More recently, U.S.intelligence officers intercepted emails between Hasan and a Muslim imam known for radical anti-American teachings.

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Reports about the investigation say the alleged gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, had contacts with a militant imam in Yemen and may have transferred money to some individuals or groups in Pakistan, where many militant groups operate.

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It's known already that Hasan had e-mailed the imam but original reports suggested that those e-mails didn't raise any suspicion.

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Usama Hasan, an influential young British imam, recently made the case for the right to change religions only to find himself furiously denounced and threatened on Islamist websites, many of them produced in the West.

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In that interview, al-Awlaki said he met Hasan nine years ago while serving as an imam at a mosque in the Washington, D.

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