Ross' report yesterday that Hasan had attempted to "make contact with people associated with al Qaeda" took over the internet yesterday and sparked a furious round of speculation that Hasan's attack was part of an Islamic terrorist plot.
The headline, "Officials: U.S. Army Told of Hasan's Contacts with al Qaeda," said it all.
The far more mundane truth emerged today in the pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post:
Hasan had communicated via e-mail with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American cleric living in Yemen who formerly served as the imam of a mosque Hasan had attended in Virginia.
What did they talk about?
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