Below is a photo of Omar's father after a meeting at the US State Dept. in Washington DC where he met with "officials", but oddly, no log of his visit is available in the public record.
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"We were in Downtown Miami, Bayside, people were playing music, and he saw two men kissing each other in front of his wife and kid and he got very angry. They were kissing each other and touching each other and he said, 'Look at that. In front of my son they are doing that.' And they we were in the men's bathroom and men were kissing each other."
For the media, and every other political leader in the US, this was now classified as a "hate crime", and so... case closed. In other words, a simple story line with real traction was now baked firmly into this event - about a homophobic, "ISIS-inspired," crazed 'lone gunman' who 'went postal' in a Orlando gay nightclub, and coincidentally, on the eve of an international Gay Pride celebration day.
Comment: So far nothing of Mateen's possible motives makes sense. He allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS, but also expressed sympathy for Hezbollah and al-Qaeda, despite all groups being mutual enemies of each other. According to eyewitnesses, he told the 911 operator that this was in response to the bombing of ISIS in Syria; he let blacks go, seemingly implying a racial motive; he was a frequent patron of the club, and used a gay dating app. Numerous witnesses discussed his homosexuality:
Several witnesses have come forward saying they frequently spotted Mateen in gay bars and on a gay messaging app, while his former wife Sitora Yusufiy had told Brazilian television that he had "gay tendencies". Speaking to SBT Brazil on Monday, with her fiancé Marco Dias translating in Portuguese on her behalf, she also said Mateen's father called him gay in front of her. She claims she was told by the FBI not to tell this information to the US media.
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Speaking to the Palm Beach Post, the unidentified man who attended a police academy with Mateen said he believed he was gay, but not open about it. "We went to a few gay bars with him, and I was not out at the time, so I declined his offer," the source said in reference to Mateen's supposed request for a date. ...
Four regulars at Pulse nightclub told the Orlando Sentinel that they saw him drunk at the club before. ... "Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent," Pulse regular Ty Smith said. Smith and his husband dismissed Mateen's father's claim that the gunman had been outraged when he once saw two men kissing in Miami. "That's bullcrap, right there. No offence. That's straight-up crap. He's been around us," he said in an interview at the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida on Monday. "Some of those people did a little more than (kiss) outside the bar," Smith said.
Then came the first twist. Just 24 hours later, we learn from a report in the Orlando Sentinel that the alleged shooter Omar Mateen was in fact a frequent visitor for years at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando."It was definitely him. He'd come in for years, and people knew him," one customer said. Another Pulse customer, Kevin West, even stated on record that he had been talking with Mateen for up to one year on a gay-chat mobile app. So, based on this updated information, this could not have been a "hate crime" because Omar Mateen was most likely gay himself, albeit in the closet. Likewise, this change in the story would also nullify much of the identity politics rhetoric currently being spun around this incident - like this statement released by Hillary Clinton within hours of the main event:
Seddique states: "I order national army, national police and intelligence department to immediately imprison Karzai, Ashraf Ghani, Zalmay Khalilzad, Atmar, and Sayyaf."
"They are against our countrymen, and against our homeland," he added.
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Afghanistan’s prospective “Revolutionary President” Seddique Mateen here with Republican Congressman and warhawk Ed Royce who happens to be Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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The father of the man who slaughtered 50 people in the Orlando nightclub shooting Saturday night is a longtime CIA asset, whose TV show receives funding from the Voice of America -Dari.
Pictured below is Seddique Mateen with California Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.Rohrabacher (R-CA) was initially elected to Congress in 1988, with the fundraising help of friend Oliver North. Rohrabacher's decades-long involvement in "all things Afghan" eventually earned him the nickname "Gunga Dana." Today he chairs the United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats.
This morning President Obama called him a "home-grown" terrorist. In a series of phone interviews Monday morning, Donald Trump responded that "there's something going on" with the President's reaction to the Orlando shooting.
I guess even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
"It's like calling Blackwater XE"
Orlando shooter Omar Mateen's father said his son was not motivated by Islamist radical ideology, but in a Facebook video posted early Monday he said, "God himself will punish those involved in homosexuality."
My own suspicion was first awakened on Monday morning when U.S. news outlets uniformly reported that the father's TV show aired on a "U.S.-based Afghan satellite channel."
That sort of circumlocution is typical when something is being hidden which the corporate media prefers we not ask questions about.
The name of the nameless Afghan satellite channel, Payam Afghan, is said to be widely-known in Southwest Asia as a CIA-Pakistani ISI construct, as this picture from Flicker shows.
The identification of shooter Omar Mateen also involved deception. He was said to work for a security company called G4S, which few have ever heard of. However, "G4S" is merely a re-branded "Wackenhut Corporation," a name with a storied reputation for scandal in the U.S. and around the world.
Rohrabacher has stated that he sees radical Islam as the source of a major terrorist threat to the U.S. Calls to his office today to request comment on whether he views CIA assets relocated in the U.S. as a terrorist threat have not been returned.
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