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Nidal Hasan, the former army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 fellow soldiers in an attack on Fort Hood, has written a letter to the leader of Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), asking whether he may to join the terrorist group.

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“I formally and humbly request to be made a citizen of the Islamic State,” Hasan wrote in a handwritten letter addressed to “Ameer, Mujahid Dr. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” which was obtained by Fox News.

“It would be an honor for any believer to be an obedient citizen soldier to a people and its leader who don’t compromise the religion of All-Mighty Allah to get along with the disbelievers,” he says in the undated two-page letter.

Fox News does not indicate how they received the letter or when it was intercepted.

Hasan was convicted last year for the November 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood. According to trial testimony, he walked into a crowded building, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” — Arabic for “God is great!” — and opened fire. The rampage ended when Hasan was shot in the back by base police officers. He is now paralyzed from the waist down.

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He was sentenced to death and has little to no chance of ever leaving death row.

At the trial he described himself as a soldier who “switched sides.”

His lawyer, John Galligan, told Fox News the letter “underscores how much of his life, actions and mental thought process are driven by religious zeal.”

With files from The Associated Press