She deleted the posts after the attack, the AP reported.
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Farook was at the party but left abruptly before the shooting.
Officials said they still do not know what prompted Farook and Malik to open fire on Farook’s co-workers but have not ruling anything out. It was with his mother that they left their six-month-year child before setting off on Wednesday morning.
“I’m aware of the Facebook posting”, Bowdich said. He said Farook seemed happy and his usual self and the brothers never saw a violent side.
Attorneys for the family of a California shooter are cautioning the public against rushing to judgment about terrorist connections to the attack.
Thalasinos worked with Farook as a restaurant inspector and only two weeks ago, was having a heated on-the-job discussion about the nature of Islam with the suspect.
The couple had dropped off her infant daughter with her grandmother hours before carrying out the deadly attack, according to family members.
The FBI also said they are investigating the incident as an “act of terrorism”.
Straight after the attack, on December 3, when the two shooters were still unidentified and on the run, debkafile’s counterterrorism sources inferred from the comment by an anonymous federal officer that “one of the shooters is an American citizen whose identity is known” that U.S. intelligence had been onto Farook. At home, they had 12 pipe bombs, tools to make more explosives and well over 4,500 rounds, police said.
The FBI said it had finished its investigation at the property belonging to the married couple suspected of carrying out the shooting on Wednesday that left 14 people dead and 21 wounded.
According to CNN, Malik pledged allegiance to Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, officials told the news network.
FBI Los Angeles Assistant Director in Charge, David Bowdich, made the announcement during a news conference Friday.
The massacre stunned the U.S. Muslim community, whose leaders say they are as heartbroken and as horrified as everyone else.
President Obama said it is just too easy for people to buy guns in the United States. He also said the Federal Bureau of Investigation is scouring the couple’s digital devices for evidence.
One official told the New York Times: “At this point we believe they were more self-radicalised and inspired by the group than actually told to do the shooting”.
It has also emerged Malik praised IS on Facebook as she and her husband began spraying bullets at his colleagues in the county health department.
The executive spoke on condition of anonymity because this person was not allowed under corporate policy to be quoted by name.
A source close to the Saudi government said that during Malik’s time in Saudi Arabia nothing came to authorities’ attention there that suggested she was involved with radical Islamic groups.
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Chesley expressed surprise that Malik, whom he described as being “about 90 pounds, so it’s unlikely she could even carry a weapon or wear some type of a vest or do any of this”, could have been an active participant in the horror. The officials say his family – including Tashfeen Malik, then only a few years old – joined him there 25 years ago. They met in person when Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2013 during the Hajj pilgrimage, the attorney said. Law enforcement officials have long warned that Americans acting in sympathy with Islamic extremists – though not on direct orders – could launch an attack inside the U.S. Using slick propaganda, the Islamic State in particular has urged sympathizers worldwide to commit violence in their countries. He said investigators were looking into the hard drives from the couple’s computers and phones.
