![]() 11, 2001, attacks, when Al Qaeda and its supporters repeatedly sought to bomb airliners or other U.S. That is a change from the threat Americans faced after the Sept. faces is that there are radical individuals who are being a lot more careful, and it makes them virtually impossible to detect,” said Seth Jones, a terrorism analyst with the Rand Corp., a Santa Monica-based think tank. Indeed, the absence of warning signs has become a hallmark of recent terrorist attacks, analysts said. That helped them avoid detection before Wednesday’s attack. In contrast with the Paris attacks, there is little sign so far that Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were part of a larger conspiracy organized by Islamic State or other militant groups abroad, or were part of a bigger cell in California. ![]() The garage door appeared to have been broken, and a window was shattered. On Friday, someone had put up a sign in the family's yard that said: "Please keep off the property thank you." Ramirez said it was unlike Marquez not to come home. On Thursday, Gustavo Ramirez, who said he was Marquez's stepfather, told a Times reporter that he and his wife hadn't heard from Marquez since Wednesday afternoon and were concerned. While Farook generally kept to himself, one exception was his friendship with Marquez, who shared his love of tinkering with cars, neighbors said. The person the FBI is seeking to interview is Enrique Marquez Jr., a source said.įarook, his parents and siblings lived on Tomlinson Avenue for several years before moving out a few months ago. A second source said the guns were purchased three years ago. It's far from clear whether the man had anything to do with the violence or even knew what Farook did with the guns, the source added. The source, who asked to remain anonymous because the case is ongoing, said officials have been trying to talk to the man to see what he knows. Obama vowed Saturday that investigators would "get to the bottom" of the massacre as new details emerged about the woman at the center of the terrorism investigation, Tashfeen Malik.įBI agents raided a Riverside home belonging to a friend of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook as they try to determine whether the man purchased two of the semiautomatic rifles used in the massacre, according to a law enforcement source. The Oval Office address would be Obama's first since 2010, when he declared the end of U.S. "He will reiterate his firm conviction that ISIL will be destroyed and that the United States must draw upon our values - our unwavering commitment to justice, equality, and freedom - to prevail over terrorist groups that use violence to advance a destructive ideology," the White House added, using an alternate name for Islamic State. The White House said in a statement that Obama would discuss progress in the San Bernardino investigation and "the broader threat of terrorism - including the nature of the threat, how it has evolved and how we will defeat it." President Obama on Sunday will take the unusual step of addressing the nation from the Oval Office to discuss his administration's counter-terrorism policies in the wake of the massacre in San Bernardino. Malik was a onetime "modern girl" who became religious during college and then began posting extremist messages on Facebook after arriving in the U.S., a family member in Pakistanįrom the Oval Office on Sunday at 5 p.m. In a Facebook post and Farook had contact with people from at least two terrorist organizations overseas. A radio station and website associated with Islamic State claimed the couple were Malik pledged allegiance to Islamic State There is no sign the couple were part of a terrorist network, officials said, but it is officiallyįederal law enforcement sources say the attack might also be workplace related. They were U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook and Pakistan national Tashfeen Malik, and had an Who were married, were killed in a gun battle with police. Wednesday.Īnd 21 wounded, most of them county employees. Two assailants opened fire in San Bernardino at a holiday party in the Inland Regional Center around 11 a.m.
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