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US Homeland Security dismisses execution broadcast security risk

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US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin stated that the planned live-streamed execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will not create an additional security risk. Mullin dismissed concerns that broadcasting the execution could turn Hasan into a martyr, emphasizing that the punishment fits the crime for attacking the United States. Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist, carried out an al-Qaeda-inspired attack at Fort Hood in 2009, resulting in 13 deaths and over 30 injuries. AI

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US Homeland Security dismisses execution broadcast security risk

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Agence France-Presse ·

    US homeland security chief dismisses security threat from live-streaming execution

    A top Trump administration official said on Sunday that the planned live stream execution of the perpetrator of a mass killing of US soldiers would not pose an additional security risk to the United States. “I don’t see an elevated risk at this point at all because of this,” US H…

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