Barr: 'Significant ties' between al Qaeda, shooter at Pensacola naval base

The Hill ^ | May 18, 2020 | Morgan Chalfant -

[rdl6989]

Attorney General William Barr said Monday that the Justice Department has uncovered evidence demonstrating that the Saudi military officer behind last year’s Pensacola Naval Air Station shooting had “significant ties” to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

[rdl6989]

The shooter's Iphones were "unlocked" by the FBI.

[rdl6989]

Ping. I thought you might be interested.

[DarthVader]

No surprise to me.

[elpadre]

“significant” - was a card-carrying member of the organization???

[Leep]

Barr said something...now if he would do something...

[AndyJackson]

Alshamrani

Just call me Al.

[proust]

And Epstein was a perfect storm of screwups, right Barr?

And Las Vegas was just white male terrorism, right Wray?

[Seaplaner]

I did a quick online search but could not find out whether foreign students are still training at Pcola.

I would hope that this has been permanently discontinued, but I seem to recall otherwise.

Anyone have an up-to-date link?

[Ann Archy]

well DUH!!!

[RicocheT]

We winter near Pensacola and the Naval Air Museum was closed after this shooting all the way to March 2020. I hope it’s open when we go back in Jan 2021 as it’s one of the places I like to see, year after year.

[kickstart]

You can’t trust people from that part of the world with a muslim background. If they cannot be thoroughly vetted, then don’t accept them!

[Lurkinanloomin]

ANY muslim can suddenly begin to follow the instructions and example of their prophet without warning.

There are NO safe muslims.

Treat all muslims as though they are loaded.

[digger48]

Barr must have thrown out Barry’s memo

this was workplace violence, doncha know

[Tallguy]

** the Justice Department has uncovered evidence demonstrating that the Saudi military officer behind last year’s Pensacola Naval Air Station shooting had “significant ties” to al Qaeda **

Wait?! I thought he went all ‘jihadi’ because some flight instructor made an off-color joke about his mustache? Why are investigators always so quick to place blame on the victims in these cases?

[Theoria]

PreWuhan article:

"Saudi Arabian International Military Students (IMS) resumed flight training yesterday, Feb. 25, 2020, after the Navy satisfied the requirements set forth by the Secretary of Defense,” the statement read. “Updates to Navy policy include a new regulation prohibiting the possession of personally owned firearms by IMS, limiting access by all foreign nationals to assigned facilities and installations only, and requiring IMS to accept these policies to train in the United States. The Navy also developed a policy for the continuous review of IMS, to be implemented by March 13, 2020.”'

[thefactor]

People still think China and Russia are our main adversaries. Nope.

Saudi Arabia.

[Seaplaner]

Thanks for the info!

From the article...

5,100 members of foreign militaries, representing 153 countries, currently attending flight training, combat weapons systems training, infantry training, professional development courses for officers, or are students at the U.S. military’s undergraduate and graduate-level colleges, according to the State Department.

We might want to reconsider this. Just sayin'.

[damper99]

Duh!. Add that word to your vocabulary, AG Barr. I’ll be you got that insight from your stellar FBI investigators.