@Tim Yikes! “... Alshamrani posted anti-U.S. messages on social media about two hours before he opened fire in a classroom at Naval Air Station Pensacola on Dec. 6, killing three and wounding eight more before he was fatally shot, officials have said. He had been communicating with al Qaeda operatives shortly before the attack, but Mr. Wray said his communications and radicalization dated back to as early as 2015.
“The evidence we’ve been able to develop from the killer’s devices shows that the Pensacola attack was actually the brutal culmination of years of planning and preparation by a longtime [al Qaeda] associate,” Mr. Wray said.
The gunman described a desire to learn about flying years ago, about the same time he talked about attending the Saudi Air Force Academy in order to carry out what he described as a “special operation,” Mr. Wray said.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/fbi-discovers-al-qaeda-link-in-pensacola-attack-11589809330