Muslim US congresswoman calls Saudi Arabia ‘biggest exporter of terrorism’
Muslim US congresswoman Ilhan Omar has slammed the administration of US President Donald Trump over failing to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for last year’s deadly attack in Florida, calling Riyadh as the biggest exporter of terrorism in the world.
“Saudi Arabia sends a terrorist to train with our military, yet most of our leaders are whitewashing Saudi ties to another attack on America,” Omar wrote on Twitter.
“If it was Iran we would be calling for accountability,” he noted. “Why can’t we hold the biggest exporter of terrorism in the world accountable?”
Omar’s tweet came after the US Attorney General William Barr announced on Monday that the FBI has found some evidence that links the gunman to al-Qaeda terrorist group.
The shooter, identified as 21-year-old Mohammed Saeed al-Shamrani, opened fire inside a classroom at a naval base in Florida on December 6, 2019, killing three and wounding eight others before being shot and killed. He was a cadet in a US program to train members of the Royal Saudi Air Force.
The US administration, however, has shown no resolve so far to label the incident as an act of terrorism, a reaction that did not come as a surprise given the friendly ties between US President Donald Trump and the Saudi royal family, particularly Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
Following the attack, Saudi Arabia was forced to withdraw its remaining cadets from the US military training program, after a Justice Department investigation found that some of the Saudi trainees had possessed "derogatory material" including child pornography or anti-American content on their social media profiles.
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