in 2001 at 49. Both were gone before Hassan had completed his training. His mother’s funeral was held on May 31st, 2001 at the Dar Al-Hyra Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia. It was there at that service that Nidal Hassan came back into contact with a figure who would in time play a significant role in the direction his life would take. That name and what followed belongs to a later part of this story. What is documented is this. His cousin, Virginia attorney Nater Hassan, later stated publicly that Nadal’s perspective began to shift after years of listening to soldiers in his care describe their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. Session after session, account after account, the wars his country was fighting in Muslim majority nations were no longer something distant. They were sitting across from him every day in the form of the people he was supposed to be helping. The man the army had trained, funded, and trusted was beginning to see the institution differently. And the institution, for its part, was not paying close enough attention to notice. Nadal Hassan arrived at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with credentials, government funding, and a clear path forward. What followed was something the army’s own records could not ignore. The psychiatry residency was designed to be completed in 4 years. Isan took six. But the deeper concern was not the timeline. It was what the timeline concealed. Over 38 weeks, he saw approximately 30 patients. The expected standard was closer to 300. He was not answering emergency on call lines. He was failing basic shift duties. On one formally documented occasion, a patient classified as a danger to others was allowed to leave the emergency room without supervision on his watch….Full Story Comment 👇👇

Both men were struck and did not survive. Those who knew Michael Cahill said that anyone who understood who he was would not have been surprised. Moving toward danger rather than away from it was consistent with everything about him. Herman Toro, the director of the soldier readiness processing site, rushed toward a colleague who had gone down near the north side of the medical building.

As he moved through the room, the red beam of Hassan’s laser sight crossed his chest. Asan did not fire. Toro took cover behind an electrical box on the far side of the room. From that position, he watched the final moments of the attack unfold. On the east side of the building, two soldiers and a sight worker broke through a window and fled into the parking lot.

One soldier sustained a hand injury from the glass. They survived. The attack lasted approximately 10 minutes. When it was over, 13 people were dead and 32 others had been wounded. Department of the Army civilian police officer Kimberly Munley was among the first to respond. She engaged Hassan directly and exchanged fire with him before being shot three times. She went down.

Her partner, Sergeant Mark Todd, arrived and confronted Hassan. Todd fired five shots. Hassan at that point had emptied his weapon and was reaching for another magazine when he was struck. Todd crossed the room, kicked the pistol out of reach, and placed Hassan in handcuffs as he lost consciousness. The Smith and Wesson.

357 Magnum revolver Hassan carried was recovered at the scene. Forensic analysis confirmed it had never been discharged. Hassan was transported to Scott and White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas, and later transferred to Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio. These are the 13 people who did not leave that building.

Michael Grant Cahill, 62, civilian physician assistant from Cameron, Texas. Married for 37 years, father of three. He had returned to work just the week before after recovering from a heart attack. Lieutenant Colonel Wanita Warman, 55, from H D Grace, Maryland, a physician assistant and mental health counselor. She had two daughters and six grandchildren.

She was preparing to deploy to Iraq. Major Leardo Eduardo Caraveo, 52, from Woodbridge, Virginia. He was born in Suad Huarez, Mexico and arrived in the United States as a teenager with limited English. He earned a doctorate in psychology from the University of Arizona. He had arrived at Fort Hood only days before the attack. Captain Russell Seager, 51, from Rine, Wisconsin.

A licensed clinical social worker and United States Army Reserve officer. Captain John Gaffany, 56, from Sarah Mesa, California. He ran toward the threat. Staff Sergeant Justin Dro, 32, from Plymouth, Indiana, married and father to a 13-year-old daughter. He had transferred to Fort Hood from South Korea just weeks earlier.

Specialist Frederick Green, 29, from Mountain City, Tennessee. Sergeant Amy Krueger, 29, from Keel, Wisconsin. She enlisted in the United States Army specifically in response to the September 11th attacks. She was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan. Specialist Jason Hunt, 22, from Norman, Oklahoma. He had been married for two months.

Private First Class Michael Pearson, 22, from Bowling Brook, Illinois. Private First Class Aaron Nela, 19, from West Jordan, Utah. The youngest of the 13. Specialist Cam Shong, 23, from St. Paul, Minnesota. M American, married with three young children. His widow Shuher later testified at sentencing. She said, “I feel dead yet I am alive.

” Private first class Francesca Veles, 21, from Chicago, Illinois. She had returned from a deployment to Iraq 3 days before the attack. She was 3 months pregnant. Her father, Wier Moles, traveled to Texas to testify at sentencing. He delivered his statement in Spanish. He told the court that his daughter had come home from a war zone and that she had been taken from him anyway inside an American military base by an American military officer.

13 people, each one with a name, each one with people waiting for them to come home. The investigation that followed November 5th, 2009 confirmed what the evidence already indicated. This was not a spontaneous act. The date had been chosen deliberately. The units processing through the soldier readiness center that day were the same units Hassan was scheduled to deploy with.

The weapon had been researched and purchased weeks prior. 3,000 rounds of ammunition had been stockpiled. Range practice had been completed. Forensic investigators found nothing suggesting impulse. Every element pointed to deliberate advanced planning. What followed the investigation opened a wound that survivors are still fighting to close.

The Department of Defense officially classified the attack as workplace violence, not terrorism. The distinction carried direct legal consequences. Survivors were denied combat related benefits and Purple Hearts were withheld. Staff Sergeant Shawn Manning, shot six times and still carrying two bullets in his body, received a formal DoD letter stating his injuries did not qualify as wounds caused by an instrumentality of war because Hassan’s weapon was a privatelyowned pistol, not Army issued. Days after the attack, Army

Chief of Staff General George Casey stated publicly that it would be a greater tragedy if diversity became a casualty of Fort Hood. For the families of 13 people, that statement was difficult to process. In November 2011, survivors and families filed a civil lawsuit against the federal government seeking compensation and a formal terrorism reclassification.

It took an act of Congress to move the needle. The 2015 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the Purple Heart for Military Victims and the Defense of Freedom Medal for civilians. On April 10th, 2015, 5 and a half years after the attack, Army Secretary John Mchugh formally presented those awards. The legal proceedings began on November 18th, 2009 when Colonel James L.

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