Omar Mateen, the man accused in the shooting deaths of 49 people and wounding of 53 others at an Orlando night club for gays, had previously amicably worked and socialized with lesbians and homosexuals while on the job at a local restaurant. He later became radicalized, visiting Saudi Arabia twice, all while working for a global British security conglomerate.

Having been born and raised in New York, Mateen received “an associate degree in criminal justice technology” from Indian River State College in Florida, in 2006, according to the New York Times, with the intent of going into law enforcement. At that time, Mateen was described as a “jokester,” someone who “always had a smile on his face.” Samuel King, who went to high school with Mateen, couldn’t believe it was the same person he knew. He was a jokester and at the time didnt have an issue with the LGBT community, King posted on his Facebook page today. “He might’ve even sat down at the bar and had a drink and laughed with the bartenders, knowing that they were lesbians,” he added.

In 2007, Mateen got a job at G4S security company, as a guard at a local, gated housing community. According to a 2014 profile in Vanity Fair, G4S is a British company, third-largest private employer in the world, which, in addition to thousands of “lowly security agents,” also provides cover to high-level MI-6 geo-political subversions. In 2009, Mateen got married and bought a house. But, two years later, the marriage ended in divorce, with his wife complaining about beatings.

During this time Mateen became religious, if not “radicalized.” In 2011, and again in 2012, Mateen visited Saudi Arabia, for their annual Haj. When he came back, still an employee of G4S, Mateen quickly became the object of government surveillance, being picked up by the FBI in 2013, and again in 2014. In 2013, the FBI wanted to question him about “comments to co-workers suggesting he had terrorist ties, and again the next year, for possible connections to Moner Mohammad abu Salha, an American who became a suicide bomber in Syria,” FBI’s Ronald Hopper told the New York Times. Mateen attended the same mosque as suicide bomber Abu Salha, in his home town of Fort Pierce, Florida.

Mateen also studied at the Fundamental Islamic Knowledge Seminary in Orlando, run by one Marcus Dwayne Robertson — himself an FBI informant. According to a profile in Fox News today, Robertson was a former Marine who became the leader of a criminal network of bank robbers in New York, called “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves.” Robertson was apparently arrested in 1991, but then became the “body guard to the Blind Sheik [Shaykh Omar Abdul Rahman] involved in the 1993 World Trade Center Attack,” only one of the numerous other points of FBI “control” in that operation. Robertson later served four years in prison, then again as informant from 2004 to 2007, “to document terrorist plans and networks in Africa, Egypt and the United States.” Now calling himself Abu Taubah, he re-surfaced in Florida and started his “Seminary,” where he preached against homosexuality.

A report in Sunday’s Florida Today quotes Daniel Gilroy, a recent co-worker of Mateen. “I quit because everything he said was toxic,” Gilroy said, “and the company [g4s] wouldn’t do anything. This guy was unhinged and unstable. He talked of killing people.”

It should be noted that Mateen purchased all of his guns legally, as needed for his job.

On the eve of Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s trip to Washington, CIA Director John Brennan announced, in effect, that he worked for the Saudi Royal Family.

In his extensive interview June 11 with Al-Arabiya TV News channel, Brennan attacked Iran as the most important terrorist threat to the Mideast, while offering slobbering praise for King Salman and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as the United States’ strongest partners “in this fight against terrorism.” He told his interviewer, “We have excellent cooperation with Saudi Arabia. I have worked with my Saudi partners for many, many years. I served in Saudi Arabia for about 5 years and under the leadership of the Crown Prince Mohammad bin Nayef, who is also the Minister of the Interior. Over the past 15 years, the Saudis have become among our best counterterrorism partners.”

The last 15 years? Does that include Sept. 11, 2001?

Absolving the Saudis of any complicity in that horrific 2001 attack, Brennan reported that he continues to be very concerned about “Iran’s support for terrorist activities and terrorist groups … inside Iraq, Syria and the other countries throughout the region.” Calling Iran a “state sponsor of terrorism,” Brennan pontificated that it “still has a long way to go before I’m going to be convinced that they are interested in countering and destroying terrorism.” He added that he has “zero” contact with his Iranian counterparts.

While giving lip service to the need for negotiations to resolve the Syrian crisis, Brennan complained that Russia is not doing enough to use its “influence inside of Syria to encourage a transition away from the Bashar al-Assad regime.” Russia really “holds the key” as to whether Assad goes, Brennan asserted, again adding how “disappointed” he is that Russia isn’t doing more to “bring this conflict to a close.” Lawfully, Brennan charged that Assad is responsible for the growth of terrorism and extremism in Syria. “He needs to depart the scene.”