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Exclusive: Nearly 175 Saudi military aviation students grounded in U.S. after base shooting
Reuters ^ | December 10, 2019 | by Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart

Posted on 12/10/2019 12:27:50 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON - Nearly 175 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.

“A safety stand-down and operational pause commenced Monday for Saudi Arabian aviation students,” said Lieutenant Andriana Genualdi, a Navy spokeswoman.

Another U.S. official said the grounding was to help Saudi students prepare to eventually restart their training and similar procedures would have been taken if such an incident took place in a U.S. military squadron.

Genualdi said the grounding included three different military facilities: Naval Air Station Pensacola, Naval Air Station Whiting Field and Naval Air Station Mayport, all in Florida.

She added that while it was unclear when the Saudi students would be allowed to fly again, their classroom training was expected to resume soon. She added that aviation training had resumed for students from other countries.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alshamrani; islam; mohammed; pensacolashooting; saudiarabia; shooting; terrorism; usjihad
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1 posted on 12/10/2019 12:27:50 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is CAIR too busy partying with “impeachment” Rats to notice?


2 posted on 12/10/2019 12:29:10 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Some good sense, for once.

Next, send them home.


3 posted on 12/10/2019 12:29:17 PM PST by Nothingburger
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To: Nothingburger

Ge them the f-— out!


4 posted on 12/10/2019 12:30:56 PM PST by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mohammad didn’t “act alone”.

Islam is anti-American, anti-Constitutional, anti-Personal Liberty. etc.


5 posted on 12/10/2019 12:31:03 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A Dennis Miller joke I enjoyed probably too soon after 9/11:

“You know who I feel sorry for — Young middle-eastern men who really really want to begin a career in crop-dusting.”


6 posted on 12/10/2019 12:31:07 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good idea to do this BEFORE one of those jihadis crashes his aircraft into the White House.


7 posted on 12/10/2019 12:31:16 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

175 Saudis.
Since a battalion is typically 300 to 800 soldiers, 175 is a half a battalion.
Why is a half battalion of muslim soldiers here?


8 posted on 12/10/2019 12:31:59 PM PST by BuffaloJack ("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ship them all home.

Do their training over there.

There are NO safe muslims.


9 posted on 12/10/2019 12:33:38 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Acted alone. Yep.


10 posted on 12/10/2019 12:34:05 PM PST by TopDog2 (Onward Christian soldiers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How can the FBI conclude that Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani acted alone when three of his fellow Islamists were there videoing the shootings? (Rhetorical question).


11 posted on 12/10/2019 12:34:27 PM PST by Truth29
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They don’t care about being grounded, they just want to be able to take off.


12 posted on 12/10/2019 12:34:38 PM PST by Obadiah (Kill the deep state or lose the Republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

USA is insane to train enemy militaries from anti-American thug dictatorship regimes, especially the House of Saud which has been funding (on a massive scale) one of the most dangerous Muslim hate sects in USA and Europe for years and years already. I pray PDJT will straighten out the Saudi regime or else end their funding of hate-and-terrorism preaching mosques, close all the ones they are running or funding already, and kick them the He** out of America.
Long term good relations with the innocent peoples there, YES! Any further cooperation, training, arming of the terrorism-promoting House of Saud...no way! imho this not only endangers America seriously from within, but it is at its core evil and shameful.


13 posted on 12/10/2019 12:34:43 PM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Buncha islamaphobic racists. Everybody knows islam is a religion of peace, everybody. It’s settled science and stuff. Did I mention ya’lls racist?


14 posted on 12/10/2019 12:34:53 PM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
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To: null and void; aragorn; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; bgill; bitt; ...
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Nearly 175 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.

The grounding included three different military facilities: Naval Air Station Pensacola, Naval Air Station Whiting Field and Naval Air Station Mayport, all in Florida.

15 posted on 12/10/2019 12:35:57 PM PST by LucyT
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To: BuffaloJack

I want to know where the “misplaced” Saudi pukes are that “disappeared” from their base shortly after the murders at Pensacola.


16 posted on 12/10/2019 12:36:10 PM PST by MagUSNRET
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani

How can that be?

17 posted on 12/10/2019 12:37:12 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Stop training them, period.

After all these decades, if they can’t train their own pilots, then they have zero rights to any kind of an air
force.

Quit enabling a bunch of oil rich playboys with their go-fasties.


18 posted on 12/10/2019 12:38:05 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pack the up and send them home.

Screen them all, and those who pass, send them to US Marine Boot Camp to re-qualify for flight training.

Or train them back in Umma Country.


19 posted on 12/10/2019 12:38:21 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

175 of them swarming over Pensacola NAS. Such bullshit. Do they outnumber the US Navy there?

Our government is a sworn enemy of what most American people want. This does nothing to protect America to have them there. Soon 175 camel jockeys will be zooming in the skies over Florida again! Does it take one of them to do a kamikaze dive into the bleachers of a Gators or Dolphins game to get our occupation government to act?

Treason!


20 posted on 12/10/2019 12:41:00 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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