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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• SHOOTG AT OSLO GAY CLUB THAT KILLED TWO AND JURED 21 VTIGATED AS ‘ACT OF TERROR’
• FLORIDA PULSE GAY CLUB ATTACKED ORLANDO - AT LEAST 20 AD
• ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
• ATTACKERS STORM GAY NIGHTCLUB IN SOUTHERN RSIA
• FRENCH POLICE ‘PREVENTED TERROR ATTACK’ ON PARIS GAY BAR
• ORLANDO SHOOTG: 50 PEOPLE KILLED ATTACK ON GAY NIGHTCLUB PULSE
• 50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY CLUB MASSACRE, ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY
• OMAR MATEEN, TERRORIST WHO ATTACKED ORLANDO GAY CLUB, HAD BEEN INVTIGATED BY FBICONNECT THE DOTSOMAR MATEEN WAS A ‘KNOWN QUANTY’ TO FERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BEFORE HE KILLED AT LEAST 49 PEOPLE THE WORST MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORY.MICHAEL DALYSPECIAL CORRPONNTJT MILLERKATIE ZAVADSKISHANE HARRISUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 3:38PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 12, 2016 11:13AM EDT EXCLIVEVIA TWTEROMAR MATEEN, OF PORT SAT LUCIE, FLORIDA, ME TO THE ATTENTN OF FERAL THORI TWICE PRR TO BEG INTIFIED AS THE GUNMAN THE ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB MASS SHOOTG, A SENR LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.MATEEN KILLED 49 PEOPLE AND SHOT MORE THAN 100 TOTAL AT THE PULSE DANCE CLUB EARLY SUNDAY MORNG, THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG AMERIN HISTORY.THE SENR LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE REPORTS MATEEN BEME A PERSON OF TERT 2013 AND AGA 2014. THE FERAL BURE OF INVTIGATN AT ONE POT OPENED AN VTIGATN TO MATEEN, BUT SUBSEQUENTLY CLOSED THE SE WHEN PRODUCED NOTHG THAT APPEARED TO WARRANT FURTHER VTIGATN. “HE’S A KNOWN QUANTY,” THE SOURCE SAID. “HE’S BEEN ON THE RADAR BEFORE.” THE SENR LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT MATEEN WAS BORN NEW YORK AND WAS MARRIED FOR A TIME TO A WOMAN OM NEW JERSEY. THAT WOMAN TOLD THE WASHGTON POST THAT HE REPEATEDLY ABED HER DURG THEIR MARRIAGE, WHICH LASTED OM APRIL 2009 TO JULY 2011.“HE WAS NOT A STABLE PERSON,” THE EX-WIFE SAID. “HE BEAT ME. HE WOULD JT E HOME AND START BEATG ME UP BEE THE LNDRY WASN’T FISHED OR SOMETHG LIKE THAT.”MATEEN’S PARENTS ARE OM AFGHANISTAN BUT HE WAS NOT VERY RELIG, SHE SAID, ADDG THAT HE “SEEMED LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN BEG.”MATEEN’S FATHER, MIR SEDDIQUE, TOLD NBC NEWS THAT THE SIGHT OF TWO MEN MIAMI KISSG ANGERED HIS SON.