In a non-COVID world: Al Qaeda was involved in first foreign-planned terrorist attack on U.S. soil

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Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted

In a non-COVID world, the biggest news right now would be that Al Qaeda was involved in the first foreign-planned terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.

1/ Here’s what we know and why we need to be demanding accountability from the Trump Administration.

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2/ Last Dec. 6th, Saeed Alshamrani, a Saudi Air Force cadet, killed 3 and injured 8 at a military base in Florida.

He had been in contact w AQAP, the Al Qaeda wing based in Yemen, since 2015, including the night before the attack.

AQAP says it directed the attack.

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3/ He joined the Saudi military specifically to carry out an an attack on the United States. He spent years planning the attack.

And the FBI found over a dozen other Saudi trainees at the same base with jihadist and anti-U.S. material on their computers.

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[chowder66]

1. Whoa!