The Headline:
Rampage killers led secret life, hiding plans and weapons
* F^^KING OBAMA... PIECE OF $HIT...
* HEY FOLKS... REMEMBER THE TSARNAEV BROTHERS...
* HEY FOLKS... REMEMBER NIDAL MALIK HASAN...
* THIS STUPID PIECE OF $HIT IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS NO
DOUBT GONNA GET MORE OF OUR FELLOW CITIZENS MURDERED BEFORE HE'S GONE COME
JANUARY 2017!
Early Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook asked his
mother for the sort of favor grandmothers love to grant: A few hours of
baby-sitting. Farook told her that he and his wife, Tashfeen, had a doctor’s
appointment and didn’t want to take their 6-month-old daughter.
In an account of the conversation provided by a relative
through a local Islamic leader, the grandmother agreed. She was caring for the
child at the couple’s Redlands home when news of a mass shooting in nearby San
Bernardino broke.
Fearing her son and daughter-in-law were victims, “she
started calling. No answer,” said Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the
Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Los Angeles office. It was only after
reporters started phoning her that she realized the couple were the assailants.
That Farook’s own mother had apparently sensed nothing
wrong underscored a feeling among investigators and acquaintances Thursday that
the couple responsible for the massacre at a holiday party inside the Inland
Regional Center scrupulously concealed their views, plans and a cache of
weapons and explosives.
* FOLKS. THERE WERE SIGNS. AS I NOTED YESTERDAY, PEOPLE
WHO NOTED STRANGE GOINGS ON... STRANGE COMINGS AND GOINGS... FAILED TO REPORT
THEIR SUSPICIONS DUE TO A FEAR OF BEING LABELED "RACIST."
Of particular interest to investigators is the
relationship between Farook, a 28-year-old U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent...
* WHAT DOES "PAKISTANI DESCENT" MEAN? WAS
FAROOK BORN HERE... BORN A U.S. CITIZEN (TO LEGAL RESIDENTS)... OR NOT?
...and Tashfeen Malik, 27, a Pakistani national.
While his upbringing and adult life in Riverside is
chronicled in school files, work documents and other records, little is known
publicly about her.
Authorities said Thursday that she was more than just an
accomplice. At one point as the couple attempted to elude police, Malik fired
an assault rifle out the back window of their sport utility vehicle at pursuing
officers.
* WAS IT REALLY AN "ASSAULT RIFLE?"
(SERIOUSLY... I DON'T KNOW; WAS IT? WHAT TYPE?) I WOULD DOUBT IT... BUT...
(*SHRUG*)
Nizaam Ali, who worshipped with Farook at a San
Bernardino mosque, said he had met Malik on a few occasions, but she wore a
head scarf that obscured her face.
“If you asked me how she looked, I couldn’t tell you,”
Ali said.
The couple met online a few years ago and married last
year in Islam’s holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, according to co-workers at
the public health department and others who knew them. The Saudi Embassy in
Washington confirmed that Farook spent nine days in the kingdom in summer 2014.
Authorities said that when he returned to the U.S. in
July 2014, he brought Malik with him on a fiancee visa. After a background
check by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, she was granted a
conditional green card last summer.
(*SARCASTIC APPLAUSE*)
* YEAH... I BET THE FBI AND HOMELAND SECURITY WILL DO THE
SAME "GREAT JOB" WHEN THEY "VET" THE SYRIANS OBAMA WANTS TO
BRING IN TO OUR COUNTRY.
HOW'D THAT "VETTING" OF THE TSARNAEV BROTHERS GO?!
HOW'D THAT "VETTING" OF MAJOR HASAN WORK OUT?!
* FOLKS... THESE REALITIES SHOULDN'T SIMPLY BE FODDER FOR
SNARK. OBAMA AND HIS POLICIES PRESENT A CLEAR AND PRESENT MENACE TO AMERICA!
The couple held a walima, a celebration after the
wedding, at the Islamic Center of Riverside for people who couldn’t attend the
Saudi ceremony. Ali said a few hundred people attended. The couple’s daughter
was born in the spring and co-workers at the San Bernardino County Public
Health Department, where Farook worked for five years as an inspector, said
some of them had thrown him a baby shower.
