UPDATED: No terror link in NSA shooting – FBI

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Three people were arrested and several hurt Wednesday when a car crashed through the entrance of the National Security Agency outside Washington, but the incident had no link to terror, the FBI said.

The vehicle’s driver, an NSA policeman and a bystander were hurt as gunfire erupted when the black SUV plowed through the gate and into concrete barriers at the main NSA entrance in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Video footage from the site showed multiple gunshot holes in the windshield of the SUV, and apparent blood on the ground outside the NSA, the premier US electronic spying agency.

“There is no indication that this has a nexus to terrorism,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Gordon Johnson told reporters.

“We believe that this was an isolated incident,” he said.

The three men who had been in the vehicle were all in custody, with the driver sent to the hospital with unspecified…



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