Hasan communicated with Pakistan

by smkovalinsky | November 13, 2009 at 07:04 pm

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Was Terrorist funding behind Hasan's communications with Pakistan?

Congressman Michael McCaul (US House of Rep. -(R) - Texas) has asked that a congressional investigation be launched

Accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nadil Hasan had communicated with Pakistan , according to a GOP congressman's statements.

The Office of Homeland Security 's House Intelligence Subcommittee has said that although there may have been innocuous reasons to be in touch with Pakistan - such as friends or relatives - the wiring of monies would indicate a need for further investigation as to whether this was for the purpose of financing terrorists there.

The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people in a shooting spree at Fort Hood made or accepted wire transfers with Pakistan, a country wracked by Muslim extremist violence, a Republican congressman said Friday.

Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, the ranking GOP member of the House Homeland Security Intelligence Subcommittee, said people outside the intelligence community with direct knowledge of the transfers also told him Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan also had communications with Pakistan.

"He may have friends or relatives or whatever and this could be totally (innocent)," McCaul said in a telephone interview. "But if he is wiring money to Pakistan, that could be terrorist financing. If he was receiving money from Pakistan, that is more significant."

McCaul said he does not know the direction of the transfers and communications, only that they passed between Hasan and Pakistan. He said the lack of additional information is why Congress should launch an investigation.

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The question of how Hasan spent his Army salary stems from the apparently frugal lifestyle he lived both in the small city of Killeen, Texas, outside of Fort Hood, and in the Washington, D.C., suburbs when stationed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In Texas, he lived in a rundown apartment that cost $350 a month and drove a 2006 Honda.