Hasan had intensified contact with radical Yemeni American cleric

() CBC.caHasan had intensified contact with clericWashington PostIn the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial ...Texas: Hearing in Fort Hood CaseNew York TimesQuestions swirl in Fort HoodBoston GlobeHospital hearing requested for suspect in Fort Hood shootingsCNNBloomberg?-U.S. News & World Report?-The ... Full Story »

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by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Nov. 21, 2009

This is an outstanding article bringing many new facets to light. Sadly it goes way further in the asking of questions of how.

Why again did the Washington office of the FBI not see the extreme danger this man posed to the American public and the military. Now we learn that there were very specific discussion in those e-mails about money transfers, in the thousands of dollars. Lets hope that the investigations this time result in many a rolled head. Further it is almost clear that there is a need for additional charges against Hasan.

Hasan’s contacts with extremist imam Anwar al-Aulaqi began as religious queries but took on a more specific and concrete tone before he moved to Texas, where he ... More »

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