Army Tests Sole-Killer Theory: Details Emerge -Clifford Krauss & James Dao
Major Hasan [pictured], the 39-year-old Army psychiatrist accused of a shooting spree at Fort Hood that killed 13 people and wounded at least 30 others, [is] an American-born Muslim of Palestinian descent.
[O]fficials were not prepared to say whether the attack was the act of a lone and troubled man or connected to terrorist groups, foreign or domestic.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation became aware earlier this year of Internet postings by a man calling himself Nidal Hasan. The postings drew attention
because they favorably discussed suicide bombings. But the investigators are still not clear as to whether the writer was Major Hasan.Major Hasan [was] described as having few friends and being quiet to the point of introversion.
In an interview on NBC’s “Today” show, the Fort Hood commander, was asked about reports that before opening fire, Major Hasan had yelled “Allahu akbar!” — “God is great!”
General Cone said soldiers at the scene had reported “similar” accounts.
[New York Times]
UPDATE:
Little Evidence of Plot -David Johnston & Eric Schmitt
After two days of inquiry into the mass shooting, investigators have tentatively concluded that it was not part of a terrorist plot. [But] [i]nvestigators have not ruled out the possibility that Major Hasan believed he was carrying out an extremist’s suicide mission.
[Investigators] have come to believe that Nidal Malik Hasan, acted out under a welter of emotional, ideological and religious pressures.
[O]fficials said a continuing search of Major Hasan’s computer indicates that he had logged on to Web sites that celebrated radical Islamic ideologies and that he had exchanged e-mail messages with like-minded people, some possibly overseas. In addition, they believe that he may have written inflammatory Internet postings that justified suicide attacks.
[New York Times]
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