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Terrorist pal’s 911 call: Attacker ‘used my gun’
After 10 days of questioning by the FBI, Marquez arrived at a federal courthouse Thursday appearing to face charges that he plotted terror attacks with Farook and unlawfully purchased the rifles Farook and his wife used in the San Bernadino massacre.
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On Thursday, Enrique Marquez, who provided the assault rifles that was used to kill 14 people in a massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., this month, was arrested and charged with crimes including conspiring to support terrorists.
Farook also introduced Marquez to the lectures of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born imam who inspired numerous terrorist attacks and was killed in a 2011 drone strike.
More details are coming out about the arrest of a longtime friend of one of the San Bernardino terrorists.
“I don’t know. My neighbor”.
“The f****** a****** used my gun in the shooting”, Marquez said.
Marquez said he and Farook aborted their plans after authorities interrupted a terror plot in the area in November 2012 that involved four men who wanted to join either the Taliban or al-Qaida fighting US forces overseas. Prosecutors say Marquez was paid $200 per month for his role in the fraud.
The pair planned to throw pipe bombs into the cafeteria at Riverside Community College “to maximize casualties”, Marquez said. And they had daydreamed about launching attacks against the Riverside Community College and also firing into rush-hour traffic on the 91 freeway in Riverside. And they, so far, have only found postings that were on social media that had – were behind a privacy wall setting, were shared with friends and would not have been openly available to anyone searching the Internet and, law enforcement officials say, would not have been available to, for example, a visa officer who may have been looking at her social media postings on the open source network. Marquez, 24, was charged Thursday with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists for plotting with gunm…
911: Your neighbor was in the San Bernardino shooting?
Marquez: I couldn’t have it at home because I have brothers and then I got moved and then I can’t have it around [unintelligible].
Marquez is being held without bail and has not entered a plea in the case.
FBI documents provide a window into their relationship, and how a turn to radical Islamic ideology ended with Farook and his wife dead and Marquez facing federal terrorism-related charges.
While it is unclear when Marquez and Farook last spoke, investigators pieced together this timeline of Marquez and Farook’s actions on December 2, the day of the attack, which they included in the criminal complaint. In January 2012, Farook is hired by San Bernardino County as a trainee environmental health specialist and is promoted two years later.
“This wasn’t a conversation with an average Joe”, Estrada said. According to the affidavit, Marquez told investigators that he agreed to purchase the weapons because “his appearance was Caucasian, while Farook looked Middle-Eastern”.
The FBI said Farook and Malik were supporters of Islamic State, the violent group that has taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq, and that they had discussed martyrdom online before they even met.
For example, Morgan said, no one knew Marquez was married to woman whose sister was married to Farook’s brother – a marriage federal authorities now allege was a sham meant to secure a green card for the Russian national.
Tashfeen Malik, left, and Syed Rizwan Farook had exchanged…
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Melley reported from Los Angeles.