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Jury selection begins in trial of Noor Salman, widow of Pulse shooter Omar Mateen
Orlando Sentinel ^ | 1 March 2018 | Gal Tziperman Lotan and Krista Torralva

Posted on 03/01/2018 6:16:02 AM PST by csvset

Jury selection begins Thursday in the trial of the Pulse shooter's widow. Jury selection is under way this morning in downtown Orlando in the case against Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen.

Salman, 31, is charged with aiding and abetting her husband in supporting a foreign terror organization, the Islamic State, and obstructing justice. Her husband was killed by police hours after he began shooting in the Orlando club June 12, 2016, killing 49 people and wounding dozens more.

About 5 a.m. Bob Kunst of Miami Beach parked across the federal courthouse in Orlando, armed with a lawn chair, a jug of water and a white cardboard sign: ‘FRY’ HER TILL SHE HAS NO ‘PULSE’.”

Kunst, president of Shalom International Miami Beach and a longtime gay rights activist, said he drove more than 200 miles before dawn to deliver his message.

“I’m here to take a stand against the insanity of not just this madness here, what we experienced in Parkland, what we’re experiencing everywhere,” Kunst said, referring to the mass shooting at a South Florida high school last month. “The FBI, the police that dropped the ball … It leaves us all vulnerable.”

Kunst noted that the FBI had previously investigated Mateen in 2013, before clearing him, and that Orlando police waited to go into the club during Mateen’s assault. A school resource officer at Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School has also been criticized for not going into the school during the shooting.

“She deserves the death penalty. Nothing less,” Kunst said. “You have to send a message to every one of these people that are out there ready to do us in that you have to pay the penalty.”

Salman could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted. She does not face the

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2013; islam; mateen; noor; omar; orlando; pulse; pulsenightclub; salman
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1 posted on 03/01/2018 6:16:02 AM PST by csvset
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She does not face the possabilty of execution. Shame.


2 posted on 03/01/2018 6:16:36 AM PST by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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Yes...they’ll give her the keys to the city by the time it’s all over!


3 posted on 03/01/2018 6:19:16 AM PST by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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We must purge our police departments of militant Islamists. The sooner the better. The motives of the Islamists become more and more obvious when you look at the records of mass murders.


4 posted on 03/01/2018 6:22:24 AM PST by Rapscallion (The tragedy of politics is that it can make good people hate each other.)
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5 posted on 03/01/2018 6:22:26 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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I wonder why the media has not said a word about the murder of innocents by m*slims at the Pulse Nightclub, but never misses an opportunity to commemorate the anniversary of Columbine and Sandy Hook.


6 posted on 03/01/2018 6:28:21 AM PST by I want the USA back (Free Republic keeps me from going insane in a world that has chosen insanity over reason.)
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She’s just following the Queeranne, after all.


7 posted on 03/01/2018 6:35:42 AM PST by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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Right at home in the damnocrat party.


8 posted on 03/01/2018 6:44:18 AM PST by onedoug
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The Boston Bomber wife was never charged with anything. The San Bernardino grandma was barely, if at all, questioned.


9 posted on 03/01/2018 8:59:11 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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Though I imagine there are certain things that can happen in prison where she ends up getting hung by her own jibjab. Certainly won’t shed a tear if guards turn a blind eye...


10 posted on 03/01/2018 5:34:29 PM PST by longsufferingjetsfan
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