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Va. Imam Hails Hasan as 'Hero'

Spiritual adviser to 9/11 hijackers says shooter 'did right thing'

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(Newser) – An imam who was spiritual adviser to two 9/11 hijackers and who once headed a Virginia mosque visited by Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan has hailed Hasan as a "hero." A message on the web site of imam Anwar al-Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen, was entitled: "Nidal Hasan Did the Right Thing." Hasan "is a hero," Awlaki wrote. "He is a man of conscience who could not bear being a Muslim and serving in an army fighting his people," reports the New York Daily News.

Investigators are probing the link between Hasan and Awlaki, though they currently believe Hasan acted alone when he shot dead 13 soldiers at Fort Hood last week, according to officials. Hasan did attempt months ago to reach out to terrorists in al-Qaeda, sources have told ABC News. Army officials were told of the attempt, but it's not known what, if any, action they took.

Flags and flowers mark the apartment, upper right, where Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan lived outside of Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.
Flags and flowers mark the apartment, upper right, where Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan lived outside of Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Parishioners sing at the Comanche Chapel gospel service inside Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.
Parishioners sing at the Comanche Chapel gospel service inside Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Lt. Arlene Decindio of Tuscarora, Penn., stands in front of a US flag flying at half mast on the guided missile destroyer USS Benfold Bahrain The flag was lowered in honor of Fort Hood victims.
Lt. Arlene Decindio of Tuscarora, Penn., stands in front of a US flag flying at half mast on the guided missile destroyer USS Benfold Bahrain The flag was lowered in honor of Fort Hood victims.   (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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Yourself
Nov 10, 09 2:51 AM CST
the bigger issue in this article is not some radical trying to make Hasan out to be a hero, but that the Army didn't investigate closely that he tried to reach out to Al Qaeda. I can't imagine why, or how, the army decided not to do anything on this issue, it's a disgrace to the other soldiers, especially the ones that paid with their lives due to their recklessness and poor decisions. Reply
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cunomor
Nov 10, 09 8:43 AM CST
The feds actually were investigating him. If the Army had investigated him, don't you think he would likely have filed a Civil suit as soon as they booted him? Without having committed any actual crime he could have pulled some BS defense and made the Army look like the bad guys (much like his family is trying to do anyway).
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Yourself
Nov 10, 09 10:07 AM CST
if the feds were investigating him, and as you claim army "had" investigated him, then how the hell did this go unnoticed, how did he get a promotion, and how did they just clear someone who apparently was in the army and trying to connect with Al-Qaeda. it doesn't jive, and for one reason only, cause the "investigation" wasn't done!
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cunomor
Nov 10, 09 2:55 PM CST
I said the FEDS were investigating him. How did it happen anyway? Same way 9/11 happened, even though there were concerns garnered from intelligence about a plane attack by terrorists.
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riffran
Nov 10, 09 3:08 AM CST
If that murdering coward is a hero....I am Odysseus of myth or Heracles.....and last I looked "aint no wreath of olive branches on my head" Reply
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