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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEXCLUSIVE-Over 300 Saudi military aviation students grounded in U.S. after base shooting
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - More than 300 Saudi Arabian military aviation students have been grounded as part of a "safety stand-down" after a Saudi Air Force lieutenant shot and killed three people last week at a U.S. Navy base in Florida, U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
The FBI has said U.S. investigators believe Saudi Air Force Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, 21, acted alone when he attacked a U.S. Navy base in Pensacola, Florida, on Friday, before he was fatally shot by a deputy sheriff.
The shootings have again raised questions about the U.S. military relationship with Saudi Arabia, which has come under heightened scrutiny in Congress over the war in Yemen and Saudi Arabia's killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi last year.
Still, U.S. military leaders have sought to portray this as a localized issue which would not affect the overall U.S.-Saudi relationship.
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pwb
(11,261 posts)Fuck them even more now.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)lostnfound
(16,179 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)We have Saudi Military over here in the united Startes learning to fly and have access to guns and other types of weapons to kill people with be free to run around and children with no guns, no knowledge of how to use guns, and are just looking to be safe are put into death camps?
Am I getting this right? I really hope I am misunderstanding this.
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)Thatll make us all sleep better.
keithbvadu2
(36,794 posts)Yet several of his Saudi pals felt safe enough to record the attack without being shot at random.