While Pentagon officials had previously insisted that the Pensacola shooting would not have any serious impact on the US hosting Saudi military personnel, it seems that a review of security and screening is going to have a much bigger impact than anyone expected.
A new memo revealed that the Pentagon will be entirely pausing the training of Saudi troops on US military bases, and that this amounts to about 5,000 troops all told. Officials say they can have classroom training, but nothing operational.
This is a substantial step up from a report earlier in the day from the US Navy, which announced 175 Saudi Air Force personnel were being grounded at Pensacola base for the time being.
Though Pentagon officials downplayed it as a brief “safety stand-down,” the impact looks particularly broad, and is an uncomfortable reminder that the large presence of Saudi personnel in US is being facilitated by particularly lax standards.
May be the Saudis have finally realized that their real enemy and money sucker is Zionists’ Agent – American Past & Present Administrations and All Institutions etc., etc.,?
NO!
The Saudis ARE the right arm of Zionism. They are best pals.
then Turkey is their right leg and England is their left leg
Muslims have been asleep for seven centuries, so don’t disturb their slumber.
They probably realized, training Whahabies, is the same as training Takfiri.
and also Christian fundamentalists/Rapturists.
Well,well, well….
As GWB said, if we don’t get them THERE, there will end up being HERE. True enough. The US has been training 5000 Saudi terrorists all along. on OUR soil, to do harm to the USA, from within. And, they sure did so.
The US is not only in bed with the terrorists, they are sharing the same blanket.
The primary manifestation of lax judgement is in hosting foreign troops in the US for training at all. This can’t be critical for national security, at least certainly not when the risks are considered.
Have they checked these dudes to see if they box-cutters? LOL!
“Officials say they can have classroom training, but nothing operational.”
hmmmm.