The Massacre at Fort Hood: NEFA PowerPoint
By Madeleine Gruen
The NEFA Foundation has released the 24th report in the "Target: America" series, a PowerPoint examining the November 5, 2009 massacre at Fort Hood and the background of the perpetrator, U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood's Soldier's Readiness Processing Center, where soldiers are processed for deployment overseas, killing 13 and injuring more than 30 others. The 10-minute long shooting spree was ended when Hasan was confronted by two civilian police sergeants, one of whom shot and paralyzed Hasan. This report examines lesser-known aspects of Hasan’s background, personal associations, and places of worship, which may contribute to further understanding how an American-born medical doctor serving in the military could have embraced an ideology that would lead him to believe that killing fellow American soldiers was justified as an act of defense of Islam.
The PowerPoint can be viewed by clicking here.
