San Antionio Express, 26 Jan 10: An Iraqi doctor encouraged security officers at Brooke Army Medical Center to shoot him earlier this month after telling others that he planned to free accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a federal agent testified Monday. FBI counterterrorism and military intelligence operatives took a hard look at Senan Kahtan Abrahem after he went to Fort Sam Houston on Jan. 6 and approached an information booth at BAMC about seeing Hasan, according to testimony at a bail hearing Monday for Abrahem. Abrahem, an immigrant living in San Antonio, was indicted last week on a federal charge of making a false statement — he allegedly claimed he was Hasan’s lawyer so he could get access to Hasan. . .

. . . U.S. Army counterintelligence agent Jeffrey Cram testified Monday about an errant pattern of activity by Abrahem that eventually had him under the watch of a counterterrorism and counterintelligence officials. First, Abrahem left his car keys — but not his car — at a local mosque as a donation and claimed that he was going to free Hasan. The president of the mosque said in an interview that he reported the matter immediately to the FBI, and that Abrahem’s wife picked up the keys two days later.

Cram testified Abrahem went to BAMC the morning of Jan. 6 and claimed he was the defense lawyer for “the individual who shot 13 people at Fort Hood.” Officials of the hospital and Fort Sam previously said Abrahem also claimed to be one of Hasan’s doctors. But when Abrahem was not allowed entry, and officers tried to get him to leave, he became belligerent and shouted “Allah Akbar (God is Great) and shoot me now,” Cram said. He eventually left.

Later that night, San Antonio police went to Abrahem’s house, and he again yelled “Allah Akbar” and told officers to shoot him, Cram said. He put his hand in his jacket as if to show he was armed, then spat at the officers, forcing them to put a mask over his face, Cram testified. The officers took him to the psychiatric ward of a local hospital after Abrahem’s wife told the officers that he had been off his medication for more than a month. While he was at the hospital, Abrahem told a doctor that “he went to BAMC to free his Muslim brother,” Cram testified. “He said (Hasan) was shot by infidels,” Cram testified. Hasan is paralyzed and recovering at BAMC. Cram said Abrahem also “gestured” to nurses and doctors that they would be beheaded. . . .