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A military arabia kills shot dead four people at a navy base in Florida The FBI is investigating the shooting at a military base in Florida as an act of terrorism
The attorney general of the united States, William Barr, has confirmed this Monday that the shooting on the military base Pensacola (Florida), that left three u.s. marines dead and eight injured, was an act of terrorism. Barr explained in a press conference the results of the FBI investigation of the attack perpetrated on December 6, Mohammed Ashamrani, a lieutenant in the saudi air force. “The evidence shows that the attacker acted motivated by ideology, jihadist”, said the attorney general. In addition, he made a public appeal to Apple to unblocked mobile phones Ashamrani, who was killed by police in the shooting. “Until now, Apple has not provided any substantive help,” said Barr. The technology giant refuses to give access to the iPhone of the attacker to consider that put at risk the safety of their clients.
The deputy director of the FBI, David Bowdich, said Monday that the attacker 21 years of age, who was undertaking a course of training at the base of Pensacola, shot during the shootout against images of president Donald Trump and a former u.s. president, and that, according to witnesses, the lieutenant of the saudi air force criticized the military actions of the united States abroad. Barr added that the September 11, Ashamrani published a message on the social networks saying: “The countdown has begun”. Also that the weekend of thanksgiving last year, the attacker visited the memorial dedicated to those killed in the terrorist attacks of 11-S in New York.
With images of two mobile phones destroyed at their backs, the attorney general urged publicly to Apple to unlock the devices of the attacker died to know if you previously discussed your plans with other members of the naval base, and if he acted alone or was part of a network. The authorities said that Ashamrani shot intentionally to one of the phones during the shooting. “This situation perfectly illustrates why it is critical that researchers can have access to digital evidence once you have obtained a court order.” The attorney general did not clarify whether the Justice Department will seek a court order to force Apple to unlock the phones.
The main advocate of the FBI, Dana Boente, sent last week a letter to Apple requesting the release of the two iPhone Ashamrani. “Despite the fact that the attacker is dead, the FBI, as a precaution, has achieved authorization from a court to access the contents of the phones in order to exhaust all leads in this investigation from national security, high-priority,” wrote Boente in the letter. “Unfortunately, the FBI has not been able to access the contents of the phones,” he added.
The technology rejected the request through a press release in which it claimed that it had already helped the FBI agents in the case of Pensacola to share the relevant data that the attacker had stored in the cloud: “We have the utmost respect for law enforcement and we have always worked cooperatively to assist in their investigations”. In 2016, a federal judge ordered Apple to help the FBI with unlocking the iPhone used by one of the two perpetrators of the shooting of San Bernardino (California) in December, 2015, which killed 14 people. The technology refused to comply with the order which he described as “an unprecedented step” and that would mean “a threat to the safety” of its customers.
Ashamrani had begun a course of training of three years in August of 2017 at the military base in Pensacola as part of a cooperation agreement at the Pentagon to Riyadh that saudi nationals trained in the united States. Barr argued that the researchers had found material anti-american in the publications of the social networks of 21 cadets saudis, who already have been dropped from the training.
