...to the TERRORIST attack... the Christmas Party
Massacre... that took place on Wednesday, December 2, in San Bernadino,
California.
The latest from Missy Ryan, Abby Phillip, Julie Tate and
Alice Crites writing for the Washington Post:
* * *
The FBI is investigating whether Syed Rizwan Farook and a
neighbor intended to commit an act of terror in about 2012 and then got
spooked, a senior law enforcement official said Wednesday. The two men may have
been disrupted when the FBI arrested several men in late 2012 in a separate
plot to kill Americans in Afghanistan.
In addition, Farook and his wife, who killed 14 people in
San Bernardino last week, had discussed jihad at least two years before they
opened fire in California, the FBI director said Wednesday.
* RECALL OBAMA'S INITIAL COMMENTS... HIS INITIAL
REACTION...
(*PURSED LIPS*)
The husband-and-wife duo “were radicalized for quite a
long time before their attack,” FBI Director James B. Comey said during an
appearance on Capitol Hill. This follows earlier statements by investigators
that the shooters had both been adherents to a radical strain of Islam long
before the massacre.
* TO REPEAT: RECALL OBAMA'S INITIAL COMMENTS... HIS
INITIAL REACTION...
Farook, a 28-year-old county health inspector, and his
Pakistani wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, had begun communicating online, Comey said.
It was during these communications that they began discussing jihadist
thoughts, long before Malik traveled to the United States and they got married.
* SO MUCH FOR "VETTING."
“And online...as early as the end as 2013, they were
talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and
then married and lived together in the United States,” Comey said during his
testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
* OBVIOUSLY WHAT THE AUTHOR(S) "MEANT TO WRITE"
WAS "BEFORE SHE WAS VETTED AND WELCOMED WITH SYMBOLIC OPEN ARMS TO COME
HERE TO LIVE IN AMERICA!"
(*SMIRK*)
This radicalization appears to predate the rise of the
Islamic State, the terrorist group that in 2014 formally declared a caliphate
in parts of Iraq and Syria.
Comey said investigators believe the attackers were
“inspired by foreign terrorist organizations.”
“We’re working very hard to understand exactly their
association and the source of their inspiration,” he said. “We’re also working
very hard to understand whether there was anybody else involved with assisting
them, with supporting them, with equipping them.”
When asked...if the marriage between Malik and Farook was
arranged by a terrorist organization, Comey said he didn’t know yet.
“It would be a very important thing to know,” Comey said.
Comey also said he was not aware of any Islamic State
cells operating in the United States.
* COM'ON! LET'S BE FRIGGIN' REAL! OF COURSE THERE ARE
TERRORIST CELLS OPERATING IN THE UNITED STATES!
The FBI is trying to determine if there’s any connection
between an earlier potential plot by Farook and his neighbor and the arrests in
2012 of four men in Riverside, Calif. The men were charged with plotting to
kill Americans in Afghanistan. Two of the men were later found guilty and two
pleaded guilty. The FBI dubbed the investigation “Broken Banner.”
Authorities have said that just after the attack, Malik
posted on Facebook pledging allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State. In
her posting, which used the name Khalifah Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Al Qurashi, the
emir of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, she said “We pledge allegiance,” so
investigators now believe it was made on behalf of both of the attackers, law
enforcement officials said.
“It’s looking like they were on the same path at the same
time,” a law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to
discuss the ongoing investigation, said Tuesday.
* WOW... AND HERE OBAMA WAS COUNTING ON IT BEING YET ANOTHER
CASE OF "WORKPLACE VIOLENCE."
(*SMIRK*)
In the days since the attack, Farook has been described
as a bright student during his childhood in California. As an adult, those who
knew him said, he was a devout Muslim, quiet and private.
Farook brought Malik to the United States on a fiancee
visa in July 2014. But friends said they knew little about Farook’s wife, and
many weren’t even aware that the couple had a daughter born in May 2015.
Relatively little is known about Malik, who was born in
Pakistan but spent at least some time in Saudi Arabia, where her father
relocated more than two decades ago. It remains unclear how much time she spent
in Saudi Arabia, but she is known to have studied in Pakistan to become a
pharmacist.
* WHAT DO YOU MEAN "UNCLEAR?" (RHETORICAL
QUESTION, FOLKS.)
* FOLKS... THIS IS WHAT OBAMA AND OTHER POLITICIANS CALL
"VETTING." GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS BUT DON'T ACTUALLY FIND OUT THE
IMPORTANT STUFF.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
After arriving in the United States, Malik seems to have
interacted with very few people. Even male relatives said they had never seen
her face, which was typically covered by a niqab, or face veil, used by some
Muslim women.
