The gunman in a deadly rampage late last year at a military base in Florida communicated with al-Qaida operatives about the attacks in the months leading up to it, U.S. officials said Monday as they laid out new details of a shooting that killed three American sailors. The FBI learned of the contacts between Mohammed […]
President Trump said Thursday that the U.S. has conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that killed Qassim al-Rimi, an al-Qaeda leader who claimed responsibility for last year’s deadly shooting at the Naval Air Station Pensacola. During that shooting, a Saudi aviation trainee killed three American sailors.Naval Air Station Pensacola Al-Rimi is a founder of al-Qaeda […]
National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said that Friday’s shooting at a naval base in Florida “appears to be a terrorist attack.” The gunman was a member of the Saudi Air Force and an aviation student at the base. “To me, it appears to be a terrorist attack,” O’Brien said on “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “I don’t […]