[Washington Post] Spencer S. Hsu - Three weeks before Maj. Nidal Hasan purchased the semiautomatic pistol used in the Fort Hood attack, a radical Yemeni American cleric whom he frequently e-mailed gave a broad religious blessing to Muslims who attack "government armies in the Muslim world." "These armies are the defenders of apostasy," Anwar al-Aulaqi wrote in English on his Internet site July 15 from Yemen. "Blessed are those who fight against them and blessed are those shuhada [martyrs] who are killed by them."
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