F.B.I. Treating San Bernardino Attack as Terrorism Case
Source: NY Times
On the day she and her husband killed 14 people and wounded 21 others in San Bernardino, Calif., a woman pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a Facebook post, officials said Friday, as the F.B.I. announced that it was treating the massacre as an act of terrorism.
The investigation so far has developed indications of radicalization by the killers, and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said at a news conference here. But he said that investigators had not found evidence that the killers were part of a larger group or terrorist cell. The couple died in a shootout with the police on Wednesday.
Theres no indication that they are part of a network, he said.
The woman, Tashfeen Malik, declared allegiance to the Islamic State on Facebook at roughly the time of the shooting on Wednesday, according to a Facebook spokesman. At a news conference in San Bernardino, David Bowdich, the F.B.I. assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles office, said he was aware of the post, which was taken down by Facebook on Wednesday, but he would not elaborate.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/us/tashfeen-malik-islamic-state.html?_r=0
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(4,412 posts)of terrorism but I don't think work place violence should be ignored.
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(6,241 posts)a foreign national. How did she get into the country? What kinds of contacts did she have in her home country and Saudi Arabia?
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(12,022 posts)so that the news agencies could paw over them.