According to some press accounts, Abdulazeez felt a sense of failure at his inability to meet America’s standard of success, of which money is the primary measure. Though he did not appear deeply religious, he allegedly praised the late Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born al-Qaeda cleric and an advocate of attacks on “hypocritical” America, as a model of triumph over failure.
据某些媒体报道，阿齐兹因无力达到美国的成功标准而产生某种失败感，而美国成功与否主要靠金钱来衡量。虽然阿齐兹并不笃信宗教，但据说他曾称颂已故的安瓦尔·奥拉基是战胜失败的典范，后者是一位美国出生的基地组织神职人员，大肆倡导攻击“伪善”的美国。