Nice to have a friend
The bloke who went on a gun rampage through a US army
barracks killing 13 people may be spared terrorism charges because of his
computer.
Computer experts have been pulling apart Nidal Malik Hasan's computer
in the wake of
last week's killing spree and said that
there is no evidence of any connection to terror groups or
conspirators. While CBS News correspondent Bob Orr claimed that that an
examination of the computer has revealed Hasan visited Web sites
promoting
radical Islamic views, investigators
have not found any e-mail communications with outside facilitators or
known
terrorists.
At the moment the only links to terrorism is that in 2001
Hasan attended the same Virginia mosque as two of the 9/11 hijackers. Which is a bit thin as hundreds of people
will have attended the same mosque. Investigators do not yet know if Hasan ever had an
encounter with the hijackers Nawaf al-Hamzi and Hani Hanjour, but "...
since all were in the area at the same time, it's possible," sources said.
Hasan was shot four times during Thursday's firefight and
is in hospital. Still it is hard to see
how anyone can be an terrorist these
days and not use their computers as part of the plot. It seems that this is another case of a lone gunman did
everything by themselves. At least this
time they do not need a bizarre bouncing bullet theory to work out how people
were killed.