Fort Hood shooter wired money, had links to Pak: US lawmaker

November 14, 2009

Kartik Krushna Chaturdashi, Kaliyug Varsha 5111


USA: Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the US Army officer behind last week’s Fort Hood massacre in Texas, was in communications with individuals in Pakistan and had also wired money, according to US Congressman Michael McCaul.

“I have confirmed through independent sources that there were communications and wire transfers made to Pakistan,” McCaul said in a statement provided to the Dallas Morning News after the paper reported that the authorities were looking into whether such wire transfers had occurred.

“This Pakistan connection just raises more red flags about this case and demonstrates why it’s important for Congress to exercise its oversight authority,” said McCaul, the top Republican lawmaker from Austin on the House Homeland Security Committee’s intelligence sub-committee.

Another key Republican lawmaker, Pete Hoekstra, said told Fox News that ‘very reliable sources’ have told him that there are ‘very solid leads that indicate that Hasan was having

communications with individuals in Pakistan and may also have sent money into Pakistan’.

While conceding that these leads ‘may end up being a dry hole’, he said he has picked them from sources that have been reliable in the past.

“I would think that the intelligence community, whether it’s in the DoD (Department of Defence) or whether it’s the FBI, they probably have this information at this time, and they’ll probably share that with Congress when we finally get briefed next week,” Hoekstra said.

The two lawmakers voiced their suspicion of a Pakistani connection even as Army officials announced charges of premeditated murder on 13 counts against Hasan, while his civilian counsel said the suspect is ‘paralysed’ and is in ‘extremely serious’ condition.

Congressman McCaul refrained from naming his sources. His statement also did not address who Hasan’s contacts were in Pakistan, when he communicated with them or how much money he sent by wire transfer, the Journal said.

Since Hasan was a US citizen of Palestinian descent, with no family ties to Pakistan, terrorism expert Evan Kohlmann has been quoted as saying that in such an event, any transfer of money to Pakistan can only be for two purposes — either to support charity or to support jihad.

Hasan’s counsel John Galligan, who spoke with the suspect for an hour on Thursday, told CBS News that his paralysis was likely from the waist down.

He, however, said Hasan’s speech has been coherent during their discussions despite the medical condition.

Source: Dailypioneer

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