Search for missing Saudi servicemen linked to NAS Pensacola shooting sought, others detained

Authorities are looking for several unaccounted for Saudi nationals linked to the NAS Pensacola Friday shooting that killed three and wounded two police officers who shot and killed Mohammed Alshamrani, a 21-year-old Saudi national.

Alshamrani was a 2nd Lt. in the Royal Saudi Air Force and a student naval flight officer of Naval Aviation Schools Command. Authorities are now focused on finding several other unaccounted Saudi nationals as more is known about the terrorist's movements in the weeks prior to his jihad.

The Navy on Saturday identified the three victims of the NAS Pensacola shooting as Ensign Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, of Coffee, Ala.; Airman Mohammed Sameh Haitham, 19, of St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Airman Apprentice Cameron Scott Walters, 21, of Richmond Hill, Ga.

An anonymous U.S. official told the Associated Press that ten Saudi students were being held on base as of Saturday, but several others were unaccounted for.

Officials have not disclosed how many missing servicemen are out there, or why they would be missing in the first place, but U.S. Northern Command (Northcom) has called for increased random security checks at all sites and hopefully they will be armed, locked and loaded when they approach the sites.

Authorities investigating the attack are still working to determine whether it was an act of terrorism or simply an act of non-Islamic involvement in killing as many American servicemen as possible, knowing that you'll probably die and get your 72 chicks in Jannah.

If it wasn't terrorism, that would be incredible. [Def. incredible: impossible to believe.] But of course, anything is possible, even Nancy Pelosi praying for President Trump . . . it's just incredible.

"Given the recent attacks at two military installations, the Commander, U.S. Northern Command has directed all DoD [Department of Defense] installations, facilities and units within the U.S. Northern Command area of responsibility to immediately assess force protection measures and implement increased random security measures appropriate for their facilities,” Lt. Cmdr. Michael Hatfield told Fox News on Saturday.

"The advisory also told leaders to remind their workforce to remain alert and if they see something, to say something by immediately reporting to appropriate authorities any suspicious activity they may observe," Hatfield continued.

But it would be much better if military personnel were allowed to carry a weapon on base. It makes no sense for them to be unarmed and it's their right, as it is ours, to defend ourselves.

On Saturday, a U.S. official told the Associated Press that Alshamrani hosted a dinner party this week where he and three other sick scumbags watched videos of mass shootings.

The official who spoke to Fox News on Saturday also said that one of the three students who attended the dinner party hosted by the attacker recorded video outside the classroom building while the shooting was taking place on Friday. Two other Saudi students watched from a car, the official said.

Do you think it may have been a planned attack?

In the weeks before the shooting, the jihadi and the same three other Saudi military trainees made a visit to New York City where they went to several museums and Rockefeller Center, a person briefed on the investigation told the New York Times.

They did not go there to go ice skating or check out the Hayden Planetarium's Zeiss Optical Multiple Stereopticon projector, I suspect.

Of the 10 Saudi trainees reportedly detained, three of them are the ones from the dinner party who claimed they were only filming the shooting because they happened to be there at the time and wanted to capture the moment, the U.S. official told the New York Times. 

And if you believe that, you probably also believe that the Chinatown chicken really knows how to play tic tac toe.

A U.S. official on Friday told the AP the FBI was examining social media posts and investigating whether he acted alone or was connected to any broader group, like ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Hamas, the Wahhabi movement, Hezbollah, Boko Haram, Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, just to name a few.

Fearing he would be labeled 'Islamophobic,' Defense Secretary Mark Esper was asked if he could say the shooting was an act of terrorism, he cautiously replied, “No, I can’t say it’s terrorism at this time.” 

And he's right to stay mum on the subject until it can be proved that the shooter and his buddies were on a jihad mission to kill Americans. If he says 'yes' right now, CAIR, along with Linda Sarsour, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib might label Esper "Islamophobic" as a way to shut him up.

President Trump said Saturday that he would review policies that govern foreign military training in the U.S. but he too would not label the shooting an act of terrorism, or as Hillary might say, "Just some guy out for a walk with a gun."

There are over 850 Saudis in the U.S. for various training activities. They are among more than 5,000 foreign students from 153 countries in the U.S. going through military training.

“This has been done for many decades,” Trump said. “I guess we're going to have to look into the whole procedure. We'll start that immediately."

“The Sailors that lost their lives in the line of duty and showed exceptional heroism and bravery in the face of evil," Capt. Tim Kinsella, the commanding officer of Naval Air Station Pensacola, said in a statement. “When confronted, they didn’t run from danger; they ran towards it and saved lives."

The FBI's Jacksonville office has said it's not aware of any credible threat toward the Pensacola community at this time, but anyone with information regarding Alshamrani and his activities before the shooting is encouraged to call 1-800-CALL-FBI.

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