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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Afghan-born father of Omar Mateen, the man police identified as the gunman who killed 50 people at a packed gay nightclub in Florida on Sunday, is a fringe political commentator who rails against Pakistan and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. 
  
 Seddique Mateen, the father of Omar Mateen, who attacked a gay night club in Orlando before being shot dead by police, speaks with reporters at his home in Port Saint Lucie, Florida, U.S. June 13, 2016. REUTERS/Bernie Woodall 
  
 Seddique Mateen, who public records indicate is the father of Omar Mateen, had an occasional television show on a U.S.-based Afghan satellite channel for about three years, and has continued to post political commentaries on his Facebook page as recently as Sunday. 
  
 Omar Khatab, the owner of the California-based satellite channel Payam-e-Afghan, said in an interview that Seddique Mateen occasionally bought time on his channel to broadcast a show called “Durand Jirga,” which focused in part on the disputed Durand Line, the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan demarcated by the Indian subcontinent’s former British rulers. 
  
 In an interview with NBC News on Sunday, Seddique Mateen, also known as Mir Siddique, said his son’s rampage had “nothing to do with religion.” 
  
 He described an incident in downtown Miami in which his son, U.S.-born Omar Mateen, 29, of Florida, saw two men kissing in front of his wife and child and became very angry. 
  
 “We are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident,” NBC News quoted Seddique Mateen as saying. “We weren’t aware of any action he is taking. We are in shock like the whole country.” 
  
 Seddique Mateen lives in Florida, according to public records, but it was not immediately known when he came to the United States. He did not return messages left on his phone, which appeared to be turned off, or respond to an email. 
  
 Khatab said Seddique Mateen would show up at his studio in Canoga Park, California, “three or four times a year” to tape his shows. 
  
 “He’d talk for about two to three hours,” Khatab said in a phone interview. “He’d buy his own time and come here and broadcast and leave within a day.” 
  
 CRITICAL OF PAKISTAN’S ISI 
  
 Khatab said Seddique Mateen’s political views were largely anti-Pakistan. A YouTube channel under Mateen’s name had more than 100 videos posted between 2012 and 2015. 
  
 One of the videos refers to the “killer ISI” - the acronym for Pakistan’s main military-run intelligence service - and says the agency is the “creator and father of the world’s terrorism.” 
  
 U.S. officials have accused Pakistani intelligence of backing violence against U.S. targets in Afghanistan, although Pakistan denies the allegations. 
  
 U.S. officials cautioned that they had no immediate evidence of any direct connection between the Florida attack and Islamic State or other foreign extremist group, nor had they uncovered any contacts between Omar Mateen and any such group. 
  
 Fifty-three people were wounded in the rampage. It was the deadliest single U.S. mass shooting incident, eclipsing the 2007 massacre of 32 people at Virginia Tech university. 
  
 Seddique Mateen interviewed Ghani in January 2014, eight months before Ghani became president, according to a video posted on his YouTube channel. The interview touched on economic development and youth unemployment in Afghanistan. Khatab said Mateen conducted the interview in Kabul and brought it to California for broadcast. 
  
 During the interview Mateen praised Ghani but by the following year had changed his views, apparently angered by Ghani’s outreach to Pakistan in his bid to start peace talks with the Taliban. In a 2015 video, Mateen declared his own candidacy for the Afghan presidency, even though there was no election at that time. 
  
 In the videos, he wears a Western suit and tie and speaks Dari, a dialect of Persian spoken in northern Afghanistan. He harshly criticizes Ghani’s policies both at home and abroad and lashes out at Pakistan, its intelligence service, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and some senior Afghan government officials and jihadist figures. 
  
 In a February video on his Facebook page, he addresses Taliban members and castigates them for being the “servants” of the ISI. 
  
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 In a June 11 video posted on Facebook, Mateen is dressed in military fatigues and says Afghanistan must “punish the traitors.” 
  
