Lieberman calls Ft. Hood shooting ‘terrorist attack’

By David Edwards
Sunday, November 8th, 2009 -- 11:25 am
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Joe LiebermanHomeland Security Chairman Sen. Joe Lieberman told Fox News' Chris Wallace that he wants the Department of Defense to launch an investigation into the shooting rampage at Ft. Hood. Lieberman said evidence indicates that Major Nidal Malik Hasan was probably a "self-radicalized, homegrown terrorist."

The New York Times reports, however, that investigators have tentatively concluded it was not part of a terrorist plot.

"If the reports that we're receiving of various statements he made, acts he took, are valid, he had turned to Islamist extremism, and, therefore, if that is true, the murder of these 13 people was a terrorist act and, in fact, it was the most destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11," Lieberman said Sunday.

According to this morning's New York Times, investigators have not ruled out the possibility Major Hassan "believed he was carrying out an extremist's suicide mission," but so far they have no evidence he was directed into violence or "ever traveled overseas to meet with extremist groups."

Lieberman wants the Department of Defense to conduct a special investigation to see if the shootings could have been predicted. "While the Army and the FBI are conducting the criminal investigation about exactly what happened and what Dr. Hasan should be charged with, the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense has a real obligation to convene an independent investigation to go back and look at whether warning signs were missed, both the stress he was under, but also the statements that he was making," he said.

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Officials quoted by The New York Times say a continuing search of Hasan's computer has found email messages exchanged with ideologically radical Muslims, though there is no evidence he communicated with "known terrorists or anyone else who encouraged or helped him to orchestrate the shootings."

Lieberman told Fox, "The new face of terrorism in America would not just be the attacks as 9/11 organized abroad and sending people in here, it would be people within this country, homegrown terrorists, self-radicalized, often over the Internet, going to jihadist websites."

This video is from Fox's Fox News Sunday, broadcast Nov. 8, 2009.



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  • Lieberman is a scumbag politician that the people of CT should have retired. Trying to capitalize on the the death and grief of his fellow Americans is a new low for this creep.
  • Savantster
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    "it would be people within this country, homegrown terrorists, self-radicalized, often over the Internet, going to jihadist websites."

    So, Joe is helping the GOP develop new talking points about how Obama and the Dems "let another terror attack happen" by redefining what constitutes "terrorists" from an organized group to disgruntled individuals [but only if they are not xtian].

    So, now, getting pissed off at your government for all the abuses they foist on us in the name of ever growing profits makes you a terrorist..

    Of course, King George called our Founding Fathers terrorists too..

    And keep in mind that ANY time there is ANY violence in the world from a non-xtian or non-jew, it will be called a Jihadist action of terrorists. Ahhhh, yes.. the crusades are alive and well in 2009..
  • yoshimum
    Anyone who shouts “Allahu Akbar” and opens fire on a crowd of unarmed people is a terrorist. If Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is not a terrorist, no one is.
  • Savantster
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    So, by the same logic, you would assert that anyone that shouts "Praise Jesus!" before killing someone is a terrorist? Or just a nutjob..
  • yoshimum
    Big difference, Christians do not kill FOR God, jihadists DO kill FOR allah.
    When was the last time anyone heard 'Praise Jesus' before a massacre?
    Why are you so hellbent in making excuses for this murderer?
  • Savantster
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    I'm hell bent on keeping people honest. Tiller, for one, is someone that died FOR god because the person that killed him did it because of his religion.

    The fact is, the rote definition of "terrorist" is someone that commits an act of violence with the intent to strike fear and "terror" into a public to try and evoke change of some sort.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/terrorism

    If you snap and kill people, your religion is immaterial. What you "say" when you snap is also immaterial. If this guy "snapped" and simply wanted to take out as many people as he could while he killed himself, that's not properly codified as "terrorism", period.

    When you see the rampant religious BIGOTRY toward Muslims because of the few extremists out there, you see the remnants of the Crusades where xtians DID kill in the name of their god. Just because they are trying to keep it more subdued now doesn't make it any less the same ideological fight.

