The US has expelled 21 Saudi military cadets training in Florida after an investigation into the fatal shooting of three Americans by a Saudi officer that was labelled an act of terrorism. William Barr, the attorney-general, said that Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani of the Saudi air force had posted anti-American, anti-Israeli and jihadist messages on social media hours before his attack last month, in which three Americans died and eight more were wounded before he was killed by a deputy sheriff. Mr Barr said that Alshamrani had acted alone but that 21 other Saudi trainees had been “disenrolled” either because they had been caught with images of child sex abuse or because their social media accounts bore extremist or anti-American content. In total, one…

Source: The Times January 14, 2020 00:22 UTC