Post by Avacyn on Mar 27, 2018 22:19:51 GMT
On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, killed 49 people and wounded 58 others in a terrorist attack and hate crime inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. He was shot and killed by Orlando Police Department (OPD) officers after a three-hour standoff.
SOURCE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting
The reason for starting this thread is because more information has surfaced, and it adds some layers to this event.
he father of the Muslim terrorist who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June 2016 was on the FBI's payroll, according to new evidence presented in court:
A motion filed by Omar Mateen's wife, seeking to dismiss the charges, reveal: FBI just admitted that Omar's father, Seddique, worked with the FBI as an informant for 11 years (2005-16) & himself was under investigation for sending $$ to Afghanistan & Turkey pic.twitter.com/9jH2euP3pJ
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 26, 2018
Defense attorneys for Noor Salman, the wife of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, filed a motion late Sunday seeking to have her case dismissed due to evidence prosecutors failed to disclose before the trial began. Included in that evidence: that Mateen’s father, Seddique, was an informant for the FBI for eleven years.
Salman, reportedly a battered wife with an IQ of only 84, is being prosecuted on charges of aiding and abetting her husband’s attack and obstruction of justice for lying to the FBI. She originally denied having knowledge of Mateen’s plan to launch a terrorist attack. After being interrogated for hours by the FBI, she admitted knowing of his plans.
According to Bruce Frumkin, a clinical psychologist: “She said that after hours of questioning, with law enforcement telling her that they knew she aided her husband, and according to her, threats that her son would be taken away and would be raised in a ‘Christian home,’ she said she eventually relented and signed the statements so she could be allowed to go home.”
Salman admitted that she and Mateen cased the nightclub together on June 8, 2016, four days before the shooting.
Frumkin wrote in his report that Salman, in addition to having a low IQ, is also "a highly suggestible individual" to interrogation tactics used by law enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Paul Byron said he would consider the motion as time permits: "I'm not going to address it right now,” he said. “It's going to take too much time."
As PJ Media reported on the day of the Pulse nightclub massacre, Omar Mateen was a "known wolf” — he had been investigated by the FBI in 2013 and 2014. The defense is arguing that the FBI's eleven year relationship with Mateen's father "played a significant role" in their decision not to indict his son in that earlier investigation:
Noor Salman's lawyers say FBI hid these key facts until now out of embarrassment: it was due to FBI's close relationship w/Mateen's father that they didn't arrest Mateen when they investigated him in 2013. Also, prosecution of Noor intended to protect real accomplice: FBI's asset pic.twitter.com/YGGq92E8Fw
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 26, 2018
“It is apparent from the Government’s belated disclosure that Ms. Salman has been defending a case without a complete set of facts and evidence that the Government was required to disclose,” attorney Fritz Scheller argued in the court filing.
A motion filed by Omar Mateen's wife, seeking to dismiss the charges, reveal: FBI just admitted that Omar's father, Seddique, worked with the FBI as an informant for 11 years (2005-16) & himself was under investigation for sending $$ to Afghanistan & Turkey pic.twitter.com/9jH2euP3pJ
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 26, 2018
Defense attorneys for Noor Salman, the wife of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, filed a motion late Sunday seeking to have her case dismissed due to evidence prosecutors failed to disclose before the trial began. Included in that evidence: that Mateen’s father, Seddique, was an informant for the FBI for eleven years.
Salman, reportedly a battered wife with an IQ of only 84, is being prosecuted on charges of aiding and abetting her husband’s attack and obstruction of justice for lying to the FBI. She originally denied having knowledge of Mateen’s plan to launch a terrorist attack. After being interrogated for hours by the FBI, she admitted knowing of his plans.
According to Bruce Frumkin, a clinical psychologist: “She said that after hours of questioning, with law enforcement telling her that they knew she aided her husband, and according to her, threats that her son would be taken away and would be raised in a ‘Christian home,’ she said she eventually relented and signed the statements so she could be allowed to go home.”
Salman admitted that she and Mateen cased the nightclub together on June 8, 2016, four days before the shooting.
Frumkin wrote in his report that Salman, in addition to having a low IQ, is also "a highly suggestible individual" to interrogation tactics used by law enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Paul Byron said he would consider the motion as time permits: "I'm not going to address it right now,” he said. “It's going to take too much time."
As PJ Media reported on the day of the Pulse nightclub massacre, Omar Mateen was a "known wolf” — he had been investigated by the FBI in 2013 and 2014. The defense is arguing that the FBI's eleven year relationship with Mateen's father "played a significant role" in their decision not to indict his son in that earlier investigation:
Noor Salman's lawyers say FBI hid these key facts until now out of embarrassment: it was due to FBI's close relationship w/Mateen's father that they didn't arrest Mateen when they investigated him in 2013. Also, prosecution of Noor intended to protect real accomplice: FBI's asset pic.twitter.com/YGGq92E8Fw
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 26, 2018
“It is apparent from the Government’s belated disclosure that Ms. Salman has been defending a case without a complete set of facts and evidence that the Government was required to disclose,” attorney Fritz Scheller argued in the court filing.
So... what really happened? Is there more to this than meets the eye?