“WE ARE SAYG WE ARE APOLOGIZG FOR THE WHOLE CINT,” THE FATHER ADD. “WE WEREN’T AWARE OF ANY ACTN HE IS TAKG. WE ARE SHOCK LIKE THE WHOLE UNTRY.”THE ATTACK, HE SAID, “HAS NOTHG TO DO WH RELIGN.”BUT THE FATHER MAY NOT BE THE MOST CREDIBLE OF SOURC. HE’S A SUPPORTER OF THE AFGHAN TALIBAN, ACRDG TO THE WASHGTON POST. MIR SEDDIQUE MATEEN APPEARS TO RI FLORIDA, BUT IS SAID TO BE PRENTLY NNG FOR OFFICE AFGHANISTAN.FLORIDA RPORATN PAPERS DITE THAT A SEDDIQUE MATEEN HEADS A NON-PROF ANIZATN, THE DURAND JIRGA, INC. THE NON-PROF WAS FORMED 2010 AND IS REGISTERED AT THE PORT ST. LUCIE, FLORIDA ADDRS WHERE BOTH THE FATHER AND OMAR MATEEN APPEAR TO RI.AN ONLE POSTG BY THE FATHER SISTS THAT WHAT IS NOW THE NORTHWT FRONTIER PROVCE OF PAKISTAN SHOULD BE RETURNED TO AFGHANISTAN.“LONG LIVE AFGHANISTAN,” A POSTG ON SEDDIQUE MATEEN’S FACEBOOK PAGE CLAR. “TO PAKISTAN ATH, ATH, ATH.”TWO LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE STARTG HIS RAMPAGE, MATEEN LLED 911 AND PLEDGED HIS ALLEGIANCE TO THE SELF-PROCLAIMED ISLAMIC STATE. (A SIAR PLEDGE WAS MA ONLE BY THE SAN BERNARDO TERRORISTS BEFORE THEY SHOT AND KILLED 14 PEOPLE LAST YEAR.)THE FIRST LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE DITN THAT MATEEN HAD ANY DIRECT NNECTN TO ISIS. BUT ISIS RECENTLY LLED ON MLIMS ACROSS THE WORLD TO ATTACK TARGETS THE WT DURG THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN, WHICH BEGAN LAST WEEK. THE MSAGE ME AN D RERDG OM SPOKMAN ABU MOHAMMED AL-ADNANI, RELEASED MAY. MLIMS AROUND THE WORLD FAST DURG RAMADAN HONOR OF THE FIRST REVELATN OM GOD TO MUHAMMAD. THE TERRORIST GROUP BELIEV TO BE A PARTICULARLY OPPORTUNE TIME FOR ATTACKS.“RAMADAN, THE MONTH OF NQUT AND JIHAD. GET PREPARED, BE READY... TO MAKE A MONTH OF LAMY EVERYWHERE FOR THE NON-BELIEVERS... PECIALLY FOR THE FIGHTERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE LIPHATE EUROPE AND AMERI,” ADNANI SAID.THE AMAQ AGENCY, AN ISIS MEDIA AFFILIATE, LATER PRAISED THE ATTACK AND TOOK CRED FOR . YET THERE IS NO CURRENTLY TABLISHED LK BETWEEN MATEEN AND THE TERRORIST OUTF.MATEEN HAD A VALID FIREARMS LICENSE FLORIDA AND WORKED AS A SECURY GUARD AT A FACILY FOR JUVENILE LIQUENTS.AMONG THE KEY QUTNS STILL UNANSWERED WAS WHETHER THE PRIVATE SECURY PANY WHERE MATEEN WORKED WAS AWARE OF ANY PROPENSY TO VLENCE AND WHAT KDS OF BACKGROUND CHECKS HAD BEEN PERFORMED ON HIM. OFFICIALS SAID MATEEN HAD A GUN LICENSE BY VIRTUE OF HIS WORK AS A SECURY OFFICER AND THAT HE LEGALLY PURCHASED THE WEAPONS ED THE ATTACK.MATEEN HAD BEEN EMPLOYED SCE 2007 AS A SECURY GUARD WH G4S, A LARGE MULTATNAL SECURY PANY THAT PROVIS SERVIC TO MORE THAN TWO-DOZEN JUVENILE-TENTN FACILI FLORIDA.MATEEN’S EX-WIFE TOLD THE WASHGTON POST THAT HE WORKED AT A JUVENILE-TENTN CENTER NEAR THEIR HOME FORT PIERCE.A SPOKPERSON AT THE ST. LUCIE REGNAL JUVENILE DETENTN CENTER, JT OUTSI FORT PIERCE, CLED TO PROVI THE DAILY BEAST WH ANY RMATN ABOUT MATEEN OR TO NFIRM WHETHER HE WORKED AT THE FACILY. THE SPOKMAN DIRECTED ALL LLS TO THE STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JTICE.A SPOKWOMAN THERE DIRECTED ALL QUERI TO G4S, WHICH RELEASED THE FOLLOWG STATEMENT ABOUT MATEEN: "WE ARE EPLY SHOCKED BY THIS TRAGIC EVENT. WE N NFIRM THAT OMAR MATEEN