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| 2019-12-11 |
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The decision will have far-reaching impacts on visiting Saudi personnel, including grounding more than 300 Saudi Arabian military aviation students as part of a “safety stand-down,” first reported by Reuters earlier on Tuesday. The Pentagon later confirmed the Reuters report about aviation students and added the move would also affect infantry personnel and all other Saudi training, other than classroom training. Such coursework, which includes English-language classes, will continue. A senior US defense official, briefing Pentagon reporters on the decision, said the move was intended to allow for a broader review of security procedures that would eventually apply to all of some 5,000 international military students in the United States. Still, the safety standdown only applied to the some 850 visiting students from Saudi Arabia. The defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the shooting “suggested that there could be a particular improvement with that (nation’s) population.” The FBI has said US investigators believe Saudi Air Force Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, 21, acted alone when he attacked a US Navy base in Pensacola, Florida, on Friday, before he was fatally shot by a deputy sheriff. Related: Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani: 2019-12-09 Manhunt for missing Saudis, hundreds of thousands of visa overstays Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani: 2019-12-09 Saudi Crown Prince phones Trump, expresses condolences over Pensacola shooting; was shooter radicalized on home visit? Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani: 2019-12-08 Pensacola Jihad Massacre Proves We've Learned Nothing Since the Fort Hood Attack |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 US Navy grounds Saudi pilots. Hospitals, office building owners and government officials in Pensacola breathe a sigh of relief. |
| Posted by: jpal 2019-12-11 22:21 |
| #7 Or are these all "Princes" who "need" to be pilots rather than dirty, common grunts? I'd put money on that. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-12-11 11:34 |
| #6 Or are these all "Princes" who "need" to be pilots rather than dirty, common grunts? You mean Pensacola is West Point for soddy's ? |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-11 10:11 |
| #5 Saw another article that said 850 grounded. Even if the lower number - how the hell big is the Saudi AF that it needs classes for hundreds? Or are these all "Princes" who "need" to be pilots rather than dirty, common grunts? |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2019-12-11 08:41 |
| #4 See! See! This is the Islamophobic backlash that the Muslims feared!!! /sarcasm |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2019-12-11 08:02 |
| #3 The French have intensified their background checks while recruiting and have started watching their muslim personnel, some have been stripped of their access to arms even. Everywhere, there have been some transfers and shuffles, and more must be in the making to move muslim personnel into administrative, PR, clerical work etc. It can't be done all at the same time, but I'm sure if done gradually the muslim infiltration can be reversed. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-11 00:56 |
| #2 Looks like they listened. Thank God. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-11 00:46 |
| #1 Only 18 years later than this change should have been made. Now, make the base secure--allow personal to wear their sidearm on base, and arm everyone supposedly assigned to security detail. And I don't believe he "acted alone" except in the strictest sense of the term. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2019-12-11 00:40 |