 “I wish a hero one day removes Ashraf Ghani’s turban and slaps this crazy man,” he said in the video. “This traitor has rolled up his sleeves to destroy our country.” 
  
 On Twitter, Ghani condemned the Orlando attack and called it an “act of terror.” ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Seddique Mateen said he did not understand why his son had carried out the shooting 
  
 The father of a gunman who killed dozens of people in an Orlando gay club says he did not know that his son had a "grudge in his heart". 
  
 Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history, before being shot dead by police. 
  
 Seddique Mateen said he did not understand why his son had carried out the shooting at the Pulse nightclub. 
  
 The so-called Islamic State group (IS) called Omar Mateen one of its soldiers. 
  
 In a statement posted online and addressed to people in his native Afghanistan, Seddique Mateen said his son had been "a very good boy", who had a wife and a child. 
  
 "I don't know what caused it," he said. "I never figured out that he had a grudge in his heart... I am grief-stricken." 
  
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 He added he did not know why his son had committed such an act during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, adding that the fate of gay people was "not in the hands of humans" as it was, he said, only God who could judge. 
  
 IS had called for attacks on the West during Ramadan. 
  
 On Sunday, Seddique Mateen said: "We are apologising for the whole incident. We are in shock, like the whole country." 
  
 He said his son had been angered after seeing two men kissing in Miami. 
  
 What happened on the night? 
  
 The attack began at about 02:00 local time (06:00 GMT) on Sunday. There was an exchange of fire with a police officer working at the club, after which the suspect took hostages. 
  
 At 05:00 a police assault team went into the club after police received text messages and phone calls from some of the hostages. Mateen was killed in an exchange of fire. 
  
 States of emergency have been declared in the city of Orlando and surrounding Orange County. 
  
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption President Obama: "We are united in grief, outrage - and resolve" 
  
 Who were the victims? 
  
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Clockwise from top left: Orlando shooting victims Edward Sotomayor, Stanley Almodovar, Luis Omar Ocasio-Ocampo, Juan Ramon Guerrero, Luis Vielma and Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera 
  
 So far, 24 victims have been named: 20 men and four women. They include: 
  
 Edward Sotomayor , 34, who worked for a company that organised gay cruises 
  
 , 34, who worked for a company that organised gay cruises Stanley Almodovar , 23, a pharmacy technician who was remembered as "kind and sassy" 
  
 , 23, a pharmacy technician who was remembered as "kind and sassy" Kimberly Morris , 37, who had only recently moved to Orlando and worked at Pulse as a bouncer 
  
 , 37, who had only recently moved to Orlando and worked at Pulse as a bouncer Luis Vielma , 22, who worked at the Harry Potter section at Universal Studios - author J K Rowling paid tribute to him online 
  
 , 22, who worked at the Harry Potter section at Universal Studios - author J K Rowling paid tribute to him online Eddie Justice, 30, who sent his mother a series of text messages while inside the club - read more on him here 
  
 Read more on the victims here 
  
 LGBT community under siege 
  
 Who was the killer? 
  
 Image copyright CBS News Image caption US media have published pictures of the suspect, Omar Mateen 
  
 Mateen, a US citizen of Afghan descent who was born in New York and lived in Florida, was not on a terrorism watch list. 
  
 However, the FBI interviewed him twice in 2013-14 after he made "inflammatory remarks" to a colleague, before closing its investigation. 
  
 Mateen had legally purchased several guns in the days before the attack. 
  
 A statement on the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency said an IS "fighter" was responsible and on Monday, the group's al-Bayan radio called Mateen "one of the Caliphate's soldiers in the US". 
  
 An FBI spokesman said Mateen had called the emergency services before the attack and sworn allegiance to IS. 
  
 The AR-15 semi-automatic rifle One of the two guns used by Omar Mateen 3.3 million AR-15s in the US in 2012 (estimated) 45 rounds per minute 
  
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 Image copyright Omar Mateen Image caption Mateen's father said his motives had nothing to do with religion 
  
 On Sunday, Mateen's father said religion had had nothing to do with the attack. 
  
