Inside the home of the Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan
November 13, 2009
Pictures inside the home of the gunman who shot dead 13 US soldiers at Fort Hood show an austere and empty apartment with his few possessions left in disarray.
The paraphernalia of Major Nidal Hasan’s Muslim faith are scattered among other jumble on the kitchen table in the Casa Del Norte apartment complex in Killeen, Texas.
A black and white, crocheted skull cap lies beside the sink; another is thrown next to a handful of foreign coins, some of them from Israel.
A special alarm clock is set to sound a Muslim invocation at the hours of prayer, while the gunman’s prayer mat is lying crumpled against a wall.
The killer shouted the words Allahu akbar (God is greatest) before he opened fire with two handguns on unarmed troops queuing for medical attention in a stress counselling centre on the Texan military base.
