Orlando shooting suspect’s father hosted a political TV show

WaPo ^ | 12 Jun 2016 | Max Bearak

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The father of Omar Mateen, identified by police as the man behind the carnage at an Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning, is an Afghan man who holds strong political views, including support for the Afghan Taliban.

Seddique Mateen, who has been referred to as Mir Seddique in early news reports, hosted the “Durand Jirga Show” on a channel called Payam-e-Afghan, which broadcasts from California. In it, the elder Mateen speaks in the Dari language on a variety of political subjects. Dozens of videos are posted on a channel under Seddique Mateen's name on YouTube. A phone number and post office box that are displayed on the show were traced back to the Mateen home in Florida. Mateen also owns a nonprofit organization under the name Durand Jirga, which is registered in Port St. Lucie, Fla.

In one video, Mateen expresses gratitude toward the Afghan Taliban, while denouncing the Pakistani government.

“Our brothers in Waziristan, our warrior brothers in [the] Taliban movement and national Afghan Taliban are rising up,” he said. “Inshallah the Durand Line issue will be solved soon.”

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Biden said the Taliban are not our enemies.

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The Afghanis who were on our side then included Shah Ahmed Masood... he was the Afghan leader that al Qaeda assassinated two days before 9/11... in order to deny us a solid ally in the event we would invade.

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The Taliban were founded in 1996 with Pakistani support...in the middle of the Clinton administration, probably around the time Clinton was sucking up to the Pakistanis in the hope they would not test the Islamic Bomb... or just before.
Recall that al Qaeda’s safehouse in Peshawar was the home of a Paki scientist associated with the Qadeer Khan proliferation network...