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Title: BREAKING: At Least 20 Dead In 'Domestic Terror' Incident At Orlando Nightclub | CBS News: Gunman Identified As U.S. Citizen Omar Mateen
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URL Source: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/06/12/orlando-nightclub-shooting/
Published: Jun 12, 2016
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Post Date: 2016-06-12 10:21:04 by Horse
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ORLANDO, Fla. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun took hostages and opened fire inside a crowded Florida nightclub, killing approximately 20 people and wounding 42 others before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said Sunday. Follow Orlando Police @OrlandoPolice Pulse nightclub shooting: Approximately 20 people dead inside the club. Police Chief John Mina also said the shooter had some sort of “suspicious device.” He said the suspect exchanged gunfire with an officer working at the club around 2 a.m., then went back inside and took hostages among more than 300 people inside. Around 5 a.m., authorities sent in a SWAT team to rescue the hostages, and the suspect then died in a gunfight with those officers. Mina said police have not determined an exact number of casualties, but that “approximately 20” people were dead inside the club. Law enforcement sources told CBS News the gunman has been identified as Omar Mateen, a U.S. citizen from Port St. Lucie. Mateen was born to Afghan parents in 1986. CBS News reports Mateen has no apparent criminal history and that authorities are investigating whether he had ties to Islamic terrorism. Follow CBS News ✔ @CBSNews MORE: Orlando shooter ID'd as Omar Mateen, U.S. citizen from Port St. Lucie, FL http://cbsn.ws/1PU8x4x CBS News reports that authorities are “leaning towards Islamic terrorism” as a motive. Law enforcement sources said the shooting had similarities to the terror attacks in Paris and Brussels. CBS2’s Magdalena Doris reported the hostage standoff lasted for three hours. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said it was an act of “domestic terror.” “At this point, this is an incident, as I can see it, we can certainly classify as a domestic terror incident,” Jerry Demings of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said. Florida Department of Law Enforcement Special Agent in Charge Danny Banks said during a news conference that the mass shooting is being investigated as an act of terrorism. He says authorities are looking into whether this was an act of domestic or international terror, and if the shooter was a lone wolf. FBI Special Agent in Charge Ron Hopper said there’s no further threat to Orlando or the surrounding area. When asked if the gunman had a connection to radical Islamic terrorism, Hopper said, “we do have suggestions that individual has leanings towards that.” Police had said previously on Twitter that there was a “controlled explosion” at the scene of the shooting at Pulse Orlando. Mina said that noise was caused by a device intended to distract the shooter. President Barack Obama has been briefed on the nightclub attack. Follow Nick Bryant @NickBryantNY White House statement on #PulseNightclub @BBCNewsUS 8:27 AM - 12 Jun 2016 Mina Justice was outside the club early Sunday trying to contact her 30-year-old son Eddie, who texted her when the shooting happened and asked her to call police. He told her he ran into a bathroom with other club patrons to hide. He then texted her: “He’s coming.” “The next text said: ‘He has us, and he’s in here with us,”‘ she said. “That was the last conversation.” Dozens of police vehicles, including a SWAT team, swarmed the area around the club. At least two police pickup trucks were seen taking what appeared to be shooting victims to the Orlando Regional Medical Center. Pulse Orlando posted on its own Facebook page around 2 a.m.: “Everyone get out of pulse and keep running.” Just before 6 a.m., the club posted an update: “As soon as we have any information we will update everyone. Please keep everyone in your prayers as we work through this tragic event. Thank you for your thoughts and love.” Pulse describes itself as the “hottest gay bar in Orlando.” CBS affiliate WKMG-TV reported that it was “Latin Night” at the nightclub at the time of the shooting. Police said local, state and federal agencies were investigating. The incident follows the fatal shooting late Friday of 22-year-old singer Christina Grimmie, who was killed after her concert in Orlando by a 27-year-old Florida man who later killed himself. Grimmie was a YouTube sensation and former contestant on “The Voice.” Jon Alamo said he was at the back of one of the club’s rooms when a man holding a weapon came into the front of the room. “I heard 20, 40, 50 shots,” Alamo said. “The music stopped.” Club-goer Rob Rick said it happened around, 2 a.m., just before closing time. “Everybody was drinking their last sip,” he said. He estimated more than 100 people were still inside when he heard shots, got on the ground and crawled toward a DJ booth. A bouncer knocked down a partition between the club area and an area in the back where only workers are allowed. People inside were able to then escape through the back of the club. Christopher Hansen said he was in the VIP lounge when he started hearing gunshots. He continued to hear shooting even after he emerged, where police were telling people to back away from the club. He saw injured people being tended to across the street. “I was thinking, are you kidding me? So I just dropped down. I just said please, please, please, I want to make it out,” he said. “And when I did, I saw people shot. I saw blood. You hope and pray you don’t get shot.”
