Female Mass Shooter Has ISIS Ties Officials Say: “I Think He Married A Terrorist”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
12/04/2015
Rice and spicy chicken.
That’s what Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik served to 200 guests gathered to celebrate the couple’s wedding at a local mosque in 2013.
Two years later, the pair stormed a San Bernardino County employee holiday party, opening fire with two assault rifles. 14 people were killed, and nearly two dozen were wounded. Farook and Malik died in a subsequent shootout with police.
In the aftermath of the carnage, we took stock of what authorities recovered from the couple’s vehicle and residence.
Found in the suspects’ home:
2,500 .223 rounds
A “bomb lab” with “hundreds” of tools that could be used to make IEDs.
2,000 9mm rounds
12 pipe bombs
Found in the black SUV:
1,400 .223 rounds
200 9mm rounds
We also predicted that a link to terrorism would be established in relatively short order. “At the end of the day, two people opening fire with assault rifles on a holiday party seems pretty ‘terrifying’ to us regardless of what inspired the shooters, but remember, crises like these are only “useful” in today’s world if they serve someone’s geopolitical ends so don’t be surprised if the mainstream media soon turns up the San Bernardino equivalent of the forged Syrian passport found in Paris three weeks ago,” we wrote.
Sure enough, just hours later, CNN reported that Farook had “apparently been radicalized.” NBC followed up shortly thereafter, citing FBI sources as saying that Farook had been in contact with “overseas individuals.” Subsequent reports suggested Farook communicated with people who were on the bureau’s radar in connection with a terrorism investigation. Officials also said the contact was with “people who weren’t significant players,” and was dated. There was no documentation of any “surge” in communication prior to the shooting.
So if we buy all of this (and we’re not necessarily saying you should, at least not hook, line, and sinker), then the next question becomes this: what was Farook’s road to radicalization?
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