BREAKING: Islamic State claims responsibility for Orlando terror attack

By Neil Stevens | 3:19 PM on June 12, 2016

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Terry DeCarlo, executive director of the LGBT Center of Central Florida, center, is comforted by Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan, right, after a shooting involving multiple fatalities at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

A man who swore allegiance to the Caliph of the Islamic State shot up a Gay Pride Weekend gathering this morning. Via the Amaq News Agency, the organ of the Islamic State, we now know it was one of their fighters who did it.

Their statement reads: “The attack that targeted a nightclub for homosexuals in Orlando, Florida and that left more than 100 dead and wounded was carried out by an Islamic State fighter.”

It is not known if the planned attack in Los Angeles was also by an Islamic State fighter.