New York Post

Pulse wife ‘knew’

Told feds: ‘I was in denial’ of club massacre

- By JOE TACOPINO

The wife of the ISIS-inspired monster who committed the 2016 massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub reportedly told the FBI that she knew about his plot beforehand — and did nothing to stop it.

Noor Salman — whose husband Omar Mateen fatally gunned down 49 people — told investigat­ors she “knew that her husband was going to attack the Pulse nightclub” when he left the house on the night of June 11, according to documents obtained by USA Today.

“My fears had come true and he did what he said he was going to do,” Salman said, according to the newspaper.

“I was in denial and I could not believe that the father of my child was going to hurt other people.”

According to the files, Salman (bottom inset) said she was even warned about the specific location of the attack.

“How upset are people going to be when it gets attacked?” Mateen (top inset) allegedly asked his wife while they were driving by Pulse.

Salman also witnessed her husband browsing the Pulse Web site and declaring “this is my target.”

On the night before one of the most devastatin­g mass shootings in US history, Salman said her husband loaded up on firearms and ammunition. She remembered think- ing, “This was the time that he was going to do something bad.”

Before leaving the house on the night of the killings Mateen told his wife, “This is the one day.”

At around 2 a.m. on June 12, Mateen opened fire at Pulse, killing 49 and wounding 58 others before killing himself.

Salman pleaded not guilty to aiding a foreign terrorist organizati­on and obstructio­n of justice last year.

The newly revealed documents shed light on some of the evidence being used against her in federal court.

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