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If his parents were Afghanis, where was he born? And who made this guy a citizen? Most of the Cologne rapists were long time residents of Germany and not new arrivals. The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
Another reason the end the anchor-baby insanity.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
They say 50 dead now. As it seems it's Islam inspired, Trump popularity will inevitably get a boost from this.
CNN is going into full "blame the guns" mode.
Gay Pride month and Ramadan. Do the math.
Hard to believe that one shooter could wreak that much destruction...
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Imagine all the lives that could have been saved if only one of those party-goers had been packing more than just fudge.
Funny, and true.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
One AR (presumptively) and some kind of a handgun. One shooter. 103 casualties. There's always something hard to put together with the first accounts reported after the latest disaster. (BTW, the first report I'd heard about 911 on the car radio was that a "light plane" had hit a WTC building.) "If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
Even with 30 rounds clips, that means at least 3 reloads. Though the .223 round, which is normal for AR-15s I think, is high velocity, and in a crowded place, a single round could strike several people.
Yep, the 103 casualties are a bit more than the reported 100 patrons in the club. I still don't believe that one shooter did all that in a nice gun-free zone.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
This is a WFTV channel 9 pic of said establishment. A building like this must have around 3 to 4 entrance/exit doors. How does a shooter corral over one hundred folks for execution in such an environment? Just asking. "If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
Certainly fire regs would require multiple exits be available. Though establishments don't always follow the regs, and sometimes may even illegally lock some exits to prevent people from coming in without paying cover. But in a crowded place, it can take a very long time for people to exit, and more so if everyone is panicking/stampeding. Heck, some of the injuries, even serious ones or even deaths, may have resulted from that and not any shootings. Since this was obviously premeditated, the shooter may well have blocked or chained the exits himself minutes before reentering with guns. How many people would have noticed? But yes what happened with the alternate exits is a legit question.
I predict that the explanations for this event will be 1. protracted, 2. contradictory, and 3. a challenge to ordinary logic and reason. I say this based on experience following every one of the large scale disasters in recent memory. Check the details. "If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
Date Country City Killed Injured Description 1972.04.14 USA New York, NY 1 3 Ten members of a local mosque phone in a false alarm and then ambush responding officers, killing one. 1973.01.19 USA Brooklyn, NY 1 1 Muslim extremists rob a sporting goods store for weapons, gunning down a police officer who responds to the alarm. 1973.07.01 USA Bethesda, MD 1 0 An Israeli diplomat is gunned down in his driveway by Palestinian terrorists. 1973.07.18 USA Washington, DC 8 2 Nation of Islam members shoot seven members of a family to death in cold blood, including four children. A defendant in the case is later murdered in prison on orders from Elijah Muhammad. 1973.10.19 USA Oakland, CA 1 1 Nation of Islam terrorists kidnap a couple and nearly decapitate the man, while raping and leaving the woman for dead. 1973.10.29 USA Berkeley, CA 1 0 A woman is shot repeatedly in the face by Nation of Islam terrorists. 1973.11.25 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A grocer is killed in his store by Nation of Islam terrorists. 1973.12.11 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A man is killed by Nation of Islam terrorists while using a phone booth. 1973.12.13 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A woman is shot to death on the sidewalk by Nation of Islam terrorists. 