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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOrlando terrorist's wife 'told the FBI she tried to talk him out of the attack'.....
.....visited Pulse and other targets with him AND was there when he bought his arsenal of ammunition - but never called 911
Orlando gunman Omar Mateen's wife tried to talk her husband out of his nightclub massacre, according to reports citing FBI sources.
Noor Zahi Salman told federal detectives she knew of Mateen's intentions before he stormed Pulse on Saturday and murdered 49 people, NBC and ABC report.
She also admitted she was with him when he bought his ammunition and holster.
And she drove him to Pulse nightclub and other target scenes - including Walt Disney World - 'because he wanted to scope them out'.
According to the NBC report, authorities are 'considering' charges against Salman for not reporting her husband's massacre plan. The FBI said she is cooperating fully with the investigation.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3641206/She-knew-Orlando-terrorist-s-wife-told-FBI-tried-talk-attack-cooperating-authorities.html#ixzz4BZXKkD00
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Siwsan
(26,177 posts)I've been pretty surprised at how often this site is spot on with their reporting.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Even when reporting "factual" news they give it a Fox News-style slant.
Siwsan
(26,177 posts)DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Jackilope
(819 posts)If you are helping hubby scout for sites to shoot up and witness his purchase of ammunition, WHAT is stopping you from alerting authorities and preventing this heart ache????
Siwsan
(26,177 posts)It has happened, before - kind of a marital Stockholm Syndrome.
Jackilope
(819 posts)Domestic abuse definitely considered. The act of her begging him not to get the weapons indicates she does know what he was doing was wrong.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)She had a lawyer or was charged and given Miranda rights
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Coventina
(26,846 posts)was a self-hating gay.
vdogg
(1,384 posts)This guy does not appear to be the most rational actor. That said, nobody "scopes out" a gay club for 3 years. He was a conflicted individual, who made incomprehensible decisions. I doubt that the now numerous gays that have come forward were lying about their encounters or his overtures.
King_David
(14,851 posts)How does one gain such information?
vdogg
(1,384 posts)It took 3 whole years to scope out entrance and exit points at a relatively small venue? Was he scoping out the gay clubs he went to in 2006 as well. What was he scoping out when he asked a friend if he was gay and stated if he were he'd be "his type of person"? It is very strange how people are seeking to downplay this information, I'm really not sure why that is.
King_David
(14,851 posts)It is possible for LGBTQ to be targets of terrorism, especially from cults of Gay hating bigots , just like straight people. We are not exceptions and we are all the same.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3198283/Horrific-moment-two-gay-men-thrown-tall-building-ISIS-stoned-baying-mob-including-children.html
vdogg
(1,384 posts)I never once said the guy wasn't a terrorist. I do believe the fact that he was self hating, combined with the fact that he was tormented in school, combined with the fact that he was rejected by those he sought companionship with, combined with of course the fact that he radicalized himself on the Internet, led to this event. It all combines to form a demented individual capable of carrying out a terrorist act. Acknowledging one does not exclude the other.
Coventina
(26,846 posts)People are allowed to identify how they want to identify.
He pledged himself to the IS.
Yes, I think that people don't choose their sexuality, but they do choose how they want to be identified, and that was his ultimate choice. People have agency. He chose NOT to be aligned with the LGBT community, and to label him as a self-hating closet case is another form of bigotry against the LGBT community, that they are somehow "broken" and prone to violence.
Homophobia causes violence, not sexuality.
vdogg
(1,384 posts)And it doesn't have to be sexual self hate. Self hate has been part of the psyche of many a mass killer. Stating that perhaps problems he had with his sexual identity that contributed to a level of self hate that led to this massacre is not a knock against the LGBT community. It's just another piece of the puzzle.
Coventina
(26,846 posts)I choose to base my beliefs on what he said and what he did: concrete evidence.
He chose his target, scoped it out, and murdered people in the name of Islam.
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)Siwsan
(26,177 posts)I can't imagine what it must have been like to live with someone like that. If what his first wife reported (and there's no reason to doubt her) this woman might have just been an emotional hostage and now she's trying to express the unimaginable.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Siwsan
(26,177 posts)I can't imagine what it must be like to be in that situation.
B2G
(9,766 posts)Siwsan
(26,177 posts)Doesn't mean he still wasn't very much in her life, since they had a child, together.