By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

Investigations into the background of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in last week’s massacre at Fort Hood, have revealed that he worshiped at the same mosque as two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, and yet his name also appears on a list of homeland security advisors to President Obama’s transition team.

The London Sunday Telegraph is reporting that Hasan, the Army major suspected of killing 13 people and wounding 29 others at Fort Hood, attended a mosque in 2001 in Great Falls, Virginia where Sept. 11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hamzi and Hani Hanjour also worshiped. The imam at the same mosque, Anwar al-Awlaki, is a radical cleric who has been described as a supporter of al-Qaeda.

The FBI plans to interrogate Hasan about these links after he recovers from serious injuries sustained during the attack.

Meanwhile, noted author Dr. Jerome S. Corsi is reporting that the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University, published a report of homeland security priorities for the new Obama administration in which Hasan’s name is listed as a “Task Force Event Participant” on page 29.

The task force included several members of government, including representatives of the Department of Justice and the U.S Department of Homeland Security. There is no indication that the group played any formal role in the official Obama transition other than to serve in a university-based advisory capacity, Dr. Corsi said in a World Net Daily article.

Hasan, a psychiatrist who received his medical degree from the military’s Uniformed Services University School in Bethesda, Md., in 2001, is accused of shooting 43 fellow soldiers, killing 12, during the Nov. 5 massacre.

According to a fellow officer who worked with Hasan at Ft. Hood, Hasan was known to be against the war and to claim that Muslims had a right to attack the U.S. “He said Muslims shouldn’t be fighting Muslims,” Col. Terry Lee said. “He was very clear on that.”

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