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| Major Nidal Hasan found guilty in murder. |
Manning leaked documents to Wikileaks. He's got 35 years for this. He's trying to say he's a woman now. Bales killed 13 innocent people in Afghanistan. He may get the gas chamber if he is found guilty as well.
The mass shooting occurred less than a month before he was due to deploy to Afghanistan.
Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.
The Army held an Article 32 hearing beginning on October 12, 2010, which recommended that charges against Hasan be referred to a General Court Martial. His trial began on August 6, 2013.
Judge Colonel Tara Osborn is presiding over the case.
During the six years that Hasan worked as an intern and resident at Walter Reed Medical Center, colleagues and superiors were deeply concerned about his inappropriate behavior and comments.
Hasan was not married and has been described as socially isolated and stressed by his work with soldiers and upset about their accounts of warfare.
Basically describing him as an "everyman who was rejected by women and felt that life was not fair".
At Fort Hood, he took an apartment away from other officers. Two days before the shooting, he gave away many of his belongings to a neighbor.
Prior to the shooting, Hasan had expressed anti-American views.
The FBI, Department of Defense and U.S. Senate all conducted investigations after the shootings. DOD classified the events as "workplace violence," pending prosecution of Hasan in a court martial.
The Senate released a report describing the mass shooting as "the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001."
Investigators in the FBI and U.S. Army determined that Hasan acted alone and they have found no evidence of links to terrorist groups. They are satisfied that his communications with Awlaki posed no threat at the time. The decision by the Army not to charge Hasan with terrorism was controversial, and there was public debate.
In November 2009, the former army psychologist went mad and shot upon 69 members of the Fort Hood military personal killing 13 of his fellow soldiers. The mass murderer was inspired by American born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a man who U.S. authorities believe was an aid to al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula.
Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in September 2011 after a drone strike in Yemen.
Hassan was found guilty by the military trial via court martial. Hasan is paralyzed from the waist down after a trained sniper put a bullet in the backside.
Now for the debate over terrorism. Why are the Republicans calling this terrorism?
Because he's a Muslim.
What about Robert Bales?
Didn't he kill innocent men, women and children in a selfless act of destruction in Afghanistan?
Isn't that terrorism too?
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