The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee says he plans to begin a congressional investigation of last week's shootings at Fort Hood.
Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan is suspected of killing 13 people and wounding more than two dozen others at the Army post in Texas on November 5. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) says he wants to determine whether the shootings constitute a terrorist attack. He says he also wants to find out whether the Army missed warning signs that Hasan was becoming extreme in his Islamist views. The Connecticut independent said if Hasan was showing signs of becoming an Islamist radical, the Army should have shown "zero tolerance" and discharged him. Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, says that this was an obvious Islamic Jihad attack. "He was passing out Korans before the shooting. He was giving away his furniture. [It is] pretty clear then that he expected he was going to die and that he was going to take hold of the promise in the Koran that paradise is guaranteed to those who kill and are killed for Allah," Spencer suspects. "He shouted 'Allahu Akbar' during the thing. We should also remember that to shout 'Allahu Akbar' in such a context is to recall Mohammad Atta, the 9-11 hijacker. Nidal Hasan is somebody who has been on record defending suicide attacks. It was indeed a terrorist attack, but the media is in huge denial about it." Spencer feels that if Americans continue to ignore what they are dealing with, the more likely it is they're going to see other Nidal Hasans.
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