The Saudi military student who carried out a deadly shooting spree at a US naval base showed videos of mass shootings at a dinner party the night before the attack, US media reported Saturday.
The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist media, said he had posted a short manifesto on Twitter prior to the attack that read:"I'm against evil, and America as a whole has turned into a nation of evil." The shooter did not have any apparent ties to terror groups and no group has officially claimed the attack, the Times reported, citing an unnamed senior American official.
The shooting marks a setback in the kingdom's efforts to cast off its longstanding reputation for promoting religious extremism after the September 11, 2001 attacks, in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. Trump said King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country's de facto ruler, would"help out the families very greatly," though he did not specify how.