Muslim Obama's mass killer convicted on all 45 counts.

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KILLEEN, Tex. — A military jury on Friday found Maj. Nidal Malik
Hasan guilty of carrying out the largest mass murder at a
military installation in American history.

The verdict, delivered by 13 senior Army officers, came 17 days
after Major Hasan’s court-martial trial began on Aug. 6, and
nearly four years after the day in November 2009 that he killed
or wounded dozens of unarmed soldiers at a medical deployment
center at Fort Hood here.

Major Hasan, a psychiatrist who turned on the very soldiers he
devoted much of his 15-year military career to helping, sat in a
wheelchair in combat fatigues, an American flag patch on his
upper right sleeve. Inside a Fort Hood courtroom filled with
soldiers, military police and the relatives of those he killed,
but none of his own family members, he had no visible reaction
and sat motionless as the jury foreman, a female Army colonel,
stood and read the unanimous verdict.

The jury of nine colonels, three lieutenant colonels and one
major deliberated for about six hours over two days before
finding him guilty of 45 counts of premeditated murder and
attempted premeditated murder, one count for each of the 13
people he killed and the 32 he wounded or shot at. All the
jurors were combat veterans, and throughout the trial they heard
the prosecution’s nearly 90 witnesses describe how Major Hasan
opened fire at the medical processing building with a
semiautomatic pistol on Nov. 5, 2009, using the green and red
laser sights under the barrel to target uniformed soldiers but
avoid those in civilian clothes or medical scrubs.

He and prosecutors said his mission was to kill as many soldiers
as he could as part of a jihad to protect “my Muslim brothers”
from American soldiers deploying to Afghanistan. A year after
the shooting, he told a military mental health panel that he
wished he had died in the attack so he could have become a
martyr. He expressed no remorse for his actions, only regret
that he was paralyzed by police officers who shot him in ending
the attack.

The verdict now opens the sentencing phase of the court-martial,
with the 13 officers deciding whether to sentence Major Hasan to
die by lethal injection. He could become the first American
soldier in 52 years to be executed in the military’s death
chamber at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. One of the reasons capital
punishment in the military has been so rare is that execution of
a soldier requires presidential approval.

If even one member of the jury votes against death, Major Hasan
will be sentenced to life in prison. The judge ordered the jury
and both sides to return to court on Monday, when the sentencing
phase will begin and when relatives of those Major Hasan killed
will testify about the impact the murders had on their lives.

The start of the court-martial trial was delayed several times,
largely because of Major Hasan’s efforts to keep the beard he
had grown for religious reasons, in violation of Army rules. In
contrast, Hasan Akbar, the Army sergeant who was sentenced to
death in a grenade attack on his own camp in Kuwait in 2003, was
convicted just two years after his attack. In Major Hasan’s
case, three years and nine months have elapsed since the
shooting.

His has also become one of the most expensive cases in military
history, costing the government more than $5 million, including
$8,000 a month to rent a trailer near the courthouse where Major
Hasan, who acted as his own lawyer, could work on his case with
access to a computer, printer and law books. The Army has paid
Bell County more than $584,000 since 2010 to incarcerate, feed
and provide security and medical services for Major Hasan at its
county jail in nearby Belton, Tex.

The evidence against Major Hasan was overwhelming. Victims
identified him as the gunman — the fatigues he wore that day
displayed his name tag — and prosecutors said that all of the
146 rounds found in the building matched up exactly with the FN
Five-seven handgun that Major Hasan bought months before the
attack at a local gun shop and that was removed from his hand
after he was shot by officers. He shot soldiers in the back, as
they lay wounded on the floor and as they covered their faces
with their hands or forearms. He shot both men and women in
uniform, including Private Francheska Velez, 21, who was
pregnant with her first child and was one of the 13 people he
killed.

Beyond the evidence and testimony, however, jurors witnessed for
themselves Major Hasan’s unusual and bizarre handling of his
case.

Major Hasan released his court-appointed Army defense lawyers in
order to represent himself. No defendant in a military capital-
punishment case has represented himself in modern times. His
former defense team had been working on his case for years and
had succeeded in persuading a military appeals court to remove
the previous judge for an appearance of bias. After Major Hasan
split from his lawyers, the new judge overseeing the court-
martial, Col. Tara A. Osborn, ordered the defense team to remain
by his side as standby counsel.

Hunched over in his wheelchair, thinner and paler than in 2009,
Major Hasan was a quiet, soft-spoken defendant throughout the
trial, making only a handful of objections and asking few
questions. When it came time to submit a plea to the charges,
Major Hasan declined, so the judge entered a plea of not guilty
for him. On a computer screen in front of him at the defense
table, he was shown autopsy photos of his victims and an F.B.I.
crime-scene video with bloodstains and bodies on the floor of
the building; he had no visible reaction.

After the prosecution rested, Major Hasan presented no defense
on Wednesday, calling no witnesses and declining to take the
stand and testify. On Thursday, he declined to make a closing
argument.

His former Army lawyers had argued that Major Hasan was
encouraging rather than fighting a death sentence, and they told
the judge that helping him achieve that goal violated their
professional and moral obligations. Their concerns helped
explain much of Major Hasan’s behavior in court — he admitted to
the jury that he was the gunman in his opening statement — and
were one of several signs that he was preparing to die.

Another was when he started growing a beard last year. He told
his defense lawyers he did not want to die without a beard,
because he believed not having one was a sin.

The verdict came two weeks before Major Hasan turned 43. Born in
Arlington, Va., to Palestinian parents, he attended Virginia
Tech and began his military medical school training in 1997, two
years after he began active duty. For months and even years
before the attack, his views of Islam had turned extreme. In
December 2008, 10 months before the shooting, he sent the first
of 16 messages and e-mails to Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical
American-born cleric who encouraged several terrorist plots. He
asked Mr. Awlaki whether Muslim American troops who killed other
American soldiers in the name of Islam would be considered
“fighting jihad and if they did die would you consider them
shaheeds,” an Arabic term for martyrs.

Mr. Awlaki never replied to that message. But in 2010, in an
interview with the mental health panel that evaluated him, Major
Hasan appeared to answer his own question. He told the panel if
he died by lethal injection, “I would still be a martyr.”

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convicted-on-all-counts.html?ref=us

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