CNSNews.com reports that a man on trial for murder in New York plans to argue that he suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome from witnessing the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which combined with alleged statements by the victim, led him to bludgeon and stab to death his business partner.
Nathan Powell’s lawyer will argue that he flew into a rage and killed his business partner, Jawed Wassell, on October 3, 2001 after Wassell supposedly made pro-Taliban comments. Prosecutors argue that story is largely fiction, and what enraged Powell was that Wassell planned to reduce Powell’s share of the profit in a movie that the two were partners in.