The Fort Hood shooter talked about killing U.S. soldiers almost a year before the attack that left 13 people dead. In an interview televised by the Al-Jazeera television network, New Mexico-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi said he received an email from Army Major Nidal Hasan in December 2008 in which he asked whether it was okay to kill American troops and Israeli civilians. Previous news accounts had established a connection between Hasan and the radical imam, but the Al-Jazeera story was the first to reveal the military psychiatrist’s possible premeditation so far in advance.