“You kill innocent women and children by doing us airstrikes.now taste the Islamic state vengeance [sic]”, Omar Mateen wrote, according to the source.
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As this grief-stricken city prepares to bury the first of the 49 who died in the massacre at the Pulse dance club, a Senate Committee has asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for help uncovering the trail of hate Mateen left behind in cyberspace.
The FBI have refused to confirm whether Gentili spoke to the gunman, but News 13 said it had traced the call and the phone number matched Mateen’s.
“I did it for ISIS”, the caller said, according to Gentili, “I did it for the Islamic State”. Now, we’re learning a television producer said Mateen called him as well during the assault.
But witnesses also say he was a regular at the Pulse club and was using gay dating apps.
There have been media reports about alleged threats or attacks on members of religious or ethnic communities that could be perceived to be in response to the shooting at the Pulse, Hopper said. “This is about my country”, Mateen said.
All officials at the news conference Wednesday said they wanted the public to express compassion and expected Floridians to come together as law enforcement pushes forward with the investigation.
She definitely is, I guess you would say, a person of interest right now and appears to be cooperating and can provide us with some important information.
“And that’s the thing that makes this case so extremely hard”.
In a 911 call during the attack in the early hours of Sunday, he pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State group, and US President Barack Obama has said Mateen became radicalised by through online propaganda. Facebook will have no further comment on the matter, she said. “It doesn’t surprise me that he might be gay”.
It was possible that Mateen had called his wife from inside the club while the killings were taking place, Fox quoted a source as saying.
Officers have questioned his wife Noor Salman amid claims she knew of his plans and are investigating whether he was secretly leading a gay life.
A neighbour said Noor Salman only visited her mother once after she married Mateen.
In his final post, Mateen made an ominous prediction.
NBC News said Salman told federal agents she tried to talk her husband out of carrying out the attack.
He said the caller told him he had committed the shooting for Islamic State, upon which he started speaking fluently in what Gentili thought was Arabic. He had been talking about it for months, if not years.
In the days since the shooting, the gunman’s wife has come under scrutiny, after it was reported that she had driven with him to scope out Pulse – a gay nightclub – as a potential target for an attack. But she didn’t call police.
Mateen shot him twice more, one bullet apparently aimed for Colon’s head striking his hand, and another hitting his hip, Colón said.
A USA attorney plans to bring evidence before a federal grand jury to determine whether charges will be filed, two law enforcement officials said.
Law enforcement also say that during these travels to Disney and other potential terror strike areas, Mateen purchased several of the weapons he used in the Orlando attack.
Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, was to travel to Orlando in the latest in a long list of trips he has taken to console victims of mass shootings during his 7-1/2 years in office.
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Thousands of people spanning an array of backgrounds gathered to remember the victims. All he knows is love, ” she said.
