The cleric,Anwar al-Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen, once taught at a mosque in Virginia that Hasan attended and is well-known among violent Islamists, according to terrorism expert and author Evan Kohlmann.
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Kohlmann spoke on NBC's Today program.
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Durkin and Kohlmann had several contentious exchanges during the proceedings, as Durkin argued that defense lawyers needed more time to build the trust of their clients.
And much of Wednesday's hearing was devoted to questioning a potential expert witness for the prosecution, Evan Kohlmann, an international terrorism expert who apparently examined the contents of a laptop belonging to Hasan.
Defense lawyers, who want to keep Kohlmann off the stand at trial and sought to undercut his methodology and conclusions, introduced their own expert witness who said that only a portion of the CNN report had been viewed.