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Shock! Pensacola Shooter Turns Out to Be Al-Qaeda Operative Who Plotted His Attack for Years

May 21, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

My latest in PJ Media:

The Associated Press reported Monday that “the gunman who killed three U.S. sailors at a military base in Florida last year repeatedly communicated” with al-Qaeda operatives “about planning in the months leading up to the attack.” And he didn’t just communicate with them. Attorney General William Barr noted that the shooter, Mohammed Alshamrani, had “significant ties to Al Qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula not only before the attack, but before he even arrived in the United States.” Yet he was still able to get into the country and execute the attack he planned – and that is the real story here.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said that Alshamrani’s attack on December 6, 2019, at Naval Air Station Pensacola was the “brutal culmination of years of planning and preparation.”

He added: “We now know enough to see Alshamrani for what he was — a determined AQAP [Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] terrorist who spent years preparing to attack us. He wasn’t just coordinating with them about planning and tactics. He was helping the organization making the most it could out of his murders.” Wray said that al-Qaeda “certainly more than just inspired” Alshamrani’s massacre.

How many Americans know that al-Qaeda claimed — three months ago — to be behind the murderous attack by a Muslim from Saudi Arabia at a U.S. Naval Base in Florida last year? How many Americans do you think even know that there was a murderous attack by a Muslim at a U.S. Naval Base in Florida last year?

The establishment media continually glosses over information of this kind, and instead dins into Americans’ ears that “white supremacists” are the greatest threat America faces, and that Muslims are innocent victims of “Islamophobia.”

The clueless and/or complicit FBI, an outrageously corrupt organization, doesn’t help. Mohammad Alshamrani, now confirmed to have been an al-Qaeda operative, was able to get into the United States because the agencies that should have detected his jihadist sentiments and kept him out of the country are institutionally committed to the idea that Islam is a religion of peace, and that any attempt to discern whether or not any individual Muslim is a violent jihadist, or sympathetic to the global jihad, is dismissed as “Islamophobia.”

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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  1. Dude says

    May 21, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    Will the Left try to hide this information? If so, then they should be charged with sedition, complicity.

  2. gravenimage says

    May 21, 2020 at 5:06 pm

    Shock! Pensacola Shooter Turns Out to Be Al-Qaeda Operative Who Plotted His Attack for Years
    ……………..

    Who can be surprised by this? How many more Muslims in this country now–and all over the West–are doing just the same?

    • GreekEmpress says

      May 21, 2020 at 6:31 pm

      And another attack today in Corpus Christi—Naval base, I think??

      • gravenimage says

        May 21, 2020 at 7:31 pm

        Yes–I’m just reading about that now, GreekEmpress. The FBI has said that this is “terror related”–that is, not certainly Jihad but highly likely. The shooter has been killed, but there may be an accomplice at large.

        • gravenimage says

          May 23, 2020 at 11:00 pm

          Yes, this turned out to be Jihad.

    • sweetolbob says

      May 22, 2020 at 9:39 am

      Looks like the U. S. military once again wins the coveted “DUH” award presented to snail speed slow learners.
      What the hell was a filthy muslim doing within 5 miles of a military installation where, thanks to Clinton, no one is allowed to carry weapons. He disarmed our armed forces.
      Uuuuhh ………….. Makes sense, doesn’t it ?

  3. Kepha says

    May 21, 2020 at 5:16 pm

    Sa’udi Arabia–the Heart of Darkness. I doubt we can really trust any of the trainees they send here. They seem to be raised with a fanatical hatred of non-Muslims, and contempt for those who make toleration a decent attitude, if not a virtue. Methinks they won’t learn manners until a Kufr army barbecues pork in the rubble of the Ka’aba.

    • AleX says

      May 21, 2020 at 10:04 pm

      Mohamedans use moderation with moderation.

      • PRCS says

        May 22, 2020 at 3:19 am

        +1

    • FYI says

      May 22, 2020 at 10:47 am

      muhammed{pbuh,Pork and bacon be unknown to him}

      Question for any “scholar” of islam about muhammed{Pbuh,the actual gift of Prophecy be unfamiliar to him}

      How did muhammed get from mecca to Jerusalem?
      On his magical winged flying donkey with a woman’s face and a peacock tail, called buraq.

      muslims;haha you jest!That’s obviously a made up beast.But seriously,”scholars” of islam,tell us how did the great prophet get to Jerusalem?

