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Pensacola Terrorist’s Phone Showed Connections To Al Qaeda. DOJ, FBI, Slam Apple For Refusing To Help Unlock It.

Hank Berrien
Pensacola Terrorist’s Phone Showed Connections To Al Qaeda. DOJ, FBI, Slam Apple For Refusing To Help Unlock It.
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On Monday, Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Director Chris Wray slammed Apple for refusing to help them unlock the iPhones of the terrorist who launched a deadly terror attack at a Florida naval base last December. The two men announced that after they finally unlocked the phones, cellphone evidence showed the terrorist who launched the attack had been in contact with al Qaeda operatives for years.

The assailant, a Saudi military trainee who opened fire on the Naval Air Base Station in Pensacola and murdered three U.S. sailors while injuring eight other people, possessed iPhones, but in January, when the Department of Justice asked Apple to help unlock the phones, Apple refused.

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