Saudi Arabia: United States sends home errant students


Issue 1096 - 23 Jan 2020 | 1 minute read

In the wake of Saudi Air Force student Mohammed Al-Shamrani running amok in December 2019, when he killed three US sailors and injuring eight others at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida, the US is to send 12 more Saudi students back to the kingdom. Federal Bureau of Investigations investigators found they had either failed to alert the authorities to Al-Shamrani’s plans, were themselves connected to extremist organisations or in possession of child pornography, CNN reported.

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