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Sgt. Fanuaee Vea (L) embraces Pvt. Savannah Green after a shooting that took 13 lives in Fort Hood, Killeen, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009. (Ben Sklar/Getty Images) Commentary
Five years ago, on June 12, 2016, Islamic State supporter Omar Mateen murdered 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. As CNN reported , the mass shooting , then the deadliest in U.S. history, was “the nation’s worst terror attack since 9/11.” Like 9/11, the attack could have been prevented but wasn’t.
The FBI had interviewed Mateen in 2013 and 2014 but he “was not found to be a threat,” and at the time of the attack, he was not under investigation. In April 2016, Walt Disney World told the FBI that Mateen and his wife Noor Salman appeared to be surveilling possible targets where large numbers of people were known to gather. Salman was also with Mateen when he purchased firearms and ammunition.
President Barack Obama said “this community was shaken by an evil and hateful act ,” but his 1855-word statement did not identify the shooter and named not a single one of Mateen’s victims. Such terrorist attacks were carried out “not by external plotters, not by vast networks or sophisticated cells, but by deranged individuals warped by the hateful propaganda that they had seen over the Internet,” Obama stated.
Mateen’s victims included African Americans Antonio Davon Brown, 29; Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25; and Jason Benjamin Josaphat, only 19. The President’s statement contained no reference to racism on the part of Mateen but did lament “the plague of violence that these weapons of war inflict on so many young lives.”
Vice President Joe Biden, in a 337-word statement , denounced “an act of pure hate and unspeakable terror,” but did not name the shooter or any of his victims. Biden was uncertain of “any connection or inspiration there may be with terrorist organizations,” and did not mention the Islamic State. The violence was “not normal” and “the targeting of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans is evil and abhorrent.” Biden also failed to link Mateen’s attack with racism.
“The Orlando terrorist […]
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