Evidence discovered on an encrypted cell phone shows Saudi Royal Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Mohammed Alshamrani was radicalised at least as far back as 2015.
The Saudi military student who killed three Americans at a US naval base in December had longstanding ties to Al-Qaeda and planned an attack before he arrived in the United States, US justice officials said Monday.
The FBI and Justice Department revealed their findings after a months-long effort to crack the encryption on Alshamrani's iPhone, which they said Apple refused to help with. "The bottom line: our national security cannot remain in the hands of big corporations who put dollars over lawful access and public safety. The time has come for a legislative solution," he said.But the company also said that creating a so-called"back door" into its phones for US law enforcement would make them vulnerable for a wide range of hackers.
The decades-old US-Saudi training program has been crucial to the countries' close relationship, with thousands of Saudis undergoing military training in the United States. If it was in fact directed by AQAP, Alshamrani's attack would be the first successful Al-Qaeda-organized assault on the United States since the September 11, 2001 attacks, said David Sterman, a senior policy analyst at the New America think tank.
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