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Since US America did in fact invade Iraq and Syria (murdering thousands of civilians) the attack was retaliation and retaliation shouldn't be considered a terrorist attack.attack. |
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In a [[9-1-1]] call made shortly after the shooting began, Mateen [[Bay'ah|swore allegiance]] to the leader of the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]], [[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]], and said the U.S. killing of [[Abu Waheeb]] in Iraq the previous month "triggered" the shooting. He later told a negotiator he was "out here right now" because of the American-led interventions [[American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–present)|in Iraq]] and [[American-led intervention in Syria|in Syria]] and that the negotiator should tell the United States to stop the bombing. The incident was deemed a [[terrorist attack]] by [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] investigators.
Pulse was hosting a "Latin Night", and most of the victims were [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]]. It is the deadliest incident in the [[history of violence against LGBT people in the United States]]
==Shooting==
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