Attorneys for Noor Salman, the widow

FBI expert: ‘I realized ... that she knew’ about Pulse attack

of the Pulse shooter, argue against allowing her FBI statements as evidence.

Attorneys for the widow of the Pulse nightclub shooter are arguing that what she told the FBI the day of the attack should not be allowed into evidence during her trial.

Noor Salman faces charges of aiding a foreign terrorist organization and obstruction of justice. She was arrested seven months after her husband, Omar Mateen, killed 49 people and injured at least 68 before police shot and killed him June 12, 2016. Mateen called 911 from the club and pledged his allegiance to the leader of the so-called Islamic State group.

Salman could testify today, her attorney, Charles Swift, said Thursday afternoon.

FBI Special Agent Ricardo Enriquez, a polygraph examiner assigned to the Miami office, said he drove June 12, 2016, to Fort Pierce to interview Salman. He spoke with her about her husband and then wrote down a statement in her own words, he said. None of Salman’s interviews that day were video or audio recorded.

Salman first told him her husband had been going on extremist websites for about two years but said she did not know he was planning an attack, Enriquez said.

He wrote down her statement and, at the end, asked her to write a paragraph to say nobody was forcing her to be there. When she was done, she went to the bathroom and Enriquez read over the statement with two other agents, he said.

He was surprised when he got to the last sentence she wrote, he said.

“I am sorry for what happened,” she wrote. “I wish I could go back and tell his family and the police what he was