“Despite security screening of these individuals, it became clear in the wake of the attack that the federal government failed to pick up on clear warning signs, such as the attacker’s anti-American social media posts.”
Clearly the screening process is inadequate, in large part because of the Pentagon’s denial and willful ignorance regarding the motivating ideology behind the jihad threat. Pentagon officials know it would be “Islamophobic” to take note of such social media posts. They don’t want to see a big CNN exposé on “Islamophobia in the Pentagon,” featuring Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad Awad and Ibrahim Hooper lamenting the persecution of Muslims in the U.S. Armed Forces. And so three people are dead in Pensacola.
“Pentagon Failed to Vet Saudi Military Recruit Who Killed 3 Americans,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, March 4, 2020:
The Pentagon failed to adequately screen a Saudi military recruit who carried out a deadly 2019 attack at a U.S. military installation in Pensacola, Fla., officials testified on Wednesday.
Garry Reid, director for defense intelligence at the Pentagon, said during a public congressional hearing that a failure to properly screen and share critical information about Saudi military recruits led to the attack, which killed three American service members and wounded eight others.
In addition to relying too heavily on State Department vetting procedures, the Pentagon found in its review of the incident that gaps in federal law enabled the Saudi terrorist to legally obtain a firearm in the United States, despite not being a citizen or having an immigrant visa.
The attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola triggered a nationwide crackdown on foreign nationals participating in U.S. military programs. Despite security screening of these individuals, it became clear in the wake of the attack that the federal government failed to pick up on clear warning signs, such as the attacker’s anti-American social media posts….
The government-wide security review also found that “policies for international military student possession of firearms varied at the installation level, and that at the federal level, there are ways to bypass firearms restrictions for non-immigrant visa holders.”
These loopholes should be closed to prevent another attack, officials said.
Following last year’s attack, all Saudi Arabian military students in the United States for training were screened “using new procedures we had recently put in place as part of our personnel vetting transformation initiative,” Reid said. Twenty-one Saudis were also ejected from the country for misconduct as the result of an FBI investigation.
Reid said the new vetting procedures “produced only a small number of returns that required additional analysis within the Department of Defense.” He added that none of the returns “triggered any remedial action or further investigation by federal authorities relative to the current population.”…
Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa), a combat veteran and the subcommittee’s chair, said in the hearing that more must be done to ensure an attack of this nature does not take place again. While the foreign military exchange programs are vital to building closer global alliances, they cannot come at the risk of American service members’ lives, she said.
“The attacker … arrived in the United States in 2017 and harbored anti-U.S. sentiments, which he broadcasted on social media,” Ernst said. “All the while he was able to purchase a firearm, access U.S. military installations, and ultimately carry out a deadly attack against Americans. We must do more to protect our military personnel.”…
mortimer says
Saudi Arabia indoctrinates all its students to hate non-Muslims and make war on them from kindergarten to university. Saudi citizens are walking time bombs when they visit the West.
Arthur says
6 years ago, a Saudi student in Japan damaged Buddha statues in a Japanese temple because felt “offended” by statues and polytheism, the smashed Buddha statues were 300 years old
gravenimage says
Yes–I remember that ugly case:
“Japan: Muslim Saudi university student vandalizes, destroys ancient Buddhist statues”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/06/japan-muslim-saudi-university-student-vandalizes-destroys-ancient-buddhist-statues
DHazard says
The Saudi’s are our worst allies. Apart from direct support of terror their “no expenses spared” export of wahabbism has warped the minds of countless identity deficient Muslims all across the World. Since when did wanting to destroy the U.S. become an irrelevant personal religious belief in the vetting process for a U.S. gov. position? What idiot decided that was a good idea? Obama? The people who tell jokes about priests and rabbis but would never even want to hear one about an imam? The ones who assume an exception to everything even remotely critical for a warmed over, guilt/fear based concoction of Judaism, Christianity, Arab paganism, tall tales, author narcissism, and rules for how Arab men should dominate the World just so they can appear sophisticated, on the surface?
gravenimage says
Yes–the vile Saudis are no allies of ours.
Bruce Boelter says
Of course. It’s politically incorrect to profile Muslim terrorists.
James Lincoln says
You are correct, Bruce.
“Political correctness” literally killed three U.S. Navy sailors, and injured eight others.
This crap has to stop!
