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NYT:
The uncle, Rafiq Hamad, described Major Hasan as a gentle, quiet, deeply sensitive man who once owned a bird that he fed by placing it in his mouth and allowing it to eat masticated food.
When the bird died, Mr. Hamad said, Major Hasan “mourned for two or three months, dug a grave for it and visited it.”
I know this makes three relatively morbid posts in a row but this anecdote from the life of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the man who went on a shooting rampage at Ft. Hood, is particularly strange and suggests to me that this man was mentally ill first and at a more distant-second, radically inclined.
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