Investigators Look To Terror Ties At Fort Hood

Federal investigators, now looking for possible terror ties with the accused gunman in last week's bloodbath in Texas.Fox's Rick Leventhal reports from fort hood.Nadal Malik Hasan, in i-c-u since Thursday ... Is conscious and able to talk.The military says he's been that way since Saturday, when he was taken off a ventilator.Hasan----an army major and psychiatrist --- took several bullets to the torso from a pair of civilian police officers who stopped the shooting spree at fort hood.Officials say Hasan acted alone ....killing thirteen, injuring dozens more.Cone says: "I believe this was an isolated incident.... A very unfortunate, isolated incident"Authorities have interviewed almost two-hundred people and are methodically reviewing Hasan's multiple email accounts in search of possible terror ties.Hasan attended a mosque in Falls Church, Virginia in 2001 ... At the same time as two nine-eleven hijackers.The radical imam who led the mosque back in 2001 is praising Hasan calling him a hero...on his personal website.The current imam addresses the media....Malik says "to go from that individual to the person that now is projecting these words from Yemen, is a shock!"Investigators are not calling this a terrorist attack.But some politicians are, including Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman who points to witness accounts Hasan jumped on a table and shouted "Allah Akbar"---- or god is the greatest ---- before opening fire.Lieberman says: "He had turned to Islamist extremism. And therefore, if that is true, the murder of these 13 people is a terrorist attack."Lieberman says congress needs to formally investigate.Meanwhile the army says the focus now is on healing and counseling and on victims and their families, attending a memorial service along with the president and first lady on post tomorrow.At fort hood, rick Leventhal, fox news.



 


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