An internal report compiled by the Saudi government has concluded that Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, the Saudi Air Force trainee who killed three and injured eight, appears to have been radicalized years before arriving in the USThe Saudi Air Force officer who killed three American sailors and injured eight others at Naval Air Station Pensacola last week appears to have been radicalized by hardliner clerics years before arriving in the US as part of a training program. According to the report, Alshamrani had used his now-defunct Twitter account to endorse radical Islam and terrorism, rail against America and Israel, and express support for the Afghan Taliban. Alshamrani had been a second lieutenant in the Saudi Air Force attending aviation school at the base. His Twitter account, however, did reveal that he assailed the United States as 'a nation of evil' just before his shooting rampage. The Twitter account that posted the manifesto - which also condemned US support for Israel and included a quote from Al-Qaeda's deceased leader, the Saudi Osama bin Laden - has now been suspended.

Source: Daily Mail December 11, 2019 18:14 UTC