Specifically, investigators are taking a new look at one of the four men who was arrested in the 2012 case, Sohiel Kabir.
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FBI investigators who are probing the San Bernardino shooting are taking a new look at Kabir, the two officials said.
The FBI reported that another person has sought medical treatment from the office party shooting, raising the number of wounded to 22. FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that the two were radicalized well before Malik came to the US on a fiance visa, and they had discussed jihad and martyrdom as early as 2013.
“We also believe they were inspired by foreign terrorist organizations”, he added.
HANDOUT/EPA Tashfeen Malik tried to contact Islamic militant groups in the months leading up to the deadly December 2 attack in San Bernardino that she carried out with her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook.
While the militant group has since embraced the couple as among its followers, U.S. government sources have said there was no evidence Islamic State even knew of the couple before the San Bernardino killings.
He added the FBI will continue a “methodical and factual” investigation. But the couple by no means surfaced on regulation enforcement’s radar and Malik was capable of enter the D.J. on a fiancée visa final yr regardless of having professed radical views on-line.
Chacon was outside with one of her sons, cleaning up the broken glass and twisted panels of their garage door.
Velasco was the baby in the family, the one her sisters all remember excitedly bringing home from the hospital and watching grow up. “It appears that there was not any evidence that would have been discoverable during an interview for a visa”. Malik came to the United States on July 27 of that year.
Past plot with former neighbor?
Images of San Bernardino-area schools were found on a cellphone belonging to Farook, according to a law-enforcement source.
New revelations present a a lot deeper connection between Farook and Enrique Marquez, his good friend who purchased the assault rifles used within the capturing, than beforehand was disclosed. He has not been charged with a crime, but could face charges if it turns out he did not properly transfer the guns to Farook.
The source said it remains unclear whether Marquez was involved in planning the San Bernardino attack or had prior knowledge that an attack was pending. Marquez converted to Islam around the time he purchased the weapons, sources said.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Specialized divers with the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched a San Bernardino lake for a second day Friday, looking for a computer hard drive and any other evidence linked to last week’s terror attack and the husband-and-wife shooters who killed 14 people.
“We don’t have any indications right now that the screening process for Miss Malik was any different than it is for any fiancée or that there were any things missing inside this very vigorous screening process”, Kirby said.
Hours after the shooting, Marquez posted a cryptic message on his Facebook page.
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Investigators are working to determine whether the pair ever met or took orders from ISIS leaders, or if anyone outside the United States had a hand in or knew of their plans.
