FBI focuses on contacts of suspected California killers

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FBI focuses on contacts of suspected California killers



SAN BERNARDINO: -- Photographs of Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook have been released of them entering the US at Chicago airport in 2014 having just visited Saudi Arabia. The FBI believes the couple suspected of massacring 14 people in Southern California last week had been radicalised for sometime.

FBI Los Angeles Assistant Director David Bowdich gave a press conference with the latest updates:

“We do have evidence that both of these subjects did some target, participated in target practice in some ranges in the within the metro area or within the Los Angeles area. That target practice in one occasion it was done within days of this event.”

The couple died in a shootout with police several hours after the attack in a conference room at the Inland Regional Center social services agency in San Bernardino, California.

After the couple was killed last week, police said they discovered 19 pipes that could have been turned into bombs at the suspects’ apartment in Redlands, a town near San Bernardino, and a dozen explosive devices the two had apparently already constructed at their home.

Farook, a U.S. citizen originally from Chicago, traveled to Saudi Arabia in July 2014 and returned less than two weeks later with Malik in tow. Malik, a Pakistani who officials said spent much of her life in Saudi Arabia arrived on a “fiancé” visa, which allowed Farook to petition for her entry ahead of marriage.

Although there is no evidence that the shooting was part of an international plot, federal officials are urgently trying to track the backgrounds and contacts of the couple.

Meanwhile the political fallout from the massacre as sparked a row after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a halt to all Muslims entering the US until Congress can act. The Council on American-Islamic relations has responded to the Trump call by saying “ we are entering into the realm of the facist now.”

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-12-08

[bendejo]

The FBI believes the couple suspected of massacring 14 people

Still only at the suspect stage?

[Andaman Al]

What a pity they didnt want to look through all that amazing evidence in the suspects house. That would have given so many clues and leads, finger prints DNA etc but nope they said crime scene closed and let 100 journos and local residents enter the houses in a free for all. Crime scene destroyed!

[NeverSure]

The FBI believes the couple suspected of massacring 14 people

Still only at the suspect stage?

They have to say that. In the US, a person is considered innocent under the law until proven guilty in a court of law. Even while on trial there is a presumption of innocence until the jury pronounces a guilty verdict. It's a technicality but a good one to have if you're ever accused of something.

Cheers.

[DaddyWarbucks]

What a pity they didnt want to look through all that amazing evidence in the suspects house. That would have given so many clues and leads, finger prints DNA etc but nope they said crime scene closed and let 100 journos and local residents enter the houses in a free for all. Crime scene destroyed!

Agreed.

People often embrace conspiracy theories because the government has lost all credibility.

Official US investigative commissions starting with the Warren Report on the killing of JFK and continuing with the 9/11 report have clearly avoided inquiring into matters that might be regarded as controversial, raising serious questions about their objectivity and veracity. Then there is the question of what is not investigated. Where, for example, is the investigative report on the disastrous US decision to invade Iraq which used fake intelligence and might have amounted to a criminal conspiracy to go to war? If such a review had ever taken place a few neocons might well be hanging out to dry in some federal prison rather than appearing on Sunday morning talk television.

Truth - or at least the government version of it - is clearly selective.

[pedro01]

Check the father.

According to a US Today article he said...

"I kept telling him always: stay calm, be patient, in two years Israel will no longer exist," the elder Farook told the newspaper. "Geopolitics is changing: Russia, China, America too, nobody wants the Jews there."

sounds like the cause right there...

[IAMHERE]

Check the father.

According to a US Today article he said...

"I kept telling him always: stay calm, be patient, in two years Israel will no longer exist," the elder Farook told the newspaper. "Geopolitics is changing: Russia, China, America too, nobody wants the Jews there."

sounds like the cause right there...

Were some of the victims Jewish? I didn't read that. The aledged suspects could have targeted a place Jews congregate but didn't.

[OMGImInPattaya]

In what world are Muslim terrorists "California killers"...oh yeah, a politically correct one.

[Linky]

Because they killed in california, hence california killers.

I suppose they should have been more precise because there will be another mass shooting there in a day or so and they will have to change the description.

Edited December 8, 2015 by Linky