“The real muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the west”, Mateen, a 29-year-old American-born Muslim, wrote on one of at least five Facebook accounts believed to be associated with him, according to the letter from Republican Sen. Pulse is the name of the club where Mateen carried out his attack.
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Justice Department prosecutors and FBI investigators are now reviewing her account and other evidence to determine whether they can bring charges of misprision of a felony because she allegedly failed to report her knowledge of his general plans to carry out some kind of attack.
As he did in his call to a 911 operator during the massacre, Mateen pledged his allegiance on Facebook to the leader of the Islamic State group and, in his final post, warned: “in the next few days you will see attacks from the Islamic state in the usa”.
However, she said she had tried to talk her husband out of carrying out the attack, sources quoted by NBC News said.
Some psychologists raised the possibility that Mateen was sexually conflicted and that those feelings might have contributed to his lashing out against gays.
“These are some of the bravest toughest men I know”, Mina said. “He would walk up to them and then he would maybe put his arm around ’em or something and maybe try to get them to dance a little bit or something”.
Fifty-three people were wounded and six remain in a critical condition.
The official said it is not clear what Mateen was up to.
Mateen’s father, Seddique Mateen, denied his son was gay and said that if he had been in the nightclub before, he may have been “scouting the place”. She most recently lived in an Oak Lawn apartment prior to her marriage to Omar Mateen.
Neighbor Jesse, who asked that we not show her face, said she just visited Salman’s mother across the street Monday night, who is diabetic and recovering from a partial foot amputation.
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Law enforcement officials have confirmed that Omar Mateen texted with his wife and posted on Facebook in the midst of his rampage that left 49 innocent people dead at an Orlando nightclub on Sunday. Johnson did not say how he learned of the posts other than to cite “information obtained by my staff”.
