The preaching of Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni imam born in the U.S., may have played a role in motivating the Fort Hood killer and a group of Canadian Muslims who planned to attack the Canadian parliament and behead the prime minister.

> “Al-Awlaki condenses the Al Qaeda philosophy into digestible,
> well-written treatises,” Mr. Kohlmann said. “They may not tell people
> how to build a bomb or shoot a gun. But he tells them who to kill, and
> why, and stresses the urgency of the mission.”

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