In addition, authorities found 19 pipes in the couple’s home that could be turned into bombs, Bowdich said.
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Malik and her husband, armed with assault rifles, burst into a holiday office party and opened fire.
Husband and wife were killed hours later in a shootout with police.
“Unfortunately, the room just didn’t provide a whole lot of protection”, said Corwin Porter, assistant county health director.
“Farook’s estranged father, also named Syed Farook, told the Italian newspaper La Stampa that his son shared the ideology of the Islamic State group and was fixated on Israel”.
REUTERS/StringerA general view shows the al-Huda seminary in Multan Pakistan, where Tashfeen Malik, the woman involved in the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California studied December 7, 2015.
A 2010 NPR report on Hashmi and Al-Huda highlighted the contradiction between the two characterizations of Hashmi and her school, as either empowering to women, or as an incubator for a very conservative sect of Sunni Islam that emulates the teachings of the Taliban and the Islamic State.
However, a few hours after releasing the statement, Al-Huda edited its statement and removed a few lines including: “It seems that she (Tashfeen) was unable to understand the handsome message of the Qur’an”.
Investigators are trying to establish if she had contact with radicals while in Pakistan or in Saudi Arabia, where she is believed to have spent extended periods of time. Malik studied pharmacy at the Bahauddin Zakariya University in the central city of Multan, where she got a degree in 2013.
“Every Pakistani knows these preaching, self-righteous conservatives who think everyone else is following the wrong type of Islam, but you never expect them to indulge in violence”, he said. Malik had arrived in Saudi Arabia in June, 2008, from Pakistan to visit her father and stayed for about nine weeks before returning to Pakistan, the official informed.
But that doesn’t mean members of Al-Huda go on to become terrorists, said Mohammad Amir Rana, a terrorism expert at the Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies. She had glowing praise for Hashmi and said people who call her controversial have got it wrong.
“We can not be held responsible for personal acts of any of our students”, said the centre, which was founded in 1994 by prominent female Islamic scholar Farhat Hashmi. He said eight years ago she came back to her home country to study pharmacology at a University. Malik was a student there from April 17, 2013 until May 3, 2014, when she handed in her last paper in the first-year curriculum, the spokeswoman said.
Amir adds that during the brief time Tashfeen was enrolled at the school, she took classes on translating the Quran. She asked many questions in class about religion and at times debated religious matters with teachers and classmates.
At the same time, Hashmi’s organization is also a widely-recognized school that seeks to educate women in Islam, and even bills itself periodically as “feminist”.
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Friends and teachers of Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani woman accused along with her husband of shooting dead 14 people in California last week, have expressed shock and astonishment over the incident, saying that she was quite “normal” and a “hard working” student at Multan’s Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU).