1973.12.20 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 Nation of Islam terrorists gun down an 81-year- old janitor. 1973.12.22 USA Oakland, CA 2 0 Nation of Islam terrorist kills two people in separate attacks on the same day. 1973.12.24 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A man is kidnapped, tortured and decapitated by Nation of Islam terrorists. 1974.01.24 USA Oakland, CA 4 1 Five vicious shooting attacks by Nation of Islam terrorists leave three people dead and one paralyzed for life. Three of the victims were women. 1974.04.01 USA Oakland, CA 1 1 A Nation of Islam terrorist shoots at two Salvation Army members, killing a man and injuring a woman. 1974.04.16 USA Ingleside, CA 1 0 A man is killed while helping a friend move by Nation of Islam terrorists. 1977.03.09 USA Washington, DC 1 1 Hanifi Muslims storm three buildings including a B'nai B'rith to hold 134 people hostage. At least two innocents were shot and one died. 1980.07.22 USA Bethesda, MD 1 0 A political dissident is shot and killed in front of his home by an Iranian agent who was an American convert to Islam. 1980.08.31 USA Savou, IL 2 0 An Iranian student guns down his next-door neighbors, a husband and wife. 1989.11.06 USA St. Louis, MO 1 0 A 17-year-old girl is stabbed to death by her parents for bringing 'dishonor' to their family by dating an 'infidel' African- American. 1990.01.31 USA Tuscon, AZ 1 0 A Sunni cleric is assassinated in front of a Tuscon mosque after declaring that two verses of the Qur'an were invalid. 1990.11.05 USA New York City, NY 1 0 An Israeli rabbi is shot to death by a Muslim attacker at a hotel. 1993.01.25 USA Langley, VA 2 3 A Pakistani with Mujahideen ties guns down two CIA agents outside of the headquarters. 1993.02.26 USA New York, NY 6 1040 Islamic terrorists detonate a massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers. 1994.03.01 USA Brooklyn, NY 1 0 A Muslim gunman targets a van packed with Jewish boys, killing a 16-year-old. 1997.03.23 USA New York, NY 1 6 A Palestinian leaves an anti-Jewish suicide note behind and travels to the top of the Empire State building where he shoot seven people in a Fedayeen attack. 1997.04.03 USA Lompoc, CA 1 0 A prison guard is stabbed to death by a radical Muslim. 2000.03.17 USA Atlanta, GA 1 1 A local imam and Muslim spiritual leader guns down a deputy sheriff and injures his partner. 2001.09.11 USA New York, NY 2752 251 Islamic hijackers steer two planes packed with fuel and passengers into the World Trade Center, killing hundreds on impact and eventually killing thousands when the towers collapsed. At least 200 are seriously injured. 2001.09.11 USA Washington, DC 184 53 Nearly 200 people are killed when Islamic hijackers steer a plane full of people into the Pentagon. 2001.09.11 USA Shanksville, PA 40 0 Forty passengers are killed after Islamic radicals hijack the plane in an attempt to steer it into the U.S. Capitol building. 2002.03.19 USA Tuscon, AZ 1 0 A 60-year-old man is gunned down by Muslim snipers on a golf course. 2002.05.27 USA Denton, TX 1 0 Muslim snipers kill a man as he works in his yard. 2002.07.04 USA Los Angeles, CA 2 0 Muslim man pulls out a gun at the counter of an Israeli airline and kills two people. 2002.09.21 USA Atlanta, GA 1 0 Muslim terrorists gun down an employee at a liquor store. 2002.09.21 USA Montgomery, AL 1 1 Muslim snipers shoot two women, killing one. 2002.09.23 USA Baton Rouge, LA 1 0 A Korean mother is shot in the back by Muslim snipers. 2002.10.02 USA Wheaton, MD 1 0 Muslim snipers gun down a program analyst in a store parking lot. 2002.10.03 USA Montgomery County, MD 5 0 Muslim snipers kill three men and two women in separate attacks over a 15-hour period. 2002.10.09 USA Manassas, VA 1 1 A man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas two days after a 13-year-old is wounded by the same team. 2002.10.11 USA Fredericksburg, VA 1 0 Another man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas. 2002.10.14 USA Arlington, VA 1 0 A woman is killed by Muslim snipers in a Home Depot parking lot. 2002.10.22 USA Aspen Hill, MD 1 0 A bus driver is killed by Muslim snipers. 