 A security company that Mateen used to work for said he had been vetted twice. 
  
 The checks in 2007 and 2013 did not reveal anything of concern, G4S said, and Mateen had carried a gun as part of his job. 
  
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 Analysis: Gordon Corera, BBC Security Correspondent 
  
 The FBI's admission that it investigated Mateen on a number of occasions will raise questions not just for law enforcement but for the wider US security community. 
  
 It has frequently been the case in a number of countries that individuals are assessed as not dangerous at one point and then turn out to be a threat later. In the UK, this led the Security Service to place more emphasis on going back and checking up on previous cases to ensure that the threat assessment made in the past had not changed. 
  
 Keeping detailed files and watch on people can be resource-intensive, however, and has raised concerns over civil liberties in the past. 
  
 As the concern over home-grown terrorism in the US grows, there may be pressure to do more and there may also be further questions as to whether a previous investigation for possible terrorism should place people not just on No-Fly lists, but also restrict their ability to purchase weapons. 
  
 Ex-wife: Mateen was 'disturbed' 
  
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Sitora Yusufiy, supported by her fiance, talks about her ex-husband, Omar Mateen 
  
 Sitora Yusufiy lived with Mateen for four months in 2009. She said her family had "rescued" her from the relationship when they became aware he was being physically abusive. 
  
 He beat her up regularly during their short-lived marriage for trivial things like not doing laundry, she said. 
  
 "When he would get in his tempers, he would express hate toward everything. He was mentally unstable and mentally ill: that's the only explanation that I could give." 
  
 Image copyright EPA Image caption Vigils were held in US cities, including here in San Francisco, to mourn the victims of the Orlando shooting 
  
 Image copyright AP Image caption A DJ who was in the club at the time of the attack was comforted by a friend 
  
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Nihad Awad: "Homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia are interconnected systems" 
  
 The death toll means that the Orlando attack surpasses the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, which left 32 people dead. 
  
 According to the crowd-sourced Mass Shooting Tracker, the US suffered 372 mass shootings last year, defined as a single incident that kills or injures four or more people. Some 475 people were killed and 1,870 wounded. 
  
 The latest incident came as Orlando was still reeling from the fatal shooting on Friday night of 22-year-old singer Christina Grimmie following a concert in the city. |||||
The father of Orlando mass shooter Omar Mateen has some fairly extreme political views, though there doesn't appear to be any direct connection to the mass shooting. Seddique Mateen hosts the Durand Jirga Show on California-based Afghan channel Payam-e-Afghan, reports the Washington Post, which notes that in his political rants, he "doesn't always make much sense." More: The elder Mateen, who pays for airtime to broadcast his show and whose videos also appear on YouTube, frequently rants against the Pakistani government. In at least one video, he praises the Afghan Taliban. In a 2015 video, he declares himself a candidate for Afghan president, though there was no election that year. On a "Provisional Government of Afghanistan" Facebook page, Seddique Mateen's latest post came just hours before the shooting. In a video, he wears army fatigues while pretending to be Afghanistan's president and ordering the arrest of multiple politicians. Seddique Mateen, who told reporters Sunday that his son may have been motivated by anger at seeing two men kiss, apologized for the shootings Sunday night, saying his son was "a very good boy" and that he is in shock. "I never figured out that he had a grudge in his heart," he said, per the BBC. Reuters reports that Seddique Mateen lives in Florida, but it isn't clear when he first came to the US. Sitora Yusufiy, Omar Mateen's ex-wife, tells the Guardian that he was "short-tempered," abusive, used steroids, and did not get along with his parents. "He would often get into fights and arguments with his parents, but because I was the only one in his life, most of the violence was towards me at that time," she says. She adds her family had to rescue her just a few months into their marriage in 2009 after Mateen kept her "hostage."