FBI Director Comey: 'Highly Confident' Orlando Shooter Radicalized Through Internet (cbsnews.com)

An anonymous reader writes from a report via CBS News: FBI Director James Comey echoed President Obama's statement that he does not think the Orlando shooting was a plot directed from outside of the U.S. "So far, we see no indication that this was a plot directed from outside the United States and we see no indication that he was part of any kind of network," Comey told reporters. The intelligence community, Comey said, is "highly confident that this killer was radicalized at least in part through the internet." CBS News reports: "The FBI first became aware of the shooter, Omar Mateen, in May 2013 when he was working as a contract security guard and he made statements that were 'inflammatory and contradictory,' Comey said. Mateen told his co-workers at the time that he had family connections to al Qaeda and that he was a member of Hezbollah. Comey pointed out that Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, is a 'bitter enemy' of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to which he pledged loyalty in 911 calls as the attack unfolded early Sunday morning." According to CNN, at least 50 people were killed inside Pulse, a gay nightclub, marking the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

Comments

More likely idea: unbalanced and violent

[Todd Knarr]

More likely than "radicalization" is that he was simply someone with mental problems and a history of spousal abuse and violent behavior who bought into the current rhetoric (originating from Trump, Cruz, Limbaugh and other extreme right-wing sources) against the LGBT community. In his eyes it gave him an excuse to do what he wanted to do, and now we have to clean up the mess.

Re:Radicalized through Islam

[MightyMartian]

You were only pointing how your confirmation bias works. I get it, you're a right wing lunatic who needs to see the evil other side as producing all the nuts. It's probably due to the fact that your a childish individual lacking in any perspective, and buying fully into this view that "left" and "right" represent "evil" and "good".

As to your AGW nonsense, well, stupidity usually drives one to view major branches of science being wrong, because, again, you're a pathetic infantile individual.