Los Angeles Times: Ft. Hood Shooting Suspect Haunted By Patients’ Wartime Disabilities, Fellow Soldiers’ Ethnic Slurs
….”The whole family is in a state of denial,” [Hasan's uncle] said Saturday. “We don’t believe he is capable of doing something like that. I was amazed and shocked, because it’s not him. He’s very quiet, gentle.
“Maybe it built up together — the harassment, too many patients, the workload, the tragedies his patients brought to him,” said the 65-year-old retired real estate broker. “Whatever it was, it must have been big pressure, something terrible he couldn’t handle.”
Hamad and another West Bank relative, Mohammed Munif Hasan, said they learned recently that Maj. Hasan had consulted a lawyer about securing a discharge from the Army. [more...]