GreekEmpress says
I am not surprised by this article. I am about half way through Philip Haney’s book “See Something
Say Nothing”. There has been a concerted effort to squelch investigations and training to deal with Islamic terrorism since 9/11. I get the feeling that Mr. Haney’s second book would expose a lot of corruption and infiltration and name names.
PS—Not at all convinced he committed suicide.
James Lincoln says
GreekEmpress,
Philip Haney was an American patriot of the highest order.
I too, am not convinced that he committed suicide. I just hope that there will be a complete investigation into his death…
gravenimage says
Agree, GreekEmpress and James.
somehistory says
All my instincts and reasoning on it says he was murdered. Those who stopped him from doing his job and deleted the information he had gathered, are still in the country.
Wilfred Quadros says
Thank God this particular arab was not flying a plane loaded with weapons. Since it was a training session obviously no weapons would be present. However if he wanted to pull a stunt on the lines of 9/11, you cam easily imagine the damage. Infact no arab soldiers should be trained on American soil. It is like crossing a river with a venomous snake on your back. There is every possibility that both of them would be dead incase the snake decides to bite. However the snake will go to his imaginary heaven with 72 virgins in tow and you will be lying dead at the bottom of the river.
Merri-joy says
The families of the murdered & survivors of this attack should sue the Pentagon for negligence!
Wellington says
Proper, thorough and accurate vetting would disallow ALL Muslims to enter America except certain diplomatic personnel who themselves should be closely monitored. Until we treat Islam as we did Nazism and Marxism, anything less will be inadequate, only the degree of inadequacy functioning as a variable.
Islam is the proto-type for Nazism. It preaches a master faith just as Nazism preached a master race. “Master” anything is rot and is not compatible with either liberty or equality under the law.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“Proper, thorough and accurate vetting would disallow ALL Muslims to enter America except certain diplomatic personnel who themselves should be closely monitored.”
Agree 100%, and VERY close surveillance on those few “diplomatic” personnel…
somehistory says
Ankle monitors and trusted people to follow them around to see that they don’t remove them.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
Absolutely, no moslim is working or thinking on “freedom” of any kind and every one of them should be considered as one who desires that no one has any freedom to think, speak or act on their personal choices;. with the determination to use violence to prevent these choices.
Only the foolish allow their enemy to come inside their home.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The fetid waters of the Swamp lapped into the Pentagon a long time ago. My favorite when Mad Dog Mattis intoned that the problem with Islam is its Sunni vs. Shia divide. To quote a hooker in Saigon (to use a military reference) that make me laugh long time, ha ha.
More like Lapdog Mattis.
tgusa says
General Mattis said this;
To ensure the most lethal and effective fighting force in the world, the Department maintains high mental, physical, and behavioral standards. These necessarily high standards mean that 71% of young Americans (ages 17-24) are ineligible to join the military without a waiver.
This articles topic is one helluva bad recruiting policy. This kind of garbage will help to drive away some of the remaining 29 percent.
As an American citizen when I encounter members of the military I really don’t know what to say to them and as far as their families, I am really at a loss for words. I feel responsible in my own small way for not holding these rule makers/ planners to account. They have blood on their hands and they absolutely will not stop with their bs until the people make them stop. I would like to say to them, have you no shame!
gravenimage says
Pentagon failed to vet Saudi military recruit who murdered three Americans in jihad massacre in Pensacola
………………..
Who can be surprised by this madness? And have policies changed *now*? I wouldn’t count on it.
somehistory says
“These loopholes should be closed to prevent another attack, officials said.” This is a “duh,” and the question is: Will they be closed?
Walter Sieruk says
The heading of this jihadwatch article ,alone reveals much which reads the “Pentagon failed to vet Saudi military recruit who murdered three Americans in jihad massacre in Pensacola”
The outcome of that failed vetting system was tragic and is also revealing ,as in a reflection , that the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no actual friend of the USA or , for that matter, of any other Western nation .
Likewise Saudi Arabia has not and will not spare any of its vast oil wealth as to use its financial resources to fund and promote the advancement of Islam by and through the jihad. By this it means both the stealth jihad and even the subtle support violent jihad.
