At Fort Hood today, they finally, after over five years, awarded the Purple Heart to the soldiers who were wounded or lost their lives on November 5, 2009. For over five years, the Obama administration has insisted that what happened [at Fort Hood] wasn't terrorism. Nadal Hassan had communicated with Anwar Al Awlaki, a radical Islamic terrorist had asked about the permissibility of waging jihad against his fellow soldiers, and then on that fateful day, walked through Fort Hood screaming aluha Akbar. (01:01–01:11)
CLAIM
Asserts that the Obama administration did not classify the Fort Hood shooting as terrorism for over five years.
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