{"id":181487,"date":"2016-06-12T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/12\/maybe-if-the-fbi-spent-more-time-pursuing-real-terrorists-and-less-time-manufacturing-them-for-high-profile-arrests\/"},"modified":"2016-06-12T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T00:30:00","slug":"maybe-if-the-fbi-spent-more-time-pursuing-real-terrorists-and-less-time-manufacturing-them-for-high-profile-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/12\/maybe-if-the-fbi-spent-more-time-pursuing-real-terrorists-and-less-time-manufacturing-them-for-high-profile-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe If the FBI Spent More Time Pursuing Real Terrorists, and Less Time Manufacturing Them for High Profile Arrests\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

We don’t know everything now, but what we do know is that a gunman murdered 50 people at a gay bar in Tampa, Florida<\/a>, and that he contemporaneously made ISIS claims:<\/p>\n

A man who called 911 to proclaim allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, and who had been investigated in the past for possible terrorist ties, stormed a gay nightclub here Sunday morning, wielding an assault rifle and a pistol, and carried out the worst mass shooting in United States history, leaving 50 people dead and 53 wounded.<\/span>

<\/span> The attacker, identified by law enforcement officials as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old who was born in New York, turned what had been a celebratory night of dancing to salsa and merengue music at the crowded Pulse nightclub into a panicked scene of unimaginable slaughter, the floors slicked with blood, the dead and the injured piled atop one another. Terrified people poured onto the darkened streets of the surrounding neighborhood, some carried wounded victims to safety, and police vehicles were pressed into service as makeshift ambulances to rush people to hospitals.<\/span>

<\/span> Joel Figueroa and his friends \u201cwere dancing by the hip-hop area when I heard shots, bam, bam, bam,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cEverybody was screaming and running toward the front door.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, we have calls for effective gun control, but, as always, we can expect them to come to nothing. <\/p>\n

Here is what we know so far<\/a>:<\/p>\n