Hasan’s opening statement in court:
“The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter…Witnesses will testify that war is an ugly thing. Death, destruction and devastation are felt from both sides, from friend and foe. Evidence from this trial will only show one side. I was on the wrong side, but I switched sides…[The Mujahedeen] we are imperfect Muslims, trying to establish the perfect religion. I apologize for any mistakes I made in this endeavor.”Elizabeth Chuck and Daniel Arkin, “Fort Hood suspect: ‘Evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter’,” NBC News, August 6, 2013, www.nbcnews.com/news/other/fort-hood-suspect-evidence-will-clearly-show-i-am-shooter-f6C10857413;
Jennifer Hlad, “In opening remarks, Hasan says he was ‘on the wrong side’ in US Army uniform,” Stars and Stripes, August 6, 2013, https://archive.org/stream/final-report-of-the-william-h.-webster-commission#page/n0/mode/2up.
Nidal Hasan, August 6, 2013
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The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Location:
Eisenhower Theater
Tuesday January 27, 2026 7:30p.m.
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.