On December 6th, Mohammed Alshamrani, a second lieutenant in the Saudi Air Force, killed three people and injured eight others before being killed himself.
It turns out that even though he was here to train for the military back in Saudi Arabia.
After that attack, the military decided they need to know more about the 850 students And whether there are others in a similar circumstance.
Over a dozen of these students will be going home to Saudi Arabia next week.
They have been charged with having ties to terror organizations or were in possession of child porn.
We have to start knowing who we are letting into our country. It’s a matter of survival.
Mohammed Alshamrani told authorities that because the United States fights Muslims overseas, he felt justified in his actions.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis said he spoke to the president and that he told him that Saudi Arabia needed to step up and compensate those who were injured and the families of those who were killed.
I agree. They should have checked their background before they ever sent them here in the first place.
CNN reports:
The Saudis are not accused of aiding the 21-year-old Saudi Air Force second lieutenant who killed three American sailors in the December shooting, two sources said, but some are said to have connections to extremist movements, according to a person familiar with the situation.
A number are also accused of possessing child pornography, according to a defense official and the person familiar with the situation. Spokespeople for the FBI and Justice Department declined to comment.
About a dozen Saudi trainees at the Pensacola base had been confined to their quarters as the FBI investigated the shooting as a potential terror attack, and the Pentagon initiated a review of all Saudi military trainees in the country, numbering around 850 students.
