Marquez, a convert to Islam whose home was raided at the weekend, is now being treated in a psychiatric ward. According to ABC News, Marquez told FBI investigators that he and Farook plotted a terror attack in 2012, but called off the plans after a series of terror-related arrests in other cities.
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Lawmakers said the FBI wouldn’t provide details about his ties to the case, citing an “ongoing criminal investigation”.
Divers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation began searching the waters of Seccombe Lake Park, two miles (3km) from the site of the attack. He has not been charged with any crime. Since the shootings, he has waived his Miranda rights, cooperated with investigators and provided information, according to the officials. No attorney has come forward.
Security personnel also searched the house where Malik was said to have lived in the central Pakistan city of Multan, where she attended a separate university from 2007 to 2013, a police official said.
The organisations that Malik sought out likely shied away out of extreme caution in communicating with individuals unknown to them and a fear of being caught up in a law-enforcement “sting ” operation, sources said. He helped me a lot.
“I want this to stop”, she said. “My life changed Wednesday”. “He is a really good person”.
Mr Comey said the precise origins of the couple’s radicalisation were as yet unknown but appeared to predate the rise of ISIS, the militant group that has seized vast swaths of Iraq and Syria and last month claimed responsibility for the assaults on Paris that left 130 dead.
Chacon says she hasn’t seen her son in the week since Farook and his wife killed 14 people.
Tashfeen Malik and husband Syed Farook opened fire at a workplace event for Farook’s colleagues, killing 14 and wounding 22. But his role is continuing to be evaluated as he cooperates with investigators and they assess his information, officials said.
The men have been convicted of providing material support to terrorism, and were not plotting an attack in the US, said David Bowdich of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. “I’m not prepared to discuss Mr. Marquez at this point”, Bowdich said.
Now that Farook’s friend and former neighbor Enrique Marquez has the attention of investigators, his own relationships are being scrutinized.
The two AR-15s used in the San Bernardino attack were purchased by Enrique Marquez for Farook back in 2011 and 2012, two law enforcement officials said.
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“He has admitted that in 2012 they had something in mind and they didn’t do it because there had been some immediate arrests by the counterterrorism people”, Risch, who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told CNN. That same year, Marquez bought the first of two rifles for Farook. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a presidential candidate, if the marriage between Malik and Farook was arranged by a terrorist organization, Comey said he didn’t know yet. Investigators have found data on a tablet computer and other cell phones at the couple’s home, he said. A brother of Enrique Marquez collects his mail Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, in Riverside, Calif. Authorities have said Enrique Marquez, an old friend of San Bernardino attacker Syed Farook, purchased two assault rifles used in last…
