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A Saudi military student training at Pensacola Naval Air Station reportedly wrote an anti-American manifesto prior to the Friday shooting that killed three people.

Mohammed al-Shamrani called the United States a “nation of evil” in an online manifesto, AFP reported Saturday. Shamrani died in the attack that left eight other people wounded. Authorities are assessing whether the incident was a terrorist attack.

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According to the Associated Press, the suspect even “hosted a dinner party the night before to watch videos of mass shootings.”

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis identified the shooting suspect as a Saudi Arabian national who was on the base for military flight training. In the 9/11 attacks 15 of the of the 19 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia and some had learned how to fly at civilian flight training centers in Florida.

According to the SITE Intelligence Group that investigates radical Islamist media, Shamrani had posted a manifesto on a since-deleted Twitter account that read in part: “I’m against evil, and America as a whole has turned into a nation of evil.”

I’m not against you for just being American, I don’t hate you because your freedoms, I hate you because every day you supporting, funding and committing crimes not only against Muslims but also humanity,” he wrote.

The Twitter account reportedly also contained criticism of Israel as well as a quotation from deceased Al-Qaeda kingpin Osama bin Laden.

DeSantis told a news conference that “the government of Saudi Arabia needs to make things better for these victims. And I think they are going to owe a debt here given that this is one of their individuals.”

The governor praised the “bravery and grit” of first responders.

I can tell you lives were saved because of the response of people both in uniform, with the Navy, and in uniform with the Escambia County, and so on one of the darkest days at the base in history, you still saw some of that bravery and grit come out …”

Commanding officer Captain Timothy Kinsella called the shooter was an aviation trainee and said he was one of “a couple hundred” foreign students assigned to the station.

At least six other Saudi nationals have been detained since the attack, three of whom allegedly filmed the shooting, Fox News reported.

The attack was carried out with a Glock 9mm pistol that was purchased in Pensacola. The shooter reportedly had six magazines of ammunition and could have killed or injured more people had he not been stopped.

According to Fox News, the shooter was attending classes in a part of the base where novice fliers begin their training, so he had likely only arrived at the air station recently.

(Excerpt from the Daily Caller. Article by David Krayden.)

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Susan
December 11, 2019

Heck, this kid could have learned such a mantra on any college campus now a days…
That aside, rigorous vetting is needed as well as making it legal to carry on base.

Jim
December 10, 2019

Islam wouldn’t be flourishing and growing if the American church was in order, pray for America. Pastors are not needed in a church, but Apostles with miracles are, the apostles are there to do mighty miracles and make sure everyone participates: 1 Cor 14:26

26 What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. ASV
1 Cor 12:28
28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, (divers) kinds of tongues.
ASV

1 Cor 12:28
28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, (divers) kinds of tongues. ASV
2 Cor 12:12
12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works. ASV

the most grievous violation of the church that they are let by knowledge instead of the Spirit: John 16:13
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, (these) shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.
ASV

John 14:26
26 But the Comforter, (even) the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you.
ASV

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