US President Donald Trump has announced that, contrary to his administration's previous decision, the execution of Nidal Malik Hassan, a former US Army officer who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in Texas in 2009, will not be broadcast live. In a message on the Emet Social network, Trump described Nidal Hasan as a "very evil person" and a "traitor" and wrote that he killed 13 people, including a pregnant soldier, in his attack. The unborn child of this soldier also died and 32 other people were seriously injured. The US president also pointed to Nidal Hassan's electronic communications with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Yemeni-American cleric, and said the FBI had intercepted those communications during Barack Obama's presidency, but officers did not find them threatening. Trump described it as a major intelligence failure. Trump wrote that the live broadcast of the execution could be a deterrent to the world and show how America deals with "terrorists and people like Hassan." EPA.

US President Donald Trump has announced that, contrary to his administration's previous decision, the execution of Nidal Malik Hassan, a former US Army officer who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in Texas in 2009, will not be broadcast live. In a message on the Emet Social network, Trump described Nidal Hasan as a "very evil person" and a "traitor" and wrote that he killed 13 people, including a pregnant soldier, in his attack. The unborn child of this soldier also died and 32 other people were seriously injured. The US president also pointed to Nidal Hassan's electronic communications with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Yemeni-American cleric, and said the FBI had intercepted those communications during Barack Obama's presidency, but officers did not find them threatening. Trump described it as a major intelligence failure. Trump wrote that the live broadcast of the execution could be a deterrent to the world and show how America deals with "terrorists and people like Hassan." EPA.