    This is a topic that covers dozens of ideas and frames. I can't educate you on the entire thing in such a small forum, you just have to go educate yourself. Once you do, you'll most likely see that LIEberman is a religious zealot who's decided to use political power to enact his religious aims instead of direct violence. The veil doesn't fool everyone, just the more ignorant in our society.
  • felixthecatxxxx
    Nonsense. The Crusade were a delayed response to the bloodthirsty Muslim aggression that had been going on for centuries. The Middle East and North Africa had been Christian before tens of millions were slaughtered in the name of Allah. Islam has always hated the West, and always will. Islam is a bloodthirsty, evil political ideology disguised as a foul religion. Learn some history, open your eyes.
  • Savantster
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    To clarify..

    Crusaders DO kill FOR their god, and Crusaders are (typically) xtian. Jihadists DO kill FOR their god, and Jihadists are Muslim.

    however, not all xtians are Crusaders, and not all Muslims are Jihadists. Let that sink in a bit.
  • felixthecatxxxx
    The only Muslims who are Jihadists are those that obey the words of Mohammed.
  • Evangelical fundamentalist xtians are anxiously awaiting the rapture to occur in Israel. I would consider that to be a massive massacre. The Israeli IDF terrorized and attacked Gaza, but it was called self defense. I believe that Hamas or any one else that lobs rockets into Israel are terrorists. But at the same time then the isareli IDF should also be recognized as terrorists. There are many ways to bring about terror. The Israeli IDF is state sponsored, and as such, the state of Israel should be recognized as a terrorist state. Many Jews in Israel are against the evangelical xtian zionists. Their agenda is totally against peace in the middle east. The likuds, along with the global zionists are the saboteurs for peace in Israel and the middle east.
  • yoshimum
    What on earth does Israel have to do with the attack on Ft. Hood?
  • Nothing ! ! As far as Lieberman goes, all roads lead to the Likudnik controlled Tel Aviv.
  • edwards_com
    Christians most certainly DO kill for their God. The entire BUSH regime used it as a foundation for their bogus wars.Their 'Jesus as Rambo' crap is in all the evangelical propaganda I have seen.
  • Excellent point. Didn't Rummy and his Pentagon use Biblical quotes in their briefings for the Shrubster? Even the Shrubster had a freudian slip, and called it a Crusade. Some of his Generals were quoting the Bible, and speaking of the virtues of xtiandom.
  • yoshimum
    "Shrubster" typical leftist comments, no class.
    Obamabot?
    Sheepster?
    I'm still waiting to see your guy walk on water.
  • Obama is not my guy. As far as I am concerned he is Shrub/lite. He was the [chosen one] by [TPTB] the powers that be. They needed a salesman to continue their agenda, and they got the best there was at the time.
  • drhaagen
    It's quite obvious to me that most of you people have never actually experienced the real world of violence and terror. Rather more likeely no further than the inside of your nearest Panera Bread lounge or Star Bucks i-net cafe'. The fact of the matter is that Islamic Extremists have made it blantly public knowledge that their Agenda is to murder innocent human beings in the name of their age-old, unfounded racist hatred for the Jews (and those with the audacity to protect them, i.e. Americans). Christianity has NEVER made a public announcement re: innocuous violence against innocent people. I'm quite sure that most of you would have defended Adolf Hitler during Nazi Germany because he was trying to "cleanse" the human race of such "malcontents" like Lieberman or Beck who have the audacity to question and disagree with the status quo. Murdering innocent, unarmed people because someone merely disagrees with you or even (God forbid) doesn't like you is pure Anarchy. Plain and simple. It is outright dispicable that any of you woould defend the "rights" of a homicidal murderer. Why don't you go talk to the parents and children of the innocent men and women who were slaughtered by this animal (like the Bush's did). Maybe then you tell them how you feel sorry for this less-than-human muslim who butchered their children and parents!
  • edwards_com
    Your opening sentence of backhanded name calling & insults negate your entire post. And as for the 'NEVER made a public announcement of killing innocents'. Tell that to the MILLION plus the Conservative BUSH regime murdered in the name of Christianity in Iraq. The Conservative GOP Bibles quotes and proclamation of a Crusade (cleansing) make the USA no different than the Muslims. Oh and as for Hitler....look no further that the GOP Conservatice PAT BUCHANAN and his 'Hitler wasn't the bad guy speech' 3 weeks ago.
    Your propaganda fell apart 4 - 6 years ago.
    No offense
  • Oh really?
    Didnt "God" tell Dumbass to terrorize Iraq?
  • edwards_com
    You bet he did & ordered the Generals on down to use that bible thing to quote out of context lies as justification for the slaughter of innocents. See Haditha.
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