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US to announce 'actions' after Saudi military trainees review - source
2020-01-13
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[Jpost] The US government will announce "actions" on Monday along with results of a Justice Department criminal investigation into the December shootings at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida that killed three US service members and maimed eight other Americans, an official told Rooters.

Several news outlets, including CNN, Washington Post and the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, reported that more than a dozen Saudi servicemen who are training at US military bases will be expelled from the United States.

Attorney General William Barr and FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich will make an announcement at a presser Monday. The US official told Rooters the government will disclose some "actions" in connection with the probe, but declined to elaborate.

The probe found connections to "extremist rhetoric, possession of child pornography and a failure by a small number of people to report alarming behavior by the gunman" in the attacks.
The Saudi personnel being expelled are not accused of aiding the Saudi Air Force second lieutenant who killed three American sailors at the Pensacola installation, CNN reported, quoting unnamed sources. The Washington Post said the probe found connections to "extremist rhetoric, possession of child pornography and a failure by a small number of people to report alarming behavior by the gunman" in the attacks.

The FBI, Justice Department and National Security Council declined to comment. The Saudi Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation" that he has signed "directives that address enhanced screening of all of our foreign students that address credentialing going forward, weapons policies."

National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien told "Fox News Sunday" the shooting "showed that there had been errors in the way that we vetted."

On Dec. 10, the Pentagon announced it was halting operational training of all Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
n military personnel in the United States after the incident. On Dec. 19, the Pentagon announced that it found no threat in its review of about 850 military students from Saudi Arabia studying in the United States.

The FBI has said US Sherlocks believe Saudi Air Force Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, 21, acted alone in the incident before he was fatally shot by a deputy sheriff.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  'More than a dozen' Saudi nationals who train with US military -- and have ties to extremists -- to be expelled, source says

not linked to the Pensacola shooting though

Other than Saudi, military, on R&R visas in the US, networked to the shooter by social, family or blood relations and 'devout' believers in an anathema mythology.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-01-13 14:09  

#1  and a failure by a small number of people to report alarming behavior by the gunman

As a general rule, no matter what the organization, you don't want to be the guy throwing cold water on the totally genius plans of the people upstairs. Tends to be a career-limiting move when you are not on-board with The Mission.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-01-13 10:58  

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