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SHOCK: FBI Discovers Pensacola Mass Shooter Had Contact With Al Qaeda Before Attack

Emily Zanotti
SHOCK: FBI Discovers Pensacola Mass Shooter Had Contact With Al Qaeda Before Attack
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A Saudi aviation student who opened fire on Naval Air Station Pensacola last December, leaving three airmen dead, had been in contact with the international terrorist organization, Al Qaeda, before the attack, the FBI revealed Monday.

Fox News reports that the shooter, who was one of several Saudi aviation students studying alongside American airmen at the air base in Florida, was known to have expressed anti-American sentiments online, but this is, reportedly, the first concrete link investigators have found to international terror networks.

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