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Nidal Malik Hasan, Suspected Fort Hood Shooter, Was Called "Camel Jockey"
ABCNews -- Fort Hood shooting suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, wanted out of the Army after being constantly harassed by others in the military and was called a "camel jockey," his family said. As Hasan was about to be deployed to Iraq, he was suffering from some of the same stresses that he was trained as an Army psychiatrist to treat. Although the 39-year-old had just been promoted to major in May, his family says he had hired a lawyer to help him get out of the Armed Forces. "Apparently became very disgruntled in the mission in Iraq and Afghanistan and voiced that to a lot of his colleagues," said Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX). He also voiced it to the world in an Internet posting, where he compared suicide bombers to GI's who save their colleagues...
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11.23.09 - Updated 11:11pm ET
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