[unitedstatesaction.com news] Online Video: CNN Reports State Nidal Was Described as "Ticking Time Bomb," Gave Suicide Bombing Presentation to Militar

As promised earlier, we have managed to obtain a weblink to online video on the Anderson Cooper interview with Val Finnell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkbLTd_DPw

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From: "Jeffrey Imm (World Anti-Terror)"
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Subject: November 7: Reports State Nidal Has Described as "Ticking Time Bomb," Gave Suicide Bombing Presentation to Military

Fort Hood Attack: November 7, 2009 AM Updates on Nidal Hasan:

http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/146.html#110709AM

CNN has cited additional aspects of the Nidal Hasan investigation regarding his use of neighbor's computer, and a visitor he had the day before the Fort Hood attack. The Los Angeles Times has a report describing how Hasan told others he was "mentoring" on Islam that "Muslims shouldn't be in the U.S. military, because obviously Muslims shouldn't kill Muslims." The Los Angeles Times has an additional report quoting Nidal Hasan's classmate, Val Finnell, in a Maryland military courses as part of a "disaster and military psychiatry fellowship." CNN's AC360 television report had a further detailed interview with Val Finnell Friday night at 10 PM ET, where Finnell provided more details about Hasan's routine arguments on a "War on Islam," also quoting Finnell as stating that a fellow student told him that Hasan had given a presentation on suicide bombing, and was reported to the military faculty as a "ticking timebomb."

Los Angeles Times: Nidal Hasan on Muslims in Military and "War on Islam"

-- Los Angeles Times reports: Nidal Hasan Said Muslims Should Not Be In Military
-- " Over the last few weeks, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan drove off the vast Army base at Ft. Hood, Texas, at least a dozen times to enjoy seafood dinners with Duane Reasoner Jr., an 18-year-old he was mentoring in the ways of Islam."
-- "'He said he didn't want to go to Iraq or Afghanistan,' said Reasoner, who was raised as a Catholic. 'He didn't want to be deployed. He said Muslims shouldn't be in the U.S. military, because obviously Muslims shouldn't kill Muslims. He told me not to join the Army.'"
-- "On Friday, agents were trying to find a motivation for the attack, retracing the suspect's steps in the last days and months, interviewing colleagues, neighbors, friends and family to glean details about Hasan's life -- and whether he was moved, at least in part, by radical Islamic ideology."

-- Los Angeles Times: Nidal Hasan Did Presentations on Islam and War During Environmental Health Class
-- "One of Hasan's classmates in the [disaster and military psychiatry fellowship] program said he doubted the man's commitment to the military. He told students, 'I'm a Muslim first and an American second,' ' Dr. Val Finnell, now a lieutenant colonel at the Los Angeles Air Force Base, said in a telephone interview. 'I really questioned his loyalty.'"
-- "Finnell said he first became suspicious of Hasan shortly after the program began when Hasan gave a provocative presentation in an environmental health class. Other students focused on topics including mold and water contamination. Hasan's project asked "whether the war on terror is a war against Islam,' Finnell said. "
-- " 'It was very off-topic,' Finnell said. 'I raised my hand and said, 'What does this have to do with environmental health?' "
-- "Finnell said Hasan became agitated when he was challenged and became 'sweaty and nervous and emotional.'"


Fort Hood Attack: CNN Video Report on Nidal Hasan - Reported as a "Ticking Time Bomb" to Military Faculty, Gave Presentations on "War on Islam" and Suicide Bombings in Military Classrooms

-- On Friday, November 7, 2009 at 10 PM ET, the CNN television show "Anderson Cooper 360" reported further on Nidal Hasan. CNN reported that Nidal Hasan repeatedly used a neighbor's computer. CNN's reported that according to his apartment manager John Thompson, Nidal Hasan had strict orders that no one was to go into his apartment without him being there. Apartment manager John Thompson told CNN that the only time that he was known to have a visitor was the day before the shooting. CNN reported that witnesses described the visitor as "dark-skinned, had bushy eyebrows, and was dressed in Islamic clothing."
-- Anderson Cooper also interviewed a former classmate of Nidal Hasan, Val Finnell, on this subject. Anderson Cooper interviewed Val Finnell as "a former colleague."
-- Finnell repeated the comments that he told the Los Angeles Times regarding Nidal Hasan's presentation on a "War on Islam" during their environmental health class. Finnell also told CNN that students openly questioned the instructor as to what Nidal Hasan's presentation had to do with environmental health, "but he [the instructor] continued to let him present his topic."
-- Finnell said that Nidal Hasan's views of on a "war on Islam" was something that Hasan would frequently discuss. Finnell told CNN "Those views were a large part of his personality for the entire year. He would routinely get into discussions and arguments with people - made himself a lightning rod for that kind of criticism."
-- Finnell also said that he did not believe that Hasan was subjected to anti-Islamic abuse. Finnell stated that to CNN that "our class was a very diverse class, people from many different backgrounds, but Dr. Hasan made it a point to be very vocal in his beliefs, very extreme in his views, and since he was a military officer, you know, he was questioned about those things. He sort of brought the criticism upon himself.... This was a big topic for him, this was a dominating topic for him."
-- In addition, Finnell also stated that another student said that Nidal Hasan did a presentation on suicide bombers for a human behavior class.
-- Finnell told Anderson Cooper during the interview: "I know another student actually approached the faculty about him and called him a 'ticking time bomb'. And that student was concerned because of a PowerPoint presentation that Dr. Hasan gave in a human behavior class which justified suicide bombing."
-- this interview has not yet been captured on online video - we will attempt to find a way to make this available online and provide an update when it is available
-- a follow-up discussion referencing some of these comments are at the following online video:
http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2009/11/07/ac.missed.signs.cnn

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