'Peace be upon the prophet... I did the shootings': FBI releases partial transcripts of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen's 911 calls - but scrubs out references to Islam and 9/11 

Omar Mateen praised God, wished peace upon the prophet and spoke in Arabic during a 50-second call he made to a police dispatcher on June 12 from an Orlando gay club.

The FBI has released partial transcripts of Mateen's conversations with members of law enforcement during the brutal attack, starting with the 911 call he made at 2:35am, a little over 30 minutes after the first report of shots being fired at the Pulse nightclub. 

Much of what Mateen said however has been redacted, with the FBI making the decision to leave out all references to Islam, 9/11 and any of the groups that the shooter pledged his allegiance to during the attack, which left 49 dead. 

That leaves some of his exchanges a bit unclear, including one that now reads: 'I pledge allegiance to [omitted] may God protect him [in Arabic], on behalf of [omitted].' 

Mateen claimed responsibility for those killed early on in his call with the dispatcher, saying: 'Praise be to God, and prayers as well as peace be upon the prophet of God [in Arabic]. I let you know, I’m in Orlando and I did the shootings.'

The dispatcher then asked Mateen where his exact location was in Orlando, which he responded to by hanging up the phone.

Special Agent Ronald Hopper of the FBI said at a press conference Monday morning that Mateen also 'made murderous statements in a chilling, calm and deliberate manner.' 

New detail: The FBI has released partial transcripts of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen's call to 911 shortly after he opened fire inside Pulse nightclub

A little over ten minutes after his call with 911, Mateen received his first of many crisis negotiation calls. In those he told the negotiator that America had to stop bombing Syria and Iraq while referring to himself as an Islamic solider. 

Mateen said that the United States attacks on those two countries was why he was 'out here right now.' 

Mateen also told the negotiator he had a car outside that contained a bomb, and threatened to detonate it during their calls.

'There is some vehicle outside that has some bombs, just to let you know,' said Mateen.

'You people are gonna get it, and I’m gonna ignite it if they try to do anything stupid.'

He also claimed to have vests like the ones 'used in France,' a reference to last year's terror attacks in Paris.

Those claims of Mateen's proved to be untrue, with no car found to be loaded up with bombs and a store owner coming forward last week to reveal that he refused to sell the mass murderer military-grade body armor.

Mateen spoke to the negotiator three times, and each conversation lasted at least a few minutes.

The first call came at 2:48am and lasted nine minutes. The second call began at 3:03am, six minutes after the first one ended, and lasted 16 minutes, the longest by far.

The final call came at 3:24am and was just three minutes.

Mateen said at the end of that last conversation: 'In the next few days, you’re going to see more of this type of action going on.'

There were attempts to reach Matten again after that call but they proved to be unsuccessful, forcing police to quickly figure out how to get those inside out of the venue.

At 4:21am they were able to remove an air conditioning unit from a dressing room at the club, and began getting people safely out of the building almost three hours after Mateen first opened fire.

Some of the individuals who were being helped by police on the scene shared at that point Mateen's plan to put suicide vests on four of the victims still being held hostage.

They said at 4:29am that Mateen planned to do this in the next 15 minutes. 

A search of the premises revealed soon after though that there were no improvised exploding devices or vests in the club or in Mateen's car.

The final push to take Mateen down and get those who were still being kept hostage safely out of the club began at 5:02am with a SWAT team from the Orlando Police Department breaching a wall with a explosive charge and using an armored vehicle to get into the club.

They were also joined by members of the Orange County Sheriff's Office Hazardous Device Team.

A little more than 10 minutes later came a report that shots had been fired, and at 5:15am an individual from the Orlando Police Department stated that they had engaged in gunfire with Mateen and that the gunman was down.

That news came three hours after the first report of shots fired at 2:02am, with police arriving on the scene at Pulse within two minutes.

The initial plan was for members of the Orlando Police Department and other law enforcement agencies to enter the club and go after Mateen - which they did beginning at 2:08am - but as the body count kept growing they were forced to change their approach. 

At 2:18am a call-out was issued to all members of the Orlando Special Weapons & Tactics team. 

Mateen's ability to kill and injure so many while also keeping police and authorities at bay was largely due to the fact that he was carrying an AR-15-style gun.

The Sig Sauer MCX, an assault-style semi-automatic rifle, was one of the weapons used by Mateen in the attack, and purchased legally just a week before despite the fact that he was previously investigated by the FBI on multiple occasions and once on the terrorist watch list.

It was designed for use by US Special Operations forces and an experienced shooter would be bale to fire as many as 50 rounds in a minute.