The characterization of the husband and wife team, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, came as FBI investigators were leaning away from the theory that Malik, who declared allegiance to the Islamic State on Facebook around the time of the attack, had led her U.S.-born husband to the violence. The husband and wife died… Malik pushed her husband into terrorism. They also apparently had been doing target practice in the Los Angeles area, shortly before the mass shootings.
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More has been learned about the two shooters responsible for last week’s deadly attack in San Bernardino, CA. Pictures of Wednesday’s shooting victims are displayed at a makeshift memorial site Monday, Dec. 7, 2015 in San Bernardino, Calif. Thousands of employees of San Bernardino County are preparing to return to work Monday, five days…
All five men worked as inspectors with the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health and were shot and killed by co-worker Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik.
Questions have been raised about the extent to which Farook, who was born in IL to Pakistani immigrant parents and grew up in Southern California, might have been introduced to extremism by Malik, whom he married in Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2014 before returning together to the United States.
Bowdich said the federal investigation into the shooting is “massive in scale”.
John Galletta, an instructor at Riverside Magnum Range, said in a statement that Farook had been there November 29 and 30, two days before the attack, and “nothing was out of the ordinary regarding his behavior”. In an interview to the Italian daily La Stampa, the father of the male perpetrator of the attack, Syed Farook, who said he emigrated from Pakistan to the USA in 1973, provided a unique insight into the jihadization of his son Rizwan, saying the boy was aligned with the IS ideology and was obsessed with Israel.
Asked if he and others should have been suspicious, he replied, “How do you determine what somebody’s intents are?”
When police searched the suspects’ home, they found “several hundred”.22-caliber long-rifle rounds, “12 pipe bomb-type devices” in the garage, “hundreds of tools, many of which could be used to construct IEDs or pipe bombs”, 2,000 9 mm rounds, and 2,500.223-caliber rounds of ammunition. Witnesses said he had left the luncheon about 20 minutes before the shooting began.
The pay off, made just on two weeks before Farook and his jihadi wife Tashfeen Malik went on their killing spree which left 14 dead and 21 injured opens up the possibility that the pair may have carried out their killing for cash.
At least six of the victims of the massacre remained hospitalized Monday, two in critical condition.
President Barack Obama described the San Bernardino shooting as an “act of terrorism created to kill innocent people”.
FBI Director James Comey said on Friday that no information had been uncovered suggesting the killers were part of an extremist cell or network.
“Right now our major concern at the FBI, the ATF, and the JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force) is determining how those firearms, the rifles in particular, got from Marquez to Farook and to Malik”, said John D’Angelo, assistant special agent in charge with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Employees went back to work Monday, Dec. 7, at the County of San Bernardino Government Center in San Bernardino. “We can’t be afraid of our lives, of our community, of our neighbours, of our co-workers”. Counseling centers and a hotline were open, and managers were urged to look for signs of distress in their employees.
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The environmental health services department employees will start working from December 14.
