Blood ties

The connection of the killer from Orlando Omar Matina with the Islamic State or other armed groups has not yet been discovered. It is reported by Reuters with reference to unnamed American officials familiar with the course of the investigation of the crime. Earlier, the FBI also stated that Matina’s involvement in radical Islamic structures has yet to be proved or refuted.

Meanwhile, the AMAQ information agency - the IS organ - declared the terrorist the "fighter of the Islamic state."

According to NBS News with reference to a certain source in law enforcement agencies, Matin called the 911 rescue service before the terrorist attack and announced that he swore allegiance to the Caliph of IG Abu Bakro al-Baghdadi. Official sources, however, do not confirm this information.

According to The New York Times, Matin twice - in 2013 and 2014 - fell into the field of view of the FBI. The first time the special service was interested in his conversations with work colleagues. Matin made it clear, the colleagues claimed, which was associated with Islamic terrorists.

The next year, Matina was checked for contact with the American of Palestinian origin by Munir Muhammad Abu Salkha (the fighting pseudonym-Abi Harira al-Amriki)-22-year-old supporter of Jabhat An-Nusra, who undermined himself in an explosive car in the Syrian city of Erich, Muhafaz Idlib. As a result of this attack, several soldiers of the dictator Bashar al -Assad also died. Matin and Munir Muhammad lived in the same city-Fort Pars, the county of St. Lucy, Florida.

However, both times the audit did not reveal Matin's involvement in terrorism.

Reuters also reports that Matina was checked twice at work - in the world's largest G4S security company. The first time he went there in 2007, during employment; The second time in 2013. Both times, Matin did not cause any suspicions of the employer.

Meanwhile, the Turkish newspaper Yeni Akit, a message about the execution in Orlando entitled "The number of dead perverts in the gay bar reached 50 people!" This gave the public the reason to suspect the publication in support of the attack. It was expressed that the exclamation mark in the heading of the note expresses approval, not condemnation.

On Sunday night, Matin appeared at the Pulse gay club in the city of Orlando, located in the central part of Florida, and opened fire from a machine gun , a pistol and a certain weapon not yet installed. 50 people became victims of the attack; 53 more were injured. During the capture of the building, the terrorist was killed.

29-year-old Matin was an American citizen of Afghan origin, a native of New York.

The FBI unambiguously qualified the incident as an act of terrorism.

The terrorist attack in Orlando is the most deadly mass execution in the history of the United States. The number of its victims is more than one and a half times higher than the number of those who died duringthe execution at the Technological University of Virginia in April 2007, which has still remained the most deadly attack of this kind. Then 32 people died.