Army to execute Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Hasan the old-fashioned way — and Republicans are all for it



The man who shot and killed 13 people at Fort Hood nearly two decades ago will face execution by firing squad, according to an order from President Donald Trump.

U.S. Army Major and psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan was convicted for the Nov. 2009 mass shooting that killed 13 and injured at least 30 others near Killeen, Texas. He was sentenced to death after a 2013 court-martial.

Hasan said in court that the attack was intended to keep the US out of Afghanistan and avoid the killing of his fellow Muslims.

On Monday, the president approved the U.S. Army firing squad execution recommended by Sec. of War Pete Hegseth, according to a statement from Sean Parnell, Hegseth's spokesperson.

"The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution. Judgement day for Hasan has finally come," wrote Parnell on social media Monday.

Hegseth called it "justice," while Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called it an "appropriate punishment for a terrorist!"

The U.S. Army has not carried out the death penalty for 65 years, according to the Associated Press.

Hasan yelled, "Allahu Akbar!" before beginning the attack with a laser-sighted handgun. He intentionally targeted military members.

His rampage ended when Fort Hood civilian police Sergeant Mark Todd fired at Hasan and paralyzed him from the waist down.

Hasan said in court that the attack was intended to keep the U.S. out of Afghanistan and avoid the killing of his fellow Muslims.

Hasan would have escaped the death penalty and given life in prison if just one member of the court-martial jury had voted against the decision, but they unanimously approved the death penalty.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas released a statement approving of the decision.

"Nidal Hasan is a radical Islamist terrorist who carried out an attack in Texas that killed and injured dozens of Americans," the senator said. "He deserves to be executed for his crimes, and I have fought throughout my entire Senate career to see that justice is served. I applaud President Trump and Secretary Hegseth for taking that decision."

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The Fort Hood attack was the worst terror attack in U.S. history since 9/11 until the San Bernardino terrorist shooting in 2015, which killed 14.

Hasan is one of four men on military death row at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

The decision comes at a time when the botched lethal injection of a woman in Tennessee has led to a national debate about capital punishment.

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Yet another white woman who devoted her time and energy to welcoming third-worlders into Europe has wound up dead, apparently at the hands of the very sort of military-age foreigner she was trying to help.

The corpse of a 38-year-old Scottish woman who was volunteering with a refugee support group in Greece was discovered on July 18, stuffed into a suitcase in an abandoned building in Athens.

'The testimony of the wife has been crucial.'

The Hellenic Police announced on Sunday that investigators were able to lift the victim's fingerprints despite the body being found in a state of advanced decomposition. With the fingerprints and the help of both Interpol and American authorities, police identified the victim as Elisabeth-Jane Ross of Edinburgh.

Ross, who previously volunteered with the refugee assistance group One Heart, entered Greece on June 26 and was staying in the port city of Piraeus until July 10, when she left for an unknown destination.

On Thursday, police arrested Sharif Ahmadzai, a 26-year-old Afghan national, on suspicion of robbing and murdering Ross. They seized a replica pistol and a knife at his residence.

The Afghan — a super lightweight boxer who made his way by boat to Greece in 2016 after first making stops in Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey — allegedly used Ross' bank cards to make withdrawals and used her phone to contact her friends and family in an apparent attempt to mislead them about her whereabouts and demise.

Ahmadzai, who with his Christian wife runs a refugee-support ministry, was allegedly also caught by surveillance camera leaving Ross' address and wheeling around what appears to be the same suitcase in which the victim's body was discovered.

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The suspect's wife, an American named Alaina Hall, is said to have reported Ahmadzai to the police after Ross was identified as the victim, reported the Independent. After becoming concerned about Ahmadzai's absence from their home on the evening of July 15, Hall — who has a child with the suspect — checked a shared location tracking app and discovered that he was at Ross' apartment, where the victim is believed to have been killed, according to the Daily Mail.

A police source told the Times (U.K.), "The testimony of the wife has been crucial. Without her and CCTV evidence, we would not have been able to find this man."

According to the now-scrubbed website for the couple's refugee support organization, Hall met Ahmadzai in 2016 when volunteering in a migrant camp.

The Afghan, whom the Hellenic Police claim has admitted to killing Ross, is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.

Ross' body was discovered just days after the discovery of the remains of 43-year-old American mother Jamey Carney in Ireland. The prime suspect in the murder of Carney is 28-year-old Ahmad Al-Saqar, Carney's romantic partner and a Middle Eastern asylum-seeker who fled the country on a plane bound for Turkey.

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DOJ goes to special court to send mother of terrorists back to Afghanistan



The Biden administration admitted — at an accelerated pace — thousands of Afghans into the United States following the collapse of Kabul, despite warnings from Donald Trump, then-Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), and others about the likelihood of extremists slipping through the cracks.

Among the extremists ultimately admitted into the U.S. under Biden was a jihadist who, with the help of other radicals in his family already in the U.S., plotted to slaughter as many Americans on Election Day 2024 as possible on behalf of ISIS.

'NAZIRA worked with TAWHEDI to radicalize the family and to conceal their pro-ISIS teaching,' the DOJ claims.

