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Home Front: WoT
Orlando gunman likely 'radicalized' through internet
2016-06-14
That's one way to do it...
U.S. authorities said on Monday they had found no direct links between Islamic State militants and the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, describing him as a homegrown extremist who was inspired by radical Islamist groups.

The FBI and other agencies were still looking at evidence inside the club and on the closed-off streets around the Pulse nightclub, where New York-born Omar Mateen perpetrated the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Mateen, 29, the son of Afghan immigrants, was shot and killed by police who stormed the club with armored cars early on Sunday morning after a three-hour siege.

"So far, we see no indication that this was a plot directed from outside the United States and we see no indication that he was part of any kind of network," FBI Director James Comey said in Washington. "We're highly confident this killer was radicalized at least in some part through the internet."
Posted by:Steve White

#3  He was a gay Muslim and eventually the homophobia of the faith (despite covert acceptance in his ancestral homeland of Afghanstan) caused self-hating and a violent response.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-06-14 14:54  

#2  "Radicalized through internet?"

Reads like a play to get control over the internet. Obama and the left have made the pitch before.

Posted by: JohnQC   2016-06-14 09:57  

#1  A Preezy, at prayer in the hoosegow,
Was torn between Mecca and Moscow:
"Islam... or Marxism...
Twin sparks of my wisdom...
I hardly know which way to kowtow."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2016-06-14 05:14  

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