Seddique Mateen, 59, flew from Florida to California every three months to film broadcasts at the channel’s Canoga Park studio, according to network owner Omar Khatab. Omar Mateen’s father, Seddique, was known to some of the world’s Afghan exiles from a TV show he hosted on a satellite network, Payam-e-Afghan. He’s a secular guy,” Khatab said. In a live broadcast on Payam-e-Afghan Sunday afternoon, an unidentified man speaking in English expressed dismay at the attacks. He was a nice guy.”On his Facebook page, Mateen decorated smiling photos of himself with crossed American and Afghan flags.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 12, 2016 23:37 UTC