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An Article 32 hearing, which is similar to a civilian grand jury, is to begin Monday for Sgt. Hasan Akbar, who is charged with killing two officers and injuring 14 others in a grenade attack on fellow troops in Kuwait on March 23.
Akbar, a 32-year-old member of the 101st Airborne Division’s 326th Engineer Battalion, could face the death penalty if convicted in a court-martial.
George Heath, a Ft. Campbell spokesman, said shortly after the attack that Akbar had “an attitude problem.”
But the sergeant’s mother, Quran Bilal, has told The Tennessean of Nashville that she thought her son might have been accused because of his Muslim faith.