2003.08.06 USA Houston, TX 1 0 After undergoing a 'religious revival', a Saudi college student slashes the throat of a Jewish student with a 4" butterfly knife, nearly decapitating the young man. 2004.04.15 USA Scottsville, NY 1 2 In an honor killing, a Muslim father kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested. 2006.06.16 USA Baltimore, MD 1 0 A 62-year-old Jewish moviegoer is shot to death by a Muslim medical student in an unprovoked terror attack. 2006.06.25 USA Denver, CO 1 5 Saying that it was 'Allah's choice', a Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer. 2006.07.28 USA Seattle, WA 1 5 An 'angry' Muslim-American uses a young girl as hostage to enter a local Jewish center, where he shoots six women, one of whom dies. 2008.01.01 USA Irving, TX 2 0 A Muslim immigrant shoots his two daughters to death on concerns about their 'Western' lifestyle. 2008.07.06 USA Jonesboro, GA 1 0 A devout Muslim strangles his 25-year-old daughter in an honor killing. 2009.02.12 USA Buffalo, NY 1 0 The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce. 2009.04.12 USA Phoenix, AZ 2 0 A man shoots his brother-in-law and another man to death after finding out that they visited a strip club, in contradiction to Islamic values. 2009.06.01 USA Little Rock, AR 1 1 A Muslim shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center explicitly in the name of Allah. 2009.11.02 USA Glendale, AZ 1 1 A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too 'Westernized.' (10-20-09) 2009.11.05 USA Ft. Hood, TX 13 31 A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah. 2009.12.04 USA Binghamton, NY 1 0 A non-Muslim Islamic studies professor is stabbed to death by a Muslim grad student in revenge for 'persecuted' Muslims. 2010.04.14 USA Marquette Park, IL 5 2 After quarrelling with his wife over Islamic dress, a Muslim convert shoots his family members to 'take them back to Allah' and out of the 'world of sinners'. 2011.04.30 USA Warren, MI 1 0 A 20-year-old woman is shot in the head by her stepfather for not adhering to Islamic practices. 2011.09.11 USA Waltham, MA 3 0 Three Jewish men have their throats slashed by Muslim terrorists. 2012.01.15 USA Houston, TX 1 0 A 30-year-old Christian convert is shot to death by a devout Muslim for helping to convert his daughter. 2012.11.12 USA Houston, TX 1 0 A 28-year-old American man is shot to death by a conservative Muslim over an alleged role in converting a woman to Christianity. 2013.02.07 USA Buena Vista, NJ 2 0 A Muslim targets and beheads two Christian Coptic immigrants. 2013.03.24 USA Ashtabula, OH 1 0 A Muslim convert walks into a church service with a Quran and guns down his Christian father while praising Allah. 2013.04.15 USA Boston, MA 3 264 Foreign-born Muslims describing themselves as 'very religious' detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and causing several more to lose limbs. 2013.04.19 USA Boston, MA 1 1 Jihadists gun down a university police officer sitting in his car. 2013.08.04 USA Richmond, CA 1 0 A convert "on a mission from Allah" stabs a store clerk to death. 2014.03.06 USA Port Bolivar, TX 2 0 A Muslim man shoots his lesbian daughter and her lover to death and leaves a copy of the Quran open to a page condemning homosexuality. 2014.04.27 USA Skyway, WA 1 0 A 30-year-old man is murdered by a Muslim fanatic. 2014.06.01 USA Seattle, WA 2 0 Two homosexuals are murdered by an Islamic extremist. 2014.06.25 USA West Orange, NJ 1 0 A 19-year-old college student is shot to death 'in revenge' for Muslim deaths overseas. 2014.09.25 USA Moore, OK 1 1 A Sharia advocate beheads a woman after calling for Islamic terror and posting an Islamist beheading photo. 2014.12.18 USA Morganton, NC 1 0 A 74-year-old man is shot several times in the head by a 'radicalized' ISIS supporter. 2015.07.16 USA Chattanooga, TN 5 2 A 'devout Muslim' stages a suicide attack on a recruiting center at a strip mall and a naval center which leaves five dead. 2015.12.02 USA San Bernardino, CA 14 17 A 'very religious' Muslim shoots up a Christmas party with his wife, leaving fourteen dead. These are only attacks in which fatalities occurred. "The ability to recognize patterns is what separates us from the apes."
