Sec. 2. Findings

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Congress finds the following: Trust between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States has been eroded by the devastating humanitarian costs of the war in Yemen, the kidnappings and shakedowns of royals and other businessmen in the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton, the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and the torture of women activists seeking equal rights. Fifteen of the September 11, 2001, attackers were Saudi citizens, nationals, or of Saudi descent and some of these individuals had direct assistance from the Saudi Government for training, logistical support, and radicalization.

Mohammed Alshamrani, a 21-year-old second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force who was radicalized by al-Qa`ida in the Arabian Peninsula

(AQAP)and Osama bin Laden’s teachings of Wahhabiism, fatally shot Cameron Walters, 21, Mohammed Sameh Haitham, 19, Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, and wounded eight others, including two sheriff’s deputies, at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida on December 6, 2019, in an act of unprovoked and cowardly terror. Al-Shamrani was a Trojan Horse sent by his country, Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi authorities were negligent in properly screening Al-Shamrani. The Saudi Government had an obligation to report Al-Shamrani’s anti-American social media posts prior to his enrolment in a joint military training program at Naval Air Station Pensacola. The Saudi Government was derelict in monitoring and reporting Al-Shamrani’s radicalization, and on failed in their promise to compensate the victims of Al-Shamrani’s terrorist attack.