Ft. Hood Attack was a Terrorist Act
Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-CN, announced Sunday that he intends to lead a congressional investigation into the mass shooting at Fort Hood, saying the attack could qualify as a “terrorist act” rooted in Islamic radicalism — the worst since 9/11, according to Fox News.
The alleged gunman, a Palestinian-American and an Army psychiatrist, reportedly shouted “Allahu akbar! — Arabic for “God is great!” when he opened fire. He was seriously wounded by police and is being treated in a military hospital, Fox stated.
Lieberman, who chairs the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said there were “strong warning signs” that the alleged gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was an “Islamist extremist.”
“If that is true, 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,” Lieberman told “Fox News Sunday.”
Professor Carl Tobias, at the University of Richmond who analyzes terrorist investigations across the country declared that evidence reported thus far about the incident doesn’t add up to the prelude to a terrorist attack.
“Terrorist attacks are undertaken by people who typically … have some agenda they want to forward politically, and from what I see in the news, this is just a person acting individually because he doesn’t want to deploy overseas,” he said. “So I just don’t see that angle.”
Lieberman said bystanders’ accounts of the attack raise “genuine concerns that this was a terrorist act.”
When I was an Army JAG, an officer with a record like Hasan’s would have been separated administratively from the service.
But now, the system does not work because of the policy of political correctness in the Army, the FBI and the administration. Military personnel are evaluated on their PC and are inhibited from making reports or charges against Muslims.
Casey’s statements, if nothing else, show how political correctness is more important to the Army and the administration than national security and safety of citizens.