Six Saudi nationals were taken into custody for questioning near the Florida naval base where an Air Force trainee – also from Saudi Arabia – opened fire Friday morning, killing three before a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed him.
According to the New York Times, three of the Saudis were filming the attack. It is unknown whether they were students at the base, or whether they are connected to the gunman.
The shooting spanned two floors in a classroom, according to Sheriff David Morgan of Escambia Country. Two deputies were shot in the ensuing gun battle and are expected to recover.
The gunman, identified as Saudi Air Force second lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, used a locally bought Glock 45 9mm handgun with an extended magazine, and was carrying between four and six more magazines.
In his last message on Twitter confirmed by AFP, Alshamrani wrote that America is a nation of evil.
Pensacola terrorist's last tweet. pic.twitter.com/B9qLnYuTwH
— Rising serpent ?? (@rising_serpent) December 7, 2019
The FBI is leading the investigation into the incident at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola in Florida, and initially withheld Alshamrani’s name.
He was allegedly a student enrolled in a Navy training program designed for ” immersing international students in our U.S. Navy training and culture ” to help “build partnership capacity for both the present and for the years ahead,” accoring to Fox News, citing 2017 comments by Cmdr. Bill Gibson, who is the center’s officer in charge.
“These relationships are truly a win-win for everyone involved,” he added at the time.
Governor Rick Scott (R-FL) called for a “full review” of the Navy training programs in the wake of the shooting, while investigators have said they are exploring whether the attack was an act of organized terrorism.
“I’m very concerned that the shooter in Pensacola was a foreign national training on a U.S. base. Today, I’m calling for a full review of the U.S. military programs to train foreign nationals on American soil. We shouldn’t be providing military training to people who wish us harm,” said Scott.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters Friday that although his first priority is supporting the ongoing investigation and determining the shooter’s motives, he also said: “I want to make sure we’re doing our due diligence to understand what are our procedures” concerning the training programs.
“Is it sufficient [et cetera, et cetera] and it may not be — it may be the vetting — are we also screening persons coming to make sure that they have, you know, their life in order, you know, their mental health is adequate,” Esper said. “So we need to look at all that.”
Esper referred to the shooter as a Saudi national who was a second lieutenant in flight training.
Sources told Fox News that the scene of the shooting — a classroom, where students usually spend three months at the beginning of the program — indicated that the shooter was a student who was “early” in his training. –Fox News
Approximately 1,500 pilots are enrolled in the Naval training program – with Saudis having attended courses at the Pensacola site since the 1970s. According to the report, as many as 20 students from the Islamic Republic are in any given class – with many of them belonging to the Royal Family.
Following the shooting, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveyed “its deep distress,” offering “its sincere condolences to the victims’ families, and wishes the injured a speedy recovery.”
“The perpetrator of this horrific attack does not represent the Saudi people whatsoever. The American people are held in the highest regard by the Saudi people,” reads a statement from the Ministry. “Building upon the strong ties between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America, and in continuation of the ongoing cooperation between the two countries’ security agencies, the Saudi security agencies will provide full support to the US authorities to investigate the circumstances of this crime.”
President Trump, meanwhile, relayed King Salman of Saudi Arabia’s “sincere condolences,” and gave his “sympathies to the families and friends of the warriors who were killed and wounded in the attack…”
“The King said that the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter, and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people who love the American people,” said Trump.
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Except those who are not responsible for lying with dogs are the ones ending up with fleas.
How lovely that all sounds. The US, a big pink and blue padded nursery where the sheep lie down with the lions.
SHUT DOWN IMMIGRATION ASSHOLES!
Right. The Saudis, the ones you campaign promised to expose as the culprits of 9/11.
STILL WAITING ASSHOLE!
Here come the diplomats.
To be fair, since 2001 there’s been a shortage of Saudi pilots in the US.
Laugh or cry?
Either way, too true.
They are hard to find.
