This is an unbelievable story. Read the whole thing at the source, there's a lot of information.

Some interesting quotes from this tragedy

Before being arrested, Hasan was living the American dream. Taking two master’s degree certificates from the prestigious Princeton University out of a briefcase, he says, ‘I used to have a wall full of certifications.’

Hasan arrived in the US as a student in the 1980s. He started out as a pizza delivery boy, but soon made it big as a senior project manager at various Fortune 500 companies, including Philip Morris Corporation, Mars M&M, Novartis, Toys R Us Inc., and J.B. Hunt and used to earn around US$ 300,000 per annum.

The saddest part I think

couple rarely ventures out of the homes, while their children, eight-year-old Omar and four-year-old Kamila, have not attended school for the past two years.

Can we imagine being in their shoes?

‘The turmoil on the children has been tremendous,’ says Rose, who is particularly worried about her son Omar: ‘He can’t sit still and remains lost and disturbed in his thoughts.’

. The irony

When asked whether he harbours any hatred against the US after his detention, Hasan says: ‘I still think to this day that America is a great country. Americans are the best people in the world; they have hearts of gold. It’s just that for the last eight years, they had been hijacked by a racist government and I’m just one of the victims.’