Arab-American Cleric Gave Okay to Ft. Hood Murders

American-Yemeni Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki told Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan that it was religiously permissible to kill U.S. soldiers on American soil, according to an Al-Jezeera interview.

"He said Hasan contacted him by email a year ago to ask whether the killing of American soldiers and officers could be justified as religiously legitimate, and that they continued their correspondence until the middle of this year."

Strangely, Al-Awlaki may have been killed in an air strike in Yemen this morning, along with Nasser al-Wahayshi, the Yemeni leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and his Saudi deputy, Saeed al-Shehri