Counterterrorism Research Library Yemen Al-Jazeerah Network Interview with Anwar al-Awlaki re. Major Nidal Hasan
Al-Jazeerah Network Interview with Anwar al-Awlaki re. Major Nidal Hasan
Last Updated (Tuesday, 05 January 2010 13:45) Written by Laith Alkhouri Wednesday, 23 December 2009 00:00
Al Awlaki is a U.S. citizen, who served as an imam in Colorado, California, and Washington D.C. and worked as the Muslim Chaplain at George Washington Univ. He was the “spiritual advisor” to 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar, and the Congressional Joint Inquiry on 9/11 reported that “the FBI agent responsible for the September 11 investigation informed staff that ‘there’s a lot of smoke there’ with regard to…[al Awlaki’s] connection to the hijackers.” Returning to Yemen, he was arrested in 2006 and held for over a year. He reports being interrogated by FBI agents about a number of subjects, including 9/11.
"While the American president was announcing that a threat to his country’s security comes fromover the borders and specifically from Afghanistan and Pakistan as current regions of threat, and Yemen and Somalia as future regions of threat, the American Army Major Nidal Hasan—Muslim from Palestinian origins—was planning to kill American officers and soldiers inside the biggest American military base in the World (Fort Hood Base)...
