“He would be very peaceful”.
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According to a mortgage document, Mateen remarried a woman named Noor Salman and they lived in the Fort Pierce condo. He said Mateen “has not done this because he is a Muslim but because he has a psychological problem”.
Although records show the couple didn’t divorce for two years after their 2009 marriage, Yusiufiy said she was actually with Mateen for only four months because he was abusive. She said he would not let her speak to her family and that family members had to come literally pull her out of his arms.
USA authorities say Omar Mateen, the man who carried out the worst mass shooting in modern US history, had touted support not just for the Islamic State but also other militant factions, which are enemies of the Sunni extremist group. The law enforcement official is familiar with the investigation but was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
“My personal opinion is that this has nothing to do with ISIS”, he said.
Seddique Mateen told CBS News he visited with his son the day before the shooting, and saw no sign he was preparing for an attack. “I apologise for what my son did”.
“As a father, I don’t want any father to go through what we are going through”. “He would kick walls, slap desks”, Gilroy told ABC, “I’ve seen him throw the chair across the room”. “What he did was against humanity”. The name refers to the Durand Line, the long disputed border established by the British between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He said they have the ability to arrest the Afghan president, the Afghan national security adviser and Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan.
“It’s shocking”, he said about the shooting. The father is a minor celebrity in Afghan political circles in the USA, hosting an occasional television show in which he expresses hardline views-dressed sometimes in a pinstripe suit and other times in military fatigues.
Omar Mateen may have perpetrated a disgusting massacre, but his photographs show an ordinary face. A civil war was followed by five years of radical Islamist rule by the Taliban until the USA invasion of 2001.
Viewers from Pashtun communities in the United States regularly call in to the channel to espouse support for Pashtun domination of Afghanistan over the nation’s minorities, including Hazaras, Tajiks and Uzbeks, the official said. “We weren’t aware of any action he is taking”. He called those interviews inconclusive. He described the contact as minimal, saying it did not constitute a threat at the time. Mateen graduated in 2006 with a degree in criminal justice, while Abu-Salha was enrolled in the fall 2010 and spring 2011, according to school officials.
As authorities work to learn more about Mateen and his motives, they were able to determine that he was born in the U.S.to immigrant parents from Afghanistan. But manager Alexis Carroll of the Fort Pierce gym declined to provide further details. His former wife, Sitora Yusufiy, described him as “bipolar”, and emotionally disturbed with a violent temper.
Mateen worked for the United Kingdom -based company, one of the largest security firms in the world, for almost nine years. G4S says it has no records of any complaints by Gilroy.
“If you tried to speak to him, he would just look at you like you were insane”, said neighbor Jason Beers. When the elder Mateen arrived, he slapped his son across the face in front of other students, Michael said.
Mateen also mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers during the call, which he made 20 minutes into the shootings, authorities said. “Only God can punish homosexuality”, he said, according to the New York Times’ translation. And Gilroy wasn’t surprised when he learned of the massacre: “I saw it coming”.
Daniel Gilroy said Mateen started badgering him and sending dozens of text messages to him daily, and that he reported Mateen’s behavior to his bosses. Gilroy said he reported Mateen’s behaviour to his bosses.
The classmate said Mateen and his peers would frequently hang out, sometimes at gay nightclubs, WFTV said.
A fierce anti-communist, Mateen was a captain in the ranks of the mujahedeen who fought the Soviet occupation, Saeedi said.
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