Saudi Attacker On US Base Had Longstanding Al-Qaeda Ties: US
May 18, 2020
5:38 pm
The Saudi military student who killed three Americans at a US naval base in December had longstanding ties to al-Qaeda and planned an attack before he arrived in the United States, US justice officials said Monday.
The December 6 attack by Mohammed Alshamrani, a Royal Saudi Air Force flight student at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, “was actually the culmination of years of planning and preparation,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Evidence discovered on an encrypted cellphone shows he was radicalized at least as far back as 2015, and has since been associating with “dangerous” operatives from the …
