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Orlando shooter sought out Islamic State propaganda
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As the probe into the Orlando nightclub shooting broadened Tuesday, with investigators ranging as far afield as Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, survivors recounted the gunman – whose parents are Afghan immigrants – telling them he had gone on a killing spree because he “wanted America to stop bombing his country.”
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Those developments emerged as investigators revealed that Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people Sunday in the worst mass shooting in modern American history, had increasingly sought out Islamic State videos and other radical Islamist propaganda in the months leading up to his murderous rampage. And FBI officials said he had made repeated visits to Disney properties in Florida and may have had assistance from his wife in organizing the attack on the Pulse nightclub.
Investigators are trying to retrace as much of Mateen's final weeks and months as possible in an effort to understand his motivation. Part of that involves collecting data from at least two cellphones used by Mateen, as well as other electronic media and email accounts, a U.S. law enforcement official said.
Posted by: Steve White 2016-06-15 |
