"Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Joining Army

JANUARY 10, 2017
The Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter is a Muslim convert who years before joining the U.S. Army took on an Islamic name (Aashiq Hammad), downloaded terrorist propaganda and recorded Islamic religious music online, according to public records dug up by the investigative news site of an award-winning, California journalist...."

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2017/01/airport-shooter-converted-islam-identified-aashiq-hammad-years-joining-army/

if true it puts a different slant on things.
see also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Fort_Lauderdale_airport_shooting

Here is a link from the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/us/esteban-santiago-fort-lauderdale-airport-shooting-.html