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Noor Salman: Pulse nightclub shooter’s widow not guilty

Was this a jury of Muslims? The “thick” one admitted she knew he was going to get violent, and that he had bought a gun and was watching “Islamic State” videos.

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The widow of a gunman who killed dozens at a Florida nightclub two years ago has been found not guilty of helping him.

Noor Salman, 31, was charged with obstruction of justice and aiding Omar Mateen in providing support to the Islamic State militant group.

Her lawyers had argued that she was an innocent victim of her husband’s lies.

Mateen killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in June 2016 before he was shot dead by police.

The 12-member jury returned their verdict on Friday morning on their third day of deliberations.

Ms Salman sobbed as the verdict was read while her relatives hugged, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Defence lawyer Charles Swift had said in his closing argument: “She doesn’t go to the mosque, she searches for Hello Kitty on her website.

“We’re supposed to believe she had long conversations with Omar Mateen about jihads?”

Her attorneys also argued she was a victim of a “tragic marriage” to Mateen, with no prior knowledge of the attack.

Mateen entered the venue after midnight and opened fire with an AR-15 assault rifle, holding people hostage in the bathroom before dying in a gun battle with police.

His father said a possible motive for the attack might have been his son’s outrage at seeing two men kissing in Miami.

“Omar Mateen is a monster,” another defence attorney, Linda Moreno, told the jury.

“Noor Salman is a mother, not a monster. Her only sin is she married a monster.”

More than 100 advocacy organisations signed a letter supporting the release of Ms Salman from prison.

“The prosecution of Ms Salman is rooted in gendered Islamophobia and patriarchy,” the letter read.

But prosecutors pointed to a statement Ms Salman made to the FBI after her arrest in January 2017, that she knew her husband was going to do something violent.

They also said Ms Salman “knowingly misled” FBI interrogators in the hours after the attack.

“This case is about what she knew and what she did,” Assistant US Attorney Sara Sweeney said to the court.

“The defendant didn’t pull the trigger that night, but she did serve as a green light for her husband,” she had argued.

Special Agent Ricardo Enriquez said that Ms Salman had confessed her husband had been watching Islamic State videos and bought a weapon.

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17 Comments on Noor Salman: Pulse nightclub shooter’s widow not guilty

  1. She wouldn’t snitch on her husband because that’s what muslims do. They stick together, even if it’s going to kill them and their children. Why don’t they take that into consideration?

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  2. Under the rules of the “Religion of Peace” women are not responsible for what men do as they are not capable of self-guided actions; they are just weapons and tools of the Jihadist.

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  3. Hmmm, yesterday I thought the low IQ defense wouldn’t work. My error was limiting the low IQ to the defendant. The low IQ defense works when it’s the jury with low IQ. Next she’ll sue for wrongful imprisonment, win, and live off taxpayers the rest of her life.

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  4. Only one conclusion possible
    according to the Left.
    The jury was made up
    of republican homophobes.
    My question is how come the
    FBI Agents who were “running”
    him til the last minutes aren’t
    on trial?

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