Fort Hood Shooting, Army Major Goes Insane

[Roy Karrde]

Deleted my old post for MAJOR news, and put this under the category of "You have GOT to be kidding me"

ABC News: Fort Hood Shooter Tried to Contact Al Qaida Terrorists, Officials Say

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.

It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.

One senior lawmaker said the CIA had, so far, refused to brief the intelligence committees on what, if any, knowledge they had about Hasan's efforts.

CIA director Leon Panetta and the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, have been asked by Congress "to preserve" all documents and intelligence files that relate to Hasan, according to the lawmaker.

On Sunday, Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) called for an investigation into whether the Army missed signs as to whether Hasan was an Islamic extremist.

"If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have a zero tolerance," Lieberman told Fox News Sunday.

Investigators want to know if Hasan maintained contact with a radical mosque leader from Virginia, Anwar al Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen and runs a web site that promotes jihad around the world against the U.S.

http://abcnews.go.com/m/screen?id=9030873

Edit: AP: Hospital: Ft. Hood shooting suspect awake, talking

Been a major morning for breaking news on this guy.

Well lets be careful in the wording of that, if a devout Christian kills an employer and uses his Christian beliefs as a excuse to kill his employer then yes that would be terrorism. Just as if a devout Christian were to kill say a Abortion Doctor due to his Christian Beliefs that in and of itself would be terrorism. Does Lieberman thread the line yes, but if the reason he did kill was because of Islamic Extremism, something you can make a case for if the information out there is true, then yes he would be a terrorist.

Although I do belief a more apt description would be "Jihadist"