U.S. Army Specialist Ryan Hill and his daughter, Emma Hill, 3, pray together as they light a candle and lay flowers at the front gate to Fort Hood.
Posted on 11/08/2009 3:29:26 PM PST by TaxPayer2000
A senior U.S. senator on Sunday said the shootings at Fort Hood could have been a terrorist attack, and that he would launch a congressional investigation into whether the U.S. military could have prevented it.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who heads the Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said initial evidence suggested that the alleged shooter, Army Major Nidal Hasan, was a "self-radicalized, home-grown terrorist" who had turned to Islamic extremism while under personal stress.
Mr. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, had opened fire Thursday at a soldier processing center at Fort Hood, Tex., killing 13 and wounding 29 in the worst mass shooting on a military facility in the U.S.
Mr. Lieberman, appearing on "Fox News Sunday," cautioned that it remained too early to draw any definitive conclusions. He said his comments were based on "reports that we are receiving" about Mr. Hasan's actions and comments.
The Army's top officer, Gen. George Casey, wouldn't rule out that the shooting was an act of terrorism, but cautioned against speculation at this point. "We all want to know what happened and what motivated the suspect, but we need to … let the investigation take its course," he told ABC News's "This Week."
Mr. Lieberman said that if news reports were true that Mr. Hasan had turned to Islamic extremism, "the murder of these 13 people was a terrorist act and, in fact, it was the most-destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11."
"We don't know enough to say now, but there are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act," Mr. Lieberman added.
The lawmaker said he would begin a Senate investigation aimed at uncovering Mr. Hasan's motives and asking ...
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U.S. Army Specialist Ryan Hill and his daughter, Emma Hill, 3, pray together as they light a candle and lay flowers at the front gate to Fort Hood.
Isn't it too bad, Joe, that the facts speak LOUDLY for themselves.
Thank goodness most of us are so morally confused.
AREN’T so...
Yeah, Islam is a problem at HOME now. Too early to draw conclusions? How about this one: he was a Muslim and hence he shot his colleagues in cold blood.
A measured response; I'll accept that. Just so long as they don't ignore it out of some sort of notion of political correctness.
Yeah, let's drag it out so the public forgets about it. And let's blur any findings so that the report is inconclusive. This is part of a cover-up. For anyone with half a brain, this guy is an Islamic jihadist. He is a terrorist.
He calls them like he sees them.
He may be home-grown, but he looks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Doesn’t matter where a duck was grown.
Exactly.
And how did the Army let that process unfold without investigating his fitness for duty?
Agreed - a duck is a duck no matter where it came from. There may be various varieties of ducks, but they all swim in water and waddle on webbed feet.
Too many politicians are afraid to say the truth.
This was inspired by all the hate preaching by the cult of death.
Mass deportations.
Senator Lierbaman is going for the jugular of late, by not allowing the left its political correctness to go unchallenged he is being a better conservative than the GOP flunkies.
Lieberman’s caution is well advised. We don’t yet know whether the shooter was a terrorist who intended to effect political change through a public spectacle of violence, or simply a nutjob mass murderer who killed people he hated. Or perhaps something else. We should keep in mind that, no matter what his political or religious sympathies, his intentions remain a mystery.
The Army’s top guy should be measured. They deserve time to study his computer, interview neighbors and friends etc.
His intentions were quite clear to me more than a dozen times that day...
Send Hasan to Gitmo'
We also have this :
Maybe he should be classified a PoW and the army should take control of him and interrogate him at an army base.
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