HAD BEEN EMPLOYED BY G4S SCE SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2007. MATEEN WAS OFF-DUTY AT THE TIME OF THE CINT. HE WAS EMPLOYED AT A GATED RETIREMENT MUNY SOUTH FLORIDA. MATEEN UNRWENT PANY SCREENG AND BACKGROUND CHECKS WHEN HE WAS RECED 2007 AND THE CHECK REVEALED NOTHG OF NCERN. HIS SCREENG WAS REPEATED 2013 WH NO FDGS. "WE ARE OPERATG FULLY WH ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT THORI, CLUDG THE FBI, AS THEY NDUCT THEIR VTIGATNS. IN 2013, WE LEARNED THAT MATEEN HAD BEEN QUTNED BY THE FBI BUT THAT THE QUIRI WERE SUBSEQUENTLY CLOSED. WE WERE NOT MA AWARE OF ANY ALLEGED NNECTNS BETWEEN MATEEN AND TERRORIST ACTIVI, AND WERE UNAWARE OF ANY FURTHER FBI VTIGATNS. OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS REMA WH THE VICTIMS OF THIS UNSPEAKABLE TRAGEDY, AND THEIR IENDS AND FAI." DANIEL GILROY, WHO WORKED WH MATEEN AT THE FACILY, TOLD FLORIDA TODAY THAT HE WAS “UNHGED AND UNSTABLE. HE TALKED OF KILLG PEOPLE." GILROY ADD THAT HE PLAED TO G4S ABOUT MATEEN’S ODD, OFTEN BIGOTED, BEHAVR—TO NO AVAIL. EVENTUALLY, MATEEN BEGAN STALKG GILROY, LEAVG HIM 30 OR MORE TEXT AND PHONE MSAG PER DAY. GILROY EVENTUALLY QU.G4S HAS E UNR SCTY FLORIDA THE PAST FEW YEARS AFTER SOME OF S GUARDS WERE FOUND TO BE ABG CHILDREN FACILI WHERE THE PANY PROVIS SECURY.AT THE PALMETTO YOUTH AMY MANATEE COUNTY, G4S EMPLOYEE LEROY BOSTIC JR. WAS ARRTED 2014 ON CHARG OF SEXUALLY ABG TWO TEENAGE BOYS.AT A FACILY TAMPA, G4S EMPLOYEE VIVIANA HERNANZ-TREJO WAS VTIGATED FOR ENGAGG SEX ACTS WH A BOY UNR HER RE.AN VTIGATN 2015 BY SCRIPPS TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS FOUND RERDS DOCUMENTG MULTIPLE ASSLTS AT YOUTH-TENTN FACILI G4S MANAGED FLORIDA, BOTH AGAST THE PANY’S EMPLOYE AS WELL AS MORS UNR S CHARGE. G4S PROVIS SECURY FOR ABOUT 30 JUVENILE-TENTN CENTERS THE STATE OF FLORIDA, ACRDG TO THE REPORT.“I’M AMAZED AT THE AMOUNT OF VLENCE THAT GO ON OVER THERE, BOTH AGAST STAFF AND OTHER MAT,” ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY VICKI NICHOLS, MART COUNTY’S JUVENILE PROSECUTOR, TOLD THE NEWSPAPER, REFERRG TO A GIRLS’ FACILY N BY G4S THAT HAD A HISTORY OF VLENT ALTERTNS AMONG STAFF AND CHILDREN.AROUND 2 A.M. SUNDAY, MATEEN, ARMED WH AN AR-15-STYLE ASSLT RIFLE AND A HANDGUN, ENTERED THE PULSE CLUB AND BEGAN SHOOTG, OFFICIALS SAID. AFTER MOST OF THE 320 PEOPLE THERE PED, MATEEN TOOK HOSTAG OM A GROUP THAT WAS HIDG A BATHROOM. SHORTLY BEFORE 6 A.M., A SWAT UN BREACHED THE CLUB DOORS AND ENGAGED MATEEN WHAT’S BEG LLED A PROTRACTED GUN BATTLE. MATEEN WAS KILLED. THE ADLIT SGLE-PERSON MASS MURR AMERIN HISTORY BEFORE ORLANDO OCCURED BATH, MICHIGAN, 1927, WHEN A MAN BOMBED A SCHOOL, KILLG 44 PEOPLE.—WH ADDNAL REPORTG BY NANCY A. YOSEFREAD MORE VERAGE OF THE MASSACRE AT THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB MICHAEL DALY
• AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.

Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng.

SHOOTG AT OSLO GAY CLUB THAT KILLED TWO AND JURED 21 VTIGATED AS ‘ACT OF TERROR’

Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov.

Media ptn, Watch: Man who hid om Colorado attacker reunts shootgAt least five people have been killed and 25 jured after a gunman opened fire si a gay club the US state of Colorado on Saturday night. "Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Flowers and tribut were left at the scene on SundayMr Thurman, who liv near the club, said was an important part of the lol gay muny.

FLORIDA PULSE GAY CLUB ATTACKED ORLANDO - AT LEAST 20 AD

Governor of Colorado Jared Polis, who is gay, praised the "brave dividuals who blocked the gunman, likely savg liv the procs". "In 2016, 49 people were killed and more than 50 jured a shootg at the Pulse gay club Orlando, Florida. A mass shootg at a popular gay bar and nightclub the Norwegian pal of Oslo which killed two people is beg treated as a terrorist were fired at three lotns, cludg the London Pub, a gay bar, as well as near the Herr Nilsen jazz club and a takeaway, on Friday eveng – the eve of the cy’s Pri celebratns.

”A Norwegian police officer stands guard the streets of central Oslo between secury tape l after shots were fired outsi the London pub, killg two people (Photo: Javad Parsa / NTB / AFP via Getty Imag)Oslo was due to hold s annual Pri para later on Saturday, jt months after Norway marked 50 years sce the aboln of a law that crimalised gay anisers of the Oslo Pri ftival ncelled the para and all remag events followg police advice.

ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD

”People take part a prott march Oslo after two people were killed when a man opened fire early Saturday morng at a popular gay bar (Photo: Rodrigo Freas/Getty)A Facebook post on the London Pub page scribed the shootg as “absolutely horrific and pure evil”. Media ptn, Eyewns Anthony Torr fled the scene and filmed as he watched people shootg "back and forth"At least 20 people have been killed and some 42 jured a shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, police say.

"Some of the jured were reportedly brought to the Orlando Regnal Medil Center police source, APImage ptn, SWAT officers were at the scene of the shootgImage source, Orlando PoliceMore than 100 people were reported to have been enjoyg the end of a Lat-themed night the club, which lls self the hottt gay bar the cy, when the attack began. It’s been nearly two years sce the mass shootg at Pulse nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people — wily believed to be an act of aggrsn agast the club’s LGBTQ clientele and “unniably a homophobic hate crime.

In fact, he allegedly had no ia Pulse was a gay club, and simply Googled “Orlando nightclubs” after fdg that secury at his origal target, a major shoppg and entertament plex, was too high, as reported by. A radil Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub, not only bee he wanted to kill Amerins, but orr to execute gay and lbian cizens, bee of their sexual orientatn. ” The followg day at a North Carola rally Tmp said, “We want to live a untry where gay and lbian Amerins and all Amerins are safe om radil Islam, which, by the way, wants to murr and has murred gays and they enslave women.

ATTACKERS STORM GAY NIGHTCLUB IN SOUTHERN RSIA

The shooter didn’t target LGBTQ people — he didn’t even realize Pulse was a gay-oriented nightclub, askg a secury guard at the club where all the women were jt before he started shootg. — A man who lled 911 to proclaim allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, and who had been vtigated the past for possible terrorist ti, stormed a gay nightclub here Sunday morng, wieldg an asslt rifle and a pistol, and rried out the worst mass shootg Uned Stat history, leavg 50 people ad and 53 attacker, intified by law enforcement officials as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old who was born New York, turned what had been a celebratory night of dancg to salsa and merengue mic at the crowd Pulse nightclub to a panicked scene of unimagable slghter, the floors slicked wh blood, the ad and the jured piled atop one another. 11, 2001, and the adlit attack on a gay target the natn’s history, though officials said was not clear whether some victims had been accintally shot by law enforcement toll of 50 ad is larger than the number of murrs Orlando over the prev three years.

