Posted on 06/14/2016 2:42:34 PM PDT by Gamecock
According to law enforcement officials, Walt Disney World had reportedly warned federal authorities about the man responsible for Sunday’s Orlando shooting massacre.
Disney alerted the FBI that Omar Mateen and his wife Noor Salman may have been casing the location in April.
According to WFTV:
“Authorities said Omar Mateen had five Facebook accounts, and was the target of law enforcement and the FBI searches. Law enforcement said in May, Omar Mateen conducted online searches of the San Bernadino shooters, Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik. Authorities said from June 12 to the day of the shooting, Omar Mateen conducted an online search of Pulse.”
“he ‘cased’ disney? what makes them say that? what was he doing differently from any of the other thousands of visitors that day that made him stand out? funny no explanaation”
All good questions. No security department worthy of the name is going to provide answers.
I take it that Omar tried AND FAILED to pull this stunt at Disney.
If a Republican were president right now the press would be attacking him or her and the FBI with a vengeance.. we are not safe in our own country anymore.
In APRIL??? Yet he was able to buy the guns on June 4th?
FBI has to be full of incompetent boobs, or they are allied at the highest levels with the terrorists, only 2 possible explanations for this PREPOSTEROUS dereliction of duty.
Time for another “Liberty City 7” operation to prove they are on the job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_City_Seven
The day after the Paris massacres in November, we saw heavily garbed Muslim women with infants in strollers more or less casing the local mall and coffee shops. They showed no interest in the merchandise in the book store that adjoins the coffee shop where I was sitting. And I have not seen them again. It certainly seemed like a surveillance visit.
I can also recall noticing people of Mid-east appearance taking photos on the car deck of a large ferry shortly after the 9-11 attacks. There again, no rational reason for taking photos other than surveillance.
Personally, I suspect that this is organized and widespread, that thousands of targets are already cased and reported or at least available if the right people ask. I don’t think they have the resources to attack all of them, and that they are waiting to attack a few when it suits their purposes.
And this was in Canada, I can only imagine that the interest in doing harm in your country is that much greater.
The FBI and Homeland security needs started over throw in the corrupt political IRS too.
Don’t mess with the Mouse!
This guy raised more red flags than a trenching project around a natural gas plant.
They would be demanding resignation for intel failures.
And if he said no, demanding impeachment and removal.
At Disney I’ve always done a lot or looking around ...as most people do..
watching people or things and taking pics at Disney is normal behavior..
standing for a long time watching and taking pics of a building etc in downtown Washington DC etc is not normal unless you are interested in old architecture like I am.. :)
what was he doing that got the FBI’s attention ???
How on Earth could someone be considered odd at Disney ???
doesn’t everybody act odd and like a stupid kid when they are at Disney ???
again I admit guilt..
it must have been a doozy whatever he was doing...
I’m confused.. and he was STILL an armed guard?
“he ‘cased’ disney? what makes them say that? what was he doing differently from any of the other thousands of visitors that day that made him stand out? funny no explanaation”
I’m sure they have them on video doing spraying motions with the finger gun from certain vantage points. Disney, no doubt gave the FBI the tape and the FBI lost it in transition. /s
To me, this is where any supervisory examination should start; what was the warning provided by Disney, and why was no action taken?
Is it because Disney’s sending in thousands of photographs a month as a warning? Somehow I’d imagine such a thing would be reported by someone who has a beef against Disney.
Did Disney pre-clear the warning with the Secret Service whom they work in very close association with in protecting the parks?
While I can ‘excuse’ stuff that happened years ago, the lessons learned from Boston mean you take warnings seriously. Somehow, someway, our government is not learning, or intentionally trying to remain ignorant.
Yep, many years ago my ex-husband was head of security there.
Doing pace counts.
Taking copious notes as he and his little jihadette pointed out fields of fire.
I guess Obama’s government has to make sure it is following all the Obama PC rules before it can do something and when it does it has to classify RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM as “work place violence” so as to not hurt Obama’s, Valery's and Hillary's feelings.
Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse have better intelligence operations than the White House.
Most likely, he did things like look around into corners, pay obvious attention to exits and places where people could hide, or set up an ambush.
The security people at Disney know where all of these places are, and then some, and can no doubt tell when someone is showing undue interest in them.
Kind of like when your wife can tell you’re paying undue attention to that blonde at the other table. :P
FBI: Famous But Incompetent.
They can shoot unarmed American teenagers, but they never stop muslim terrorists.
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