Cleric: Shooting suspect was conflicted over duties

Nov 7th, 2009 - USA Today

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FORT HOOD, Texas — Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who allegedly went on a murderous shooting spree here Thursday, confessed to his local mosque elder months ago that he was conflicted between his devotion to Islam and his allegiance to the U.S. military.

"If soldiers come to me and have problems fighting other Muslims, what do I tell them?" Osman Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, said Hasan asked him in August.

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