Ebenhack/Associated PrsFears of vlence led to heightened secury at lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr events and gatherg plac around the untry. Law enforcement officials Santa Moni, Calif., nfirmed the arrt on Sunday of a heavily armed man who said he was the area for Wt Hollywood’s gay pri para.

FRENCH POLICE ‘PREVENTED TERROR ATTACK’ ON PARIS GAY BAR

Mateen had talked often about killg people and had voiced hatred of gays, blacks, women and the time of the massacre, Mr. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Praisg Isis, Gunman Attacks Gay Nightclub, Leavg 50 Dead Worst Shootg on U.

Sign up to our Eveng Headl email for your daily gui to the latt newsSign up to our ee US Eveng Headl emailAt least 50 people have been killed and 53 jured after a gunman lnched what police say was a "domtic terrorism cint" at a gay nightclub Orlando, say an officer workg as a secury guard si the Pulse nightclub exchanged fire wh the spect at about 2am lol time (7am UK time), before a hostage suatn veloped, a team of officers entered the club and shot ad the the latt live updat herePolice intified the attacker as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old om Port St. — The gunman who went on a shootg rampage a popular gay nightclub here shot nearly all of his victims the first stag of the asslt, then was utterly “ol and lm” while he talked by phone to law enforcement officials about further rnage, claimed allegiance to the Islamic State and praised the Boston Marathon bombers, officials said on officials offered new tails about the worst mass shootg Amerin history, which left 49 people ad and 53 wound, Chief John Ma of the Orlando Police Department said that the gunman, Omar Mateen, 29, told police negotiators — falsely, they later disvered — that he had explosiv and acplic at Pulse Mateen eventually ma ments persuadg them that “there would be an imment loss of life, ” Chief Ma said, promptg the chief to end a three-hour standoff and orr the asslt that killed Mr.

ORLANDO SHOOTG: 50 PEOPLE KILLED ATTACK ON GAY NIGHTCLUB PULSE

Mateen had a chillg history that clud talkg about killg people, beatg his former wife and voicg hatred of mori, gays and Jews; most of his victims were gay, Lato, or both. Mateen said a vio he posted onle that he believed that was up to God to punish gays.

11, 2001, and the adlit attack on a gay target the natn’s Rick Stt of Florida said on Monday that he had asked Mr. At least four people were jured this weekend when trs attacked patrons at a gay Rsian nightclub lled Fantom, LGBT activists attack happened the early hours of Sunday the southern Rsian cy of Tolyatti, lol media reported. Konstant Golava, a Tolyatti-based activist wh Gay Liberatn Front, suggted the attack may have been premedated and lled for the perpetrators to be brought to jtice.

50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY CLUB MASSACRE, ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY

"Gay people create a fortable ghetto for themselv clubs, one that seems safe to them, " Golava said. ”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. Donald Tmp addrsed the shootg at a gay club Orlando a prepared speech Monday, llg for spendg immigratn om untri wh a history of is a full transcript of his remarks, as given.

(APPLAUSE) Remember this, radil Islam is anti-woman, anti-gay and anti- Amerin. I refe to allow Ameri to bee a place where gay people, Christian people, Jewish people are targets of persecutn and timatn by radil Islamic preachers of hate and vlence.

