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After the world witnessed deadly attacks in Paris and Brussels,this weekend's shooting in Orlando, Florida is a reminder that terrorist-related violence is shared globally. Though it's unclear what exact ties Omar Mateen had to terrorist organizations like ISIS, and he had been investigated twice by the FBI,but ultimately deemed to be not a threat.
All of the perpetrators linked to the terrorist attacks on Paris in November 2015 were E.
U. citizens, and Mateen was an American citizen. How has the world responded to this increasingly familiar tragedy, and this time on American soil?Rukmini Callimachi,foreign correspondent for our partner The New York Times, explains how terrorism organizations and the international community are responding to the massacre in Orlando along with Jessica Stern, or a terrorism expert and author of "ISIS: The State of terrorism." Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear the full conversation.
Source: wnyc.org