Killeen tight-knit Muslim community members remember Nidal Hassan, who stood barefoot on the carpet, their mosques, nearly four years ago, the first thing to sing morning call to pray: "Allahu Akbar as a quiet loner . "
Witnesses said they still have problems understanding how, just a few hours later, the Army psychiatrist can shout the phrase - "God is great" in Arabic - and then shot and killed 13 soldiers, playing injured 31 people.
As Hassan led from the court martial on November 5, 2009, the majority of attacks launched this month's Fort Hood military base, a city of about 134,000 Texas Killeen, Muslims struggling to meet their prayers , mingled and dined days ago Hassan attack.
It has been difficult to reconcile the pious people, they know that a person claiming "I am shooter" at the beginning of his trial.
"I wish I could forget this guy, this brings us to the trauma, said:" The 65-year-old striker Osman Danquah pray together in the mosque twice and have dinner with him.
Prayer in the mosque of the Islamic community between a large Keeling evening Danquah recalled Hasan twice sought his opinion, he should be how to deal with the seemingly anonymous army of Muslim soldiers want to come out and opposed the US-led The war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Danquah own Gulf War veterans, and told him all the military people volunteering, although you can increase the issue of conscientious objection.
Hassan later told his spree, respectively, of the U.S. foreign-bound fellow soldiers, "the" holy war "against the Islamic empire," and died during the attack, will mark that God has designated him as a religious martyr military health assessment .
"In Islam, you can not take revenge, and if you do not have proof," Danquah said. "They committed a crime?"
Prison or death
In prayer, Christians, some of the traditional Muslim dress, kneeling on the green plush carpet, ceiling fan turned to Texas heat. Rug draped over chairs flanking bookshelves filled with the Islamic holy book "Koran", multiple copies in multiple languages. Shoes and sandals lined up on the shelves near the entrance.
The children on bicycles circling around the brick building parking lot, wide highways dotted with ranch house, car shops, chain restaurants and Hassan armed own gun shop.
After leaving the mosque Hassan, before shooting, he stopped at a convenience store coffee and potato, he told mental health panel. Later, he went home, collected two guns and 20-30 magazine, and return at noon prayers.
He knew that prayer would be his last time "before either go to jail or death," Hassan, aged 42, told the military health panel.
Police eventually shot Hassan, who is paralyzed from the waist down, sitting in a wheelchair in court. During the break, he thinks his prayers timetable.
Prosecutors choose to Hassan, he could face the death penalty if all 13 jury found him guilty of premeditated murder against the terrorism allegations.
Amina Rab said the president in the Dallas area the Council on American-Islamic Relations broader community was shocked, she called Hassan terrorist acts.
, "Rab said:" He can try to justify their actions, in any way he likes. "This is not Islam out to kill people, no matter what they do to you."
Shooting for longer than the US-led war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and strained relations between the countries, the population predominantly Muslim tensions.
And the "base" organization Yemeni wing of American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, U.S. intelligence officials said Hassan send e-mail, and praised Hasan as a hero and "a person's conscience." Aoraki be killed in 2011 by a U.S. drone strike.
But for a lot of people have seen him in the mosque, Hassan is still a mystery.
"Only God knows a person's heart, said:" Mustafa Dar es Salaam, 46-year-old retired sergeant first class and the mosque president. "We can see people attended the five prayers a day but that does not mean that you can tell what is in the hearts of others."



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