Report: Orlando Shooter Posted About ‘Islamic State Vengeance’ Before Attack

Police officers stand guard down the street from the scene of a shooting involving multiple fatalities at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
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CBS News reported Wednesday that the suspected Orlando shooter posted about the Islamic State on Facebook right before attacking Pulse nightclub early Sunday morning.

Citing an unnamed source “familiar with the investigation,” CBS News reported that Mateen wrote in the moments before the massacre, “You kill innocent women and children by doing us airstrikes..now taste the Islamic state vengeance [sic].”

The shooting left 50 dead, including Mateen, and dozens of others injured. President Barack Obama confirmed Tuesday that Mateen was believed to be “inspired” by extremists online.

“In the next few days you will see attacks from the Islamic State [ISIS] in the usa,” Mateen’s Facebook status continued, according to CBS.

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  1. Ok/fine.

    Still don’t believe that he had any contact with daesh, Al-Queada, Hezbollah or the Taliban.

    All a person has to do to earn a magic daesh decoder ring is call 911 just before they die, right?

  2. Avatar for mymy mymy says:

    One more illiterate angry self loathing gun nut.

  3. A very politically and sexually confused young man.

  4. He thought gay people drone women and children? The guy was a gun nut, homophobe with latency issues. I think Jihad was a convenient excuse for him.

  5. Avatar for elrod elrod says:

    Sorry Omar but you still died a self-hating gay man who murdered 49 innocent gay people who did nothing to attack your home country.

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