An online baby registry in Malik’s name listed a large
box of Pampers, Johnson’s safety swabs, a car seat and baby wash.
The idea of a new mother helping carry out a mass murder
perplexed many.
* PERPLEXED MANY "WHO?" PERPLEXED MORONS...?!?!
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who had a classified
FBI briefing on the shooting Thursday, said leaving an infant for a suicide
mission was “not something a woman would easily do.”
* SPEAKING OF MORONS...
(*BITING MY TONGUE*)
“So it’s going to be very interesting for me to see what
her background was, what level of animus she had, because she had to have a
considerable level,” Feinstein said.
* IF ONLY WE COULD "TRADE" FEINSTEIN FOR ONE OF
THE INNOCENT VICTIMS...
(*SIGH*)
Meanwhile, acquaintances and colleagues of Farook were
struggling to reconcile the soft-spoken man they knew with the masked rampage
killer who shot up a room filled with co-workers.
* HMM... ANYONE THINK THE AVERAGE TERRORIST HAS A
COLLECTION OF T-SHIRTS STATING "BEWARE! I AM A TERRORIST!"
(*SNORT*)
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
At the Islamic Center of Riverside, where Farook had worshiped until about two years ago, mosque director Mustapha Kuko described
him as quiet, private and devoted to Koran study.
“He knows that we believe that to take one life is to
take all life. So for him to do the opposite of what we as Muslims believe … I
don’t know,” Kuko said.
* HE... "DOESN'T KNOW." GREAT. WONDERFUL. VERY
HELPFUL.
(*SIGH*)
One victim, who worked in the same department as Farook,
was also a member of the congregation, he said.
“He shot her,” Kuko said. “Point blank.”
The victim’s husband reported she is in stable condition,
he said.
Recently, Farook had worshiped at a San Bernardino
mosque, Dar-Al-Uloom Al-Islamiyah of America. Farook was “a very nice person,
very soft,” said Ali, a mosque regular. He said Farook had memorized the Koran,
a rare accomplishment for even devout Muslims.
According to law enforcement, Farook traveled to Saudi
Arabia in 2013 during the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims who
are able should perform at least once in their lives.
Another congregant saw Farook at the mosque a few weeks
ago. Gasser Shehata said Farook had hurt not just his victims, but his own
child.
“She will grow up knowing what her parents did,” Shehata
said.
Farook was born in Chicago, the son of Pakistani immigrants.
* OK. THAT ANSWERS THAT!
The family subsequently moved to Riverside, where his
father worked as a truck driver and his mother as a clerk at Kaiser Permanente.
He and his siblings attended public schools. Yearbooks
from La Sierra High School in Riverside show a smiling Farook during his
sophomore and junior years. He was a member of the school’s Muslim club.
Farook loved fixing up old cars, neighbors said.
His mother, Rafia, portrayed family life as chaotic and
sometimes violent in divorce papers she filed in 2006 to end her marriage of 24
years. She recounted an occasion when one of her two sons — it is unclear which
— had to defend her from his father.
Farook got a bachelor’s degree in environmental health
from Cal State San Bernardino in 2010. His older brother, Syed Raheel, who also
attended La Sierra, joined the Navy immediately after high school. He served
from 2003 to 2007 and was awarded two medals for service in the “Global War on
Terrorism.”
In a profile on an Indian matrimonial site, Imilap.com, a
user identified as “farooksyed49” described himself as a 22-year-old Muslim
living in Riverside and working as a county health inspector.
“Enjoy working on vintage and modern cars, read religious
books, enjoy eating out sometimes travel and just hang out in back yard doing
target practice with younger sister and friends,” the profile read.
In May, Farook and his family moved into the Redlands
home where authorities said he and his wife stashed the weapons. Judy Miller,
his landlord, described Farook as a model tenant.
“He appeared as a very gentle person,” said Miller, 73.
She saw no signs of weapons when she visited. After
Wednesday’s shootings, Miller said she immediately handed over a copy of
Farook’s lease to FBI agents.
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