Soldier’s diary told of wish to ‘destroy America’

SERGEANT Hasan Akbar was noted by officers to have had an “attitude problem” earlier in his army career.

At his court martial, Akbar sought to explain his attack by saying he had felt his life was “in jeopardy” and he had “other problems”.

His father believes he had suffered religious and racial harassment in the army. But in the view of the prosecution, Akbar was a “hate-filled, ideologically driven murderer.”