Posted on 06/14/2016 10:43:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Fox News was told the relationship as well as the Mateen case in general are "very complex" but would not go further, citing the sensitivity of the FBI investigation and classified information. The source said the bomber's return to Florida in 2013 is under fresh scrutiny as well.
Mateen’s name surfaced twice for FBI investigators in the run-up to the attack. After the first, full FBI investigation of Mateen concluded in March 2014, his name surfaced two months later in a second, separate FBI investigation of American suicide bomber Moner Abu-Salha -- who drove 16 tons of explosives into a Syrian government facility on behalf of Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in late May of that year. The men had attended the same Eastern Florida mosque. At the time of the 2014 investigation, the FBI determined the association was minimal.
FBI Director James Comey told reporters Monday a witness had identified Mateen to the FBI during their investigation of Abu-Salha and claimed Mateen was watching videos from the American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an Al Qaeda terrorist targeted for death by the CIA in 2011.
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The list of red flags on this guy are staggering.
Nothing to see here, move on.
The US government has become the enemy of its citizens.
I guess under the muzzie Hussein 0bama regime a "watchlist" is just that - they sit back and watch.
And he had Homeland Security clearance.
They were probably gay lovers!
They shared an apartment and a goat. /s
So the Father Brother and I Organization failed to do its job. Odumbo claims he was a ‘lone wolf’, Gee seems like the Odumbo Administration needs to keep quiet and let the investigation continue as it is imperative that it failed to connect the dots.
Democrat Party always gets their lies out early.
Knowing that Americans lose interest in most stories by the time the truth comes out.
you’re full of all kinds of good news today :)
I CANT BELIEVE the staggering, STAGGERING number of connections and the number of way that the FBI had to toss this guy out of the country.
Sickening.
GET RID OF THEM ALL!!!!
anyone see about the couple hacked to death in Europe?
Yes it has
The FBI, CIA the government, congress, media, wives, employers, ALL missed who this terrorist was... and still they say they can bring more into our country. Insane brains .. they’d rather have the illegal vote and stay in power, than to do what is right for this country.
Vote Trump and remove them all from this land!
Haji’s in the wire
Unexpected! /s
Was that a homosexual mosque he was attending?
Oh....it was a Moslem mosque.
I guess that would make him a Moslem terrorist.
This is NOT an issue of it being gays or hispanics or whomever being massacred. They're US citizens who were massacred, and they bleed red, white, and blue. For that community to set deaths that involve them apart from other such incidents doesn't help solve the problem, which is Radical Islamic Terrorism.
Alphabet news is reporting that all is well with the 30 + remaining injured in hospital and will be released very soon.
I call bullshit!
Those familiar with gunshot trauma know that there may yet be more deaths, but for certain victims maimed for life.
The feds ignored this guy, the Boston Bombers, the San Bernadino killers, Hasan, etc. How many more timebombs are out there that the feds are ignoring? The biggest one is our Terrorist in Chief.
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