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Home Front: WoT
Orlando shooter sought out Islamic State propaganda
2016-06-15
Mega-snip to just the new stuff.
As the probe into the Orlando nightclub shooting broadened Tuesday, with investigators ranging as far afield as Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, survivors recounted the gunman – whose parents are Afghan immigrants – telling them he had gone on a killing spree because he “wanted America to stop bombing his country.”
He was born in the U.S.A. This is his country...
Those developments emerged as investigators revealed that Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people Sunday in the worst mass shooting in modern American history, had increasingly sought out Islamic State videos and other radical Islamist propaganda in the months leading up to his murderous rampage. And FBI officials said he had made repeated visits to Disney properties in Florida and may have had assistance from his wife in organizing the attack on the Pulse nightclub.

Investigators are trying to retrace as much of Mateen's final weeks and months as possible in an effort to understand his motivation. Part of that involves collecting data from at least two cellphones used by Mateen, as well as other electronic media and email accounts, a U.S. law enforcement official said.
Posted by:Steve White

#2  I've toured the security setup at Disney Anaheim.

On par with, and in some cases better than, major Vegas venues.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2016-06-15 14:31  

#1  
It's interesting how Disney knows so much about this guy...
Disney properties are techno marvels in distributed control system centralization. Some of their marketing (like Home Depot: "hey gimme yoyr zipcode") is about their range of retail impact, so they track buyers. Because of the close proximity of Adults and Children there is also a lot of security video that gets scanned like a 'watch list' for known and new faces and packages. The demise of paper tickets for the rides also gives them 'in park' tracking tools with every ride gate or doorway a sensor platform for your electronic ticket.

Predator/Prey modeling has well established mobility patterns that are also used for stalker behavior identification in theme parks as well as grocery stores.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-06-15 07:52  

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