As the investigation into the San Bernardino mass shooting continues, attention seems to be centering on Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani woman who participated in the rampage with husband Syed Farook.
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Amir Abdul-Jalil, 50, said he was good friends with Farook. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity under regulations, identified the school Monday as the Al-Huda International Seminary.
The FBI said he went to Pakistan as well, but the family attorneys denied that. Farook worked as an environmental health specialist for San Bernardino County for five years and had been at the party with his co-workers before leaving and returning with his wife, four guns and a bomb. He will talk about the nature of the threat, how it has evolved, and how he plans to defeat it.
In a rare Oval Office address, Obama tried to counter mounting criticism he has not acted decisively enough to keep the United States safe from the Islamic State militant group, but he stopped short of offering any major shift in his strategy.
The deadly shootings have raised concerns over the federal government’s ability to stop terrorists from entering the country and prompted a fast-moving inquiry into the security reviews conducted on Malik before she was granted a visa past year. “I will tell you right now, we don’t know those answers at this point”.
She says authorities used a megaphone to tell whoever was in the house to come out.
Victor Venegas, who lives in the neighborhood, said law enforcement showed up at a home in the 3800 block of Tomlinson Avenue early Saturday and stayed for a few hours. She declined to discuss what they were looking for.
“I recently heard it from relatives that she has become a religious person, and she often tells people to live according to the teachings of Islam”, recalled aunt Hifza Batool.
ISIL also claimed responsibility for a November 13 series of attacks in Paris in which gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people.
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has said that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in Southern California were its followers, and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided a home apparently belonging to a friend of the husband. The President was briefed on the latest details of the investigation. “There’s a number of pieces of evidence that has essentially pushed us off the cliff to say we are now investigating this as an act of terrorism”, he said, adding that the couple had attempted to destroy their digital fingerprints. Nila said she never saw Malik after the reception, which mosque director Mustafa Kuko said 250 to 300 people attended.
The shooting will undoubtedly have implications on the debate over the Obama administration’s plans to accept more Syrian refugees.
On Thursday, as investigators were searching for a motive, Obama said at the White House that the shootings could have been terrorist-related or workplace-related.
Marquez, 29, works as a security guard at Walmart and had lived next door to the Farook family for years.
“This is not a visa that someone would use because it is easy to get into the United States, because there are more background checks on this type of visa than just about anything else”, said Palma Yanni, a Washington-based attorney who has processed dozens of K-1 visas”.
Authorities on Saturday said that while the two rifles used by the couple in the massacre had been purchased legally, they had been altered to make them more powerful and were illegal under U.S. law.
Relatives have been at a loss to explain what triggered the killing spree, describing them as a quiet couple who kept to themselves. An official confirms to the Post that Malik tried to reach out to Somalia-based al-Shabab and Jabhat al-Nusra, which is al-Qaida’s affiliate in Syria.
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San Bernardino shooters Tashfeen Malik, center, and Syed Rizwan Farook, seen going through Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in July 2014. Militants affiliated with IS who carry out attacks are commonly referred to in the group’s propaganda as “lions”, “fighters” or “mujahedeen”.