Do you know the Saudi pilots/controllers/techs would spread out their rug in the open equipment/baggage area just between the radar and IFF equipment and do their prayer shit? They would coordinate with the Navigator to make sure they faced Mecca.
I don’t know if you grok what I grok about that but I look back at that “operation” which was called, ELF (European Liaison Forces) and we were housed in what was once and may be again a 5-star hotel called the Al Yamamah, which I thought was a joke until we got there.
We flew surveillance over the Kingdom’s oil fields 24/7 from the early 1980s when AWACS came into being and had no real mission or value to the world and old King Faud controlled a country on top of an ocean of oil. Black Gold. Aramco Tea.
One of the guys I flew with* was on that very first crew called to deploy to Saudi Arabia to help defend the Kingdom from errant attack from either Iran or Iraq (Iran was the real “enemy” we knew even then). He said they were put into homes in a little compound on the royal premises and that the King himself had come out to greet their Aircraft Commanders, who were, of course, the Division and Wing Commanders. The real pilots were stuck in the bungalow with the rest of the nobodies. Haha… is so funny how a high level operation brings out the big brass wanting to be of service to their country.
So this guy was at least present for the initial discussion about what NATO thought US resources should do for the Kingdom. And, what the Kingdom could do for US. He said the first “deal” was lucrative for aircrew members and for several years, a three week trip to the “Kingdom” earned airmen a special hazardous duty bonus. Then, it was determined that looked bad, so they took the King’s money and rerouted it into other hands. Even when I started going three, it was a solid thousand dollars for a few weeks living in a hotel** where an entire complement of chefs and waitstaff (mostly Phillipino) served meals to us from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. and there was a snack bar in the hotel lobby open 24/7. I almost felt sorry for the maintenance guys who actually had to live in TENTS so they could be close to the flight line, so, of course, they were on actually MRE status, so did not get the per diem.
That relationship with Saudi grew from that initial diplomatic “assist” they called ELF I and ELF II. I don’t feel like looking, but does anyone know if there is STILL a European Liaison Force in NATO? If so, they need to disband it. It is corrupt.
*that term means I either flew often enough to talk to and remember the person other than him or her being just another one of the 26 to 30 folks on board as “mission crew.” (Weapons, Surveillance, Radar, Computer, Radios, and so on… regular flight deck of 4.)
** Game rooms, pool, movie theater… we complained, but then, when Desert Storm started and they moved the aircrews into a crummy little compound in the desert, we missed the Al Yamamah. We felt we were “entitled” to that sort of treatment. (Not really… am generalizing. I grew up in the boonies… I KNEW it was all fake.)
Now that’s funny..
An outpouring of Saud money will be forthcoming, buying more F-35’s from the MIC, donations to politician’s families and paying off the victims and their families.
They only call in the FBI when they need evidence destroyed and a cover up.
So my question is what informed, self-respecting American with an FFL would’ve legally sold this ideologically retarded asshole a Glock .45 and extra magazines, knowing Muslims are a threat to normal people?
The diplomats can apologize all they want but allowing these entitled POS into the country simply because it’s good for the dollar/oil and MIC is detrimental and self-defeating. I guess it doesn’t matter to some people who didn’t learn the lesson that 2001 brought. Bush sent his little Arab friends out of the country on a secret plane ride, knowing they’d planned the stock market heist prior to 9-11.
This never fails to get me riled.
It seems fishy to me. In my state, they want an ID and that FBI check done at the gun shop.
you cant even be from out of state and buy a gun, legally.
The last time I fell for a “fishy deal” it got me and some other folks pelted with 60mm mortar rounds. I don’t consider Muslims “friends”. Ever.
Too many “green on blue” backstab attacks back it up.
I got on the Army captain who was pushing the line that the Iraqis are our allies. Technically he was correct, but insisted an obviously hostile Iraqi colonel and his uncleared coterie of tag-alongs should be allowed to inspect one of my former work sites, and I argued, but to no avail.
The next fucking day we got hit by 60’s that were more accurate than usual and it was a big “red pill” for me.
