Here's
more from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
"FORT HOOD, Texas — Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.
The suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital after being shot four times during the shootings at the Army's sprawling Fort Hood, post officials said. In the early chaos after the shootings, authorities believed they had killed him, only to discover later that he had survived.
In Washington, a senior U.S. official said authorities at Fort Hood initially thought one of the victims who had been shot and killed was the shooter. The mistake resulted in a delay of several hours in identifying Hasan as the alleged assailant.
Authorities have not ruled out that Hasan was acting on behalf of some unidentified radical group, the official said. He would not say whether any evidence had come to light to support that theory."
Authorities have not ruled out that Hasan was acting on behalf of some unidentified radical group, the official said. He would not say whether any evidence had come to light to support that theory He had been associated with a radical mosque in VA(his parents had gone there, at least), but I think he was probably just on a one-man jihad mission when he attacked the soldiers at Fort Hood.
My favorite headline about this so far is "Shooter's motive a mystery in Fort Hood killings." Good grief. We're already covering up for Islam.
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"Authorities have not ruled out that Hasan was acting on behalf of some unidentified radical group, the official said. He would not say whether any evidence had come to light to support that theory." <<<
I have a distinct feeling that this comment does NOT indicate that they are actively investigating links to known Islamic terrorists, nor to any underground terror cells, nor to any foreign government.
I still find it extraordinarily amazing that he is reputed to have received an extraordinary lot of extra training with handguns, but that no one ever found his intense interest in same to be peculiar, given so many other Blaring Sirens about him.