[ April 24, 2024 ]
How many other devout Muslims are scouting locations as we speak? One thing is for sure: the Obama administration and the “confused” FBI haven’t a clue.
Duck.
“Orlando Nightclub Gunman Scouted Walt Disney World as Potential Target: Source,” By Stephanie Petit, People Magazine, June 13, 2016:
Story continues below advertisementThe gunman behind the Orlando nightclub shootings, the deadliest mass shooting in American history, recently scouted Walt Disney World as a potential target, a federal law enforcement source tells PEOPLE.
Omar Mateen and his wife, Noor Zahi Salman, visited Walt Disney World in April, the source says. Salman told federal authorities on Sunday that her husband had more recently been “scouting Downtown Disney and Pulse [nightclub] for attacks.”
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Unlike the four Disney World theme parks, Downtown Disney, which was recently renamed Disney Springs, doesn’t have security and bag check before entry.
Metal detectors have been installed outside Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom and Epcot since 2015 and guests are selected at random for screening.
Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida
Disney Representatives for Walt Disney World did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment.
Despite being investigated by the FBI twice before Sunday’s tragedy in 2013 and 2014, Mateen bought an an AR-15-style assault rifle, a Sig Sauer RMCX, on June 4 – just one week before the attack, the source says. He also had a Glock model 17 9mm and a Smith and Wesson .38 caliber revolver.
The first investigation by the FBI occurred after Mateen made concerning comments at work. As part of their investigation, the FBI interviewed witnesses, provided physical surveillance, and interviewed Mateen on two separate occasions, but the investigation was ultimately closed, according to a federal law enforcement source.
In 2014, the FBI opened a second investigation into Mateen for his ties to Florida-born Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, the first known American suicide bomber – who blew himself up in Syria in 2014. Mateen was interviewed as part of the investigation, but there was not enough evidence at the time and the case was closed, the source says.
Over the previous month, Mateen used one of several Facebook accounts he operated to search the FBI and local police departments. He also looked up the San Bernadino shooters and a local gun range. On Sunday before the massacre, he posted about his allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, writing: “May Allah accept me.”
Terry DeCarlo, executive director of the LGBT Center of Central Florida, left, Kelvin Cobaris, pastor of The Impact Church, center, and Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan console each other
According to police, Mateen opened fire just after 2 a.m. local time at Pulse, a popular gay club south of downtown Orlando. An off-duty officer working at the club initially responded to the shooter, “engaging in the gun battle with the suspect” before the suspect went back into the club, Orlando Police Chief John Mina said at a Sunday morning news conference.
The shooter held several people hostage for several hours. At 5 a.m., police moved in to rescue the hostages. More gunshots followed, and police also used explosives in an attempt to distract the suspect. Eventually, Mateen was shot and killed.
The gunman called 911 approximately 30 minutes after opening fire at Orlando’s Pulse, a federal law enforcement official tells PEOPLE. On that call, he announced he was attacking the club and claimed he was armed with explosives – a claim that authorities have not confirmed and are “still exploring,” the official says.
“The 911 operator, using reverse-call technology, called back the gunman and it was then that he pledged allegiance to [ISIS leader] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” the federal official tells PEOPLE. The gunman “also mentioned the Tsarnaev brothers,” who orchestrated the Boston Marathon bombings of 2013, the official says.
ISIS also claimed responsibility for the attack.
“Agents in Afghanistan are looking at the shooter’s connections there,” an FBI source with knowledge of the investigation tells PEOPLE. “He has family there. This is not to say his family is connected to the shootings. This is the normal course of an investigation like this. We ask questions.”
“The Islamic State called for attacks on the West during Ramadan,” the source continues. “In the wake of San Bernardino, we are very much mindful of how this can play out.”
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31 Comments
7 years ago
Another jihadi racks up a big body count at gay nightclub. Expect Obama to blame everyone on the Right plus inanimate objects!
https://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2016/06/12/another-jihadi-racks-up-a-body-count-obama-to-absolve-islam-blame-guns/
How to obtain Obama’s third term legally
https://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2016/06/11/how-to-obtain-obamas-third-term-legally/
Obama’s top 10 greatest lies as president – 2016
https://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2016/06/09/obamas-top-10-greatest-lies/
Welcome to Libtardia – the 3D world of liberalism
https://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2016/06/06/libtardia-the-3d-world-of-liberalism/
Self-righteous Cruzers doing evil in the name of good
https://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2016/05/17/self-righteous-cruzers-doing-evil-in-the-name-of-good/
Pope Francis likens Jesus to ISIS and says Europeans should breed with Moslems
https://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2016/05/26/pope-francis-likens-jesus-to-isis-and-says-europeans-should-breed-with-moslems/
Follow the money of the global warming scam
http://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2016/03/30/follow-the-money-of-the-global-warming-scam/
7 years ago
As Pat Condell put it – Surely the most deluded people on the planet are idealistic, left wing, gay people, who think they share a common cause with Muslims as 2 “oppressed minorities”.
They must surely be the most deluded if they apologise for Islam after being slaughtered by them.
Watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLbltj-tD1Y
7 years ago
Why does Omar look 100 percent Arabic and his father not at all.?
