Saudi military training in US under scrutiny after base attack | The Malaysian Insight

The Air Force Old Guard carry team bear the casket of Ensign Joshua Caleb Watson, of Coffee, Alabama, who was killed in a shooting at Pensacola Naval Air Station earlier in the week, at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, on December 8, 2019. Watson and two other American sailors were killed when a Saudi Royal Air Force trainee opened fire in a classroom on December 7, 2019. – EPA pic, December 9, 2019.

KEY US lawmakers called yesterday for a halt to a Saudi military training programme after a shooting rampage at a naval base in Florida in which a Saudi officer killed three American sailors. US Defence Secretary Mark Esper said he has ordered a review of vetting procedures while defending the training programme that brought Mohammed Alshamrani to Pensacola Naval Air Station.

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