Saudi Pilot Called Us 'nation Of Evil' Before Shooting Spree At Florida Airbase

[naomi24]

//A Saudi pilot who killed three people on a US airbase in Florida had called America a "nation of evil" and quoted Osama bin Laden in social media posts hours before opening fire, according to an extremism monitoring group.

The killer, a member of the Royal Saudi Air Force who had been training at the Pensacola airbase, was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy.

He has not been formally identified, although Reuters quoted two unnamed officials as saying he was Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani.

The SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks Islamist extremism online, said that he had posted on Twitter about US wars in the Middle East shortly before the shootings.

Police have said they are investigating whether the attack was terror-related...//

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/saudi-pilot-florida-airbase-mass-shooting-osama-bin-laden-pensacola-mohammed-saeed-alshamrani-a9237406.html

What's to investigate?

[dannyk13]

TD .
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Islamophobia is a specific form of racism that refers to acts of violence and discrimination, as well as racist speech, fuelled by historical abuses and negative stereotyping and leading to exclusion and dehumanisation of Muslims,

[Theland]

Dehumanisation? They do that themselves.

[TheDevil]

Vulcan, is that substantial?

[Peter Pedant]

oh I see: from the local paper

The official who spoke Saturday said 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. Two other Saudi students watched from a car, the official said.

the party goers then later witnessed the attack in Pensacola and one even viddied it