Mohammed bin Salman has more to worry about after Pensacola shooter linked with Al Qaeda
Minutes before he was gunned down by police officers, the Pensacola naval base shooter, Mohammad Saeed Alshamrani, aimed his Glock Model 45 handgun at one of his two iPhones and fired a round of shots. He had already damaged another device. The 21-year-old Saudi cadet obviously had something to hide.
But now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has irrefutable evidence that shows Alshamrani had been in touch with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula for some years before the attack. “Our hero moved for several years between several US military bases in America to select his target among them.”
For the FBI, the information within his phone means verifying key information and contacts that Alshamrani might have had. Qassim al Rimi wasA direct involvement of AQAP can strain US-Saudi ties, which have already hit a low mainly as a result of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman’s rash decisions. that the incident may even reshape the US-Saudi relationship, originally forged on a US warship in 1945 during a meeting between Franklin D Roosevelt and the then Saudi King, Abdul Aziz ibn Saud.
In 2013, the US was importing 1.3 million barrels of Saudi oil per day. In 2019 this dropped to half a millionThe revolution in drilling technology has enabled the US to become a major producer of its own, and therefore cut imports. But the recent price war initiated by Saudi Arabia along with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, has badly hurt American producers and states, which have come to rely on oil revenue.
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