As explained, for example in the book HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD by William Wagner. For on pages 109, 110. The reader is informed that “The Wall Street journal on April 15, 2003 published an article titled ‘In law Seminars, A Saudi Group Spreads Extremism.’ The article began by saying ‘In late February more than 300 young men from across Europe gathered for a weekend seminar on Islamic Law put on by Al-Waqf al-Islaami Foundation.’ The article went on to explain that the most famous graduates from the seminar were half a dozen members of the group of young men from Hamburg, Germany, who plotted the September 11, attacks. The language of the was Dutch, but ‘the message was imported from Saudi Arabia, via Saudi books and lecturers who taught a strict orthodox interpretation of Islam.’ “
Further on the very same page of 110 the information is given that “TIME MAGAZINE , in an article on Saudi Arabia: Inside the Kingdom,’ stated ‘Apart from channeling money to foundations that have assisted terrorist groups, Saudis have for years supported institutions abroad the propagate Wahhabism.’”
In addition to all this, in the book of the title of THE HISTORY OF JIHAD FROM MUHAMMAD TO ISIS, by Robert Spencer on pages 333 through 337.Mr Spencer provides valid information of the subject of “ The Saudi involvement in September 11.”
So with that Islamic regime of Saudi Arabia and its oil money support the different type of the jihad, both stealth and the violent kind, with its Islamic agenda advancement and spread , influence and infiltration of the Western nations ,this kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no friend at all of America or any other country of the West.
Walter Sieruk says
The murderous jihadist affront which occurred in Pensacola should expose that the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not an innocent nation when it comes to the subject of promoting Islamic terrorism by setting up Muslim brainwashing centers in which impressionable Muslim youth are thoroughly indoctrinated into the ways of Quran based jihad violence with much killing of people who are not Muslim for the advancement of Islam. As the Quran instructs, for example 2:191., 5:33. 9:5,111,112,123 47:4,89.
One scholar, Brigitte Gabriel, who is an from the Middle East had in her book with the title of THEY MUST BE STOPPED informs her readers on page 114. “Saudi Arabia is one of the leading financial contributors to Islamic terrorism worldwide. Part of that contribution is made by funding madrasas throughout the world and the brainwashing of Muslim children with intolerant teaching towards anything non-Muslim.”
Likewise, a former Muslim, Ibn Warraq, in his book which has the title of THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM on page 353 reveals that “Saudi Arabia has spent millions on Islamic propaganda and on building madrassas.”
Further on the subject that there are Muslim mind control and mind programming places where Muslim males are thoroughly indoctrinated into the strong but blind and unquestioning faith in Koran with all non-watered down; hard core Islam with its militant jihad. Those places, “schools,” are called madrasas. In those Islamic mind programming centers young Muslim male are ingrain in the mindset Koranic dogma of the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As the Koran instructs. As in, for example, in 2:191. 9:5, 123. 47:4. Many of those who of such center are so much damaged that they are literally dangerous to self and others. As seen many times in jihad suicide, homicide bombing/attacks. For the Koran instructs in 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Furthermore, those mind programming places also ingrain the outlandish absurd Koranic doctrine of a sex-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. Such a strange doctrine of a houris filled- place in found in the Koran in 44:54. 55:56. 78:31.
Moreover, such Islamic mind programming centers are further explained about by the scholar Don Richardson in his book SECRETS OF THE KORAN which on pages 69,70. Informs the reader that “The world needs to be warned. At least forty million Muslim youth in the Muslim worlds’ religious schools, called madrasa, are avidly memorizing the entire Koran … These schools become breeding grounds for potential terrorists. When male students, isolated from family and friends in madrasa, reach puberty and their hormones are active, there are no girls to date. Instead, Muslim clerics easily shift to focusing the male student’s attention on Koranic verse that promises sex in heaven with dark-eyed houris. Students can only fantasize about martyrdom followed by the sexual release Muhammad promised. This is an unspeakably cruel brainwashing technique , and the Koran is its perfect guidebook.”
In short, Saudi Arabia is very guilty of promoting
Walter Sieruk says
The murderous Muslim jihadist of Pensacola who came from he Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia should serve a a wake up call to the West. For Saudi Arabia is best defined as a kingdom of Islamic hate
As one Arab scholar who had lived in a Middle Eastern country, for many years revealed “Saudi madrassa notably teach hatred and condemnation of the West and non-Muslims” and “The Saudi Government also provides free textbooks to Islamic schools throughout the world . many of the Saudi- Issued textbook’s contain wording that encourages hatred and intolerance for non-Muslims.” [1]
Saudi Arabia in many ways is no better than Iran.
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, page 106
Brigitte Gabriel is the founder and head of http://www.actforamerica.org
Geof Barrington says
He was not vetted properly ? When will these people figure out that muslums are not to be trusted ?
Robert J Drainville says
This is quite likely to happen in Canada now. Tragic.