[willyd]

Paddock was the arms dealer, wife was the FBI bag lady and ISIS / Al Queda contact, hit team came through Mexico and stayed in the 5 other houses Paddock rented that weekend. Australian support to escort the hit team from southeast asia through Mexico to NV.

Hit was a response for the journalist killed in Saudi embassy.

Paddock may have tried to call it off when the prince wasn’t in his room (directly upstairs from paddock).

Hit team didn’t care as much about shooting into a crowd of americans in order to accomplish their mission.

Team was extracted via helicopter by our own Delta from the roof of the parking garage.

Paddock was playing the game with the lowest house advantage over time to launder the money.

[flamberge]

Thank you. A much more detailed picture of events. I doubt the part about "our own Delta" team being part of the operation, but the rest sounds like a good approximation of what went down.

"Our guys" had some advance notice. It was clever mis-direction and they were deployed in all the wrong places against all the wrong threats. A huge cluster****.

Paddock was likely an informant and working "both sides of the street". If he did try to call off the operation, his partners may have killed him on the spot.

Or that may have been their plan all along.

"Lone wolf". Yeah. That's the ticket.