As more information comes out over time, the self-affiliation of the terrorist assassin Hasan as an Islamic jihadi continues to thicken.

Major Hasan’s E-Mail: ‘I Can’t Wait to Join You’ in Afterlife
American Official Says Accused Shooter Asked Radical Cleric When Is Jihad Appropriate?

United States Army Major Nidal Hasan told a radical cleric considered by authorities to be an al-Qaeda recruiter, “I can’t wait to join you” in the afterlife, according to an American official with top secret access to 18 e-mails exchanged between Hasan and the cleric, Anwar al Awlaki, over a six month period between Dec. 2008 and June 2009.

“It sounds like code words,” said Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, a military analyst at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies. “That he’s actually either offering himself up or that he’s already crossed that line in his own mind.”

Other messages include questions, the official with access to the e-mails said, that include when is jihad appropriate, and whether it is permissible if there are innocents killed in a suicide attack.

“Hasan told Awlaki he couldn’t wait to join him in the discussions they would having over non-alcoholic wine in the afterlife,” the official said.

To revise a comment from an earlier post…”If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then we’d better call it a duck!”