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Saudi military trainee who shot three sailors dead at Pensacola naval base had contact with al Qaeda for years, FBI reveals after breaking through encryption on his iPhone - as AG Bill Bar slams Apple for refusing to help

Saudi military trainee Mohammed Alshamrani opened fire on Naval Air Base Station in Pensacola in December, killing three US sailors and wounding eight
Cellphone data shows the gunman was in contact with al Qaeda operatives
Investigators uncovered the ties by breaking through the encryption protecting Alshamrani's two iPhones
Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Chris Wray announced the finding at a news conference on Monday
The officials attacked Apple for refusing to help investigators access the devices
Barr called on Congress to take action forcing Apple and other tech companies to help law enforcement get through encryption during criminal investigations...

Some of the most notorious terrorists in American history are Saudi - including Osama Bin Laden and 15 of the 19 hijackers involved in the 9/11 terror attacks.

The government also funds madrassas - the general term for Islamic schools - where children are taught ultraconservative interpretations of Islamic law known as Wahhabism.

And last week, the FBI accidentally leaked the name of a former Saudi Embassy official who is suspected of helping two al Qaeda hijackers in the 9/11 terror attacks.

According to Yahoo News, the mistake was made in a recent filing in response to a lawsuit from families of 9/11 victims who have accused the Saudi government of being complicit in the terrorist attacks.

In the document, which was filed in April but unsealed this month, lawyers forgot to redact Mussaed Ahmed al-Jarrah's name. He was assigned to the Saudi embassy in Washington, DC, in 1999 and 2000.

The document appeared to provide confirmation that FBI agents believed they had uncovered a link between the hijackers and the Saudi Embassy in DC.