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B2G

(9,766 posts) Mon Jun 13, 2016, 11:58 AM Jun 2016

Mateen scouted Disney World

OK, so please tell me why his wife hasn't been arrested. She KNEW what he had planned and said nothing???

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Orlando Nightclub Gunman Scouted Walt Disney World as Potential Target: Source

By Stephanie Petit
@stephpetit_ 06/13/2016 AT 10:30 AM EDT

The gunman behind the Orlando nightclub shootings, the deadliest mass shooting in American history, recently scouted Walt Disney World as a potential target, a federal law enforcement source tells PEOPLE.

Omar Mateen and his wife, Noor Zahi Salman, visited Walt Disney World in April, the source says. Salman told federal authorities on Sunday that her husband had more recently been "scouting Downtown Disney and Pulse [nightclub] for attacks."

Unlike the four Disney World theme parks, Downtown Disney, which was recently renamed Disney Springs, doesn't have security and bag check before entry.

Metal detectors have been installed outside Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom and Epcot since 2015 and guests are selected at random for screening.

http://www.people.com/article/omar-mateen-disney-world-scouted-attacks

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Mateen scouted Disney World (Original Post) B2G Jun 2016 OP

You really don't even need to get into a park exboyfil Jun 2016 #1

Disney Springs could be considered very soft NightWatcher Jun 2016 #2

Really ? bdwker Jun 2016 #3

He killed 50 people at Pulse. Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #5

Probably. bdwker Jun 2016 #7

He never would've gotten into a park, BUT Disney Springs, ticket Booths, train system, hotel lobbi Southerncomfy Jun 2016 #4

Too much security Prism Jun 2016 #6

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)

1. You really don't even need to get into a park

Reply to B2G (Original post)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 12:19 PM

Jun 2016

to make a splash. One example (unless it has changed) is the Universal CityWalk at the entrance to the two Universal Studio parks.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

2. Disney Springs could be considered very soft

Reply to B2G (Original post)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 12:29 PM

Jun 2016

I was there once when during a fist fight they tried to move a lot of people out of the area. There's still a lot of construction and people get funneled to relatively few exits.

I go pretty regularly and am very security minded by profession. I've feared something bad happening there for some while.

The parks have a lot of guards at the front door but DS is harder to control.

bdwker

(435 posts)

3. Really ?

Reply to B2G (Original post)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 12:32 PM

Jun 2016

Maybe they took their kid there ?

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

5. He killed 50 people at Pulse.

Reply to bdwker (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 12:35 PM

Jun 2016

So. There's that for context, don't you think?

bdwker

(435 posts)

7. Probably.

Reply to Bluenorthwest (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 12:55 PM

Jun 2016

Southerncomfy

(117 posts)

4. He never would've gotten into a park, BUT Disney Springs, ticket Booths, train system, hotel lobbi

Reply to B2G (Original post)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 12:33 PM

Jun 2016

are easily accessible and would be just as bad

Prism

(5,815 posts)

6. Too much security

Reply to B2G (Original post)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 12:40 PM

Jun 2016

I was at Disneyland in February. It was a basic "empty your pockets" security deal with random searches.

My boyfriend and I had 3 day passes, and the running joke of the trip was that security would always, always, always pick me for "random" pat downs. Since we moved between parks every day, I started just walking off to the side because I knew it was coming. Porn does not contain that many hand jobs. I feel like money should've been exchanged.

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