Originally published at: Pensacola Shooter Was a Saudi National Receiving Flight Training | Infostormer.com
The individual who recently shot and killed a bunch of people at the Pensacola Navy base was a Saudi national from Saudi Arabia’s military. Bizarrely enough, he was receiving flight training at the base.
AP:
U.S. law enforcement officials were digging into the background of the suspected Florida naval station shooter Friday, to determine the Saudi Air Force officer’s motive and whether it was connected to terrorism.
As questions swirled about the shooting, which left four people dead, including the attacker, officials identified the suspect as 2nd Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, an aviation officer in the Saudi Air Force. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
Alshamrani was attending the aviation school at Naval Air Station Pensacola, one of hundreds of international military members who are receiving training there. The shooter opened fire in a classroom building on Friday morning.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in a statement that the Pentagon was continuing to monitor the Pensacola incident and was gathering additional facts on the shooting earlier this week at Pearl Harbor, when a young Navy sailor gunned down two people and then shot himself.
Esper said he is “considering several steps to ensure the security of our military installations and the safety of our service members and their families.” He provided no details.
In a separate statement, Adm. Mike Gilday, the chief of naval operations, said it has been a “devastating week”for the Navy.
The U.S. has long had a robust training program for Saudis, providing assistance in the U.S. and in the kingdom. As of this week, there are more than 850 Saudis in the United States for various training activities. They are among more than 5,000 foreign students from 153 countries in the U.S. going through military training.
The Pentagon said Friday that Alshamrani was in the U.S. as part of an Air Force military sales training course, and his participation was funded by Saudi Arabia. His training began in August 2017 and was scheduled to conclude next August, and it included initial pilot training, basic aviation and English-language instruction.
It is positively insane to know that the United States military is literally giving Saudi nationals any sort of flight training.
That’s because I vaguely remember an event that occurred in 2001 called the 9/11 attacks.
For those who don’t recall the event, several Moslems, 15 of who were Saudis, hijacked planes and flew them into the Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington DC. Thousands of people died from the attacks.
It was later revealed in a 2002 Congressional report that Saudi intelligence helped fund the hijackers. Yet despite the Saudi role in the 9/11 attacks, the United States government to this day provides the Saudis with billions of dollars in weapons so they can commit genocide in Yemen and trains Saudi military personnel on how to fly aircraft.
It’s disgusting to see that the United States government is giving flight training to Saudis while forcing normal Americans who simply want to board a commercial aircraft to practically undergo a full cavity search in the name of “security.” Well if “security” was so important, we wouldn’t be training Saudis how to fly aircraft would we?
Even the average person has to see how retarded this whole situation is. There is simply no rational explanation for the United States to have any sort of alliance with the Saudis after the 9/11 attacks. The only reason this alliance exists is because Saudi Arabia is a proxy of Israel and Jews control the foreign policy of the United States government.
Israel and Saudi Arabia are the two major players who were really involved in the 9/11 attacks, yet we are told over and over again how they are such fantastic allies. What a load of shit.
The orange man’s response has been disgusting.
King Salman of Saudi Arabia just called to express his sincere condolences and give his sympathies to the families and friends of the warriors who were killed and wounded in the attack that took place in Pensacola, Florida….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2019
….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.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2019
Does anybody think he would have responded this way if the shooter was an Iranian national?
Talk about a weak response. At minimum there should be an immediate suspension in the military training of all Saudi nationals. But instead the orange man says everything is good because the Saudi King expressed condolences.
