Suspect feared deployment, relative says

WASHINGTON - Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from a small town near Jerusalem, he joined the Army right out of high school, against his parents' wishes. The Army, in turn, put him through college and then medical school, where he trained to be a psychiatrist.

But Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the 39-year-old man accused of yesterday's mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, started having second thoughts about the military a few years ago after other soldiers harassed him for being a Muslim, he told relatives in Virginia.

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