      On his magical winged flying donkey with a woman’s face and a peacock tail, called buraq.

      Yes,seriously..and to visit a mosque that could not have existed in mo’s time as it was built AFTER…

      koran 17:1

  4. Wellington says

    May 21, 2020 at 5:37 pm

    Proper vetting—the most accurate vetting—would treat every Muslim as a suspect just as every Marxist, Neo-Nazi, anarchist, KKK member, Skinheads, et al. are quite rightly treated as suspects.

    Until Islam, ALL OF IT, is viewed as an aberration (hey, no good Nazism or Marxism out there, now is there?), deadly and unnecessary games will continue in Western nations, including my own country, America.

    If you are a Muslim, you adhere to an ideology, ditto for Nazism and Marxism, that treats liberty as an enemy. It matters not that some Muslims don’t realize this. What matters is what they adhere to and not what they think they adhere to.

    Islam is a mortal enemy of liberty, also equality under the law, a sense of fair play, a true Golden Rule for all, women’s rights (and I utterly reject the contention that Islam protects women’s rights—yeah, if they act submissively and, of course, “cover themselves,” they will get a few crumbs here and there but this makes a mockery of standing for true women’s rights), overall graciousness (the “best of peoples” rot, Sura 3:110, mitigates against such graciousness and as further demonstrated by Sura 98:6 which refers to Jews and Christians as “the vilest of creatures”), never mind other important “stuff” like pictorial art (no Michelangelo in the Islamic world, now is there?), music (no Beethoven in the Islamic world, now is there?), delicious pork products (no North Carolina BBQ in the Islamic world, now is there?) and fine alcohol (no great beer or vodka martinis in the Islamic world, now is there?), all of which Islam, if it had full sway, would ban.

    Islam, irrespective of whether it is a religion (I for one think it is a religion, though an evil one, and testimony to how stupid mankind can be at times), is most certainly inimical to wonderful “phenomena” such as real freedom, real equality under the law, romantic love, and a whole host of other positives that Islam treats as negatives (some of which already listed above).

    Well, in the final analysis, I assert most vigorously that Islam is quite arguably the greatest negative ideology over the longest period of time in all of man’s history. Will take on all “comers” who wish to assert otherwise since doing so is a “sport” for me.

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 21, 2020 at 7:13 pm

      It brings the’West nothing of value. It has nothing of value to bring.

      https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/05/it-has-nothing-of-value/

    • James Lincoln says

      May 21, 2020 at 7:42 pm

      Wellington,

      An excellent and accurate post – as usual.

      You are incredible thinker and writer, similar to Victor Davis Hanson.

      Keep up the great work- I learn much!

    • PRCS says

      May 22, 2020 at 1:08 am

      I, too, consider it a religion.

      Though not JUST a religion.

      What will leftists say when they finally realize that–at its core–it’s a system of governance in which VERY religious people control EVERYTHING?

      • gravenimage says

        May 22, 2020 at 8:18 pm

        +1

  5. j says

    May 21, 2020 at 5:37 pm

    I do not think that the politicians care about this. It is like illegal immigration. They just want more. More illegal immigrants, more Muslims, whether some are terrorists or not. Just more. Who cares about the individuals

  6. Carolyn Marlin says

    May 21, 2020 at 5:42 pm

    Sir are Dems going to party???

    • gravenimage says

      May 22, 2020 at 8:38 pm

      No–very few Democrats would party over Jihad terror attacks. Most would be completely clueless about how their own immigration policies endanger us, though.

      • PRCS says

        May 22, 2020 at 11:26 pm

        Are, not would be.

        • gravenimage says

          May 23, 2020 at 11:01 pm

          Thanks for the correction, PRCS.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    May 21, 2020 at 5:57 pm

    Of course that not a real surprise to any person who is well informed about the actual violent deadly nature of Islam it’s jihad of violence and killing.

    Related to this the term ,that was even used in the title of the article. Which “al- Qeada operative” a much better term would “al-Qaeda jihadist ” even a “a jihadist of al-Qeada. For the other two terms using the word “jihadist” is more clear and descriptive as to the religious,Islamic motivation of violent and deadly Jihadist attack

    To putt his in another way Alshamrani was a Muslim terrorist who was devoutly following the instructions found in the Quran. For that “holy” religious book of Islam in Sura 9:123. instructs “O you who believe ! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you ,and let them fine harshness in you.”

