andThe Saudi student who shot and killed three people at a US naval base in Florida hosted a dinner party the night before the attack where he and others watched videos of mass shootings
But it begs a number of questions:One of the three students at the dinner recorded the shooting outside the building at Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday. According to the report, two other Saudi students watched from a car.
1. Why a Glock? These guys were being trained to be pilots. They could do the whole "9-11 thing" on the classroom during a training flight. If they had more than one of them "practicing formation flying", they could do multiple classrooms, or maybe the HQ building and take out a bunch of HEMFs.
2. Why only one guy? Most of us on this board have some military or tactical training. The lethality of a team goes up as a multiple of the number of team members. Even two could have had 4x to 5x the impact of one. There were at least 3 others at the dinner party. Watching videos of mass shootings the night before makes you a de-facto co-conspirator. In for a penny, in for a pound.
And also an observation:
1. It is good for USA that most* of these guys are lacking in imagination. Glocks are reasonable tools for damage at a retail-level, but not very effective for wholesale. Given the access these guys had, I could think of a dozen ways to do much more mahem. If I sat down with three other people on this board for a face-to-face discussion at a noisy bar someplace (better plausible deniability than a dinner party at my house), I'm sure we could double or triple that number.
*got to give credit where credit is due: KSM is one of the few exceptions. His operation was an example of out-of-the-box thinking. His plan was not without flaws, the biggest of which was the number and quality of yahoos he had carrying it out. It was only because USA employs equally incompetent yahoos in FBI, CIA and NSA that they managed to pull it off.
