Federal authorities are investigating whether there is a connection between the Fort Hood shooting suspect and an Internet posting that seemed to equate a suicide bomber with a U.S. soldier who saves his comrades by throwing himself on a grenade.

"We know he posted some stuff on the Internet that the FBI found, about suicide bombing – not normal behavior. But do we have any proof that he was talking to a cell in Pakistan or Afghanistan? No," Rep. Michael McCaul of Austin, a senior Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, said Friday after briefings.

Lawmakers said if the posting turned out to be that of Nidal Malik Hasan, they would investigate why more wasn't done to monitor him. The Associated Press said the posting caught the FBI's attention six months ago and that authorities Friday seized Hasan's personal computer.

Here is the full text of the posting on the Web site Scribd ( www.scribd.com/NidalHasan):

"NidalHasan scribbled: There was a grenade thrown amongs a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them. He inentionally took his life (suicide) for a noble cause i.e. saving the lives of his soldier. To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers. If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory. Their intention is not to die because of some despair. The same can be said for the Kamikazees in Japan. They died (via crashing their planes into ships) to kill the enemies for the homeland. You can call them crazy i you want but their act was not one of suicide that is despised by Islam. So the scholars main point is that 'IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOUR INTENTION IS THE MAIN ISSUE' and Allah (SWT) knows best."

The Associated Press, The Dallas Morning News