US killer was on FBI terror files
Updated on 10 November 2009
The FBI knew that the US officer who massacred 13 people at the Fort Hood base had repeated contact with a radical imam overseas.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan was in touch with Anwar al-Awlaki, an imam released from a Yemeni jail last year, 10 to 20 times. Despite that, no formal investigation was opened into him.
Pete Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said it was his understanding Hasan and the imam exchanged emails that counterterrorism officials picked up.
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