Orlando Shooter Posted On Facebook During Attack
Jun. 16 2016, Updated 12:57 p.m. ET
Omar Mateen wrote multiple Facebook posts during the Orlando shooting, including messages about ISIS, according to CNN.
“America and Russia stop bombing the Islamic state..I pledge my alliance to [Islamic State leader] abu bakr al Baghdadi..may Allah accept me,” Mateen wrote on Facebook, according to Vice News. The Facebook posts were released by the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.
“The real muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the west… You kill innocent women and children by doing us airstrikes..now taste the Islamic state vengeance,” Mateen’s Facebook post read.