The Trump Justice Department announced on Thursday that it has filed the first-ever case in the U.S. Alien Terrorist Removal Court — to remove the matriarch of that terrorist family, Nazira Haji Zada.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement noted in its July 15 declaration in support of Zada's removal that she was first admitted to the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident in March 2018 as the spouse of a Middle Easterner employed by the U.S. at Bagram Air Base from 2009 to 2016. It notes further that she "meets the definition of alien terrorist as used in 8 U.S.C. § 1533(a)(1)(D)(i)."

Zada, who has been residing in Fort Worth, Texas, was arrested this week and will appear before ATRC's Chief Judge Joan Ericksen on Thursday.

The ATRC is a special court created by Congress in 1996. Congress authorized the chief justice of the United States — presently the head of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Roberts — to designate five U.S. district court judges to review removal applications for individuals identified as alien terrorists.

"This is a historic step asking this court for the first time to remove an individual from the United States who supported a plot by ISIS-sympathizing family members to commit an act of terrorism in America," said FBI Director Kash Patel. "No one should be allowed to come into our country and then betray it."

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Zada is the mother of Abdullah Haji Zada and the mother-in-law of Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, both of whom were arrested on Oct. 7, 2024, after buying guns and ammo from an undercover FBI employee for use in their thwarted Election Day massacre.

Abdullah Zada, an Afghan national who came to the U.S. with Zada in 2018, pleaded guilty in April 2025 to knowingly receiving, attempting to receive, and conspiring to receive a firearm and ammunition to be used to commit a federal crime of terrorism. He was handed down the maximum sentence of 15 years in federal prison, after which he will be deported.

Tawhedi, an Afghan national who entered the U.S. on Sept. 9, 2021 — nearly 20 years to the day after the 9/11 attacks — pleaded guilty to the same charges as well as to conspiring and attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS. He has not yet been sentenced.

According to the original criminal complaint, Tawhedi immersed himself and his family members in jihadist propaganda and communicated with an ISIS facilitator about his efforts to procure weapons for use in the terror plot.

Footage taken on July 20, 2024, and later obtained by the FBI allegedly shows Tawhedi reading to his daughter and nephew about the supposed benefits of martyrdom, including a harem of 72 virgins and a crown of jewels.

Abdullah Zada and Tawhedi planned to sell Zada's home in Moore, Oklahoma, for $185,000 — Zada allegedly signed off on the sale — as well as other property owned by the family to fund both the terrorism plot and the repatriation of their family, including Zada but not her husband, back to Afghanistan on on Oct. 17, 2024, according to the complaint.

It appears the Afghan matriarch played a big role in helping her son and son-in-law advance their plot.

In an unclassified submission to the ATRC, the DOJ claimed:

The FBI has developed information that NAZIRA is a supporter of ISIS, has formally pledged loyalty to ISIS, and supported TAWHEDI and ABDULLAH's conspiracy. The FBI is further aware that NAZIRA, in collaboration with TAWHEDI, worked to indoctrinate her children with ISIS ideology and have them pledge loyalty to ISIS. NAZIRA worked with TAWHEDI to radicalize the family and to conceal their pro-ISIS teaching and planned family relocation to ISIS-controlled territory from her unsuspecting husband Abdul Haji Zada.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said that "the allegations in this case show the matriarch of an ISIS-sympathizing family aiding in a plot to launch a mass casualty attack on American voters on Election Day."

"The ATRC embodies the recognition that the government should not have to choose between allowing a dangerous alien to remain in the United States and disclosing sensitive classified information in a traditional removal proceeding," stated Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg. "We will use all the tools at our disposal, including this court, to remove foreign nationals who betray our values and exploit our goodwill by supporting ISIS and terrorist plots."

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UN expresses 'grave concern' over horrific rule on child marriage from Taliban regime in Afghanistan



The Taliban government in Afghanistan issued a rule on separation of child brides in marriage, and the United Nations responded by expressing its "grave concern."

Afghanistan's justice ministry issued a decree containing several provisions regarding the lawful separation of a married couple but included an order pertaining to girls that had reached puberty.

'This situation reinforces structural discrimination and limits women's autonomy in matters fundamental to their dignity, safety, and well-being.'

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said the rules allowed men to interpret the silence of a girl reaching puberty as consent for marriage. Another section implied that child marriage was permitted, according to the agency.

"This undermines the principle of free and full consent and failing to safeguard the best interests of the child," reads a statement from the organization.

The rules also say that a marriage can be declared invalid if a father or grandfather gives a minor girl or boy without any dowry or sufficient dowry.

The Taliban decree is "part of a broader and deeply concerning trajectory in which the rights of Afghan women and girls are being eroded," said U.N. Special Representative Georgette Gagnon.

The agency said the rules allow women to seek divorce from men but make it far easier to men to seek divorce.

"While men retain the unilateral right to divorce, women must pursue complex and restrictive judicial avenues to separate from a spouse," UNAMA said. "This situation reinforces structural discrimination and limits women's autonomy in matters fundamental to their dignity, safety, and well-being."

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A spokesperson for the Afghan regime said "those who contradict the religion of Islam are not new, and we should not pay attention to them."

The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan after former President Joe Biden ordered U.S. military forces out of the nation in 2021. The government almost immediately fell into terrorist hands, and they were able to seize massive amounts of abandoned military assets.

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