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US sends home nearly two dozen Saudi cadets after shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola

US to send home some Saudi military students after shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola
Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General William Barr says the United States is removing nearly two dozen Saudi military students from a training program and sending them back to their home country.

This follows an investigation into a deadly shooting last month by a Saudi aviation student at a Naval Air Station Pensacola.

Barr says some of the students had contact with child pornography and possessed “jihadist” or anti-American material.

None is accused of having advanced knowledge of the shooting. Barr says the shooter was motivated by “jihadist ideology” and describes the killings as an act of terrorism.