Advancing the Mission of Conquest

"There is obviously going to be a lot of questions about this individual being a foreign national, being a part of the Saudi Air Force and then to be here training on our soil."
"The government of Saudi Arabia needs to make things better for these victims. They are going to owe a debt here, given that this was one of their individuals."
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

"The King [Saudi King Salman] said that the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter, and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people who love the American people."
U.S. President Donald J. Trump

Rita Katz ✔ @Rita_Katz

BREAKING: Tweet by #Pensacola attacker Alshamrani suggests terrorist motive. Does not claim allegiance to any group, but echos Bin Laden: "The security is a shared destiny...You will not be safe until we live it as reality in [Palestine], and American troops get out of our land."

 Yet another attack at an American military base. By none other than a member of the Saudi Air Force in the United States to receive specialized military training, identified as Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani. A man who presumably underwent tight security screening both by American intelligence and by their Saudi counterparts to ensure that no such scenarios could possibly emerge. After all, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a close ally of the U.S. and it was merely circumstantial that the 9/11 attackers happened to be Saudis.

The Naval Air Station Pensacola now has the questionable distinction of having come under a terrorist attack just as had Fort Hood in Texas in 2009 where 13 people were killed by a Muslim military psychiatrist who clearly by his previous statements of sentiment was ripe for jihad, yet somehow overlooked as a clear and present threatening danger. Those that followed were not quite as successful as Major Nidal Malik Hasan but clearly not for lack of trying.

On this occasion, reports of an "active shooter" on base were received by the Escambia County sheriff's office just before 7:00 am on Friday. It took but a few minutes later for a sheriff's deputy to shoot the gun-wielding attacker dead in a base classroom.This, on a military base with thousands of military personnel, none of whom are permitted to carry firearms on their persons to respond to just such emergencies.

Which accounts for three dead servicemen in training, and eight injured in the second deadly shooting this week alone at an American military installation.  The Saudi gunman was able to walk through two floors in a building of classrooms before he was shot. He was among 8 naval aviators and two aircrew personnel of the Royal Saudi Naval Forces taking a stint of their training with the U.S. Navy at Pensacola under a U.S.Navy program offering training to U.S. allies; the Naval Education and Training Security Assistance Field Activity.

Ironically representing a clear lapse in intelligence security. The Saudi Air Force officers represent the elite of their country "hand-picked" by their military for the privilege of taking part in this exchange and military educational opportunity. Among the injured were two sheriff's deputies, one shot in the arm, another in the knee. A Naval Academy graduate, Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, was one of the three whom the Saudi shot several times, but before he died, he alerted responders to where the killer could be found.

Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, was confirmed as one of the three victims who was killed Friday morning when Saudi national, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, opened fire on a flight training program for foreign military personnel, Adam Watson revealed in a Facebook post.<br> (U.S. Navy)

According to some news sources, the Saudi killer, the night before his rampage on Friday, had invited some of his colleagues to a party, where he screened a number of videos of mass shootings for their entertainment and amusement value. If so, and details emerge that among those at his party were other members of the Saudi team, the question might be how complicit they would be? There were also rumours that several other Saudis were arrested on suspicion of taking videos of the events that unfolded at Pensacola.

Three of the victims had died after being evacuated from the scene and taken to hospital. The Baptist Hospital was the scene where the eight wounded were taken for treatment. Military bases hold the country's powerful arms, but for reasons known only to military command, personnel are restricted from carrying weapons on base other than those who do as part of their daily duties. In the wake of this atrocity, authorities cautioned that the 'reasons behind' the event were being investigated.

Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii was the scene on Wednesday where a sailor shot three civilians, killing two, then committing suicide. A culture of violence and gun availability converging with faithful adherents to the Islamic precept of jihad as an integral faith responsibility, and the viral hatred by Muslims of the West and most particularly the most powerful of Western democratic nations as a bulwark against the aspirational Islamist conquest of the world order.

The attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola was at least the seventh shooting at a military base this year.  Credit...Tony Giberson/Pensacola News Journal, via Associated Press

"The military shootings have been so frequent that there are eerie parallels between some of them. In the 2014 attack at Fort Hood, Specialist Lopez bought his .45-caliber handgun at the same gun shop near the base where Major Hasan bought the weapon he used in 2009."

"Many of the gunmen have taken their own lives, as the one did in the Pearl Harbor shipyard attack and as Specialist Lopez did."

"But the military attacks are as varied as any other mass shootings in the country, with their own motives and circumstances. Some of the suspects, like the one in Friday’s shooting, are not even American service members, an indicator of the wide array of civilians and others who are on military bases at any given moment."

"The gunman in the attack on Friday was a Saudi national who was a member of the Saudi Air Force and who was on the base for aviation training, officials said."

Manny Fernandez, The New York Times

As usual, The New York Times will bend over backwards to 'prove' to their readers that home-grown terrorism is as much a threat to peace and good order in America as any threats emanating from outside the country to minimize the undeniable fact that Islam itself is the driving force and that Islamist jihad bears any responsibility for the fervour of Muslim jihadis to enter Paradise as heroic figures of the vast army of jihadis celebrated for their martyred sacrifice in the name of Islamic conquest.