Additionally concerning last Friday’s attack, “Authorities had previously said that Farook and [Tashfeen] Malik were planning a follow-up attack after the San Bernardino assault when they were killed in a gun battle with local authorities…”, according to Fox News.
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Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, “were radicalized quite a long time before their attack”, Comey said in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The father, Gulzar Ahmed Malik, has been a resident in the kingdom since the early 1980s, the Saudi Interior Ministry says.
THE couple who massacred 14 people at a California holiday party were discussing martyrdom online before they met in person and married a year ago, FBI Director James Comey says.
FBI Director James Comey, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the case represents how deadly the terror group Islamic State can be in motivating would-be terrorists to attack Americans.
The couple Wednesday a year ago.
“We also believe they were inspired by foreign terror organisations”.
The office of Speaker Paul D. Ryan said that at his request, House members would receive a classified briefing about the attacks on Thursday afternoon from Comey; the secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh C. Johnson; and the head of the National Conterterrorism Center, Nicholas J. Rasmussen. What’s more likely, that her new life as a married woman in America turned suddenly into plans for terrorism within weeks of arriving?
“Whatever God does only he knows better, and only God knows why did it happen”, Gulzar Ahmad Malik said.
The online romance between Southern California terrorists Farook Rizwan Syed and Tashfeen Malik was more a meeting of like minds than lonely hearts, with two radical jihadists forming a bond of hate and bloodlust in the dark recesses of the Internet. Intelligence officials on Wednesday concluded that Malik had never visited or stayed in India, as there exists no record of her two Pakistani passports – passport number BF 0760081 valid from 2008 to 2013 and passport number KE-512100 issued thereafter from Riyadh – in the immigration records. This diminishes the likelihood of early theories after the December 2 shootings in California that Malik had radicalized her husband.
The radicalization could include Enrique Marquez – a friend who is related to Farook by marriage.
Comey told lawmakers that part of the challenge authorities face in detecting lone wolves involves attackers’ use of encrypted communications that authorities can not crack, even with a court order. He said the county is “unable to confirm or deny the existence of a dependency proceeding or whether we are providing services to a particular child”.
He said one of the gunmen in last May’s shooting outside a Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, had exchanged more than 100 messages with an overseas suspected terrorist prior to the attack that investigators still had been unable to access.
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“At this point in time we do not have an indication that these two people were part of a larger cell or group”, she said.
