(CNN)Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June, repeatedly told a police hostage negotiator that he was a soldier of ISIS and that the United States had to stop its bombing in Syria and Iraq, according to a police transcript released Friday.
The FBI previously released a transcript of Mateen"s 911 call which deleted any reference to ISIS because the agency said it did not want to give a platform to terror group.
The transcript notes that Omar then hung up at 3:25 a.m. The last sound noted on the transcript was the ringing of the telephone.
At approximately 5 a.m. the SWAT team breached the nightclub wall, and about 15 minutes later breached the wall to the bathroom where Mateen was barricaded.
Mateen emerged shooting and the team killed him, police said.
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