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Nidal Malik Hasan was convicted in 2009 for a shooting at Fort Hood military base in Texas that resulted in 13 deaths and 32 injuries. He has been on military death row since his conviction.
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live streamed after Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public”.
Hegseth, speaking to the conservative television outlet Real America’s Voice News on Wednesday, said the execution of Hasan will take place at Fort Hood on December 3. Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009.
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public,” Hegseth said.
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Legal challenges will be filed to halt the execution before December 3.
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Taiwan's first two F-16V Block 70 fighter jets arrived at Taitung's Zhihang Base on October 2. Strategy expert Liao Hongxiang pointed out that Taiwan's air force base has four major weaknesses: short geographical warning time, weak ground defense forces, insufficient physical bunker capacity, and traditional machine fortress protection blind spots. If the protection is not upgraded simultaneously, it may become the enemy's precision attack target. He suggested six specific actions, including establishing a layered protection system, strengthening machine fort protection, and expanding the monitoring scope.

China is conducting the most systematic effort among outside powers to learn from the drone war in Ukraine, with analysts updating battlefield techniques within four months, but it typically takes a year or more for these lessons to appear in PLA training, equipment, or force structure, according to a CSIS analysis.

The Pentagon confirmed that Hassan, the murderer of the 2009 Fort Hood military base shooting, will be executed by firing squad on December 3 and live broadcast online. This will be the first execution by the US military in more than 60 years and the first publicly broadcast live firing squad execution since World War II. Defense Minister Hegseth said the execution time would be 1 p.m. that day to correspond with the time and place of the crime, emphasizing that the public should see the consequences of evil deeds. Legal experts pointed out that Hassan may still file a habeas corpus petition, delaying its execution. Death penalty experts believe that live streaming can increase transparency and allow the public to understand the full picture of the death penalty.

The Bangan Military Airport jointly built by China and Laos has been put into operation. Satellite images show that there are about eight K-8 training aircraft and support vehicles. Experts believe that the facility is currently mainly used as a training center, but it may become the starting point for China to establish a long-term military presence in Southeast Asia, triggering security concerns among neighboring countries such as Vietnam about being "enemies on all sides."

Yesterday, President Lai met with the delegation led by Boyle, the top Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee, and U.S. Senator Bennet respectively. He thanked the U.S. Congress for its long-term support for Taiwan, and looked forward to deepening Taiwan-U.S. defense cooperation, gradually moving from military procurement to joint research and development and production, improving the resilience and capacity of the defense industries of both sides, especially strengthening cooperation in the areas of drones and anti-drone systems, AI-assisted military decision-making, and logistics combat effectiveness, so as to jointly maintain peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific.

The Pentagon announced a $350 million initiative to maintain American leadership in quantum computing amid US-China competition, citing national security and a Trump administration priority to accelerate deployment and domestic manufacturing.