In Early December of 2019, a Saudi trainee on a Florida Naval base killed three and injured eight before he was shot and killed. Several other Saudi’s were witnessed recording the attack. Lone wolf quickly evolved into a small conspiracy, and 21 Saudis were ejected from the country.
Related: Florida Naval Base Shooting Was Terrorism – 21 Saudis Ejected from US
It’s been a few months – because Apple wouldn’t crack his iPhones for the Feds, but the DOJ finally broke in and decrypted the thing.
US investigators uncovered the al Qaeda connection after the FBI broke through the encryption protecting the Saudi attacker’s iPhones and have been able to use the information on the devices to carry out a recent counterterrorism operation in Yemen, Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray said at a news conference.
“The evidence we’ve been able to develop from the killer’s devices shows that the Pensacola attack was actually the brutal culmination of years of planning and preparation by a longtime AQAP associate,” Wray said, referring to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, one of the deadliest branches of the terror group.
We covered earlier revelations about how these “trainees” were (post-shooting) discovered to have videos of mass shootings, jihadi material, and had accessed child pornography.
Impressive.
At the time, I asked the same question I will ask now. These trainees were vetted by the Saudi’s and the US Government, and still, we got this bunch.
Anyone who thinks our vetting processes are adequate along our borders, especially when they are overwhelmed as they were during the immigrant caravan days, has to be sorely mistaken.
During a 15-minute shooting spree [in Pensacola], Alshamrani shot at a photo of President Donald Trump as well as a former president. He made statements during the attack that were critical of American servicemen overseas, the FBI has said.AQAP had claimed responsibility for the Pensacola attack and said it was in touch with Alshamrani. In February, the White House announced that Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of the group, had been killed in an airstrike in Yemen.
| NRO
