Gunman told wife of interest in terror attack

Mateen, of St. Lucie County, Florida, was an American citizen with Afghan parents.

Mateen’s wife attempted to talk him out of the attack, MSNBC reported on Tuesday, citing officials familiar with her comments to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The president said that the Islamic State has made its propaganda “pervasive and easily accessible” and that it appeared the shooter in Orlando “absorbed some of that”. “I don’t get the terrorist part of it”.

At least two witnesses at Pulse said Mateen had previously visited the club. He said the younger man was telling him about his ex-wife.

After opening fire on scores of people inside the nightclub, Mateen then threatened to strap explosives to his hostages and left police fearing possible booby traps even after the attacker was killed, the city’s mayor said today.

At a news conference at Orlando Regional Medical Center, Carter described praying to die as she lay on a nightclub bathroom floor covered in water and blood. ‘Just please take me. “People were screaming ‘Help me, help me, I’m trapped!'” The FBI found Mateen and the man had attended the same mosque and knew each other casually, but the investigation turned up “no ties of any outcome”, Comey said.

From there, the father alleges, the attack in Orlando has “nothing to do with religion” and instead, at least according to Mateen’s dad, may point to a hate crime.

“Radicalism? No. He doesn’t have a beard even. When someone becomes radical, they grow long beards and they wear clothes that you know, long clothes, and I don’t think religion or Islam had nothing to do with this”, he said.

As officials said they were searching the online history of Omar Mateen and also probing whether he had an accomplice, it was reported his second wife had once dropped him off at the Pulse night club because he wanted to scope it, and had been with him to buy ammunition and a holster.

A spokeswoman for Pulse’s owner, Barbara Poma, denied that Mateen had ever been a patron. Dyer said that Mateen had been seen driving around visiting other locations on the night of the attack, though investigators believe Pulse was always the intended target.

There have been reports that Mateen showed anger at seeing two men kissing, but his father has told Sky News a normal reaction would have been to say “it’s a free country”. “They were asking questions relative to the incident that happened on Sunday”.

Orlando terror suspect Omar Mateen in an undated photo.

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U.S. Attorney Lee Bentley declined to say whether Salman or any other associates of Mateen’s could face criminal charges, saying there was no timetable for such a decision. “I would have known him. No one knew him”. Authorities have said Mateen paused a number of times during his three-hour siege at the Pulse nightclub to place cell phone calls to emergency 911 dispatchers and to post internet messages professing support for various Islamist militant groups. Amid the latest reports about his clubgoing, she told CNN: “Well, when we had gotten married, he confessed to me about his past that was recent at that time and that he very much enjoyed going to clubs and the nightlife and there was a lot of pictures of him”.

Islamic State and the Nusra Front are at odds in Syria’s civil war, while al Qaeda and Hezbollah are also bitter enemies.