Remember Benghazi? This Al Qaeda linked Saudi soldier killed almost as many US personnel, on US soil, 7 months ago, while Trump and Pompeo are illegally bypassing Congress to sell more weapons to the Saudis, then firing the IG looking into it.
“One problem was that he was applying for a diplomatic visa as part of the elite training programs that are often important components of multibillion-dollar arms sales. In the last five years alone, Saudi Arabia has bought more than $45 billion in American weapons and training.”
“All the vetting in the world isn’t going to work if the Saudi ministry responsible for internal security is asleep at the switch,” Bruce Riedel said. “Al Qaeda has infiltrated the Saudi military and the Ministry of Interior was unaware of that.”
Although State Dept had cabled all embassies..in 2017 to step up screening of visas, the extra scrutiny was applied to immigrant visas & not to diplomatic applications..
Embassy workers affixed an A-2 diplomatic visa to Lt.Alshamrani’s passport that allowed him to come &go freely
Embassy workers affixed an A-2 diplomatic visa to Lt.Alshamrani’s passport that allowed him to come &go freely
“The Pentagon system to monitor insider threats — created after the fatal shootings at Fort Hood & the Washington Navy Yard — was focused only on American service members, not on the 5,000 international military students who were training in the US, including some 850 Saudis.”
“Even before the shooting, the White House had been fighting efforts in Congress to cut military aid to the Saudis...”
In wake of the shooting, “21 other Saudi military students were expelled from the United States after investigators found that many had links to extremist organizations.” In Feb, the Qaeda-affiliated Somali group the Shabab... exhorted followers to carry out similar attacks.
