Syed Rizwan Farook

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FBI: California Couple Didn't Post About Jihad Publicly

'That's a garble'

(Newser) - During the GOP debate Tuesday in Las Vegas, Ted Cruz criticized the government for not noticing public social media posts from the San Bernardino shooters showing their commitment to jihad, the Washington Post reports. "[Tashfeen Malik] made a public call to jihad, and they didn’t target it,"...

The Cost of Terror in San Bernardino: Just $4.5K

Analysis provides breakdown of costs

(Newser) - It cost Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik less than $5,000 to build the arsenal used for the Dec. 2 terror attack in which they killed 14 people and injured 22 others in San Bernardino, Calif., according to an analysis by NBC News . Materials to make more than 20 pipe...

Officials: Farook's Friend Bragged of Pipe Bomb Skills

Local bar patron says Enrique Marquez also spoke about sleeper cells

(Newser) - The man who allegedly bought the guns used in the San Bernardino rampage was a "goody two shoes type kid," not someone you'd expect to be involved in terrorism, says his former boss. Enrique Marquez worked as a bouncer at Morgan's Tavern in Riverside, Calif., for...

Source: Extremist Groups Rebuffed Calif. Shooters

Farook, Malik discussed jihad online before meeting

(Newser) - San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik tried to join Islamic extremist groups in the months before the massacre only to get the cold shoulder, according to law enforcement sources. Those sources tell Reuters that the groups appear to have ignored Malik because she was completely unknown to them and they feared...

Gun Buyer Plotted With Shooter: Cops

Enrique Marquez was long-time friend of Syed Rizwan Farook

(Newser) - Enrique Marquez didn't just purchase two guns used in the San Bernardino shooting. Officials tell CNN the long-time friend and next-door neighbor of Syed Rizwan Farook has also admitted to plotting an attack with Farook in 2012. They allegedly put the plan on ice after four people in the...

California Shooter 'Planned Attack in 2012'

Workers died in room where they trained for active-shooter scenario

(Newser) - San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook may have been planning mass murder even before he married accomplice Tashfeen Malik, according to sources close to the investigation. Officials tell CNN that Farook plotted to carry out an attack with somebody else in California in 2012, though it's not clear how...

$28.5K Deposited Into California Shooter's Account

The FBI is investigating the mid-November deposit

(Newser) - The FBI is investigating a deposit of $28,500 made into Syed Farook's bank account approximately two weeks before he and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino, Fox News reports. The deposit came from Utah's WebBank.com, which describes itself...

Shooter's Dad: He Was 'Obsessed With Israel'

FBI seems more interested in Farook's mother

(Newser) - Syed Rizwan Farook supported ISIS and was obsessed with Israel, his father told Italian newspaper La Stampa in a frank interview that has apparently now been retracted. The elder Farook said his son had been a good, studious boy, but too shy and conservative in his views, and fixated on...

ISIS: San Bernardino Shooters Were 'Supporters'

Feds taking second look at Malik's visa application

(Newser) - ISIS is now claiming Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook as supporters—but apparently not ones it had been aware of. In a statement on ISIS radio Saturday, the group praised the San Bernardino shootings, saying they had been carried out by "two supporters of the Islamic State,"...

San Bernardino Shooting Now a Terror Investigation

FBI says evidence is adding up

(Newser) - It's now officially a terror investigation: The FBI announced Friday that an increasing amount of evidence suggests that Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik engaged in an "act of terrorism" as opposed to some kind of workplace dispute in San Bernardino. One element of that is the revelation...

The Stories of Those Who Died in San Bernardino

Including a woman who had fled extremism decades ago

(Newser) - Most of the 14 people killed at a holiday banquet in San Bernardino County, Calif., worked in the same county public health department as the man who showed up with his wife and sprayed the hall with gunfire. An official list of the dead was released Thursday, and families, friends,...

Female San Bernardino Shooter Praised ISIS Online

Authorities say Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to Islamic State

(Newser) - Authorities say the woman who took part in this week's mass shooting in San Bernardino had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State online. The details of what Tashfeen Malik wrote and when she wrote it are still developing, but NBC News quotes a source as saying that she posted...

ATF: San Bernardino Rifles Were Legal—at First

Weapons used by San Bernardino shooters altered for more power after purchase

(Newser) - The weapons used by the San Bernardino shooters may have been legally obtained , but that doesn't mean they remained legal under California law. The two .223-caliber semiautomatic weapons and two 9mm pistols said to have been carried by Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik in Wednesday's attack were...

Shooter's Brother Is Decorated Navy Vet

The other Syed Farook was wrongly identified as gunman

(Newser) - Whatever San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizman Farook's problem was, it wasn't the result of his upbringing, if his brother is anything to go by. The brother, whose name is Syed Raheel Farook, was falsely identified as the gunman by some media outlets because the names are so similar,...

San Bernardino Shooters Had 'Veritable Armory' in Home

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik's residence held a dozen pipe bombs

(Newser) - As details come into focus regarding the rampage in San Bernardino, police are making one thing clear: This was not a typical one-off workplace shooting. Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, "were equipped ... and they could have done another attack," San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan...

Bits of Shooting Suspects' Lives Found Online

Purported baby registry, dating profiles surface

(Newser) - Initial reports about San Bernardino shooting suspects Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik presented them as a couple living the American dream . And, like your typical Americans, the pair may have left bits of their life online. The two reportedly dropped their 6-month-old daughter off with Farook's mother before...

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