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Noor Salman: Wife Of Orlando Terrorist Omar Mateen Who Killed 49 In Jihad Attack Charged With Aiding And Abetting ISIS
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January 19, 2017
Widow of Orlando shooter charged in relation with attack
Widow of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen suspected of aiding her husband's attempt to provide support to ISIS.
Ben Ariel, כ' בטבת תשע"ז, 1/18/2017
The widow of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen was formally charged on Tuesday with a terror-related offense and obstruction of justice in connection with the attack, AFPreports.
The indictment states that Noor Salman, who was arrested on Monday in northern California, aided and abetted her husband's attempt to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, namely the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group.
Salman, 30, is also charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly misleading local police in Florida and the FBI on information relating to the attack.
49 people died in Mateen's assault on the Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Mateen, a U.S. citizen born in New York to Afghan immigrant parents, pledged allegianceto ISIS during a phone call with authorities during his rampage.
He was killed after taking hostages during a three-hour standoff inside the nightclub.
It has also been revealed that he took to social media during the massacre to declare support for ISIS, writing, among other things, "You kill innocent women and children by doing us airstrikes… now taste the Islamic State vengeance."
Salman, who had a four-year-old son with Mateen, made an initial appearance in federal court in Oakland, California, on Tuesday and had the charges read out to her, according toAFP.
She faces up to life in prison if found guilty.
Given that it was unclear if she had an attorney in California, another hearing was scheduled for Wednesday, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office told AFP.
He said Salman, who moved to the San Francisco area to live with family after the attack, was provisionally represented by a federal public defender on Tuesday.
Her case is expected to be transferred to Florida.
Media reports have suggested that Salman may have had prior knowledge of her husband's plan to carry out the massacre, as she had accompanied him on at least one trip to the nightclub and on one occasion went with him to buy ammunition.
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Omar Mateen wife Noor Salman arrested over Orlando nightclub shooting
The wife of Omar Mateen, who carried out the worst mass shooting in American history, has been arrested in connection with the attack.
A total of 49 people were killed and 53 injured in the massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida in June last year.
Mateen was shot dead by police following a standoff at the scene. During the standoff he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in a 911 call to emergency officials.
In the wake of the attack FBI agents repeatedly questioned his wife Noor Salman about whether she had advance knowledge of her husband's plans. She told the FBI that she had tried to stop Mateen.
The agency has called it both a terrorist attack and a hate crime.
Loretta Lynch, the US Attorney General, confirmed to MSNBC that Salman had now been arrested seven months later.She said: "We said from the beginning, we were going to look at every aspect of this, of every aspect of this shooter's life to determine not just why did he take these actions - but who else knew about them? Was anyone else involved?"Salman was facing charges of aiding and abetting, and obstruction of justice, CBS News reported.
She was arrested in San Francisco and is expected to appear in court there on Tuesday...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/Widow of Orlando shooter pleads not guilty to aiding him
Noor Salman, widow of Omar Mateen who killed 49 people in Orlando nightclub, pleads not guilty to charges she aided her husband.
Ben Ariel, כ"א בטבת תשע"ז, 1/19/2017
Noor Salman, the widow of the gunman responsible for the shooting attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando this past June pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges she aided her husband in planning the attack, AFP reported.
Salman, 30, entered her plea at a hearing in federal court in northern California where she was arrested on Monday in relation to last year's assault by her husband Omar Mateen.
The judge in the case ordered that she be held pending a bail hearing on February 1.
Her indictment, which was filed on Tuesday, states that Salman aided and abetted her husband's attempt to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
Salman is also charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly misleading local police in Florida and the FBI on information relating to the attack.
49 people died in Mateen's assault on the Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Mateen, a U.S. citizen born in New York to Afghan immigrant parents, pledged allegianceto the Islamic State (ISIS) during a phone call with authorities during his rampage.
He was killed after taking hostages during a three-hour standoff inside the nightclub.
It has also been revealed that he took to social media during the massacre to declare support for ISIS, writing, among other things, "You kill innocent women and children by doing us airstrikes… now taste the Islamic State vengeance."
Federal prosecutor Roger Handberg told magistrate judge Donna Ryu at an initial hearing on Tuesday that Salman was well aware her husband "was going to conduct the attack."
However, her family and her attorney Linda Moreno insist the young woman -- who grew up in California and who had a four-year-old son with Mateen -- had no prior knowledge of the attack and was herself the victim of domestic abuse.
"We believe it is misguided and wrong to prosecute her and that it dishonors the memories of the victims to punish an innocent person," Moreno told local media, according to AFP.
Salman faces up to life in prison if convicted.
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