OMAR MATEEN, TERRORIST WHO ATTACKED ORLANDO GAY CLUB, HAD BEEN INVTIGATED BY FBICONNECT THE DOTSOMAR MATEEN WAS A ‘KNOWN QUANTY’ TO FERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BEFORE HE KILLED AT LEAST 49 PEOPLE THE WORST MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORY.MICHAEL DALYSPECIAL CORRPONNTJT MILLERKATIE ZAVADSKISHANE HARRISUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 3:38PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 12, 2016 11:13AM EDT EXCLIVEVIA TWTEROMAR MATEEN, OF PORT SAT LUCIE, FLORIDA, ME TO THE ATTENTN OF FERAL THORI TWICE PRR TO BEG INTIFIED AS THE GUNMAN THE ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB MASS SHOOTG, A SENR LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.MATEEN KILLED 49 PEOPLE AND SHOT MORE THAN 100 TOTAL AT THE PULSE DANCE CLUB EARLY SUNDAY MORNG, THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG AMERIN HISTORY.THE SENR LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE REPORTS MATEEN BEME A PERSON OF TERT 2013 AND AGA 2014. THE FERAL BURE OF INVTIGATN AT ONE POT OPENED AN VTIGATN TO MATEEN, BUT SUBSEQUENTLY CLOSED THE SE WHEN PRODUCED NOTHG THAT APPEARED TO WARRANT FURTHER VTIGATN. “HE’S A KNOWN QUANTY,” THE SOURCE SAID. “HE’S BEEN ON THE RADAR BEFORE.” THE SENR LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT MATEEN WAS BORN NEW YORK AND WAS MARRIED FOR A TIME TO A WOMAN OM NEW JERSEY. THAT WOMAN TOLD THE WASHGTON POST THAT HE REPEATEDLY ABED HER DURG THEIR MARRIAGE, WHICH LASTED OM APRIL 2009 TO JULY 2011.“HE WAS NOT A STABLE PERSON,” THE EX-WIFE SAID. “HE BEAT ME. HE WOULD JT E HOME AND START BEATG ME UP BEE THE LNDRY WASN’T FISHED OR SOMETHG LIKE THAT.”MATEEN’S PARENTS ARE OM AFGHANISTAN BUT HE WAS NOT VERY RELIG, SHE SAID, ADDG THAT HE “SEEMED LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN BEG.”MATEEN’S FATHER, MIR SEDDIQUE, TOLD NBC NEWS THAT THE SIGHT OF TWO MEN MIAMI KISSG ANGERED HIS SON.“WE ARE SAYG WE ARE APOLOGIZG FOR THE WHOLE CINT,” THE FATHER ADD. “WE WEREN’T AWARE OF ANY ACTN HE IS TAKG. WE ARE SHOCK LIKE THE WHOLE UNTRY.”THE ATTACK, HE SAID, “HAS NOTHG TO DO WH RELIGN.”BUT THE FATHER MAY NOT BE THE MOST CREDIBLE OF SOURC. HE’S A SUPPORTER OF THE AFGHAN TALIBAN, ACRDG TO THE WASHGTON POST. MIR SEDDIQUE MATEEN APPEARS TO RI FLORIDA, BUT IS SAID TO BE PRENTLY NNG FOR OFFICE AFGHANISTAN.FLORIDA RPORATN PAPERS DITE THAT A SEDDIQUE MATEEN HEADS A NON-PROF ANIZATN, THE DURAND JIRGA, INC. THE NON-PROF WAS FORMED 2010 AND IS REGISTERED AT THE PORT ST. LUCIE, FLORIDA ADDRS WHERE BOTH THE FATHER AND OMAR MATEEN APPEAR TO RI.AN ONLE POSTG BY THE FATHER SISTS THAT WHAT IS NOW THE NORTHWT FRONTIER PROVCE OF PAKISTAN SHOULD BE RETURNED TO AFGHANISTAN.“LONG LIVE AFGHANISTAN,” A POSTG ON SEDDIQUE MATEEN’S FACEBOOK PAGE CLAR. “TO PAKISTAN ATH, ATH, ATH.”TWO LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE STARTG HIS RAMPAGE, MATEEN LLED 911 AND PLEDGED HIS ALLEGIANCE TO THE SELF-PROCLAIMED ISLAMIC STATE. (A SIAR PLEDGE WAS MA ONLE BY THE SAN BERNARDO TERRORISTS BEFORE THEY SHOT AND KILLED 14 PEOPLE LAST YEAR.)THE FIRST LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE DITN THAT MATEEN HAD ANY DIRECT NNECTN TO ISIS. BUT ISIS RECENTLY LLED ON MLIMS ACROSS THE WORLD TO ATTACK TARGETS THE WT DURG THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN, WHICH BEGAN LAST WEEK. THE MSAGE ME AN D RERDG OM SPOKMAN ABU MOHAMMED AL-ADNANI, RELEASED MAY. MLIMS AROUND THE WORLD FAST DURG RAMADAN HONOR OF THE FIRST REVELATN OM GOD TO MUHAMMAD. THE TERRORIST GROUP BELIEV TO BE A PARTICULARLY OPPORTUNE TIME FOR ATTACKS.