The FBI investigation also remains focused on a former
neighbor who provided the military-grade rifles used during the attack that
killed 14 people in addition to wounding 21 others. It was the deadliest act of
terrorism on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001.
* I VERY MUCH DOUBT THEY WERE "MILITARY GRADE"
RIFLES. MY GUESS: THE REPORTERS/EDITOR/MANAGEMENT OVER AT THE WASHINGTON POST
IS SIMPLY ENGAGING IN A DELIBERATE SPREAD OF KNOWN LIES SO AS TO ADVANCE THEIR
ANTI-SECOND AMENDMENT IDEOLOGICAL/POLITICAL AGENDAS.
The neighbor, Enrique Marquez, legally purchased the
rifles — semiautomatic AR-15s manufactured by DPMS and Smith & Wesson...
* AND I REST MY CASE. NOT "MILITARY GRADE"
WEAPONS. MORE OUTRIGHT LIES COURTESY OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
The FBI is still investigating whether Marquez sold these
rifles to Farook, his former neighbor, according to the officials.
Comey said Wednesday that there was an attempt to convert
the rifles into fully automatic weapons before the attack.
* Er... FOLKS... "MILITARY GRADE" WEAPONS DON'T
NEED TO BE "CONVERTED." (BECAUSE... THEY'RE MILITARY GRADE WEAPONS
ALREADY!)
(*SNORT*)
* ALSO... NOTE: "...ATTEMPT..."
* FOLKS... AGAIN... I CAN'T STRESS STRONGLY ENOUGH HOW
YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE EVERYTHING YOU READ, HEAR, OR WATCH WHICH COMES OUT OF THE
MSM WITH A MILLION GRAINS OF SALT. THEY'LL JUST STRAIGHT OUT LIE IN ORDER TO
DECEIVE YOU WHEN IT SERVES THEIR IDEOLOGICAL/PARTISAN PURPOSES.
Marquez and Farook appear to have had other connections
in addition to being neighbors. An official with the Islamic Center of
Corona-Norco, in Corona, Calif., the mosque Syed Farook’s brother Raheel
regularly attended, said he believed that Marquez had periodically attended the
center.
Yousuf Bhaghani, a senior official at the center, said in
an interview Tuesday that he had not interacted with Marquez but that other
members he had spoken with said they recalled him occasionally praying at the
mosque four or five years ago. Those who interacted with Marquez described him
as a “decent person,” Bhaghani said. “They didn’t see anything which caused
alarm.”
Marquez, who lived next door to the Farook family for
years, is also married to a woman who appears to be a relative of Tatiana
Farook, the wife of Syed’s brother Raheel, according to county records. Both
Marquez and the bride, Russian-born Mariya Chernykh, list the same home address
as Raheel Farook, and Raheel and Tatiana Farook were witnesses to the couple’s
marriage. The Corona mosque is listed as the couple’s religious center. The
family connection was first reported by Reuters.
Marquez has been questioned by the FBI, which is
interested in learning about the guns he provided...
* FOLKS... YOU'RE READING WHAT I'M READING - RIGHT? (WHY
ISN'T MARQUEZ IN JAIL?)
... as well as whether he had any knowledge of the plot.
The FBI is also investigating whether Marquez and Farook had talked about
getting into “badness,” said another of the officials.
* I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT IS SUPPOSED TO MEAN. IS
"BADNESS" A TYPO? SEARCH ME! BUT AT THE VERY LEAST SHOULDN'T MARQUEZ
BE FACING CHARGES OF ILLEGAL SALE/TRANSFER OF A FIREARM...???
As part of the investigation, authorities are looking at
the financial records of the attackers. The FBI is looking at suspicious
financial transactions, including a $28,500 cash loan from an online bank prior
to the massacre, an official said.
Fox News first reported that the $28,500 was deposited
into Farook’s bank account last month, about two weeks before the shooting.
Whatever the roots of their beliefs, the couple had
prepared carefully for the attack, Bowdich said during the news conference
Monday, visiting local shooting ranges to practice their aim as recently as a
few days before the massacre.
John Galletta, a shooting instructor the Riverside Magnum
Range, said that Farook had come to the range with an AR-15 rifle on the Sunday
and Monday before the attacks took place.
Galletta did not personally see Farook, who came alone,
but other staff at the range did.
“It was very brief,” Galletta said. “He was there; he
shot his gun.”
Staff at the range did not recall having seen Farook
before that, Galletta said. Riverside Magnum is small shooting range in a strip
mall just off a freeway. The range allows both pistols and rifles, however,
rifle shooting — of the likes Farook had — is for members of the range only.
Galletta said the range gave authorities the security
footage.
“We had no idea he was there until they came,” he said,
referring to the FBI.
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