FORT HOOD DEALS WITH AFTERMATH OF SHOOTING AS DETAILS OF ACCUSED GUNMAN EMERGE -- BY LEO SHANE III, Stars And Stripes

WASHINGTON — Some said he was an outspoken Muslim, prone to emotional outbursts, angry about the U.S. war in Iraq and dreading an impending deployment to Afghanistan.

Others who knew him recalled Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a dedicated Army psychiatrist trained to help fellow soldiers cope with the psychological wounds of combat.

And a few noted that while Hasan never exhibited a violent side, they weren’t particularly surprised to learn he allegedly was at the center of the worst mass murder ever committed on an American military base.

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