The lawsuit casts a wide net of blame beyond Alshamrani. It alleges, for instance, that Saudi Arabia knew about Alshamrani s associations with al-Qaida and his radicalization and yet failed to monitor, supervise or report him.
It also says the gunman told fellow Saudi trainees at a dinner party the night before the attack that he planned to carry out the shooting the following day, but instead of reporting it, they called out sick morning of the killings. One recorded the shootings while standing outside the building; two others watched from a car nearby.
“None of the Royal Saudi Air Force trainees at the scene of the attack reported Al-Shamrani’s behavior nor did they try to stop” it, the lawsuit says. “Because they supported it.”
The suit filed Monday Feb. 22, 2021 centers on a 2019 shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, in which Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani fatally shot three U.S. sailors.
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