Theo Padnos

Theo Padnos has studied Islam in Yemen and Syria. His book Undercover Muslim will be published later this year.

Anwar Awlaki’s Blog: In Yemen

Theo Padnos, 28 January 2010

Three days after Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, murdered 13 of his colleagues at the Soldier Readiness Center in Fort Hood last November, Anwar Awlaki, an imam with whom he had been in email contact, posted a notice on his website. ‘Nidal is a hero,’ Awlaki wrote:

He opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan … How...

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