Episode 3447
Nidal Hasan
Sat, 2026-Oct-10 03:08 UTC
Length - 3:08
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Nidal Malik Hasan (born September 8, 1970) is an American mass murderer, former United States Army major and former physician who perpetrated the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, killing 13 people and injuring 32 others, on November 5, 2009. Hasan, an Army Medical Corps psychiatrist, admitted to the shootings at his court-martial in August 2013.
During the six years Hasan was a medical intern and resident at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, concerns were raised about his job performance and behavior, specifically comments described by colleagues as "anti-American." Hasan was described as socially isolated, stressed by his work with soldiers, and upset about their accounts of warfare. Two days before the shooting, less than a month before he was due to deploy to Afghanistan, Hasan gave away many of his belongings to a neighbor.
Prior to the shooting, an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concluded Hasan's email correspondence with the late Imam Anwar al-Awlaki was related to his authorized professional research, and he was not a threat. The FBI, Department of Defense (DoD), and United States Senate all conducted investigations after the shootings. The Senate released a report describing the shooting as "the worst terrorist attack on U. S. soil since September 11, 2001."
Controversially, the Army decided not to charge Hasan with terrorism. He represented himself in trial and admitted responsibility for the shooting, claiming to have switched sides in a "war on Islam" waged by the United States. A jury panel of 13 officers convicted him of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder, and unanimously recommended he be dismissed from the service and sentenced to death.
Hasan is incarcerated at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In early October 2026, President Donald Trump approved his execution by firing squad, the acting Secretary of the Army scheduled it to be carried out at Fort Hood on December 3, 2026 at 1 p.m. CST (7 p.m. UTC), and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced it would be livestreamed, which sparked widespread backlash. If Hasan's execution is carried out, he will be the first member of the U. S. Armed Forces to be executed since John A. Bennett was hanged for rape and attempted murder in 1961, and the first person executed publicly in the U. S. since Roscoe Jackson in 1937.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 03:08 UTC on Saturday, 10 October 2026.
For the full current version of the article, see Nidal Hasan on Wikipedia.
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