Police forensic investigators work at the crime scene of a mass shooting at the Pulse gay night club in Orlando, Florida, U.S. June 12, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young
Chris Strohm & Mike Dorning, Bloomberg: Orlando Massacre Shows Cracks in U.S. Bid to Stop Terrorism
* FBI had twice interviewed alleged killer for terror links
* Agency’s chief has warned often about ‘lone-wolf’ terrorists
The FBI let the Orlando mass-shooting suspect slip through its grasp despite interviewing him twice since 2013 due to a lack of evidence to hold him, a troubling fact that will pressure officials struggling to detect lone terrorists without eroding basic civil liberties.
The FBI is investigating Sunday’s killing spree at a gay dance club in Orlando, Florida, as an act of terrorism after 29-year-old shooting suspect Omar Mateen killed 49 people using an assault weapon and a handgun. Mateen, who called 9-1-1 as he began the assault to claim allegiance to Islamic State, was killed in a shootout with police.
While the U.S. has made progress in countering groups like Islamic State on the ground overseas, technology allows their radical ideology to reach across borders and lure true believers, the socially disaffected or the mentally unstable. Even when a potential terrorism suspect comes to the attention of U.S. law enforcement -- as Mateen did -- there may not be enough evidence, resources or coordination to continue an investigation.
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WNU Editor: If these commentators are to be believed, the difficulties in stopping terror attacks are about to get worse .... Success Against ISIS in Syria, Iraq to Blame for Terror Attacks in U.S.? (FOX News).
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"Does the FBI’s focus on men like Medina and Suarez — questionable targets of questionable mental fitness — prevent agents from identifying and investigating armed and dangerous men like the one behind what is now America’s worst mass shooting?
It’s a question the FBI, which has faced little congressional scrutiny over its counterterrorism program, has never been forced to answer.
The Orlando shooting isn’t the first case to raise this question. In 2011, when the FBI investigated Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, agents did not deem him a threat.
Instead, at about the same time, the Boston FBI started a nine-month sting operation against Rezwan Ferdaus, who had no weapons and no connections to international terrorists, and whose mental wellness had deteriorated so much that he was wearing adult diapers at the time of his arrest on terrorism charges."
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/12/before-nightclub-shooting-fbi-pursued-questionable-florida-terror-suspects/
"We know that Omar Mateen’s marriage failed because, his ex-wife alleges, he beat her. Her Muslim relatives were so appalled on hearing this that they extracted her from the match.
She says he wasn’t religious 8 years ago.
We know that a co-worker when he was employed as a security guard considered him unbalanced, racist and homophobic, and even left his position rather than continuing to have to work with him.
We know the FBI investigated him twice and found no reason to pursue the inquiry or to keep him on a terrorist watch list.
So this person looks as though he was unbalanced and extremely prejudiced individual who bought two semi-automatic weapons only last week and then committed a mass shooting against a group against which he was bigoted."
http://www.juancole.com/2016/06/rightwing-homophobia-terrorism.html
The dude was terrorist and a registered "democrat"....apparently!
http://www.infowars.com/orlando-shooting-suspect-identified-as-omar-mateen-registered-democrat-of-afghan-descent-with-firearm-license/
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alex_Jones
Gunman Omar Mateen visited gay nightclub a dozen times before shooting, witness says
"FORT PIERCE — At least four regular customers at the Orlando gay nightclub where a gunman killed 49 people said Monday that they had seen the killer, Omar Mateen, there before.
"Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent," said Ty Smith, who also uses the name Aries."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/os-orlando-nightclub-omar-mateen-profile-20160613-story.html
The guy was just the type of person that receives regular airdrops of weapons and ammo in Syria or where ever else the "west" is pushing a checker.
Fascist
Homophobic
Misogynist
Racist
Terrorist
My condolences for the families of all those poor victims.
All these madman that suddenly commit mass killing comes to one side: the extreme right.
Fascist, religious fanatics, both.
Power, death and discrimination are their true religion.
Sadly, that religion is what someone in the dark side of the society and institutions secretly admire. So those demons have non-suspected supporters. A nazi thought hardly to eradicate.
Political orientation is a bit more complex than that.
https://www.politicalcompass.org
"The U.S. Is Failing In Its Efforts To Stop Lone Terrorists"
True Statement.
Obama is president.
No surprise.
"http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alex_Jones"
That is a worthless link.
The one it was replying to was perhaps not any better.
Some states and I think Florida is one of them makes that information available through 3rd party.
"A former classmate of Omar Mateen’s 2006 police academy class said he believed Mateen was gay, saying Mateen once asked him out.
The classmate said that he, Mateen and other classmates would hang out, sometimes going to gay nightclubs, after classes at the Indian River Community College police academy. He said Mateen asked him out romantically."
http://m.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/orlando-shooter-omar-mateen-was-gay-former-classma/nrfwW/
Gay, casing the joint, whatever.
Either way,
He was the perfect Contra, School of the Americas graduate, Merc, Mujahideen "freedom fighter", "moderate rebel" etc. and born in the USA to boot. If they hadn't of shot him, they would of recruited him.
Jay, I know that the political orientation is more complex than my speech, history is different country by country, and even my comrades of PRC told me to no simplify things, but often were accused to be too complicated on our analysis and theories, so I search the essence of reality.
For certain social isolation and religion are not a sufficient motivations for that madness.
Closeted Gay,
Gay hating father, abusive home life, gay hating religion in a gay hating State.
BiPolar
Anger issues
Persecution issues
A history of lies told to bolster his own self worth.
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