{"id":24905,"date":"2020-05-18T15:22:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24905"},"modified":"2020-05-18T15:22:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T22:22:43","slug":"fbi-unlocks-pensacola-shooters-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24905","title":{"rendered":"FBI unlocks Pensacola shooter&#8217;s phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ozzmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrnmmjqtl_ehqrbbysyfrbpqpyqrbd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ozzmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrnmmjqtl_ehqrbbysyfrbpqpyqrbd.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1589926252730000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFH-Gv5Vq21ahcp3bFgiqunwJrgaQ\">William Barr<\/a>\u00a0said Monday that the Justice Department has uncovered evidence demonstrating that the Saudi military officer behind last year\u2019s Pensacola Naval Air Station shooting had \u201csignificant ties\u201d to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).<\/p>\n<p>Barr, who disclosed the details at a virtual press conference in Washington, said the evidence was uncovered after the FBI unlocked two iPhones belonging to Mohammed Alshamrani, the gunman who opened fire at the naval station last December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to the relentless efforts and ingenuity of FBI technicians, the FBI finally succeeded in unlocking Alshamrani\u2019s phones,\u201d he said. \u201cThe phones contained information previously unknown to us that definitively establishes Alshamrani\u2019s significant ties to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, not only before the attack but before he even arrived in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have a clearer understanding of Alshamrani\u2019s associations and activities in the years, months and days leading up to the attack,\u201d Barr continued.<\/p>\n<p>Officials were cautious about detailing the new information obtained from the phones, saying the investigation is ongoing. FBI Director Christopher Wray told reporters that the evidence showed Alshamrani was \u201cmore than just inspired\u201d by AQAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General\u00a0William Barr\u00a0said Monday that the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24906,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions\/24906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}