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King: Fort Hood suspect had contact with al-Qaida-linked imam

U.S officials intercepted a number of communications last year between an Army major who allegedly killed 13 people Thursday at his Texas military base and the radical, Al-Qaida-linked former imam of his Washington-area mosque, Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) said Monday.

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"Somebody dropped the ball," King said in reference to the communications between Army...

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