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Witness: Omar Mateen had been at Orlando gay nightclub many times
Orlando Sentinel ^ | June 14, 2016 | Gal Tziperman Lotan, Paul Brinkmann, and Rene Stutzman

Posted on 06/14/2016 7:43:34 AM PDT by Colofornian

FORT PIERCE — At least four regular customers at the Orlando gay nightclub where a gunman killed 49 people said Monday that they had seen 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," Ty Smith said.

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Smith told the Orlando Sentinel that he saw Mateen inside at least a dozen times.

"We didn't really talk to him a lot, but I remember him saying things about his dad at times," Smith said. "He told us he had a wife and child."

When asked about those sightings, Orlando Police Chief John Mina said he had no information.

Another Pulse regular, Kevin West, told the Los Angeles Times that Mateen messaged him on and off for a year using a gay chat app.

They had never met, West said, but he watched as Mateen entered the club about 1 a.m. Sunday, an hour before the shooting began.

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Cord Cedeno and Chris Callen are other Pulse customers who told the Sentinel they had seen Mateen in the nightclub.

Callen said he had witnessed violent outbursts by Mateen.

"It was definitely him. He'd come in for years, and people knew him," Cedeno said.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: closetcase; gay; gaydating; mateen; pulsecustomer; repressedhomosexual
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I saw a similar version of this article last night in the Sentinel before the national news starting picking up on the same theme this morning.
1 posted on 06/14/2016 7:43:34 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

Doesn’t really sound like it had much to do with gay or anti-gay factors...


2 posted on 06/14/2016 7:45:22 AM PDT by ganeemead
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To: Colofornian

Now what will the left say? Will they still call it hate, and refuse to call it islamic terrorism? of course.
The left is in love with islam. They see it as a means of destroying the Christian/Jewish foundation of this country.


3 posted on 06/14/2016 7:46:34 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam mandates warfare against unbelievers and is absolutely incompatible with Western society.)
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To: ganeemead

ME TOO! I saw him there! Interview me. Put my name in the paper please!
/s


4 posted on 06/14/2016 7:48:08 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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You have a gay jihadist going to Orlando so he wont be seen by his homeboy mosque buddies in port st lucie... and he knows the layout of the club an that its a “target rich” environment...he’s hiding his gay lifestyle from his mosque buddies and probably his dad and is seen as a pariah in the Muslim community ...so he commits suicide by cop and takes 50 people with him...end of story...well not quite... but it sure changes the MSM meme doesn’t it?


5 posted on 06/14/2016 7:48:35 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Colofornian

Sounds like he was a homo islamic terrorist instead of a hetero islamic terrorist.


6 posted on 06/14/2016 7:50:05 AM PDT by bigbob
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He was a nightclub "regular" or "semi-regular" there...and he'd been using a gay dating ap contacting at least one other person for over a year.

This was no short-term "scope out."

So the Questions become...
...what was his sexual orientation?
...What were his ulterior motives?
...perceived nightclub rejection?
...Was his phone call inside the nightclub one where he tried to deflect his REAL motivations...
...so that his notorious legacy would somehow be thought differently by jihadist types?

Are all the people & media who jumped on the "terrorist" bandwagon off-base?

Are all the liberals who took this opportunity to jump on conservatives & Christians for their "rhetoric" foundationless?

And what about the President's scolding of those Sunday re: how they treat others based upon "sexual orientation?" A needless bashing?

7 posted on 06/14/2016 7:50:07 AM PDT by Colofornian
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He was Afghan and was born here. His parents are old country. I bet dad or some uncle or friend did the bacha bazi cornhole on him. Afghanistan is a sick sick society.

With that he was raised here and knew how weird it was. Mix in some woman hating islam and this monster was born.

Trump said it yesterday, his dad is a Taliban supporter who should have never been in America, meaning this hellspawn would have never been here either.


8 posted on 06/14/2016 7:50:42 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: Colofornian

It was the perfect target for a Moslem terrorist.

A building with few exits packed with drunk American men who had no weapons.

Why did he wait until 2am?

Give them a chance to drink a lot.


9 posted on 06/14/2016 7:52:35 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ganeemead

I would say with the molestation every afghan boy gets, he had a deep buring hate for the homos. Hated that he had been made into one. Hated seeing it so open. And he hit back hard.

That attack was very personal, like revenge.


10 posted on 06/14/2016 7:52:55 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: ganeemead

The Enemedia so desperately wants this merely to be a hate crime against gays. They’ll forget the shooter called 9-1-1 DURING HIS ASSAULT pledging his support for ISIS.


11 posted on 06/14/2016 7:54:08 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America ((Some of you characterized my FReep name as 'paranoid' a few years back.. Care to apologize now?))
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Rut roh. Now the left can’t make a bad guy out of him.


12 posted on 06/14/2016 7:56:20 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: bigbob

Sounds like he was a homo islamic terrorist instead of a hetero islamic terrorist.
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But what would he do with 72 female virgins?


13 posted on 06/14/2016 7:57:10 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: DesertRhino

Maybe he picked up AIDS, Syphilis or ????? from that club! News at 11!


14 posted on 06/14/2016 7:57:24 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America ((Some of you characterized my FReep name as 'paranoid' a few years back.. Care to apologize now?))
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To: I want the USA back
I agree with you. However, a question; why are we not fighting? First sane step of self protection. EXPEL! EXPEL! EXPEL! Barrage your corrupt politicians with mass petitions demanding expulsion and simultaneously arm yourselves. Ordinarily common courtesy dictates one does not threaten ones politician with a threat of withholding ones vote. Maybe it is time to set aside common courtesy, especially when survival is at stake.
15 posted on 06/14/2016 7:58:38 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Colofornian

An interesting spin. Does this claim that he was a Sodomite give the media enough room to successfully divert attention away from the on going Muslim conquest?


16 posted on 06/14/2016 8:02:36 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Or his conduct on 9/11 and on-the-job comments as a security guard

This guy was a radical Muslim. His sexual orientation is minimally relevant


17 posted on 06/14/2016 8:02:58 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#BoycottTarget Women & children hurt the most. #BoycottPGA.)
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To: Colofornian

This can be spun 2 ways.
1.) He was casing the joint, planning mass murder all along to glorify Islam
2.) He was a closeted homosexual whose internal conflict / self-hatred drove him to commit mass murder.

I’m betting the spin will lean toward “gosh-golly, if he’d only come out of the closet and had PRIDE, this wouldn’t have happened.”
Bets?


18 posted on 06/14/2016 8:05:32 AM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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“It was definitely him. He’d come in for years, and people knew him,” Cedeno said.”
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So, at the bar, they treated him with friendliness and respect? Kinda like the co-workers that had a baby shower for the San Bernardino Islamist KILLERS.

Heads up America....they are very good at using our kindness against us!


19 posted on 06/14/2016 8:06:10 AM PDT by Ms Mable
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He obviously did this because he’s gay not because he’s Muslim. We can safely welcome hundreds of thousands of more refugees. DU logic is amazing.


20 posted on 06/14/2016 8:06:31 AM PDT by LostPassword
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