The Saudi military trainee who killed three service members during a December shooting at the Pensacola Naval Air Station had been in contact with the al Qaeda terrorist group, Attorney General William Barr said Monday.
, 21, who was part of a U.S. training program for the Saudi military, also was killed in the Dec. 6 rampage.
Days after the attack, the Navy grounded more than 300 Saudi nationals who were training to be pilots. Ultimately 21 Saudi trainees were expelled from the country. He was one of 5,180 foreign students, including 852 Saudi nationals, from 153 countries in the U.S. for military training. Many operate American military hardware that foreign governments buy from the United States. Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest customer for arms, and many of those are American-made.The investigation also has revived a longstanding dispute with Apple over law enforcement's efforts to crack the encrypted passwords on suspects' iPhones.
Investigators rebuilt both phones, but they had been unable to bypass the encrypted passwords until recently. Wray said the FBI designed its own coding to bypass the locks when Apple declined to assist and when outside companies were unable to unlock the devices.
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