
EVIDENCE: Federal investigators were looking into months of contacts between Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and extremist imam Anwar al-Awlaki. The imam who knew three of the Sept. 11 hijackers and hailed Maj. Hasan as a "hero" after the shooting last week at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead. Anwar al Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen and runs a web site that promotes jihad around the world against the U.S.
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Hasan gave a PowerPoint presentation to fellow Army doctors in 2007 in which he said, "It's getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims." He recommended that Muslim soldiers be given the option of being released from the military as conscientious objectors to decrease what he called "adverse events." Under "comments," he wrote, "We love death more than you love life."
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Former Hasan colleague Col. Terry Lee as saying, "[Hasan] was making outlandish comments condemning our foreign policy and claimed Muslims had the right to rise up and attack Americans"; that Hasan admitted to being "happy" upon learning of the Muslim who killed a soldier at an Arkansas military recruitment center; and that he once said, "maybe people should strap bombs on themselves and go to Time Square." Chron.com reports that Hasan had created "Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats," and that "one of the Web postings that authorities reviewed is a blog that equates suicide bombers with a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to save the lives of his comrades."
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Hasan walked among the "aggressors" and yelled Allahu Akbar before punctuating his story with a burst of violence.
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His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.
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We know that he often wore a long gown and skull cap, called by some "native Arab dress" but, whatever it was, it was clearly intended by him to be Muslim dress, non-American dress.