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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea December 8, 2019In the United States, there is a hunt for some Saudi soldiers engaged in training programs in Pensacola, which would seem to have disappeared after the shooting at the naval base in Florida. This was reported by Fox News.

As announced, after the shooting two days ago, Friday 6 December, with 4 deaths including the assailant and several injured in Pensacola, Florida, the Pentagon has given the green light to the squeeze on foreign students with the review of control measures of foreign students who train in US bases. According to Secretary of Defense Mark Thomas Esper. Also because those who are admitted to US military bases should arrive with the maximum guarantees of the country of origin. The US Department of Defense currently has 5,181 foreign students from 153 countries, including Italy. The Saudis are 852.

According to what happened the US military camps were put on alert in particular the US Northern Command, the Northern Command of the US Armed Forces, also known as Northcom , with an increase in security checks.

In the last hours new details have emerged about the Saudi lieutenant who killed three people with a Glock45, before being killed in turn by the police, and injured eight others: in the evening before the shots he had shown some videos of mass shooting at dinner. Apparently the Saudi aviation officer, Mohammed Saeed Al Shamrani , had no apparent links with international terrorist groups, according to a senior US official. He acted alone. He arrived in the United States in 2018, according to what was found by intelligence and counter-terrorism officials, before returning home and returning to the US in February 2019.

In addition, family members of one of the three victims of the Pensacola military base shootout, Joshua Kaleb Watson , reported that Joshua Kaleb had helped the police neutralize the attacker. "He saved countless lives with his own," his brother Adam Watson wrote to Fb. "After being hit several times he managed to go outside and told the first team of rescuers where he was the shooter and those details were precious. He died as a hero and we are more than proud but there is a hole in our hearts that cannot be filled ". The victim's father told the Pensacola News Journal that his 23-year-old son was hit five times. Captain of a shooting team, he showed up at the base two weeks ago to train himself on the fly.

However, investigations into the Pensacola shooting continue because there are still many points to clarify about Mohammed Saeed Al Shamrani; such as because he returned to Saudi Arabia and then returned to the United States last February, disappearing for several months, apparently living in the Pensacola area. The Pensacola base is home to more than 16,000 military and 7,400 civilian employees.

The new case arrived 48 hours after a sailor's suicide at the Pearl Harbor naval base, after he shot three civil servants with two dead and one wounded.