“RAMADAN, THE MONTH OF NQUT AND JIHAD. GET PREPARED, BE READY... TO MAKE A MONTH OF LAMY EVERYWHERE FOR THE NON-BELIEVERS... PECIALLY FOR THE FIGHTERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE LIPHATE EUROPE AND AMERI,” ADNANI SAID.THE AMAQ AGENCY, AN ISIS MEDIA AFFILIATE, LATER PRAISED THE ATTACK AND TOOK CRED FOR . YET THERE IS NO CURRENTLY TABLISHED LK BETWEEN MATEEN AND THE TERRORIST OUTF.MATEEN HAD A VALID FIREARMS LICENSE FLORIDA AND WORKED AS A SECURY GUARD AT A FACILY FOR JUVENILE LIQUENTS.AMONG THE KEY QUTNS STILL UNANSWERED WAS WHETHER THE PRIVATE SECURY PANY WHERE MATEEN WORKED WAS AWARE OF ANY PROPENSY TO VLENCE AND WHAT KDS OF BACKGROUND CHECKS HAD BEEN PERFORMED ON HIM. OFFICIALS SAID MATEEN HAD A GUN LICENSE BY VIRTUE OF HIS WORK AS A SECURY OFFICER AND THAT HE LEGALLY PURCHASED THE WEAPONS ED THE ATTACK.MATEEN HAD BEEN EMPLOYED SCE 2007 AS A SECURY GUARD WH G4S, A LARGE MULTATNAL SECURY PANY THAT PROVIS SERVIC TO MORE THAN TWO-DOZEN JUVENILE-TENTN FACILI FLORIDA.MATEEN’S EX-WIFE TOLD THE WASHGTON POST THAT HE WORKED AT A JUVENILE-TENTN CENTER NEAR THEIR HOME FORT PIERCE.A SPOKPERSON AT THE ST. LUCIE REGNAL JUVENILE DETENTN CENTER, JT OUTSI FORT PIERCE, CLED TO PROVI THE DAILY BEAST WH ANY RMATN ABOUT MATEEN OR TO NFIRM WHETHER HE WORKED AT THE FACILY. THE SPOKMAN DIRECTED ALL LLS TO THE STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JTICE.A SPOKWOMAN THERE DIRECTED ALL QUERI TO G4S, WHICH RELEASED THE FOLLOWG STATEMENT ABOUT MATEEN: "WE ARE EPLY SHOCKED BY THIS TRAGIC EVENT. WE N NFIRM THAT OMAR MATEEN HAD BEEN EMPLOYED BY G4S SCE SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2007. MATEEN WAS OFF-DUTY AT THE TIME OF THE CINT. HE WAS EMPLOYED AT A GATED RETIREMENT MUNY SOUTH FLORIDA. MATEEN UNRWENT PANY SCREENG AND BACKGROUND CHECKS WHEN HE WAS RECED 2007 AND THE CHECK REVEALED NOTHG OF NCERN. HIS SCREENG WAS REPEATED 2013 WH NO FDGS. "WE ARE OPERATG FULLY WH ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT THORI, CLUDG THE FBI, AS THEY NDUCT THEIR VTIGATNS. IN 2013, WE LEARNED THAT MATEEN HAD BEEN QUTNED BY THE FBI BUT THAT THE QUIRI WERE SUBSEQUENTLY CLOSED. WE WERE NOT MA AWARE OF ANY ALLEGED NNECTNS BETWEEN MATEEN AND TERRORIST ACTIVI, AND WERE UNAWARE OF ANY FURTHER FBI VTIGATNS. OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS REMA WH THE VICTIMS OF THIS UNSPEAKABLE TRAGEDY, AND THEIR IENDS AND FAI." DANIEL GILROY, WHO WORKED WH MATEEN AT THE FACILY, TOLD FLORIDA TODAY THAT HE WAS “UNHGED AND UNSTABLE. HE TALKED OF KILLG PEOPLE." GILROY ADD THAT HE PLAED TO G4S ABOUT MATEEN’S ODD, OFTEN BIGOTED, BEHAVR—TO NO AVAIL. EVENTUALLY, MATEEN BEGAN STALKG GILROY, LEAVG HIM 30 OR MORE TEXT AND PHONE MSAG PER DAY. GILROY EVENTUALLY QU.G4S HAS E UNR SCTY FLORIDA THE PAST FEW YEARS AFTER SOME OF S GUARDS WERE FOUND TO BE ABG CHILDREN FACILI WHERE THE PANY PROVIS SECURY.AT THE PALMETTO YOUTH AMY MANATEE COUNTY, G4S EMPLOYEE LEROY BOSTIC JR. WAS ARRTED 2014 ON CHARG OF SEXUALLY ABG TWO TEENAGE BOYS.AT A FACILY TAMPA, G4S EMPLOYEE VIVIANA HERNANZ-TREJO WAS VTIGATED FOR ENGAGG SEX ACTS WH A BOY UNR HER RE.AN VTIGATN 2015 BY SCRIPPS TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS FOUND RERDS DOCUMENTG MULTIPLE ASSLTS AT YOUTH-TENTN FACILI G4S MANAGED FLORIDA, BOTH AGAST THE PANY’S EMPLOYE AS WELL AS MORS UNR S CHARGE. G4S PROVIS SECURY FOR ABOUT 30 JUVENILE-TENTN CENTERS THE STATE OF FLORIDA, ACRDG TO THE REPORT.“I’M AMAZED AT THE AMOUNT OF VLENCE THAT GO ON OVER THERE, BOTH AGAST STAFF AND OTHER MAT,” ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY VICKI NICHOLS, MART COUNTY’S JUVENILE PROSECUTOR, TOLD THE NEWSPAPER, REFERRG TO A GIRLS’ FACILY N BY G4S THAT HAD A HISTORY OF VLENT ALTERTNS AMONG STAFF AND CHILDREN.AROUND 2 A.M. SUNDAY, MATEEN, ARMED WH AN AR-15-STYLE ASSLT RIFLE AND A HANDGUN, ENTERED THE PULSE CLUB AND BEGAN SHOOTG, OFFICIALS SAID. AFTER MOST OF THE 320 PEOPLE THERE PED, MATEEN TOOK HOSTAG OM A GROUP THAT WAS HIDG A BATHROOM. SHORTLY BEFORE 6 A.M., A SWAT UN BREACHED THE CLUB DOORS AND ENGAGED MATEEN WHAT’S BEG LLED A PROTRACTED GUN BATTLE. MATEEN WAS KILLED. THE ADLIT SGLE-PERSON MASS MURR AMERIN HISTORY BEFORE ORLANDO OCCURED BATH, MICHIGAN, 1927, WHEN A MAN BOMBED A SCHOOL, KILLG 44 PEOPLE.—WH ADDNAL REPORTG BY NANCY A. YOSEFREAD MORE VERAGE OF THE MASSACRE AT THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB MICHAEL DALY

