SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Saturday that he was not prepared at this point to label as "terrorism" the attack a day earlier at a U.S. Navy base in Florida, where a Saudi airman is accused of killing three people.
"No, I can't say it's terrorism at this time," Esper told the Reagan National Defense Forum in California, adding he believed investigators needed to be allowed to do their work.
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