In an exclusive interview on Human Events Daily, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the firing squad execution of Major Nidal Malik Hasan will be held publicly at Fort Hood, where he opened fire on US service members in 2009. Hasan murdered 13 in that mass shooting terror in 2009 while shouting "Allahu Akbar."
He will be executed on December 3 at 1 pm. Hasan's execution will be the first execution carried out by the military in more than 60 years. There hasn't been an execution in the military by firing squad since the end of World War II, when Private Eddie Slovik was executed for desertion.
"I don't believe anyone's asked you on on air about this yet, and so wanted to get you on the record, Major Hasan," Posobiec said. "Huge news that came out."
"Major Hassan, this news that came down regarding firing squad, can you tell us about how that came about and what led to that decision process?"
"No brainer," Hegseth said. "Execution by firing squad. Army major betrays his country. Radical Islamist kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood. Of course, we're going to do it at Fort Hood and do it on a Thursday. We're going to do it at 1o'clock, which is when he did it, and it's going to be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad."
"It hasn't been since World War II, since we've done that," he said. "Well, I kind of like the mentality we had in World War II, which was win, which was understand when the enemy attacks you stand your ground. So it was radical Islamist terror attack. Remember what remember what Obama called it? Workplace violence. I mean that's what we're up against. That's the world view we're up against is workplace violence."
"We know what it is," Hegseth went on. "It was a radical Islamist attack in uniform inside the ranks, and so he's going to get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be. And we'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public, because people need to understand that this is there's serious consequences for these types of things."
"Has Major Hassan made any final request, reached out to the president, anything like that, to your knowledge," Posobiec asked.
"Don't care. We'll see him on December 3."
Hegseth made the revelation to Posobiec after the two traveled together to San Diego to welcome home the sailors aboard the USS Lincoln, who had been at sea on a mission in the Middle East for 320 days. Their first port stop was in Thailand before they made their way back home. They were at sea conducting operations for more than 10 months without a single mishap.
"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S," Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said on Monday. "Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting 'Allahu Akbar' during the attack. The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution. Judgement day for Hasan has finally come."
Hasan was an Army psychiatrist when he stormed into the Fort Hood processing center and opened fire on troops who were preparing for deployment to Afghanistan. Thirteen service members were killed while another 32 were injured. Civilian security officers shot Hasan and he has survived since then with paralysis from the waist down.
Hasan, who was born in the US and later admitted he had "switched sides" over American military efforts in the Middle East, was put on trial in 2013 and served as his own counsel. He admitted at that time, "the evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter." He was found guilty and sentenced to death.
