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S. history told jurors " I am the shooter" as his trial began Tuesday in the Fort Hood military base rampage that killed 13 and left more than 30 wounded. Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, has never denied attacking his fellow soldiers in 2009. He is representing himself at trial, meaning he could end up questioning his victims directly, facing them for the first time since he shouted " Allahu akbar!" - Arabic for " God is great!" - and opened fire. Military prosecutor Col. Steve Henricks told jurors Hasan planned to " kill as many soldiers as he could," and he said the prosecution will show jurors Hasan picked the date of the attack - Nov. 5, 2009 - for a reason. But when it came time for him to speak, Hasan countered prosecutors' detailed portrait of the attack with a simple statement: " The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter," but added it wouldn't tell the whole story. Hasan, a 42- year- old U. S.- born Muslim of Palestinian descent, has wanted to argue he carried out the shooting in " defence of others" - Muslim insurgents fighting U. S. soldiers in Afghanistan - but the judge denied that strategy. The judge also said he will not be able to make speeches about his beliefs. Hasan, who faces charges of murder and attempted murder, told jurors evidence would show " that we are imperfect Muslims trying to establish the perfect religion. ... I apologize for any mistakes I made in this endeavour." Hasan earlier had tried to plead guilty, but military law requires a notguilty plea in death- penalty cases. Henricks told jurors Hasan tried to clear the area of civilians as he walked through and opened fire inside the military base's Soldier Readiness Processing Center, where service members were preparing to deploy to Afghanistan. Hasan only shot at one civilian who tried to stop him, Henricks said. The prosecutor called it a meticulously planned attack that included stockpiling bullets. On the day of the attack, Hasan sat among fellow soldiers after hiding the sound of his equipment by stuffing paper towels into the pockets of his cargo pants, Henricks said. " All those fully loaded magazines do not clink, do not move, do not give him away," the prosecutor said. The trial opened under heavy security. Guards with assault rifles stood watch outside the courthouse, which was almost entirely hidden by stacks of heavy, shock- absorbing barriers that extend to the roofline. Hasan, who was shot in the back by officers responding to the attack, is now paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair. Alonzo Lunsford, who was wounded, is expected to testify. " That man strikes no fear in my heart. He strikes no fear in my family," Lunsford said. " What he did to me was bad. But the biggest mistake that he made was I survived. So he will see me again." But Shawn Manning said he dreaded the expected confrontation. " I have to keep my composure and not go after the guy," said Manning, a mental- health specialist who was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan with Hasan. " I'm not afraid of him, obviously. He's a paralyzed guy in a wheelchair, but it's sickening that he's still living and breathing." Hasan's defence strategy remains unclear. He has released statements to media outlets about his views on the Islamic legal code known as Shariah and how it conflicts with American democracy. The government has said Hasan sent more than a dozen emails starting in December 2008 to Anwar al- Awlaki, a radical U. S.- born Islamic cleric killed by a drone strike in Yemen in 2011. - The Associated Press ' I am the shooter' at base, BOSTON - Boston Marathon bomb- accused soldier tells trial ing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev befriended a brain- damaged anti- U. S. government conspiracy theorist through their mother's health- care aide job years before the deadly attack, a lawyer said Tuesday. Attorney Jason Rosenberg, who represents the family of Donald Larking, said Larking shared publications with the brothers, especially Tamerlan, and discussed theories including that the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting didn't happen or the U. S. government was behind them. The attorney said the Tsarnaev family had a relationship with the Larkings that started years ago when the brothers' mother began working as a personal- care assistant for Larking's wife, a quadriplegic since birth. Rosenberg said Larking, who lives in West Newton, just west of Boston, was shot in the head in 1974 in an attempted robbery while working in a convenience store. He said Larking suffered brain damage that led to problems with his decision- making and judgment. Authorities say the Tsarnaev brothers orchestrated the April 15 marathon bombing, in which two pressure cookers loaded with shrapnel exploded near the race's finish line, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty last month to charges including using a weapon of mass destruction to kill. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a shootout with police a few days after the bombing. Rosenberg said Tuesday the Tsarnaev brothers got to know Larking while substituting for their mother sometimes by helping to care for his wife. The attorney said the brothers " were very helpful, very kind" to the couple and Larking shared his views with them as he found anti- U. S. government websites and became angrier and irrational. The attorney said Larking, who has many Jewish friends, also has literature that questions if the Holocaust happened. The lawyer's account first emerged in a Wall Street Journal article, which included Tamerlan Tsarnaev's former landlady talking about publications that had been in his Cambridge apartment. Landlady Joanna Herlihy told The Associated Press she salvaged publications after authorities had finished searching the apartment and items were discarded. She confirmed that among them were an Alabama- based publication that uses a Confederate flag on its website and a weekly publication the Southern Poverty Law Center calls anti- Semitic. Rosenberg said Tuesday he doesn't think Larking helped the Tsarnaev brothers, ethnic Chechens from Russia, formulate ideas but may have made them believe others felt as they did. - The Associated Press Tsarnaev brothers friends with conspiracy theorist BRIGITTE WOOSLEY / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Nidal Malik Hasan shown in a courtroom sketch Tuesday. A_ 10_ Aug- 07- 13_ FP_ 01. indd A10 8/ 6/ 13 8: 04: 27 PM ;