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Hard to believe
#10. To: randge (#9)
One AR (presumptively) and some kind of a handgun. One shooter. 103 casualties
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#16. To: Pinguinite (#4)
Figures. In Syria they were using WW II vintage rifles in battle. Guns will be around for a very long time and if a bad guy wants one, he will find a way to get it. ;) CNN is going into full "blame the guns" mode.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#17. To: Pinguinite (#13)
I worked security in Chicago and suburbs for extra money for a long time. I was even working at private clubs and bars. One time in Chicago at the Vic Theater, I was standing just inside the crowd on house right. I heard someone pop the fire door. I turned around and looked. Two guys tried to come in. When they saw me, they turned and ran. I chased them. Then I cleared everyone out of the alley. "Everyone out of here now or you will be arrested for loitering!" It was a BS charge, but it got everyone out of there. One time at a private club not far from where I lived in suburbs, I turned away a couple of guys because they were too young to drink. A couple of minutes later, one of their friends popped the fire door behind the bar. I told the owner, "Joe, they just popped the fire door." He went over there and threw them all out. You know how I got started in security? When I lived in Chicago, these four girls had their birthdays in November. They booked a mansion in the suburbs to put on a party. I drove the truck out there with the band in back. I was sitting around and one of the girls came running, "Cowboy, there's a fight by the beer bar." I went over there and they were standing on the chairs beating on each other. I grabbed one guy by the right arm. He tried to turn on me to the left and I grabbed the other arm. The floor was wet and he slipped. I threw him down with a crash and they all looked at me. I said, "Cool it right now!" They said, "It's cool." ROTFLOL Certainly fire regs would require multiple exits be available. Though establishments don't always follow the regs, and sometimes may even illegally lock some exits to prevent people from coming in without paying cover.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#18. To: X-15 (#15)
That is, X-15, the most instructive post of the day. This needs to go up on the screen while the network blabbermouths bleat on about these shootings all afternoon.
"If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
#19. To: Horse (#0)
What i find uplifting is that so many other people are instantly recognizing this as a false flag, i see little debate on many comments sections. It is such an easily identifiable false flag that i see few debating its fakeness.
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Suspect all media / resist bad propaganda/Learn NLP everyday everyway ;) If you don't control your mind someone else will.
#20. To: X-15 (#15)
Add Orlando to this horrific list of muzzie murders. Get those animals out of this country.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#21. To: Lod (#20) (Edited)
I agree. There was a reason they were kept out in the first place. How is the hip, Lod? ;) You know that the muzzies in France were laughing at the fact they were allowed to come into the country. It is an invasion of Europe that can be compared to the invasion of the Babarians in the middle ages, the Goths and Visigoths, etc. ;) Get those animals out of this country.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#22. To: BTP Holdings (#21)
Thanks, it's getting better and better as the weeks pass; this could be an entire year event to near rightness...don't ever break/fracture a hip, it truly sucks.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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