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2019-12-09 Arabia
Saudi Crown Prince phones Trump, expresses condolences over Pensacola shooting; was shooter radicalized on home visit?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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...
’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists...
 has spoken to US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
 and expressed his condolences and support for the families of the victims of the Florida naval base shooting, Saudi Press Agency reported.
That’s nice. What are you going to do to make this right, Your Highness? Blood money as if they were Muslim from the family of Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani to the families of all those he killed or wounded, blood money as if they were Muslim from the Saudi government to the U.S. government for sending such a poisonous snake to nestle in our bosoms, reimbursement for the government’s cost of dealing with the fall-out from your lieutenant’s actions, and a plan to prevent it from happening again would be a good start.
"In the call, HRH the Crown Prince expressed his condolences to the US president and his condolences and support for the families of the victims of the tragic incident in Florida State and his wishes for the speedy recovery for the injured," the statement on SPA read.

"The Crown Prince reaffirmed the kingdom’s keenness on the absolute cooperation by the concerned Saudi authorities with the US authorities by providing them with information that helps in investigations related to the perpetrator and his motives," the statement added.
Start writing those checks, buddy-boy, and we can go from there. We’ll be happy to lend the expertise of some of our scholars — Robert Spenser and Raymond Ibrahim are just two of many we have readily available for consultation— if you aren’t sure how large the sums should be.
During the phone call, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman also spoke to Trump on "the feelings of the Saudi people who expressed their pain and shock towards this heinous crime."

Twitter users in Saudi Arabia have put out a hashtag that translates to ’The criminal in Florida does not represent us’ ‐ after news emerged of the shooting in the US by a Saudi aviation student in Pensacola, Florida.

Investigators believe a Saudi Arabian Air Force lieutenant acted alone when he killed three people and maimed eight at a US Navy base in Pensacola, Florida, before being fatally shot by a deputy sheriff, Rooters reported citing the FBI.

Saudis probe whether Pensacola shooter was radicalized on recent trip home

[NYPost] Saudi authorities are investigating whether the Pensacola navy base killer was radicalized during a trip home last year, according to a report Sunday.

Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, who killed three young US Navy students in Friday’s shooting spree in Florida, had been in the US since 2017 for a Pentagon training program, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The 21-year-old Saudi Air Force lieutenant had returned home for a trip last year, sparking fears that he could have been radicalized there before returning to the US in February this year, the paper said.

Authorities in the kingdom are trying to determine how Alshamrani spent his time and whom he contacted during his trip in late 2018, officials told the paper.

A front man for 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...
’s embassy in Washington did not respond to the paper’s request for comment.
Posted by Fred 2019-12-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia 

#1 Eff off, you snake
Posted by Lex 2019-12-09 00:50||   2019-12-09 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Ideally, the President would announce that he's giving DOD, Boeing and Lockheed Martin 48 hours to move all training on non US personnel outside CONUS (sorry all you muzz loving non muzz eurines, but one bad apple, ya know...) Many would screech it can't be done in 48 hours! Fine, take as long as you want, but they all leave today.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-09 02:58||   2019-12-09 02:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Pensacola municipal officials are already whining about "muh diversity..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-09 03:02||   2019-12-09 03:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Ideally, Trump should tell Salman "we want the family of the shooter dead". However, there is virtual certainty that a next Vindman is there - waiting for his chance.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-09 03:03||   2019-12-09 03:03|| Front Page Top

#5 G, I think the sauds can manage that without overt direction. But it would be a great opportunity to catch out "the next Vindman."
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-09 03:31||   2019-12-09 03:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Can do =/= will do. Not if they have a choice.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-09 03:35||   2019-12-09 03:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Can't say we were not warned about all of this. Yes, M. Murcek nails it at #2 with Boeing and Lockheed Martin. We quit manufacturing shoes, televisions, and computers decades ago. Gun running, it's what we do.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-09 03:43||   2019-12-09 03:43|| Front Page Top

#8 "Ok. First of all ? If da Soddy bearded queen's gonna pay out true gold for their homies shootin' folks in maah city ? Hell ! I wan' more a those homies in maah city ! If maah baybee's gon' get shot, I wan' him get shot by da soddy homie, y'all."



Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-09 05:15||   2019-12-09 05:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Trump should tell the royal family that for every American killed in this sort of way by a Saudi, we want 1 castrated, flayed and crucified Royal Saudi Prince put on display on the white house lawn. Maybe that will give them the incentive they need.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-12-09 07:07||   2019-12-09 07:07|| Front Page Top

#10 the unspoken story here is that as a Saudi Air Force lieutenant, this guy was very trusted by the 'Royal' family of Saud.
Some kind of princeling or blood relation I would gather.
Further unspoken is that a trip home (perchance the hajj?) is what 'radicalized' (set him off). So these ragheads are basically admitting that just setting foot in their country can cause sudden-jihad-syndrome.
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2019-12-09 07:43||   2019-12-09 07:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Send them all home. They can learn how to fly airplanes via correspondence courses.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-09 07:49||   2019-12-09 07:49|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Bring back matchbook advertising, put the hurt on gurgle.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-09 07:55||   2019-12-09 07:55|| Front Page Top

#13 The FBI says he had a permit for the Glock 45. It was a legally purchased gun. That can only mean that he wasn't worried about going to jail after. It wasn't bought for his safety. He carried it on base knowing no one else would have one.

He was using the timid, deliberative, suicidal security protocols in America to aid his act. And he had carried the plan in his mind for a considerable amount of time. The feebs should release every detail they have on his contacts, his history and his mosque in America. Was it the Al-Islam Dawah Center on Barrancas Ave ? If so, what people was he close to there ? Are the g-men talking to them now ? The people have every right to know.

As for the contention that it would 'compromise the integrity' of the investigation, that canard has been proven to be bullshit again and again in this case. You want to catch cockroaches you shine a light, they come out and you stomp. The bureaucracy is still about correctness and islamophobia and it would relieve them greatly if they could just sweep this away as a 'temporary insanity' thingy.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-09 08:03||   2019-12-09 08:03|| Front Page Top

#14 Dron66046, see, this is the kind of "backlash" the Muslims in Pensacola are fearing - policemen knocking on their door, asking questions. /sarcasm
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-12-09 08:09||   2019-12-09 08:09|| Front Page Top

#15 The FBI says he had a permit for the Glock 45

CCW permit from the state of Florida? I'd imagine other military personnel have the same paperwork, still doesn't allow them to carry on base.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-09 08:13||   2019-12-09 08:13|| Front Page Top

#16 And I'll bet certain congresscritters are calling up the field office in Pensacola everyday to 'ensure they are not harassing muslims' in their quest to find the truth.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-09 08:13||   2019-12-09 08:13|| Front Page Top

#17 I'd imagine L'il Marco Rubio will show up at a mosque with a headscarf any time now.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-09 08:36||   2019-12-09 08:36|| Front Page Top

#18 On a trip home? Wasn't he born to a Muslim family?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-12-09 12:22||   2019-12-09 12:22|| Front Page Top

#19 M. Murcek, let them continue their training at the new training facility in Guantanimo Cuba. Not as inmates, but they should have a look.
Posted by rjschwarz 2019-12-09 15:00||   2019-12-09 15:00|| Front Page Top

#20 CCW permit from the state of Florida? I'd imagine other military personnel have the same paperwork, still doesn't allow them to carry on base.

I read something the other day that selling firearms to a foreign citizen can make the seller subject to that foreigner's government's firearm laws.

If I understand, firearm restrictions can be waived for foreigners in military exchanges and security details, or other reasons such as a hunting tourist.

As for searching a protected group, imagine you do a thorough search and this guys complain to a big wig they are being harassed and the Prince will hear about this.

And what if you make him mad and he does something, or something.

I guess, if anything, at least the handgun wasn't dropped on base with instructions.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-12-09 23:08||   2019-12-09 23:08|| Front Page Top

#21 *And had the some thought as Bob Grorong; these guys are not picked out of a hat.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-12-09 23:13||   2019-12-09 23:13|| Front Page Top

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