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Report: CIA aware Ft. Hood shooter tried to contact terroris

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Report: CIA aware Ft. Hood shooter tried to contact terrorists
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Last Updated: 11:48 AM, November 9, 2009
Posted: 10:22 AM, November 9, 2009
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Army massacre fiend Nidal Malik Hasan reportedly tried to make contact with al Qaeda terrorists, something intelligence agencies were aware of months ago.
It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that Maj. Hasan, an Army shrink, was seeking to connect with suspected terrorists, ABC News reported today on its Web site.
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A senior lawmaker, who was not identified by ABC News, said the CIA had refused to brief congressional intelligence committees on what, if any, knowledge they had about Hasan's efforts.

CIA director Leon Panetta has been asked by Congress "to preserve" all documents and intelligence files that relate to Hasan, according to the senior lawmaker.
Hasan is accused of killing 13 people and wounding 29 others at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday.
Investigators want to know if Hasan kept in contact with a radical mosque leader from Falls Church, Va., Anwar al Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen and promotes jihad against the US.
In a blog posting this morning, titled "Nidal Hasan Did the Right Thing," Awlaki calls Hassan a "hero" and a "man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people," ABC News reported.
The Telegraph of London reported that Awlaki had made contact with two of the 9/11 hijackers when he was in San Diego and that Hasan prayed at the same mosque with them before the attacks.
Hasan was scheduled to be deployed soon to Afghanistan, and that might have fueled his deadly rage, officials said.
But clearly, the massacre might have been an act of terrorism, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said yesterday.
"I want to say very quickly we don't know enough to say now, but there are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act," Lieberman told Fox News Channel.
Either way, the Army should have booted the deeply disturbed Hasan the moment he showed any signs of extremism, said Lieberman, who heads the Senate's Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Hasan's classmates at the Uniformed Services University, the military college where he recently took master's courses, said they repeatedly griped to higher-ups about his constant anti-American rants.
One said he warned superiors that the raging Hasan was a "ticking time bomb" after he made a presentation defending Islamic suicide bombers.
Another classmate said he complained to five officers and two civilian faculty members.
He wrote in a document sent to Pentagon officials that fear in the military of being seen as politically incorrect prevented an "intellectually honest discussion of Islamic ideology" in the ranks.
Lieberman said, "If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the US Army has to have zero tolerance. He should have been gone."


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Suspect asked for advice on going to fight Muslims
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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - The Army psychiatrist suspected of going on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood recently asked for advice on what he should tell fellow soldiers concerned about fighting Muslims in Iraq or Afghanistan, a local Muslim leader said Saturday.
Osman Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, said he spoke with the suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, after two services in late summer. During the conversations, Danquah said Hasan never expressed anger toward the Army or indicated any plans for violence.
But during their second conversation, Hasan seemed almost incoherent, Danquah said.
"But what if a person gets in and feels that it's just not right?" Danquah recalled Hasan asking him.

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"I told him, 'There's something wrong with you,'" Danquah told The Associated Press during an interview at Fort Hood on Saturday. "I didn't get the feeling he was talking for himself, but something just didn't seem right."
But Danquah was sufficiently troubled that he recommended the center reject Hasan's request to become a lay Muslim leader at Fort Hood.
Authorities have accused Hasan of opening fire on fellow soldiers on Thursday at Fort Hood, in a stream of gunfire that left 13 people dead and more than two dozen wounded in the worst mass shooting on a military facility in the U.S. At the start of the attack, Hasan reportedly jumped up on a desk and shouted "Allahu akbar!" - Arabic for "God is great!" Hasan was seriously wounded by police and is being treated in a military hospital.
The military has said he was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan, but family members suggested he was trying avoid serving overseas.
Hasan's relatives who live in the Palestinian territories have said they had heard from family members that Hasan felt mistreated in the Army as a Muslim.

