Evil – Hasan may have transferred funds to Pakistan

The Dallas Morning News has the story.

Authorities have been examining whether Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan in recent months, an action that one senior lawmaker said would raise serious questions about Hasan’s possible connections to militant Islamic groups.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., said sources “outside of the [intelligence] community” learned about Hasan’s possible connections to the Asian country, which faces a massive Islamist insurgency and is widely believed to be Osama bin Laden’s hiding place.

Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, would not identify the sources. But he said “they are trying to follow up on it because they recognize that if there are communications – phone or money transfers with somebody in Pakistan – it just raises a whole other level of questions.”

Even if US intelligence officials were unaware of the funds transfer, Hasan threw up plenty of red flags.

Authorities have been examining whether Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan in recent months, an action that one senior lawmaker said would raise serious questions about Hasan’s possible connections to militant Islamic groups.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., said sources “outside of the [intelligence] community” learned about Hasan’s possible connections to the Asian country, which faces a massive Islamist insurgency and is widely believed to be Osama bin Laden’s hiding place.

Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, would not identify the sources. But he said “they are trying to follow up on it because they recognize that if there are communications – phone or money transfers with somebody in Pakistan – it just raises a whole other level of questions.”

The DMN also reported that although Hasan earned a salary of about $90,000 per year, he lived in a $300 per month apartment. Keep in mind, as a member of the military he’s paid with taxpayer funds. So if it’s true that he sent money to terrorists overseas, he was sending US taxpayer funds to those terrorists. How evil.

Related: Daniel Henninger’s excellent piece in The Wall Street Journal, Why  Fort Hood Really Happened, is a must read. We’re at war with these people, no matter what you call it, and uncertainly gets people killed.