Well… That Explains It: Hasan Attended Same Mosque As 9-11 Hijackers
WASHINGTON (AP) - The alleged Fort Hood shooter apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there.
Whether the Fort Hood shooter associated with the hijackers is something the FBI will probably look into, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
The family of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who killed 13 and wounded 31 at the Texas military base, held his mother’s funeral at the Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., on May 31, 2001, according to her obituary in the Roanoke Times newspaper.
At the time, Anwar Aulaqi was an imam, or spiritual leader, at the Washington-area mosque. Aulaqi told the FBI in 2001 that, before he moved to Virginia in early 2001, he met with 9/11 hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi several times in San Diego. Al-Hazmi was at the time living with Khalid al-Mihdhar, another hijacker. Al-Hazmi and another hijacker, Hani Hanjour, attended the Dar al Hijrah mosque in Virginia in early April 2001.
In his FBI interview, Aulaqi denied ever meeting with al-Hazmi and Hanjour while in Virginia.
Aulaqi, a native-born U.S. citizen, left the United States in 2002, eventually traveling to Yemen. He was investigated by the FBI in 1999 and 2000 after it was learned that he may have been contacted by a possible procurement agent for Osama bin Laden. During this investigation, the FBI learned that Aulaqi knew people involved in raising money for Hamas, a Palestinian group on the U.S. State Department’s terrorist list.
Shaker el Sayed, the current imam at Dar Al Hijrah, declined to comment when reached Sunday by The Associated Press.
Faizul Khan, former imam of the Muslim Community Center in nearby Silver Spring, Md., where Hasan also worshipped, said he was not aware that Hasan had attended services at Dar al Hijrah but said it would not be unusual for Hasan to attend more than one mosque concurrently.
Khan said he did not recall Hasan mentioning having been taught or preached to by Aulaqi.
The London Telegraph first reported the potential link between Hasan and the mosque.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey said Sunday it’s important for the country not to get caught up in speculation about Hasan’s Muslim faith, and he has instructed his commanders to be on the lookout for anti-Muslim reaction to the killings at the Texas post.
He says focusing on the Islamic roots of the suspected shooter could “heighten the backlash” against all Muslims in the military.
Casey says diversity in the military “gives us strength.”
Casey declined to answer questions about the investigation into the shooting, but said evidence to this point shows that Hasan acted alone. He toured Fort Hood on Friday with Army Secretary John McHugh.
Casey appeared on ABC’s “This Week” and CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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Psh, stop being so hateful! He was suffering from PRE-traumatic Stress Disorder! It’s true, someone on NPR said so! Crazy Right Wingers….
Don’t jump to conclusions. I’m in the mood for Pizza. Let’s fly in that chef from Chicago again. I’ll chill out and have no comment. Then I’ll invite the Imam for a beer on the lawn so we can seriously talk alone. The country need a strong leader. He left in January. The chaos since is deplorable and now we have 13 dead and several donzen wounded this time, not too long after Little Rock.
Deplorable.
As far as backlash, I think its a cheap shot to question the character and over-extended, endless and selfless faith and loyalty of the soldier. I wonder what many, many men and women who serve of this faith, amongst them General Abizaid or Mike Monsour’s comrades and parents might say, if given the opportunity.
Enough with this media hype that is seemingly never ethical and rarely thorough.
Do not play into those who will exploit this for all its worth so the hatred and violence will flourish and have the desired damaging psychological effects.
It’s time to bond, love, embrace and heal and see justice done.
Listen to each and every word. This is a very wise man:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/spencer-on-savage-re-fort-hood-jihadist.html
We need a true Crusade, starting with the take over of DC and arresting Obongo. I can’t figure out why is it that the word “Muslin” does not translate the same way “Nazi” does…..or “Terrorist”. A “Muslin” is nothing more than a belief in Jihad, period. If you are a Muslin, you should not serve in armed forces. My opinion, Remember the grenade attack a few years back when a “Muslim” US soldier tossed a grenade into a tent prior to operations…. Muslims are simply bad for US. Call me a biggot fine but facts are facts….Muslims hate all religions and strike here and there when the opportunity rises, I don’t have or plan to have Muslim friends ever, for sooooooooo many reasons….
hmmm…I seem to see a pattern. The question is, why is the mosque still aloud to operate? At the very least, why wasn’t it bugged from attic to basement with microphones and cameras? I get the feeling they aren’t the kind of congregation that organizes weekend bake sales.
People preaching hate is protected under the 2nd Amendment. Only when they act on their hate do we have laws against the action. This is exactly how this evil ideology is attacking the pillars of American beliefs & freedoms. Until action is taken to stop/remove/deport those preaching hate, this story will repeat its self again & again.
I was indoctrinated all my early years to believe that the ugly underbelly of America is the KKK. Well, with Obama leading the “it’s cool being anti-American” brigade, reasonable (and historically tethered) minds are asking:; “where are the feared KKK and Aryan Brotherhood types, now?”
Well, let me remind all you testosterone-filled, full-metal jerk-offs, that America’s Enemy was never the color on a man … but the content in his heart.
So now, America’s enemy is all around us. WTF: he’s in the White House.
While so many of you were sittin’ around, tellin “nigga” jokes, Haters of America were having an ass-whoopin’ party at your expense while you and your “buds” were slumped over in your Lazy-Boy … beer in one hand and remote in the other … not teaching your kids how to recite the Pledge of Allegiance … just sittin’ the fu*k around … and allowing Moose-tafa to teach his kids how to make C-4 and cell-phone remote triggering devices in the basement of that mosque on the far side of town.
I am a five percent-er (… a Black man that didn’t vote for ‘Bam). That means I am mis-trusted by 50% of whites and hated by 95% of blacks, and that I am more likely to be first in line for having a round placed ever so lovingly at the base of my skull than any one of you out there when the revolution comes–and it IS coming.
OK … I’m rambling … it’s late, I’ve had one-too-many … and I want to go to bed.
America … 95% of Blacks hated it … 50% of Whites could not care less … not exactly a prescription for national survival.
Content of the heart, baby … content. Now THAT’S something to sleep on …
We may not be at war with Islam, but Islam is at war with us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhHYiWCm8Gs
When are we going to learn to simply HATE this fuckers openly and without having to explain shit…… “Burn a Mosque and be Happy I say”
“When are we going to learn to simply HATE this fuckers openly and without having to explain shit”
Pat: Do you have any Jihadi Killer t-shirts available?