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"He told (them) that as a Muslim committed to his prayers he was discriminated against and not treated as is fitting for an officer and American," said Mohammed Malik Hasan, 24, a cousin, told the AP from his home on the outskirts of Ramallah, a Palestinian city north of Jerusalem. "He hired a lawyer to get him a discharge."
Danquah said his conversations with Hasan occurred following two religious services sometime before Ramadan, the Islamic holy month that started in late August. He said the soldier, who transferred to Fort Hood from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in July, regularly attended services at the Killeen, Texas, community center in his uniform.
During his talks with Hasan, Danquah said he told him that Muslims were fighting each other in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories and that American soldiers with objections to serving overseas had recourse to voice such concerns.
Danquah said Hasan had also asked questions about community center members but he didn't think Hasan was looking for accomplices.
It was not immediately clear if Danquah had informed the Army about his concerns.
"As a Muslim, you come into a community and the way you integrate normally - I didn't see that kind of integration," he said.
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Associated Press Writer Dalia Nammari in Ramallah, West Bank contributed to this report.
 
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Homeland chief warns against anti-Muslim backlash
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. Homeland Security secretary says she is working to prevent a possible wave of anti-Muslim sentiment after the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas.
Janet Napolitano says her agency is working with groups across the United States to try to deflect any backlash against American Muslims following Thursday's rampage by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim who reportedly expressed growing dismay over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The shootings left 13 people dead and 29 wounded.
Napolitano was in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday for talks with security officials and a meeting with women university students in Abu Dhabi.
 
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America-hater in Qns. hails Hood massacre
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By JOHN DOYLE in Fort Hood, Texas, and JANON FISHER in NY
Last Updated: 6:46 AM, November 9, 2009
Posted: 2:15 AM, November 8, 2009
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The soldiers at Fort Hood had it coming, says a radical Muslim in Queens who travels to mosques around the city spreading anti-American hate and has sent a "Get Well Soon" message to the major behind the Texas massacre.
"An officer and a gentleman was injured while partaking in a pre-emptive attack," Yousef al-Khattab wrote on his Web site, called "Revolution Muslim." "Get well soon Major Nidal. We love you."
In the twisted logic of al-Khattab, who was born Jewish in New Jersey and converted to Islam in 2004, the 13 slain and 38 wounded Army victims gunned down by the radical one-man sleeper cell were "terrorists" who deserved to die.

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"These people are soldiers in a volunteer army," he told The Post during a sitdown at a Woodside, Queens, cafe. "They expect to see combat. They know the danger."
"Rest assured the slain terrorists at Ft. Hood are in the eternal hellfire," al-Khattab writes on his Web site.
Army shrink Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, reportedly shouted "Allahu akbar" -- Arabic for "God is great" -- before unloading more than 100 rounds at soldiers preparing to ship off to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Amanda Foote, whose husband is in Iraq, went to visit a soldier who survived the onslaught yesterday and said she was stunned that the base had been hit by such horror.
"I told my husband the other day, 'I thought I would never say I was happy you were in Iraq.' I never thought it would be safer for him to be there than to be on post at home," she said.
Like Hasan -- whose pro-homicide bomber rhetoric on the Web had caught the authorities' attention -- the FBI is well aware of al-Khattab's dangerous online lunacy, but they are unable to do much about it as he just skirts the line between protected speech and inciting violence.
"It's terrible. It's reprehensible. For the mosques it's a p.r. nightmare. He's probably putting members of the mosque in danger from attacks from non-Muslims, but he's not breaking the law," said Barry Covert, a First Amendment lawyer in Buffalo.
He said that unless al-Khattab incites people to immediate acts of violence, the Constitution protects him.
The Woodside extremist spends his free time annoying mainstream Muslims in front of mosques around the city, handing out literature and denouncing the US.
Imams in Manhattan are appalled by his message and have tried to get the police to stop him from spreading his radical message.
"We spoke to law enforcement about them, because we are disgusted with their behavior," said Shamsi Ali, an imam at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, a mosque at 96th Street and Third Avenue.
He said that at a recent Muslim parade, al-Khattab and his followers were preaching violence, but despite complaints from the congregation, the NYPD could only watch.
"They say that as long as there is not a physical threat, there's nothing that they can do." said Ali. "They say it's a free-speech issue


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