Federal investigators believe there is a “very serious” possibility that Tashfeen Malik, one of two shooters who murdered 14 people and wounded 21 others in San Bernardino, Calif. Wednesday, radicalized her husband and co-assailant, county restaurant inspector Syed Farook, Fox News has learned.
Investigators also believe that the couple had planned a second attack after the shooting at a social service center for the disabled when they were killed in a shootout with local authorities approximately two miles away.
Little is known about Malik’s background prior to her meeting Farook. However, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News that the two met and became engaged after Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia in September 2013. Malik, a Pakistani citizen, applied for a K-1 visa at the American embassy in Islamabad in May 2014 and Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia that July to bring her to the U.S. The Saudi Embassy in Washington has confirmed that Farook’s 2014 trip lasted nine days.
(CNN)Investigators think that as the San Bernardino, California, attack was happening, female shooter Tashfeen Malik posted a pledge of allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Facebook, three U.S. officials familiar with the investigation told CNN.
Malik’s post was made on an account with a different name, one U.S. official said. The officials did not explain how they knew Malik made the post.
A law enforcement official said it appeared that Wednesday’s attack — which left 14 people dead and 21 wounded before the two attackers, Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, were killed in a shootout with police — may have been inspired by ISIS. But none of the officials said that ISIS directed or ordered the attack.
“This is looking more and more like self-radicalization,” a law enforcement official said.
Greetings:
My understanding is that Tashfeen Malik’s pledge of allegiance to ISIS was based on the condition that she be assigned to a workplace violence combat unit.
“self-radicalized”
Oy.
Pause to think for a moment from the doctrine of Mohammad. Q: What happens in the world? A: Whatever Allah decrees, says the doctrine. Wholly, solely. Allah moves it all. Mutatis mutandis, what is this “self”? What has this “self” to do with it? Is the aim here merely to insult the omnipotence of Allah by calling these humble creatures of Islam “self-radicalized”?
Goofy westerners. Figure it out. After you step carefully over the bodies strewing the ground, since those pools of blood are very slippery.
Well, it is CNN
heh, and they know not what they do
but then, we’re nearly all in that boat
From the (faulty) Western point of view, accepting unreservedly that your a slave to Allah’s will is self-radicalization.
In any event, ladies and gentlemen, teach your sons to avoid crazy chicks.
It’s our difficulty to remind ourselves to at least attempt to understand our enemies from their way of thinking of things — and yet, here we are admittedly ignorant of their ways — so we fumble around seeking to take their accounts of themselves into our own accounts of them. This isn’t to say we understand our own ways perfectly (nor they theirs, in this sense), but merely to say that among others news agencies don’t frequently show any evidence of these attempts — they are habitual beasts, the news agencies, given to blithe use of jargon and cant: the news agencies more often than not will skate along as though they already know what’s what, only rarely pausing to question whether that is so or not, particularly at the most fundamental levels of thinking the world through.
So also a thing about our own ways, from Michael Ledeen.
I’m familiar with the argument.
Wow. That woman must have had some kind of magic snapper.