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MariaThinks's JournalOrlando Shooter’s Wife Reportedly Knew Of His Plans For Attack
Source: Huffington Post
The wife of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen said she knew her husband was planning an attack, multiple outlets reported Tuesday, citing anonymous law enforcement officials. She may now face charges.
Noor Salman Mateen, the gunman’s second wife, told the FBI that she was aware of his plan for a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, but didn’t notify authorities, according to local TV station WFTV. She said that she tried to discourage her husband from carrying out the attack, NBC News reported.
Authorities are considering criminal charges against Noor Mateen, according to ABC News.
Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured another 53 at the nightclub early Sunday morning. He died in a shootout with police.
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Trump is in way over his head
He really doesn't have the intellect or stamina for the job. I think he knows it too. He's looking and sounding awful.
Hillary's response to the Orlando murder spree fills me with more confidence
that is the right person to be President. She understands the gravity of the situation, isn't doing anything in a kneejerk style, and she wants to improve the situation and stop future such events.
She's the right person president.
Question: When an imam publicly calls for the murder of homosexual people because it is against
the religion, is there a backlash, demonstration, rebuke, boycott in response? (like there would be if someone said a joke about the religion)?
Apparently, an imam spoke in Orlando weeks before this murderous rampage? I would imagine, if there was a kkk demonstration and a black event was shot up, there might be a connection.
Qatar jails Dutch tourist for three months, fines her $845 after she tells police she was drugged an
Source: National Post
The nightclub was hopping when Laura stepped away from her drink to dance. The 22-year-old Dutch tourist had come to Qatar on vacation with a friend. Now she was partying at one of the few places to drink alcohol in the country: the Crystal Lounge at the W Doha Hotel.
As she danced between a mirrored floor and swirling disco balls, however, Laura suddenly began to feel sick and blacked out, according to her attorney. When she regained consciousness, she was in a stranger’s apartment building. Her clothes were torn.
“Laura realizes from that moment that she was drugged and raped,” Brian Lokollo, her attorney, told the Telegraaf. “She suspects that someone in an unguarded moment threw something into her drink.”
Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/qatar-jails-dutch-tourist-for-three-months-fines-her-845-after-she-tells-police-she-was-drugged-and-raped
Paris Police Officer Stabbed To Death; ISIS Reportedly Claims Responsibility
Source: Huffington Post
A judicial source said the anti-terrorism unit of the prosecutor’s office had been given responsibility for the investigation because of comments made during lengthy exchanges between the assailant and negotiators. The source gave no further details.
“Source to Amaq agency: Islamic State fighter kills deputy chief of the police station in the city of Les Mureaux and his wife,” Amaq said on its news website.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paris-police-stabbed_us_575f2e49e4b053d433060f60
On 9/11, Omar Mateen’s classmates mourned. Some say he celebrated
Source: Washington Post
At a high school in Florida, students watched the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001, unfold on live TV. When the second hijacked airliner slammed into the World Trade Center’s south tower, the class watched in stunned disbelief. But one student, a classmate recalled, “started jumping up-and-down cheering on the terrorist.”
That was sophomore Omar Mateen, according to one of the accounts from Martin County High School remembering 9/11 and the reaction by the student who, nearly 15 years later, would carry out the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
The recollections of Mateen’s actions could not be independently verified, and the memories could be clouded by the years that have passed. But they appear to offer yet another stitch in the wider tapestry of Mateen’s life and views before Sunday’s rampage, which included his pledge of loyalty to the Islamic State during a call to police during the standoff .
In an interview, Robert Zirkle, then a freshman at the Martin County school, said he saw Mateen excited and making fun of how America was being attacked on 9/11. “He was making plane noises on the bus, acting like he was running into a building,” Zirkle recalled. “I don’t really know if he was doing it because he was being taught some of that stuff at home or just doing it for attention because he didn’t have a lot of friends.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/06/13/on-911-omar-mateens-classmates-mourned-some-say-he-celebrated/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_mateen_pn_1115am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.af9ce7a665a6
Islamic State: Orlando shooter soldier 'of the caliphate in America'
Source: USA Today
The Islamic State appeared to claim responsibility for the shooting in Orlando that killed at least 50 people, saying in a radio broadcast Monday that "one of the soldiers of the caliphate in America" carried out the attack at a gay nightclub in Florida.
While American-born Omar Mateen, 29, from Fort Pierce, Fla., pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State in a 911 call shortly before the assault, police say it is not yet known whether he had any direct contact or support from the extremist group. Mateen was born in New York, but was of Afghan descent.
The radio broadcast was published on social media
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/06/13/islamic-state-orlando-shooter-soldier-caliphate-america/85817658/
Clinton: I'll say the words 'radical Islamism'
Source: CNN
CNN) — Hillary Clinton said Monday she's not afraid to say "radical" Islam as she countered attacks from Donald Trump that she's too politically correct to use the phrase. "From my perspective, it matters what we do more than what we say," Clinton said on CNN's "New Day." "And it mattered we got bin Laden, not what name we called him. I have clearly said we -- whether you call it radical jihadism or radical Islamism, I'm happy to say either. I think they mean the same thing."
Clinton -- who also reupped her call to restore the assault weapons ban -- was forceful in dismissing Republicans' criticism -- vocally echoed by Trump -- that President Barack Obama and Democrats won't describe such terror attacks as "radical Islamic terrorism."
Clinton's comments went further than she has before in the language she uses to describe radical Islam and swiftly undercut one of Trump's central lines of attack against her regarding the fight against terrorism. Her interview Monday morning also notably separated the former Secretary of State from Obama's approach -- in his remarks from the White House on Sunday about the massacre, he never used the words "radical Islam" and he's made it a point not to do so in similar past domestic attacks.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-orlando-attacks-reaction/index.html
Shooter’s Father Says ‘God Himself Will Punish ... Homosexuality’
Source: CNN
The father of the Orlando shooter said early Monday that his son shouldn’t have killed patrons at the gay nightclub Pulse because God will punish them, The Washington Post reported. “God himself will punish those involved in homosexuality,” Seddique Mateen said in Dari, speaking in a video posted to Facebook early Monday, per the Post’s translation. “This, is not for the servants” [of God].
The elder Mateen said that he was “saddened” by the shooting, which left 50 dead and dozens injured, the Post noted. While he told media outlets earlier that his son, Omar Mateen, was enraged by seeing two men kissing recently and was not motivated by religion, he said in the video that he did not know what pushed his son into committing mass murder.
Seddique Mateen, aka Mir Mateen, has also raised eyebrows for previous videos. The Guardian reported that in one recent Facebook video, he appears to act the part of Afghanistan’s president, telling the “revolutionaries of Afghanistan” to overthrow their current government. On a Facebook page titled “Provisional Government of Afghanistan,” he wears military fatigues and, speaking in Dari, orders the arrest of several political figures, including Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/shooters-father-god-will-punish-homosexuality_us_575e741de4b0ced23ca87ae1
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