UPDATE:

BREAKING: Congressman @MattGaetz calls for extreme vetting from Dept of Defense and Dept of State for all military trainees invited to the US

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If this turns out to be a jihad attack, and it certainly resembles many, many other jihad attacks in the past, it shows yet again the damage caused by the fact that anyone questioning this Saudi national’s fitness for flight training on a Naval Air Station (if that is what he was doing there) would have been derided as “Islamophobic,” as have been all who call attention to this threat.

“Pensacola Shooting Updates: Gunman Was Saudi National, Sources Say,” by Patricia Mazzei, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Christine Hauser, New York Times, December 6, 2019:

Two deputies were shot but are expected to recover, the sheriff said.

The gunman was a Saudi national, sources say.

Three people were shot dead early Friday at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., and the gunman has been identified as a Saudi national, according to three sources familiar with the investigation.

The authorities have not publicly named the gunman, who was killed by a sheriff’s deputy. Capt. Timothy F. Kinsella Jr., the base’s commanding officer, declined to comment on whether the shooting is being investigated as an act of terrorism. The Pensacola base is known to host international students for flight training.

Saud A. Kabli, a spokesman for the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Washington, said he was aware of the reports but did not have an immediate comment.

Two deputies were shot, one in the arm and one in the knee, but are expected to recover, the sheriff said. The base employs more than 16,000 military personnel and 7,400 civilians.

Kathy Bowers, a spokeswoman for Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, said that the hospital had received eight patients. One of the victims transported to Baptist later died, according to Chief Deputy Chip Simmons of Escambia County. Two other victims died on the base, he said….

Officials began receiving calls about the shooting about 6:50 a.m., and the base was put on lockdown.

“Walking through the crime scene was like being on the set of a movie,” Sheriff David Morgan of Escambia County said.

He added that the authorities were not looking for any additional gunmen….

The motive for the shooting is not yet known. It was also not clear whether the active-duty sailor targeted the three shipyard workers — Department of Defense civilians — or fired indiscriminately.