Details are beginning to emerge about the personality of the man suspected of gunning down 12 people and wounding dozens more at the Fort Hood, Texas army post before being shot and taken into custody, the New York Times reports.
Acquaintances say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old psychiatrist born in Virginia to immigrant Palestinian parents, was a devout Muslim who was reportedly set to deploy to the Middle East later this month.
"He was doing everything he could to avoid that,” said Nader Hasan, a cousin. “He wanted to do whatever he could within the rules to make sure he wouldn't go over."
According to a law enforcement official, the F.B.I. was tracking a man calling himself Nidal Hassan who posted favorable messages about suicide bombings online.
"If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory," the man wrote.
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