If we want to protect the qualy of life for all Amerins — women and children, gay and straight, Jews and Christians and all people then we need to tell the tth about radil Islam and we need to do now. The burn is on Hillary Clton to tell why we should adm anyone to our untry who supports vlence of any kd agast gay and lbian Amerins. Hillary Clton n never claim to be a iend of the gay muny as long as she ntu to support immigratn polici that brg Islamic extremists to our untry and who supprs women, gays and anyone who don’t share their views or valu.

They enslave women, and they murr gays. French police thwarted a planned terror attack on a gay bar Paris, has been revealed.

Mr Collomb revealed that secury officers had foiled the bomb attack, which had been planned for Augt 22, and would have targeted gay bars the pal. He said the terrorists had a “plan of vlent actn” targetg “Parisian nightclubs and particular gay clubs”. Sign up to our Eveng Headl email for your daily gui to the latt newsSign up to our ee US Eveng Headl emailAt least 50 people have been killed and 53 jured a "terrorist" attack on a gay nightclub Orlando, the adlit mass shootg US history, the cy's Mayor has attack was rried out at Pulse nightclub the early hours of Sunday morng.

AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY

A homophobic ISIS sympathizer killed at least 50 people and wound 53 others durg a rampage at a gay nightclub Florida early Sunday — markg the untry’s adlit mass shootg.

Spected gay nightclub mass shooter Omar Mateen.