Let us not forget US Army Major Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 while standing on a desk in Ft. Hood, Texas, yelling Allah Akhbar as he fired into the unarmed crowd. He stood on that desk and shot into the crowd that was there to get inoculated. His job was to counsel the folk since he was a psychiatrist whose education was paid for by US taxpayers.
He was in the Army because diversity and he was promoted and moved despite some misgivings about his loyalties. He was also watched, the FBI intercepted his emails to Awlaki and deemed them ‘not of interest’ and let him continue.
“In December 2008, Hasan contacted Awlaki through Awlaki’s personal website. Hasan asked Awlaki to “make some general comments about Muslims in the u.s. military [sic],” including Hasan Akbar, the U.S. army sergeant who killed two soldiers in Kuwait in March 2003.* Hasan asked whether Awlaki would “consider someone like Hasan Akbar or other soldiers that have committed such acts with the goal of helping Muslims/Islam…fighting Jihad[?],” and “if they did die would you consider them shaheeds[?]”*
The FBI intercepted the message but classified it as “Not a product of interest.”* Over the next two months, Hasan sent six emails to Awlaki and Awlaki responded to two, after which Hasan continued to email him.
https://www.counterextremism.com/extremists/nidal-hasan
Did the fucking sheriff have to wake up the MP’s before he shot this bastard???!!!
e.d. snickers
And ? like this would be unexpected by a thinking person… now if we could find a solution to it… besides kissing saudi ass
…. 1,500 pilots are enrolled in the Naval training program – with Saudis having attended courses at the Pensacola site since the 1970s. According to the report, as many as 20 students from the Islamic Republic are in any given class – with many of them belonging to the Royal Family.
I have as much contempt for the bottom-feeding Saudis as the next guy, but the author needs to get his facts straight, or at least consistent. The Saudi Royal Family does not rule an “Islamic Republic”.
Yup. It’s a kingdom alright.
Is anyone surprised by this? The Saudi’s are our enemy.
Just some garden-variety Jihadis celebrating Pearl Harbor day the best way they know how.
Stupid fucking kuffars.
How many of these bastards are members of the royal family?
When I was stationed at a Naval Air Station the Shah of Iran was in power and we were training his pilots. Years later after the Shah was gone we were shooting those same guys out of the sky. I supposed we were lucky they turned out to be crappy students.
If they had been Israelis, they would get a full pass.
We reap what we sow.
So many moving parts:
Lots of Navy News, this, whatever that was at Pearl, the axing of the Sec.
This was smallish, but big in the “news”.
Seems like a look here event of some sort. Not sure where to put this one.
https://apnews.com/75a8adc71422596a54052540fabb7230?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
The only “things” more treacherous/dangerous than Izzies – especially Somalis and Paks – are . . . . Chicoms. Totally cold-blooded NRV’s – No Redeeming Value.
Likely a Wahabi. Serious Gerin Oil junkies.
Saudi Arabians wow our greatest friends in the Middle East ??
Team Saudi Arabia fuck ya !
Are we gonna terrorize your nation HELL YES !
17 of 19 fly planes into a buildings attempt to blow it up years before and have attacked Americans !
So we teach them to fly jets ?
We Americans are god dam geniuses !
At least the grand poba of Saud still wants to be our friend , sure he does !!
So our government sweeps up every utterance from its citizens but does not even check out any one coming into our country, from a foreign land, to learn how to use the military equipment we sold them. Of course they are just trying to “Keep Us Safe”. Wake up people to Our Government we’re the enemy. Their biggest fear is that we might actually wake up and see that both sides want the same thing and that’s money in their pockets and nothing in ours.
UNM student from Saudi Arabia charged with illegally possessing handgun:
Alqahtani had a gun and wanted to buy other guns. The person who tipped the FBI off reported that he had also compiled a “list of people who he wants to kill before he leaves the U.S.” https://www.abqjournal.com/1401078/unm-student-from-saudi-arabia-charged-will-illegally-possessing-handgun.html