| Naveed Afzal Haq |
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BACKGROUND The son of a prominent Muslim-American leader in the Tri-Cities area. Haq's father, Mian Haq, works at the Hanford nuclear facility and helped found the local Islamic Center .1 Naveed Haq graduated from Richland High School in 1994, where one of his classmates described him as a "pretty calm, collected, happy guy." Another classmate told '' The Seattle Times '' that Haq "was never up front about his Faith or Religion ."2 Haq is reported to have attended Dentistry School at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for four years before dropping out. He then completed a degree in Electrical Engineering at Washington State University (WSU), but was allegedly incapable of holding down a job.3 By all accounts, Haq had few close friends. A ''Seattle Times'' article quoted "the only friend Haq listed on the social-networking site, '', Aug 3-Aug 9, 2006. Accessed 28 August 2006. Haq was married briefly, in an arranged marriage in 2001 in Pakistan, but the marriage was apparently unconsummated, and he returned to America without his bride. Minor brushes with the law Haq had a series of minor brushes with the law, especially traffic violations, but no serious Criminal Record . In March 2006, he was arrested for public exposure at the Columbia Center Mall in Kennewick, Washington , after allegedly standing on a fountain near a Macy's store, and harassing women at the nearby store's makeup counter. At one point, he exposed his penis to young women passing by the fountain. One of Haq's friends told ''The Seattle Times'' that the suspect was taking medication for Bipolar Disorder and that he was unhappy with his life and sometimes made Anti-Semitic remarks offhandedly. According to another ''Times'' article, for years Haq's parents "had witnessed Haq's struggle with mental illness." Christian beliefs |
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