Orlando Shooter Posted Facebook Messages Pledging Allegiance to ISIS Leader and Vowing More Attacks

(Washington Post) Kevin Sullivan - On the day of his rampage in Orlando, Omar Mateen posted messages on Facebook vowing that there would be more attacks in the coming days by Islamic State in the U.S., according to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. "America and Russia stop bombing the Islamic state....I pledge my alliance to [Islamic State leader] Abu Bakr al Baghdadi....May Allah accept me," Mateen wrote. "The real Muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the West....Now taste the Islamic State vengeance."


2016-06-16 00:00:00

Full Article

BACK

Visit the Daily Alert Archive