Orlando Terrorist's Unedited 911 Call Transcript Released

"My name is I pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of the Islamic State."

The transcript of Islamic terrorist Omar Mateen's 50-second phone call to an Orlando 911 operator was released in full by the FBI Monday, after the U.S. Justice Department was pressured into making public a version that did not have references to ISIS redacted. However, as reported earlier on TruthRevolt, references to Allah in the transcript were changed to "God." So in fact the transcript is not "in full" after all.

Here is the newly-released version of Mateen's 2:35 a.m. call from inside the Pulse gay nightclub. OD is the Orlando Police Dispatcher and OM is Omar Mateen:

OD: Emergency 911, this is being recorded.

OM: In the name of God the Merciful, the beneficent [Arabic]

OD: What?

OM: Praise be to God, and prayers as well as peace be upon the prophet of God [Arabic]. I wanna let you know, I'm in Orlando and I did the shootings.

OD: What's your name?

OM: My name is I pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of the Islamic State.

OD: Ok, What's your name?

OM: I pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may God protect him [Arabic], on behalf of the Islamic State.

OD: Alright, where are you at?

OM: In Orlando.

OD: Where in Orlando?

[End of call.]

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told NBC's Meet the Press Sunday that the edits were initially made because the Obama administration was not going to "further proclaim this man's pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups and further his propaganda." House Speaker Paul Ryan attacked this decision and demanded that the full document be released.

"The selective editing of the Orlando shooter's 911 call transcript is preposterous," Ryan said in a message.

Mateen, who murdered 49 people and seriously wounded another 53 inside Pulse in the early morning of Sunday, June 12, called 911 on his cell phone twice in the first minutes of his attack, but he hung up. The emergency dispatcher then called him back.

Mateen spoke in a "chilling, calm and deliberate manner," FBI Special Agent in Charge Hopper told reporters. The actual recordings will not be released because while the audio is "compelling, to expose that now would be excruciatingly painful."

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