U.S. Attorney General William Barr called a shooting at a Florida naval air base an "Act of terrorism." 

Three U.S. sailors were killed, and eight other Americans were severely wounded in the December shooting in Pensacola. 

A member of the Royal Saudi Air Force, 2nd Lt. Mohammed Alshamrani, carried out the shooting.  He was at the base training as part of a partnership with Saudi Arabia.

A sheriff's deputy killed Alshamrani during the rampage.  

Barr said evidence from the investigation shows Alshamrani was "motivated by jihadist ideology."

Barr also said the U.S. will be removing two dozen Saudi military cadets from a training program and returning them to Saudi Arabia after an investigation into a deadly shooting by a Saudi aviation student at a Pensacola naval base in December.

Barr has said that the shooting was motivated by "jihadist ideology" and has been classified as an act of terrorism.

According to Barr, many of the cadets had contact with child pornography and possessed jihadist and anti-American material.

However, it was not immediately clear on what grounds the students would be removed from the program, though official reports said they were not suspected in playing any role in the December attack.