My latest in PJ Media:
Victims and families of people who were killed in the December 6, 2019 jihad terror attack at the Naval Air Station Pensacola are suing Saudi Arabia, according to the Associated Press, charging that “the kingdom knew the gunman had been radicalized and that it could have prevented the killings.” The suit, which was filed on Monday, “also claims that Saudi trainees knew in advance about plans for the shooting but did nothing to stop it.” If this suit were to target all those who knew and could have stopped that massacre, a few Americans might be included as well.
Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani murdered three U.S. sailors on the base, and last year it was revealed that Alshamrani, who was an officer in the Saudi Air Force, “had communicated with al-Qaida operatives about planning and tactics in the weeks leading up to the attack and that he had been radicalized abroad before coming to the U.S. to participate in a military training program.”
The lawsuit charges that Saudi officials knew that Alshamrani had been in touch with al-Qaeda, and thus had every reason to believe that he might wage jihad in the United States, “yet failed to monitor, supervise or report him. It also says the gunman told fellow Saudi trainees at a dinner party the night before the attack that he planned to carry out the shooting the following day, but instead of reporting it, they called out sick morning of the killings. One recorded the shootings while standing outside the building; two others watched from a car nearby.”
According to the suit, “none of the Royal Saudi Air Force trainees at the scene of the attack reported Al-Shamrani’s behavior nor did they try to stop” it, “because they supported it.” It charges that “Al-Shamrani was a Trojan Horse sent by his country, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and its proxy, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, for flight training at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, under the auspices of a program tied to billions of dollars in military arms sales from the United States to the Kingdom. Little did the American people know that such an arrangement would soon devolve into a horrific, Faustian bargain.”
That is true. The American people for the most part didn’t know. And virtually everyone in Washington and in the military brass didn’t know. Those who have been warning them about this for years have been demonized and stigmatized as “Islamophobes,” and have not been listened to. But they were right all along.
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Keith O says
This has been a long time coming.
If this law suit is successful it will open the door for more legal action against other countries including the US.
When countries are held responsible for the actions of it’s citizens this can open a Pandora’s box.
Instead, suing the individuals who were in charge of him, the head of the Saudi security organisations etc. might be more productive.
Rob Porter says
Keith – Robert Spencer long ago pointed out that U.S. authorities failed to adequately screen Saudi’s about to travel to Pensacola for training, no doubt – like imbeciles – considering that to do so would, no doubt, be considered ‘Islamophobic’. In saner days before the FBI was infiltrated and subverted, it decided that ‘Islamophobia’ is a non-existent condition, in effect made-up nonsense. U.S. authorities, too, should be sued by U.S. families. Just watch things get worse under ‘build back better’ imbecile, Joe Biden.
Walter Sieruk says
So they should sue that Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia. That truly is the right thing to do.
After all, the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia in no friend of America or any other Western nation, Saudi Arabia is best defined as a kingdom of Islamic hate
As one Arab scholar who had lived in a Middle Eastern country, for many years revealed “Saudi madrassa notably teach hatred and condemnation of the West and non-Muslims” and “The Saudi Government also provides free textbooks to Islamic schools throughout the world . many of the Saudi- Issued textbook’s contain wording that encourages hatred and intolerance for non-Muslims.” [1]
Saudi Arabia in many ways is no better than Iran.
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, page 106
BlackSabbath says
Trump was right about his moslem ban.
Infidel says
Problem is that too many countries were left out. Iraq – initially in – was later dropped (despite the Iraqi pilot who sabotaged a plane on the pretext of an airline strike). Note that the inspiration for this list of countries came from the massacres at San Bernardino and Orlando, but neither Pakistan nor Afghanistan – whose citizens were involved – were ever on those lists. Now of course, those lists are gone
Unless and until there is a jihadist attack on a major CNN or MSBC or other MSM broadcast center that takes out a lot of their staff, there won’t be support for a travel ban similar to what Trump had. So that’s exactly what I’m rooting for, b’cos that’s the sacrifice it’ll take to make all of us safe
gravenimage says
Yes–it needed to be expanded. But just looks at how great the hysteria was for even a limited ban. And Biden vowed to overturn it on day one–and he did. Jihadists can now flood into the US again unchecked.
Daniel Triplett says
They should instead sue the US Government for remaining willfully blind to the obvious existential threat of Islam.
gravenimage says
Pensacola Jihad Massacre Victim Families Sue Saudi Arabia
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Sadly, this probably won’t go anywhere–but I hope at least it generates some bad publicity for the hideous Shari’ah terror state of Saudi Arabia, and that more Ameticans start asking questions.
Relic says
Mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ci3ixv5l4
William Tyson says
British professor says Islam is “integrating into British life”
https://iqna.ir/en/news/3474028/islam-increasingly-being-integrated-into-british-life-scholar
Yep…just look at all the rapes girls
gravenimage says
In reality, it is Britain being “integrated” into Islam.
James Lincoln says
And here I thought that Harry Reems died in 2013…