Families Continue Fight To Hold Saudi Kingdom Liable For NAS Terrorist Attack

Via America’s Lawyer: It’s been two years since a deadly terrorist attack at a naval base in Pensacola, FL claimed the lives of three service members and injured multiple others. Filling in for Mike Papantonio this week, Farron Cousins is joined by attorney Chris Paulos to give an update on litigation by families of those victims against Saudi Arabia, alleging the Kingdom ignored multiple red flags and ultimately did nothing to stop the attack.

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It's been two years since a deadly terrorist attack right here in Pensacola claimed the lives of three service members and injured multiple others. Families of those victims are now suing Saudi Arabia alleging that the kingdom ignored multiple red flags and ultimately did nothing to stop the attack. Attorney Chris Paulos joins me now to talk about this. Now, Chris, you've been one of the premier lawyers working on this case here and just real quick to kind of rehash what happened, you know, tell us about the attack itself.

Well, on December 6th, 2019, second Lieutenant Alshamrani, a flight student here at NAS Pensacola and a, a officer in the Saudi Royal air force, entered building 633 on a fortified military base with high capacity magazines and a Glock handgun and proceeded to shoot fellow soldiers and officers that were in that building, and injuring and killing up to 13 people on that fateful morning. I represent the first responders who were there, who engaged second Lieutenant Alshamrani and ultimately neutralized the threat, but were in doing so, were also shot and injured themselves. And it's been a devastating, devastating attack in Pensacola and on our military. It was the first Al-Qaeda terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11.

And so that's the point, you know, that, that's where we're getting to in the lawsuit here is this individual, the one who carried out the shooting is alleged to have been radicalized by Al-Qaeda and there were plenty of warnings. I, I mean, based on just what I'm reading, you know, for, even from ABC news, they say he had told other people on the base, you know, his fellow Saudi Arabian, you know, members, I'm going to do this. But rather than alert somebody, they just called in sick the day of the shooting is what I've read. I mean, is that, what do we know?

So, yeah, I mean, we're still learning a lot, but we do quite a bit. And the, you know, the government itself and attorney general Barr at the time came out and said that this was a terrorist attack. We know for a fact that Alshamrani had joined and pledged baiyah loyalty to Al-Qaeda prior to ever joining the Saudi military. When he joined the Saudi military, he told family and friends that he was on a special mission. He then moved quickly through the ranks and was hand selected by the Saudi government to come here to the United States to participate in flight training with the US Navy. We know that he purchased a handgun and kept handgun in large amounts of ammunition in his barracks that should have been routinely inspected by his superior Saudi officers. And we also know that the night before the, the attack and the murders that he hosted a dinner party with his fellow Saudi officers at which they were watching videos online of other rampages and killings.

The signs were all there and the knowledge by Saudi Arabia had to have been there. They were under a duty to understand what their, their, their flight students were doing here, to have fully vetted them prior to joining the military and certainly before sending them over here to the United States. There's no fathomable way that they weren't aware of what his intentions were and what his capabilities were. And he was publicly posting on his Twitter feed throughout his time in the Saudi military.

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