    Let’s face it, that Muslim terrorist at Pensacola was ,indeed, following the Quran ,for shooting and murdering people who are not Muslims is a very cruel and effective way of showing human beings who are not Muslims harshness.

  8. mortimer says

    May 22, 2020 at 12:20 am

    Further to Dude: The lame-stream media are guilty of malpractice. They are SHIELDING MUSLIM TERRORISTS from the OPPROBRIUM they rightfully deserve. The lame-stream Leftards don’t care who is hurt by Islam as long as Globalist Corporation-Fascism is triumphant.

    The Leftard media have abandoned accuracy, ethics and freedom of expression in the name of Globalism. They see themselves as the future commissars. They don’t know what to do with Communist China! They don’t know if they should love or hate the Communists.

    Their names will be recorded among the traitors. They are abetting jihadic terrorism. They are without a moral compass.

    • James Lincoln says

      May 22, 2020 at 9:10 am

      mortimer,

      Just my take, but I believe that a hard-core leftist would favor communist China over the United States of America…

      • Wellington says

        May 22, 2020 at 11:47 am

        I agree, James, but with the caveat that the leftist will praise Communist China from the vantage point of America, which latter country the leftist will continue to run down while remaining here and enjoying its many freedoms and advantages though oblivious while doing so.

        Put another way, leftists are both fools and hypocrites.

        • James Lincoln says

          May 22, 2020 at 4:26 pm

          Wellington,

          Exactly!

          Just like all of the leftists who swore that they would leave the United States and move to Canada, Sweden, etc., if Donald Trump got elected during the 2016 presidential election.

          I would have gladly chipped into a fund to buy them one way airline tickets out of the USA.

          Fool’s and hypocrites – very well put.

  9. Chrissie01 says

    May 22, 2020 at 2:29 am

    reading these stories over and over again, there is no other option than to believe that there are forces in the West pushing Islam in order to drive their own agenda, maybe something like “riding the tiger”. Otherwise this spooky spectacle would have been stopped long ago. Look at Obama: No nicer sound than hearing the muezzin’s call in the morning? Really? That violent howl that claims supremacy over everybody else? An American president says that? And any criticism of Islam is met with violent PC and in many cases, with violent action? Why? What is the goal in pushing this violent supremacist agenda of a cult that the promotor himself does not belong to? Why do our children have to visit mosques, when no muslim kid is ever forced to go inside a church? Why does the influx of migration in Europe mainly consist of Muslims? Why do they have the liberty to insult and aim at the destruction of any other religion, while theirs must never be even cautiously criticized?
    It can’t be mere stupidity and desinformation. What is it?
    The terrors of Islam have been sufficiently described and I understand that it is this site’s purpose to create awareness of them. But all of it is being officially ignored with determination! Why?
    I do not think it is insanity. It looks very controlled and organized. But I have not clue where it’s heading and in the vested interest of whom.

    • James Lincoln says

      May 22, 2020 at 9:12 am

      Christie01,

      You have to understand, that you make way too much sense.

      The average leftist in the United States is unable – or unwilling – to process what you have written…

      • Wellington says

        May 22, 2020 at 11:52 am

        Your quite accurate comment to Chrissie01, James, reminds me of an old joke that I may have told here before at JW, to wit, what does the lost continent of Atlantis and a leftist mind have in common?

        Answer: Well, both have been rumored to exist but there’s really no hard evidence for either.

        • James Lincoln says

          May 22, 2020 at 4:29 pm

          😊 !!!

  10. James Lincoln says

    May 22, 2020 at 9:19 am

    And all the while I thought that Mohammad Alshamrani got triggered because an instructor thought he looked a little like Harry Reems…

    • gravenimage says

      May 22, 2020 at 8:40 pm

      Now *that* is funny!

  11. CTTV15@Hotmail.com says

    May 22, 2020 at 11:07 am

    Good work here..

    But, they’re our Pals, Right? ..And, ‘peace loving’ folks? Right?

  12. OLD GUY says

    May 22, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    Stop letting the animals into our country, we don’t need them or their political religion in this country.

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