Comey said he was declining to use his name.
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“When this was reported to us, the FBI’s Miami office opened a preliminary investigation”.
Yusufiy, who met Mateen online and married him in 2009, said he was a practising Muslim but showed no signs of radicalisation.
He “might have been gay but chose to hide his true identity out of anger and shame”, she said.
Both investigations were closed without charges.
The massacre began around 2 a.m. Sunday when a man identified as Omar Mateen, 29, began a gunfight with three officials outside Pulse.
The FBI first became aware of him in May 2013 when he was flagged for making comments to colleagues that suggested terrorist ties.
According to one source, Comey said, Mateen had mentioned the videos of the extremist Islamic preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who was linked to Al Qaeda. “He told us he had a wife and child”.
Ultimately, the Federal Bureau of Investigation determined that there were ” no ties of any consequence” between Mateen and the suicide bomber, Moner Abu-Salha.
Comey confirmed that the 911 call itself painted a freaky picture of where Mateen’s loyalties lay.
The shooter, Omar Mateen, expressed allegiance to the radical group Islamic State, also known as ISIL and ISIS, in a call to the city’s 911 emergency telephone line during a standoff with police while holding hostages in a gay nightclub called Pulse.
The president said he was concerned that the response to the massacre would turn into a debate over whether to toughen gun laws or pursue extremist groups like Islamic State.
Comey noted that Nusra and ISIS are fighting each other in Syria.
“The FBI followed the procedures that they were supposed to and did a proper job”, Mr Obama said.
“There is confusion about his motives”, Comey said.
The owner of the gun shop where Omar Mateen, the shooter in the Orlando nightclub attack, legally bought two guns called the assailant “an evil person” who had passed a full background check.
“He wasn’t asking a whole lot”. Comey says the Saudi government helped investigate those visits. “Our negotiators were talking with him, and there were no shots at that time, but there was talk about bomb vests and explosives”.
Islamic State reiterated on Monday a claim of responsibility for the killings, but according to Reuters, that did not mean it had directed the attack because it offered nothing to indicate coordination with the gunman.
US President Barack Obama said on Monday that there is no clear evidence that Sunday’s attack at a gay club in Orlando, the worst mass shooting in US history, was directed from overseas.
At least four other club-goers told the Orlando Sentinel they remembered seeing Mateen at Pulse at least a dozen times.
But he said his initial look gave him no reason to question his agency’s work.
The overnight shooting at Pulse nightclub – a gay club in central Orlando – is the deadliest shooting in USA history, with more fatalities than the mass shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007 (32 dead) and the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 (27 dead).
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