{"id":16330,"date":"2009-12-24T06:50:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T11:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16330"},"modified":"2009-12-24T06:50:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T11:50:57","slug":"hasans-imam-thought-to-be-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16330","title":{"rendered":"Hasan&#8217;s imam thought to be dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The radical Virginia-based imam who is thought to have encouraged Nidal Hasan to shoot scores of his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood is rumored to be among the casualties of a US missile assault in Yemen today, according to Al-Jazeera;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among those thought to have been killed in the raid early on Thursday was Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim preacher linked by US intelligence to a gunman who killed 13 people at a US army base in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anwar al-Awlaki is suspected to be dead [in the air raid],&#8221; an unnamed Yemeni official was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/FtHoodInvestigation\/fort-hood-hasan-asked-awlaki-kill-american-soldiers\/story?id=9410718\">ABC reports<\/a> that, before he was killed, al-Awlaki told Al-Jazeera that Hasan&#8217;s first email hinted at his planned assault at Fort Hood;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Awlaki claims that Hasan initiated the e-mail correspondence with a message on Dec. 17, 2008. &#8220;He was asking about killing U.S. soldiers and officers,&#8221; says Awlaki. &#8220;His question was is it legitimate [under Islamic law].&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is completely contrary to the story that US intelligence services have told us. O don&#8217;t place much value in reports from Al-Jazeera or from radical clerics, but the FBI needs to release those emails to us. Something about this whole story stinks. The deception has begun right from the first shot in this incident &#8211; and This Ain&#8217;t Hell has been caught up in the effort to keep the story from the American public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The radical Virginia-based imam who is thought to have encouraged Nidal Hasan to shoot scores of &hellip; <a title=\"Hasan&#8217;s imam thought to be dead\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16330\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hasan&#8217;s imam thought to be dead<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}