United States Army Major Nidal Hasan told a radical cleric considered by authorities to be an al-Qaeda recruiter, “I can’t wait to join you” in the afterlife, according to an American official with top secret access to 18 e-mails exchanged between Hasan and the cleric, Anwar al Awlaki, over a six month period between Dec. 2008 and June 2009.
“It sounds like code words,” said Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, a military analyst at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies. “That he’s actually either offering himself up or that he’s already crossed that line in his own mind.”
Other messages include questions, the official with access to the e-mails said, that include when is jihad appropriate, and whether it is permissible if there are innocents killed in a suicide attack.
“Hasan told Awlaki he couldn’t wait to join him in the discussions they would having over non-alcoholic wine in the afterlife,” the official said.
Major Hasan also wrote, “My strength is my financial capabilities.”
Federal investigators have found that Hasan donated $20,000 to $30,000 a year to overseas Islamic “charities.” As an Army major, his yearly salary, including housing and food allowances, was approximately $92,000. A number of Islamic charities have been identified by U.S. authorities as conduits to terror groups.
Two FBI task forces, in Washington and San Diego, received the intercepted messages, but deemed them innocent.
On Capitol Hill today, Senators questioned how that could be.
“The choice of this recipient of emails says a lot about what Hasan was looking for,” said Senator Joseph Lieberman, chair of the Senate’s Homeland Security committee. Lieberman’s committee held a hearing on the Fort Hood shootings, and announced that it was launching an investigation.
“What I’m getting at,” said Lieberman, “Is he may have been looking for spiritual sanctions for what he’s accused of ultimately doing.”
The American-born Awlaki is considered a recruiter for al-Qaeda. He has been in hiding since the shooting, but a Yemeni journalist told ABC News today that the e-mails show Hasan was “almost a member of al-Qaeda.”
(Source: ABC News)
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The enemy is out there. It is tragic and sad that there are laws that try to forbid us from recognizing them until something happens. Profiling is the only way to go.
This is sickening. But it just comes to show if hashem wants something to happen-even if all the evidence of the terror was in front of us,we will be blind and won’t stop it.
Now they should certainly keep him alive and let him suffer for the tragedy he caused.
Lets get this straight:
This guy is:
(1)talking about the afterlife with a RADICAL Muslim cleric.
(2)donates $30,000.00 to a radical charity. Thirty thousand dollars representing One third of his income.
Yet,”Two FBI task forces, in Washington and San Diego, received the intercepted messages, but deemed them innocent.”
“Innocent.” Zuhl der RBS”O Shomer and Matzal Zayn.
I am not in Law enforcement in any capacity yet I see this as questionable AT THE LEAST. But the chevra at FBI let this go over their collective heads.
Political Correctness run amuck. Does the FBI of all people not understand the enemy?
Someone in the FBI is very incompetent and should be replaced or demoted as soon as possible so that the USA can be protected.
As religious yidden we of course know that we must look to H-shem for his rachmonos, but the people that are supposed to be our agents; in charge of security; are sleeping at the wheel.
May H-shem continue to protect us.
‘I Can’t Wait to Join You’ in Afterlife… hmmm….. I don’t see why we should hold him and his buddy up. In my opinion the faster the better for all of us.
1)The FBI task forces deemed the emails innocent??? Is the FBI now somehow involved with Al-Qaeda? Can’t trust anyone.
2)And he “can’t wait to meet with him in the afterlife”.
3)He carried around al qaeda business cards.
4) He shouted “alla achbar” (or whatever those words are – I really don’t care if I spelled them correctly or not) while he was shooting.
HMMM – definitely sounds like someone who just lost his mind and started shooting. It surely wasn’t pre-meditated. Poor thing was worried about being deployed to Iraq. He just had a nervous breakdown. We should feel sorry for him. YES -SARCASM INTEDED HERE TOO.
Political Correctness? No profiling? – please – give me a break!!!!!!! That will do us all in.
It’s time we woke up. There is no such thing as political correctness if it’s one sided. And – yes – we should be profiling – everyone!!! Just because someone doesn’t “look” like a muslim doesn’t mean he isn’t.