Omar Mateen News
The widow of the Orlando nightclub gunman has been charged with helping her husband in the months leading up to the June massacre that left 49 people dead, according to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday.
Profiling terrorists is a major headache for security and intelligence forces, with motives as wide-ranging as the kind of people drawn to carry them out.
The Florida nightclub killer called himself an "Islamic soldier" and threatened to strap hostages into explosive vests in calls with police during the three-hour siege, according to transcripts released by the FBI on Monday.
Mateen, a New York-born U.S. citizen and Florida resident of Afghan descent, who has been described by US officials as "self-radicalized" in his extremist sympathies.
Srini’s son claimed that his mother Chitra and father worked in tandem with doctor to ensure heroin was administered to the gay couple.
Orlando turned to burying its dead Friday, with funerals for at least five of the 49 people killed in a massacre at a gay nightclub -- the deadliest mass shooting in US history.
Imran Yousuf, a 24-year-old bouncer at the Pulse nightclub, heard the gunfire break out early Sunday morning.
President Barack Obama arrived in Orlando on Thursday to meet with survivors of the massacre at a gay nightclub and relatives of the 49 people killed, as the attack prompted the US Senate to move toward voting on gun control measures.
The FBI has interviewed Mateen's second wife, Noor Salman, who knew of his plans, and prosecutors were preparing to present evidence against her to a federal grand jury.
Omar Mateen's wife, Noor Salman, knew of her husband's plans to kill people at an Orlando gay nightclub, a report said on Tuesday.
Forty-nine people were killed in the US resort city of Orlando this week.
49 people were killed inside a gay nightclub in Orlando.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to completely destroy the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) saying that the US military will continue to fight against all those who want to wage a war between Islam and America.
Omar Mateen had sprayed the popular nightclub in Orlando with bullets.
Mateen's ex-wife said that her husband Omar Mateen might have chosen to hide his true identity out of anger and shame.
It was the first major vigil in memory of the 49 people killed in America`s worst mass shooting.
US President Barack Obama on Monday said it appeared that the gunman in the Orlando massacre had been inspired by extremist information he found on the internet, but that there was no clear evidence he was part of a wider terrorist plot directed by the Islamic State (IS).
Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was a body builder, a security guard, a religious man who attended the local mosque and who at one point of time expressed interest in becoming a police officer.
The AR-15 is the civilian version of the M-16 assault rifle and a reliable estimate suggests there are around 5 million of these weapons in the US, making it America’s most popular rifle
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