7 years ago
Reply to
Rick Smith
the whole thing smells. i live in colorado and had to listen to his so-called ex-wife tell us on tv this morning that he was messed up, blah blah blah. my gut instinct was that she is in on it, and was sent out to create cover for herself and islam and all his handlers. why do we have an fbi, dhs, tsa, and on and on if they are too stupid to see the obvious. i don’t know anyone who travels to saudi arabia as a tourist…if i did i would think they were up to no good, especially someone that looked like this obvious threat. but not our fbi, nothing to see here
7 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
The latest wife says he was scoping out Disney so why didn’t she tell someone?
7 years ago
Reply to
Rick Smith
i hope trump sics his people on this to expose how deep and deadly these muslims killers and muslim oil money are embedded in the democrat party and the entire DC federal machinery. i really think the biggest scandal in US history is just waiting for him to dig it up
D
7 years ago
Reply to
Rick Smith
He is in fact an Afghani. Afghans are not Arabs they are more closely related to Indians and Persians. There were a lot of empires in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean area and the gene pool obviously is quite mixed as a result
7 years ago
Reply to
Rick Smith
His real father was his mentor, Frank, the card carrying communist poet. They look alike and the family relationship started before the Shiite entered the scene.
7 years ago
how much is the fbi budget? and for that we get a federal agency that enables muslim killers living among us? anyone out there find this bizzarre?
7 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
PC is killing us. He had a long record and even told the feds that he wanted to be a martyr. What do they need to at least cancel his gun permit? Investigated twice and he still did this, how many thousands more are there that the feds don’t even know about? Obama wants to admit 65 thou more Syrians before the end of the year, at least 1,000 trained jihadist will be among that group.
7 years ago
Meanwhile Chucky Schumer and his lefty cohorts want to take away your gun, my gun, everyone’s gun but the government, the military and cops.
Not a bit of it will impact terrorists or criminals.
7 years ago
Reply to
Dr. Doomsday
You’ve missed one important group which is armed to the teeth — the Islamic Terrorist Network
They want to turn America into something like Iran or Libya, where the government, the military, the cops and the religious terrorist networks are armed while the people are not allowed to protect themselves
7 years ago
Feinstein is not a retard
She plays an important part for the leftist fascist movement which aims to disarm the people to pave way for the eventual Islamic dictatorship in America
7 years ago
The trouble is even the victims are deluded enough to give Islam a free pass.
They blame the guns and not Islam. Transfer their hate and their focus from Islam to anything else – anything but the real cause – Islam.
“Orlando shootings: Grieving mother begs for gun law ”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36520213
7 years ago
Reply to
Richard
We have gun laws, unfortunately no one had a gun at the club. They would have been alive if someone did and used it.
7 years ago
Reply to
carpe diem 36
What good are the gun laws when this savage tells the Feds he wants to be a martyr and they don’t even take his gun license away? And with the official position that Islam has nothing to do with this savagery, why did it influence them when people told them he wasn’t devout? It was all PC and official Obama policy primarily focusing on Islamophobia and the persistent dangers of backlash. With his known record, if he was a skinhead they would have found something to hang him with. But here it was no guns inside and the emergency exists were padlocked.
D
7 years ago
Reply to
Richard
You and PG are putting forward the same fallacious arguments that the NRA posits. The fact is you cannot see the deaths for the guns. (parody on wood for trees for the slow people) The fact that the country is awash with guns means it is easy for a person or persons to get hold of powerful weapons. They can buy them at gun shows with a driving licence, people go to shows to sell their guns when they are short of cash and they care little about who gets them. Potential killers can also steal guns, they can borrow guns and as we know to our cost they can get a friend to buy them for them.
The only place you need an assault rifle is in a battle and the likelihood of being in a battle is miniscule for the vast majority of the population but . I know gums are fun for some people but, but fun is nothing compared to valuable lives cut short. Where was the ‘good guy with a gun’ to stop the bad guy with a gun? He or she never seems to be around even though there are millions of guns around.
The availablity of deadly weapons and the ease with which the existing laws can be circumvented is the problem.
7 years ago
Reply to
Richard
Right, now they are running around complaining about this being a homophobic hate mass murder and don’t even mention Islam. The same PC that is threatening everyone’s life has turned their minds to mush.
7 years ago
vacation plans???? have you changed your mind????
7 years ago
Less of a change for there to be firearms in a nightclub, plus in a confined space, it was like shooting fish in a barrel. As usual the angst filled sorrowing survivors choose to blame the gun, not the criminal using it. Once more, for the hard of thinking ” Guns do not kill people, muslims kill people”.
7 years ago
If someone has already said this, I apologize.
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This guy had a wife?
Why didn’t she rat him out? Or is she just like him? Was she in on the deal?
I’ll bet his Islamic daddy is very proud of his coward son for going out in a blaze of glory like Butch Cassidy, and The Sundance Kid.
7 years ago
Orlando shooter was regular at Pulse gay club; former classmate says Omar Mateen was homosexual
7 years ago
This murderer had a wife?? and now she is a crying and mourning widow? We should get her an arrest her as an accomplice. She must have known what he was going to do.
7 years ago
Several talking heads have commented that is is important for officials to find out what other targets he considered. Why? So they can tell us and the ones that went there instead can feel better? Do they need the jihadist to point them to where the best killing fields are? Obviously one or two savages can contain and slaughter more effectively in a closed area with the emergency doors padlocked than an open area where people can escape.
7 years ago
This was not the worst mass shooting in US history. That would be the massacre of around 350 Native American men, women and children in 1890 at Wounded Knee.
7 years ago
Has our vigilance been suuplanted by complacency? Remember in the days after 9/11 when suspicious raghead types were being arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge and other such landmarks?
