Authorities said Malik, 27, and her husband, Syed Farook, 28, launched a coordinated attack at the Inland Regional Center before being killed by police in a gun fight.
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Al-Turki said Saudi records show she was not a resident of Saudi Arabia and had been to the kingdom only twice.
David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, would not elaborate on how the bureau reached that conclusion, citing “a number of pieces of evidence” but declining to give details.
“There is no indication that these killers are part of an organized larger group or form part of a cell”.
He said investigators were examining a Facebook posting in which Malik is believed to have pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, made around the time of Wednesday’s attack.
If the mass shooting proves to have been the work of people inspired by Islamist militants, as investigators now suspect, it would mark the deadliest such attack in the United States since September 11, 2001.
“We shouldn’t even have to talk about this anymore”, Carson said during a speech to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group of state legislators and business groups.
During a radio broadcast, ISIS praised the attack that killed 14 people as carried out by two supporters, but it stopped short of claiming responsibility.
Relatives of Farook and Malik were at a loss to explain how the couple, who had an infant girl and seemed to be living a normal life, could have committed mass murder.
“I can never imagine my brother or my sister-in-law doing something like this”.
“It s just mind-boggling why they would do something like this”.
The couple was married August 16, 2014, and held their wedding reception at the Islamic Center of Riverside, said Dr. Mustafa Kuko, the center’s director.
In Pakistan, a relative of female shooter Tashfeen Malik says the woman apparently became a more zealous follower of the Muslim faith about three years ago.
The security services have not found any linkages of Tashfeen Malik to any extremist individual or militant group in Pakistan that could motivate her for mass shooting in California, The Nation has learnt.
Tashfeen Malik and her husband, Syed Farook, killed 14 people at a holiday banquet for his co-workers before dying in a gunbattle with police.
Malik started studying pharmacy at Bahauddin Zakariya University in the Pakistani city of Multan in 2012.
And former classmate Abdia Rani told AFP she had “gradually turned religious” and over time became more serious and withdrawn.
“But we never thought that she had extremist links or even can be an extremist”, Rani said.
During his stint, he received the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, among other awards.
They described Farook as a “pretty private person”, but they shrugged off reports that he had reacted badly when people he worked with at the San Bernardino County Health Department teased him about his beard.
The government’s apparent failure to detect Malik’s alleged sympathies before the shootings will likely have implications on the debate over the Obama administration’s plans to accept Syrian refugees.
The landlord of the couple’s rented townhouse opened their home up to reporters and the public who flooded in Friday, taking pictures and videos in a surreal scene.
Authorities identified the victims as six women and eight men aged 26 to 60. Almost all the dead and wounded were county employees. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Ken Dilanian and Eric Tucker in Washington; Zarar Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan; Brian Skoloff in Redlands, California; Kimberly Pierceall in San Bernardino, California; Lee Keath in Cairo, Egypt; Mike Blood, Gillian Flaccus, Christine Armario, Sue Manning and Justin Pritchard in Los Angeles.
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Her paternal aunt, Hafza Batool, told a local correspondent of the BBC that the family was in a state of shock. “And all I could think of is why doesn’t he stop?”
