FBI Investigating Florida Naval Station Shooting As A Terrorist Attack

A view of the Pensacola Naval Air Station following a shooting on December 06, 2019 in Pensacola, Florida. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images)
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Federal law enforcement is currently investigating the deadly shooting at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida as an act of terrorism, the FBI said on Sunday.

“We are, as we do in most active shooter investigations, work [sic] with the presumption that this was an act of terrorism,” said Rachel Rojas, the lead FBI investigator in the case, during a press conference.

Rojas told reporters that the top priority is figuring out whether the suspected shooter, Saudi national Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani, acted alone when he fired at the station on Friday, killing three people and injuring eight.

“Today we are here collectively focused on conducting additional interviews of witnesses, base personnel, and the shooter’s friends, classmates, and other associates,” she said. “Our main goal right now is to confirm whether he acted alone or was he a part of a larger network.”

National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien told CBS News “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan on Sunday that the shooting “appears to be a terrorist attack.”

“I don’t want to prejudge the investigation, but it appears that this may be someone that was radicalized,” he said.

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  1. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    A terrorist attack on American soil, perpetrated, yet again, by Saudis. This is the “T” word Trump dreads because it’s not going to be good enough now to wash the blood away with Saudi cash. It won’t do to sweep this under the rug like Khashoggi’s torture and murder. It’s time the Saudis faced a real reckoning…or do we just not stand for anything beyond cash anymore?

    Has he even memorialized our dead sailors yet beyond perfunctory statements and PR messaging on behalf of KSA?

  2. al-Shamrani I heard a report that he was viewing mass shootings on Youtube, and even held a party for his friends to watch. Who does that? Why didn’t the other students report this?
    Or maybe if he has been in the US for more than 6 months he thought everyone always had a mass shooting experience.

  3. Avatar for AM_PM AM_PM says:

    This is Matt Gaetz’s district and he’s demanding a full investigation by the Saudis. Seeing how the Saudis handled the savage murder of Kashoggi and seeing how Trump’s family is doing business with the royal family, Gaetz’s demands might be meaningless.

  4. Any ordinary Presidency and this, plus Trump’s ham-handed response-with-cash, would doom it.

    But the U.S. Presidency never had a Cult and its own Propaganda network before.

  5. Well meaningless from a nitwit leaves us with what?
    Unless we stop aiding and abetting the Saudis in their war in Yemen, pull our troop back from protecting their oil fields, then what will we do? Can’t wait to hear the distinguished Republican James Risch, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have answer for this.

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