Rampage gunman assessed a year ago

NEARLY a year before Major Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an “assessment” of him before deciding he did not pose a threat.

The Army psychiatrist, a devout American-born Muslim, is believed to have acted alone, despite repeated communications – intercepted by authorities – with a radical imam overseas, US officials said.

The FBI will conduct an internal review to see whether it mishandled early information about the man accused in the bloody rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 29.