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US authorities won’t release Orlando shooter’s IS allegiance pledge
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS authorities will release “limited transcripts” Monday of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen and police negotiators’ telephone conversations during his attack at a gay nightclub that left 49 people dead, Attorney General Loretta Lynch says Sunday.
Lynch says the conversations include Mateen’s pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State group, and his views of US policy.
But those statements will not be included in the transcripts released to the public, she says.
“What we’re not going to do is further this man’s propaganda,” she says on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We’re not going to hear him make his assertions of allegiance.”
— AFP
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