Military base shooter reportedly assailed US as a 'nation of evil' | The Times of Israel https://t.co/JEdT9G9Jof — Yakov Koltovskoy (@KoltovskoyYakov) December 7, 2019ABC News reported that investigators were working to determine if it was in fact written by the shooter. A Saudi military student reportedly condemned America as a "nation of evil" in an online manifesto prior to opening fire at a US naval base, killing three people before being shot dead by police. Military base shootings rareJust two days earlier, a US sailor fatally shot two people and wounded a third at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii before taking his own life. The Pensacola naval air station hosts 16,000 military personnel and more than 7,000 civilians, and is home to a flight demonstration squadron. The base is the center for the US Navy foreign military training programs, established in 1985 specifically for Saudi students before being expanded to other nationalities.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 07, 2019 06:45 UTC