FBI: At one point he called Boston marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev his "homeboys" and in the last call he pledged allegiance to ISIS. Comey confirmed the FBI is looking into reports that Mateen may have scouted other locations, including Walt Disney World, but wouldn't comment further, according to CTV. Also on Monday, Islamic State official radio station al-Bayan released a bulletin in which they described the Mateen as a soldier of the Caliphate in America, according to a translation from Reuters. FBI Director James Comey confirmed Monday that Mateen spoke with 911 operators three times during the shooting rampage at Pulse nightclub Sunday morning. The FBI had previously interviewed Mateen three times, including as recently as 2014. He was interviewed twice during a 10-month investigation that included surveillance and a review of his communications, but the file was closed after investigators deemed the information "inconclusive." Mateen had told coworkers "he hoped that law enforcement would raid his apartment and assault his wife and child so that he could martyr himself," Comey said, also detailing Mateen claims of family ties to al-Qaida and that he was a member of Hezbollah, which happens to be an enemy organization to ISIS. In 2014 Mateen was back in the crosshairs of the FBI for alleged ties to American suicide bomber Moner Abu Salha. The Bureau opened a file on him in 2013, after concerns were registered about allegedly extremist comments Mateen made to co-workers.
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