The Hunt: iPhones reveal connection between Pensacola terrorist and Al Qaida

The FBI said it has broken the encryption on two iPhones that belonged to Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a Saudi pilot who killed three service members and wounded eight other people at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in a terror attack last December.

On this week’s edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr., director of the Counter Extremisms Project discusses what they found.

The Hunt: 5/20/2020 (J.J. Green)

J.J. Green

JJ Green is WTOP's National Security Correspondent. He reports daily on security, intelligence, foreign policy, terrorism and cyber developments, and provides regular on-air and online analysis. He is also the host of two podcasts: Target USA and Colors: A Dialogue on Race in America.

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