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ABC's Brian Ross filed a follow-up Investigates feature into Nidal Hasan, the accused murderer of Fort Hood soldiers. Ross called Hasan "a deeply conflicted man, a devout Moslem who enjoyed strip clubs and beer" and a psychiatrist who tried to use his own patients' words against them. "Federal investigators say he wanted to turn in his own soldier patients for what he considered their admission, during counseling, to war crimes." Ross also tracked down Anwar al-Awlaki, the exiled Moslem preacher who corresponded with Hasan via e-mail. Ross showed us the Website of the al-Wasatiyyah Foundation where al-Awlaki streams his online sermons. The Yemen-based imam is regarded by unidentified "US officials," Ross told us, as an al-Qaeda recruiter.
NBC's Kevin Tibbles took us to rural northwestern Illinois where the Thomson Correctional Center, built in 2001, "has been dubbed the ghost prison." Right now it houses just 150 minimum security inmates, 10% of capacity. Add a new perimeter fence and extra staff and Thomson could become maximum enough to detain suspected terrorists. This Big House was toured by bureaucrats from the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security. They might use Thomson to accommodate inmates currently incarcerated in the brig at the USNavy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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