Progressives, AIPAC and the future of the Democratic Party
Mehdi Hasan goes Head to Head with ex-Biden official Neera Tanden on the Democratic Party’s chances in the US midterms.
International news in seven languages
Topic
Mehdi Hasan goes Head to Head with ex-Biden official Neera Tanden on the Democratic Party’s chances in the US midterms.
Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, murdered 13 people and injured more than 32 others in the mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas in November 2009.
The former Major of the Nidal Hasan Army, sentenced to death for murdering 13 people in an attack at the Fort Hood base, Texas, in 2009, will be the first military to be executed by a firing squad since World War II. U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated that the execution, scheduled for December 3, will be public, and a Pentagon official confirmed that it will be broadcast live. Hegseth's decision has already aroused criticism.
In 2009, Nidal Hasan, a former United States Army psychiatrist, killed 13 people in a shooting at the Fort Hood military base. Hasan was sentenced to death in 2013 and will be the first person executed by a U.S. Armed Forces firing squad since 1945. The controversy now revolves around the Pentagon's decision to live broadcast its execution. To expand the issue, we talk to our correspondent in Washington, Carolina Valladares.
The US will livestream the Army's upcoming firing squad execution on December 3 of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in a 2009 shooting spree, a Pentagon official said, in what would be an unprecedented move. Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, is set to become the first person to be executed by firing squad by the US military since 1945.
US Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth had said that Nidal Hasan would be executed by firing squad and that it would be done "in public." Hasan's execution will be the first by the US military since 1961.
An official at the Pentagon told Al Jazeera that former US Army Major Nidal Hasan's execution would be 'livestreamed'.
The 'youtuber' and socialist activist saw how, during a Republican convention, an image he had shared in underwear was projected on a giant screen. The result has been an unprecedented peak of popularity