After Omar Mateen killed dozens of people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, it was reported that he called 911 during the rampage and pledged allegiance to ISIS. In spite of that, President Obama and Loretta Lynch were unclear about the attackers “motive.” Maybe this will help.
Read whole thread. Makes Lynch's decision to redact ISIL from original transcript release even more inexplicable. https://t.co/argkVunDnU
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) September 26, 2016
Will details in this transcript help Obama and Lynch draw any “motive” conclusions? Probably not:
1. Morning all, I wanted to share with you today a pretty incredible 911 transcript that was recently made public: https://t.co/KhPzqrrxcD
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
2. This is the transcript of Omar Mateen's calls to a police negotiator during hrs he was hunkered down in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
3. This transcript was declassified and made public on a *Friday* night. I didn't even notice it had been released till yesterday
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
4. Here is the most interesting part of the transcript, as first flagged by @SeamusHughes: pic.twitter.com/DXk7sK9iGA
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
5. Mateen tells the negotiator that his attack was "triggered" by the death of Abu Wahid (actually spelled Abu Waheeb) pic.twitter.com/TzCwwDu2k6
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
6. "That's what triggered it, ok?" Mateen says. "They should not have bombed and killed Abu Waheeb" pic.twitter.com/2dp0Okw5pJ
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
7. Perhaps realizing operator has no idea who Abu Waheeb is, he then gets irate: "Do your fucking homework & find out who Abu Waheeb is, ok? pic.twitter.com/b4ckQ8hgbt
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
8. So who is Abu Waheeb? That's exactly the point. Waheeb is an obscure figure in ISIS, one of the original members of al-Qaeda in Iraq
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
9. Meaning Waheeb is killed around 1 month before Mateen's killing spree. For an entire month, Mateen kept this guy's name in his brain
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
10. ISIS-inspired attackers usually go for the Great Hits. They name Awlaki, Adnani, Jihadi John, Baghdadi. But Abu Waheeb? Seriously?
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
11. At a minimum transcript shows Mateen was deep in the fanboy-ism. He's referring to death of an obscure cmdr, one not well known in West
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
12. The 2nd thing that's interesting about transcript is the number of times Mateen echoes ISIS' talking points regarding ending airstrikes
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
13. By my count, he tells the operator that the US needs to end airstrikes against ISIS at least *five* times during the call. One ex below: pic.twitter.com/bP8lQOoQyO
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
14. And also transcript shows that he pledged allegiance to ISIS at least THREE TIMES during one call, and we don't have full transcript: pic.twitter.com/tRnQEJmfH8
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
15. The wording of statements on ending airstrikes mimics what we read in Dabiq & in every ISIS execution video, starting with James Foley's
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
16. Still missing from transcript: Exact words he used to pledge allegiance to ISIS ("unintelligible") Would be nice if they provided audio
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
17. Guessing he's either saying "Emir al-Mumineem" (honorific for Baghdadi, as well as Mullah Omar etc) or else Baghdadi's long winded name
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
18. Here is a screengrab of the unintelligible material: pic.twitter.com/qphG0uwY5H
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 26, 2016
In June, the Obama administration released a redacted version of a 911 call made by Mateen eliminating references to ISIS. After that, a version with fewer redactions was released, but the White House remained stumped about the motive.
DOJ and police knew precisely what motivated Mateen from the night of the attack, and yet pussyfooted about it anyway.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) September 26, 2016
We had a week of "was he gay? was he repressed? oh, he didn't really go to mosque? we may never know" and they had the truth the whole time.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) September 26, 2016
. @CounterMoonbat @gabrielmalor Media that promulgate this nonsense wants to fact check debate.
— Violated Norm (@BillySullivan7) September 26, 2016
Reminder: This is the nation's top law enforcement officer. pic.twitter.com/qjfFrX7FYx
— Jason (@jasonelevation) September 26, 2016
You may also recall that Omar Mateen’s father was spotted at a Hillary Clinton rally in support of the Democrat nominee, which left her campaign scrambling to spin the optics disaster.
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