The USG paid a Northern Virginia Mosque associated w/911 and Fort Hood shooter???? A post earlier today triggered a short dig on how much money the USG has paid 'islamic centers'.  USAspending. gov had the answer and it isn't pretty.  Between 2009 (the year of the Ft. Hood shooting) and 2011, the government paid $628,000 (+) to Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Northern Virginia, ostensibly as lease payments.  According to wiki: "Several sources indicated that Nidal Malik Hasan, the sole suspect in the November 5, 2009 Fort Hood shooting, attended the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque at the same time in 2001 as Nawaf al-Hazmi and Hani Hanjour (two of the September 11 hijackers), who attended the mosque for several weeks during 2001 when Anwar al-Awlaki was imam there..."  and "Sheikh Mohammed Adam El-Sheikh, formerly a Muslim Brotherhood member in the Sudan, and one of the founders of both the mosque and the Muslim American Society (MAS), was the mosque's imam between August 2003 and May 2005. He left the mosque to become the executive director of the Fiqh Council of North America, an association of Islamic legal scholars." So the USG made lease payments to the mosque these animals attended.  Lease for what - this is/was a working mosque at the time and was established in the '80s.  Payback for cooperation, training 'agents' and/or something else?  I'm sure it's just a coincidence.