Cowardice

Investigators Follow Hasan’s Money for Possible Terrorist Links

A federal law enforcement source told Fox News that investigators have not uncovered evidence so far to suggest Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan was wiring money to Pakistan. The FBI refused comment.

With evidence growing to support a terror link to the Fort Hood massacre, federal investigators are looking at whether Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan, charged Thursday with 13 murders in the shooting, was sending money to Pakistan to support a jihad.

Michigan Rep. Pete Hoestra, the senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said his contacts are voicing concern about that possibility.

“I know that there are people who are very concerned about it,” he said in a phone interview with Fox News. “They think it’s a real lead. They think it’s something that really needs to be investigated.

The FBI is not commenting on the investigation, but a federal law enforcement source told Fox News that investigators have not uncovered evidence so far to suggest Hasan was wiring money to Pakistan.

Military investigators said they still believe there was only one gunman at the scene.

Hasan, a 39-year-old psychiatrist assigned to Darnell Medical Center at Fort Hood, has been charged in the military’s legal system with 13 counts of premeditated murder, making him eligible for the death penalty if convicted.

Investigators now report that private business cards in Hasan’s name were found inside his apartment near the base. The cards include the acronym “SoA,” which means “soldier of Allah,” according to those who track jihadist Web sites. The acronym “SWT” also appears on the business cards, referring to a phrase that translates to “glory to God.”

In addition to Hasan’s apartment, his computer, his cell phone and bank records also are being scrutinized by federal investigators.

Annmarie McAvoy, a former federal prosecutor and expert on terrorist financing, told FoxNews.com that investigators most likely will send out subpoenas to all the banks and financial institutions where Hasan held an account and then “pore through every transaction” and track every ATM withdrawal.

They won’t be looking necessarily for any illegal transactions but for unusual activities, such as wire transfers, she said, explaining that most people don’t transfer money to other individuals unless they’re relatives.

“It’s enough to raise questions to warrant further investigation,” she said. “They’re going to shake every tree that they can to get more information.”

McAvoy also said they won’t be looking for a million-dollar wire transfer.

“It’s going to be small transfers, small amounts,” she said, recalling past cases of money laundering by terrorists.

McAvoy also said that if Hasan was part of a jihadist movement, it wouldn’t be unusual that he reportedly was living in a $350-a-month apartment despite making a base pay of $93,000 as a psychiatrist.

“That’s what the 9/11 terrorists did,” she said. “They lived very poorly and sent whatever extra money they had back to the cause. They’re not looking for gain here on earth. They’re looking for gain in the afterlife.”

McAvoy added that the money investigation is crucial, not necessarily to gather evidence against Hasan, but to determine whether there are others connected to him planning another attack.
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Hasan Called Himself ‘Soldier of Allah’ on Business Cards

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan called himself a “soldier of Allah” on business cards found in his apartment after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood in which he is accused of murdering 13 people.

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, reportedly obtained the business cards over the Internet. In addition to listing his profession and contact information, the cards contain a discrete reference to his religion: “SoA(SWT).”

Watchdogs say the first letters are shorthand among militant Muslims to “soldier of Allah.” The last letters refer to “Subhanahu Wa Ta’all,” which means “glory to God.”

The business cards were among numerous discoveries in Hasan’s apartment of interest to investigators, who also are looking into whether Hasan wired money to Pakistan before last week’s massacre.
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Denying the obvious

As soon as Major Nidal Hasan finished shooting down American soldiers while shouting “Allahu akbar!”, we were warned not to jump to conclusions — by people who promptly jumped to a series of silly and irresponsible ones.

First, many journalists leapt for the “mad vet” stereotype, portraying Maj. Hasan as just one more sad character who snapped under the intolerable strain of military life. The underlying, and insulting, assumption seemed to be that if you were not necessarily insane to want to be a soldier, you probably would be by the time you’d done it.
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A second, related snap conclusion was that even if Maj. Hasan gave a deeply convincing impression of a jihadi, it would be hasty and intolerant to read anything of significance into it. On Remembrance Day The Globe and Mail said, “Whether Major Hasan was motivated by extremist Islamic calls to jihad or broke under the stress of attempting to reconcile his faith with orders to go to war in a Muslim country remains unknown.” OK, I’ll bite. How do we tell when a guy slaughtering infidels yelling “Allahu akbar!” is a real jihadi and when he just broke under stress? I doubt the bien-pensant would call all jihadis deranged; it might seem culturally insensitive. Do only domestic cases automatically qualify, to forestall any discussion of fifth columns? Let’s at least ask.
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Top Republican says White House hiding info on Fort Hood

The ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee on Tuesday night accused the White House of withholding information on the Fort Hood attack.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) said administration officials delayed briefing members of Congress about the alleged gunman, raising “red flags” about what the White House was hiding.

“When they withhold information, you always start asking questions,” Hoekstra told Fox News. “That’s what raises red flags. What do they know that they don’t want us to know?”

Hoekstra linked President Barack Obama’s handling of Fort Hood to a chain of other GOP criticisms of the president, including the administration’s treatment of detainees and an investigation into possible CIA abuse.

“It is a political correctness that is making it unable for us to identify the real threat of homegrown terrorism,” he alleged.

Hoekstra warned that “we have similar Hasans” in the country. The Michigan Republican has called for his committee to investigate the incident. Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) has so far declined, preferring to wait for the conclusion of the joint FBI-Army investigation.

Liberal Idiocy on Fort Hood – by David Horowitz

Why is it that when a so-called liberal opens his mouth about the Ft. Hood massacre by a Muslim jihadist I know that I’m going to feel less safe? The corrupt mayor of Chicago (and presidential patron) blames the shooting of 41 soldiers — at the deployment center for the wars against Muslim jihadists in Afghanistan and Iraq — on the alleged fact that “America loves guns.”

As if the traitor Hasan had not clearly and unequivocally renounced his American citizenship and declared war on his own country because it was not a Muslim state. As if there were not in fact NO GUNS ALLOWED on the Fort Hood base, which is why his soldier (!) victims were unarmed and therefore someone didn’t shoot him dead after his first blast. What is wrong with American so-called liberals that they proudly expose themselves in public as idiots when it comes to the holy Muslim war that has been declared against us? That they just don’t get it? And they don’t.
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