Obama, Ban Ki Moon condemn Orlando mass shooting
Mr Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary-General has condemned the horrific attack on Sunday in Orlando, Florida, in which dozens of people were killed and injured.
Ban in a statement in New York, extended his deepest condolences to the families of the victims and expresses his solidarity with the Government and people of the United States.
President Barack Obama has issued a proclamation following the deadly mass shooting for the flag of the U. S. to be flown at half-staff at the White House and at all public buildings and grounds, military posts and naval stations.
Others are on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, June 16, 2016.”
Flags at all U.S. embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations have also been ordered to fly at half-staff.
Obama in his address to the nation Sunday afternoon, said the massacre was a reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon.
“And we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision as well,” Obama said.
Obama stressed that no act of terror or hate would change the values of Americans.
“We need to demonstrate that we are defined more as a country by the way they lived their lives than by the hate of the man who took them from us,” he said.
The gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State killed 50 people and wounded 53 in a crowded gay nightclub here early Sunday.
According to Ronald Hopper, an assistant agent in charge of the FBI’s Tampa Division, Mateen has been investigated twice by the bureau for possible connections to terrorism, but no ties could be confirmed.
Mateen, 29, an American citizen whose parents were from Afghanistan, called 911 and talked about the Islamic State shortly before the massacre at the Pulse nightclub.
Mateen, 29, an American citizen whose parents were from Afghanistan, called 911 and talked about the Islamic State shortly before the massacre at the Pulse nightclub.
“The FBI first became aware of him in 2013 when he made inflammatory comments to co-workers alleging possible terrorist ties,” but could not find any incriminating evidence, Agent Hopper said.
In 2014, the bureau investigated Mateen again, for possible ties to Moner Abusalha, an American who grew up in Florida but went to Syria to fight for an extremist group and detonated a suicide bomb.
Agent Hopper said the bureau concluded that the contact between the two men had been minimal, and that Mateen “did not constitute a substantive threat at that time.”
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