"This is a story that is going to get worse," said Gen. Barry McCafferty , U.S. Army (Ret.) on CNN's 360 . This is a domestic terrorist attack. He gave off signs of disloyalty to his own county," the general said. 

Dr. Val Finnel, a student that went to class with suspect Hasan, commented on CNN that Hasan talked about the war in Iraq as a war on Islam, at a presentation he made during their environmental class in 2007.