FBI Director: Orlando gunman claimed loyalty to Islamist groups that are opposed to each other
Orlando gunman Omar Mateen told a 911 dispatcher he was attacking an LGBT nightclub on behalf of the leader of the Islamic State, but he also expressed solidarity with the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers and an American suicide bomber in Syria who was not affiliated with the Islamic State, FBI’s Director James Comey said Monday. […]
US Jewish groups call for unity after Orlando attack
WASHINGTON – US Jewish groups called for national unity Sunday in the wake of an Islamic State-inspired shooting attack on a club popular among central Florida’s LGBTQ community, emphasizing that the incident which has left at least 50 dead can be seen both as a hate crime and a terror attack. Prominent Jewish leaders also […]
Profile of Orlando gunman Oman Mateen
Omar Mateen aspired to be a police officer and had once applied to join a police academy. He worked at a centre for juvenile delinquents as a correctional officer. More recently he was an armed guard for a gated retirement community in South Florida. A former co-worker said that Mateen’s anger was “constant.” He was […]
ISIS Radio: Orlando Shooter ‘Soldier’ of U.S. Caliphate
The Islamic State militant group’s (ISIS) radio station on Monday called the gunman who a day earlier entered an Orlando nightclub with an assault rifle and killed at least 50 people “one of the soldiers of the caliphate in America.” ISIS’s referral to 29-year-old Mateen as a “soldier” of the group’s ‘caliphate’, territorially centered in […]
Orlando shooter’s ex-wife calls him ‘bipolar, abusive, unstable, very short-tempered’
Omar Mir Seddique Mateen was born in 1986 in New York. Most recently he lived in Fort Pierce, about 120 miles southeast of Orlando. Fearing explosives, police evacuated about 200 people from the apartment complex where he lived while they looked through his residence for evidence. Mateen’s parents, who are from Afghanistan, said he’d expressed […]