CAN WE CALL IT A TERRORIST ATTACK NOW ?

When it happened, most of the media referred to the incident as a mass killing by a disturbed individual, one writer went so far as to say he thought that it might be a case of workplace violence. When we talked about Major Hasan’s killings at Ft Hood many avoided the phrase “a terrorist attack”. The public was gently ushered away from the facts

Al-Jazeera, of all places, has offered us more evidence that is difficult to ignore! A New York Times story says that the Al-Jazeera website posted an interview with the radical cleric Anwar-al-Awlaki, in which Awlaki says Nidal Hasan asked him: “what Islamic law dictated about Muslim soldiers who serve in the American military and kill their colleagues”.

How cautious should we be when we speculate what Mr. Awlaki told Major Hasan ?

You can read the New York Times story at:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/world/middleeast/25yemen.html?th&emc=th