Nidal Malik Hasan
Nidal Malik Hasan (born September 8, 1970 in Arlington , Virginia ) is an American military psychiatrist . He shot dead 13 people on November 5, 2009 at the Fort Hood military base . On August 28, 2013, he was judged by a jury from the U.S. Military Tribunal . District (Magistrate) Court Office (MG Williams Judicial Center) found guilty and sentenced to death .
Life
Hasan was born to four sons of Palestinian parents who immigrated to the United States from the West Bank in the 1960s . He was born in Virginia and raised in the Washington, DC area . By joining the United States Armed Forces , he financed his training. Hasan first studied biochemistry , then medicine . This was followed by specialist training as a psychiatrist . First he worked in Bethesda in the Walter Reed Military Hospital . Hasan treated returned wounded and traumatized people from the US mission in Iraq and the mission in Afghanistan . The hospital hit the headlines in 2007, according to an award-winning Washington Post report , the building was shabby and the sanitary conditions were scandalous. According to media reports, Hasan received a negative rating after working at the Walter Reed Hospital. In 2009 he was transferred to the Fort Hood military base in Texas . He was scheduled for a deployment in Afghanistan.
Fort Hood rampage
At around 1.30 p.m. on November 5, 2009, Hasan shot a total of 13 people and injured 42 in the medical area of the Fort Hood military base.He was then shot at by the military police present, but survived seriously injured, including paraplegics from the neck, and woke up after a few Days out of the coma. According to the investigation, he had not acted on behalf of a terrorist organization or as a "suicide bomber". According to the investigators, Hasan tried to contact Anwar al-Awlaki , who is associated with al-Qaeda , by email . His precise motive, such as whether he leaned towards religious extremism and to what extent he was traumatized by his work in the hospital, remained unclear.
There was intense discussion in the USA as to whether Hasan should be charged as a terrorist. There were no charges of terrorism, but on November 12, 2009 charges of 13 murder and on December 2 of 32 attempted murder were brought. The final proceedings before a military tribunal were scheduled to begin on May 29, 2013. He was initially defended by John Galligan and from July 2011 by three military lawyers.
On August 1, 2013, the American press reported in an AP report that, a few days before his trial, Hasan, through his lawyer John Galligan, had circulated papers in which he spoke about America and Islam . In it he renounced his US citizenship and disapproved of democracy : He (as a Muslim) was not allowed to put the values of democracy above those of Islamic Sharia law . Muslims should not “compromise” their beliefs for the sake of non-Muslims. At the same time he describes the Islamist Anwar al-Awlaki as his "teacher, mentor and friend".
On August 6, 2013, the trial of Nidal Malik Hasan opened in a military court . Hasan defended himself. In his opening speech, he did not deny the crime, but stated that the evidence clearly shows that he had committed the crime. However, he is prevented from pleading "guilty" and thereby avoiding the death penalty . His public defenders suspected he was seeking a death sentence to die a martyr . He had previously failed to admit that he wanted to prevent the imminent transfer of the killed soldiers to Afghanistan in order to protect the lives of the Taliban leaders there.
On August 23, 2013, Hasan was found guilty on all charges by a jury jury. The death sentence was announced on August 28, 2013.
Life after sentencing
In 2014, Nidal Malik Hasan asked for citizenship of the Islamic State in a letter written in Fort Leavenworth and addressed to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi .
Web links
- Between trauma and chicane , article by Spiegel Online
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Spiegel Online: Death penalty for gunmen at Fort Hood , August 28, 2013
- ↑ Katja Gelinsky, rampage on Fort Hood - The worst and the best of America FAZ online from November 7, 2009
- ↑ a b c An everyday life full of trauma, massacre in Fort Hood ( Memento from November 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), by Dominik Stawski, SZ from November 6, 2009
- ↑ Antje Passenheim, rampage in the USA - army psychologist goes crazy , taz from November 6, 2009
- ^ Brian Todd, Ed Lavandera: Alleged Fort Hood shooter paralyzed from waist down, lawyer says , CNN . November 13, 2009.
- ↑ Gunman woke up ( Memento from November 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Süddeutsche.de from November 9, 2009
- ↑ Officials: US Army Told of Hasan's Contacts with al Qaeda , ABC News November 9, accessed May 18, 2010
- ↑ a b Investigators Study Tangle of Clues on Fort Hood Suspect , New York Times, November 14, 2009, accessed May 18, 2010
- ↑ Is Nidal Hasan a Terrorist or Not? , Vanity Fair, November 11, 2009
- ^ Judge sets 2012 trial date in Fort Hood shooting case , MSNBC, July 20, 2011
- ↑ Accused Fort Hood gunman seeks to renounce citizenship, military oath , NBC News from August 1, 2013
- ↑ a b Felicitas Kock: Trial of former army psychiatrist begins , sueddeutsche.de of August 7, 2013
- ^ A b Peter Winkler: Terrorism process with oddities , Neue Zürcher Zeitung online from August 7, 2013.
- ↑ a b Fort Hood Trial: "The Evidence Will Show That I Am The Sagittarius" , Spiegel Online, August 7, 2013.
- ↑ a b Military trial in Fort Hood: Hasan found guilty ( memento from August 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, August 24, 2013 (accessed on August 24, 2013).
- ↑ Sebastian Fischer: Fort Hood Trial: From Psychiatrist to Assassin , Spiegel Online from August 6, 2013.
- ↑ Chelsea J. Carter: Fort Hood shooter writes to ISIS leader, asks to become 'citizen' of Islamic State , CNN, August 29, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hasan, Nidal Malik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American military psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arlington , Virginia, United States |