US to expel a dozen Saudi trainees after base attack probe
Three US military members were killed in a mass shooting at the Pensacola naval base in Florida last month. US is set to expel Saudi Arabian trainees after a probe into the shooting. – EPA pic, January 12, 2020.
THE United States will expel at least a dozen Saudi military students accused of extremist links and child pornography, after an investigation into a shooting rampage by a Saudi officer in Florida, media reported yesterday. In December, Mohammed Alshamrani, who was in the US as part of a Saudi military training programme, opened fire in a classroom at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, killing three sailors and wounding eight other people before being shot dead by police.
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